Plug-ins for editing templates in a business management system

US8806357B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• SAP AG · DE

Inventors

• Hilmar Demant · Neustadt an der Orla, DE
• Frank Schertel · Mannheim, DE
• Asif Raj · Udaipur, IN
• Nikhil Sharma · Cameron Park, US
• Eckhard Farrenkopf · Schriesheim, DE
• Ramesh B.G. · Hyderabad, IN
• Juergen Sattler · Wiesloch, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 29, 2008
• Grant date: Aug 12, 2014
• Expiry date: Nov 22, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q10/10
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A template authoring method and system includes an application business component view that provides an interface to a user to select templates. A dialog provides a wrapper for each template to be edited by launching a server page and a host using controls provides authoring abstractions for selected authoring applications to edit the templates.