公开(公告)号：US20050080756A1

公开(公告)日：2005-04-14

申请号：US10673674

申请日：2003-09-29

申请人： Michael Hitchcock ,  James Wolfston ,  John Stedman ,  Andree Hertz ,  Raymond Price

发明人： Michael Hitchcock ,  James Wolfston ,  John Stedman ,  Andree Hertz ,  Raymond Price

IPC分类号： G06Q50/00 ,  G06F17/24 ,  G06Q10/00 ,  G06F7/00

CPC分类号： G06F17/243 ,  Y10S707/99943 ,  Y10S707/99945

摘要： A forms engine allows data sharing between customizable on-line forms, such as college admissions applications. Before applying, an applicant opens an account with a third party application servicer. After the applicant completes an application for one institution, the data is saved in a data base and automatically populates fields in subsequent application forms. The form for each institution is created from a form description file. Each form is branded for its institution and forms for different institutions differ in appearance and content so that the presence of the third party servicer is transparent to the applicant. The system is extensible without programming, allowing new applicant attributes to be readily incorporated into the system and allowing the content and appearance of the application to be readily changed by changing the description file. The use of aliases for applicant attributes permits data to be readily shared between forms even though labeled and arranged differently on different forms. Information stored about each attribute allows the specification of data validation rules and data sharing and grouping rules, as well as dependency rules that permit application page content to depend on applicant's responses on a previous page.

摘要翻译： 表单引擎允许在可定制的在线表单之间进行数据共享，例如大学入学申请。 在申请之前，申请人与第三方申请服务人员开立账户。 在申请人完成一个机构的申请后，数据将保存在数据库中，并在后续的申请表中自动填充字段。 每个机构的表单都是从表单描述文件创建的。 每种形式的机构都以品牌形式，不同机构的表格在外观和内容上有所不同，使第三方服务机构的存在对申请人来说是透明的。 该系统是可扩展的，无需编程，允许新的申请人属性容易地并入系统，并允许通过更改描述文件容易地更改应用程序的内容和外观。 使用别名作为申请人属性，即使在不同形式上进行了标记和排列不同，数据也可以容易地在表单之间共享。 存储关于每个属性的信息允许规范数据验证规则和数据共享和分组规则，以及允许应用页面内容取决于申请人在前一页面上的响应的依赖性规则。