Data-driven schema for describing and executing management tasks in a graphical user interface

摘要

This disclosure describes a user interface (UI) conceptual model and a data model for quickly and easily developing and managing a GUI. The present methods and systems described herein provide for defining one or more UI elements in the UI conceptual model. The one or more UI elements may further reference one or more model objects in the data model. The one or more model objects may include one or more tasks, which may each be mapped to one or more commands for performing each task, or one or more data items, which may each be mapped to rules or conditions for transforming data. According to embodiments, graphics or functionality of a GUI may be easily and efficiently modified by adding, deleting, or modifying UI elements in the UI conceptual model or by adding, deleting, or modifying referenced model objects in the data model, thereby reducing management and development costs.

主权项

1. A computer storage medium storing computer-executable instructions for implementing a method of managing a graphical user interface (GUI), the method comprising:
providing a data model that comprises a model object, wherein the model object comprises at least a first task mapped to a first command for performing the first task; providing a user interface (UI) conceptual model that describes at least one UI element for managing the GUI, wherein the at least one UI element references the model object; adding a first reference to the at least one UI element to a first page definition of the UI conceptual model; adding a second reference to the at least one UI element to a second page definition of the UI conceptual model; rendering the at least one UI element on a first corresponding page and a second corresponding page of the GUI, wherein functionality associated with the first corresponding page and the second corresponding page of the GUI is modified upon rendering the at least one UI element; modifying the at least one UI element in the UI conceptual model; automatically modifying the rendering of the at least one UI element on the first corresponding page and the second corresponding page of the GUI without recoding the first page definition or the second page definition; and activating the at least one rendered UI element, wherein activating the at least one rendered UI element includes executing the first task.