Patent ID: 11907904
Assignee: OPEN TEXT HOLDINGS, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A method for intelligent forms automation, the method comprising:
receiving, by a form processing engine running on a server machine operating in an enterprise computing environment, a request or submission involving a non-native form, wherein the non-native form has a previously added non-visible hidden field comprising a globally unique identifier (GUID) shared by a plurality of other non-native forms, wherein the GUID identifies a first native form of a plurality of different native forms stored on a server, the first native form processable by the form processing engine prior to the non-native form being made accessible by end users, wherein each non-native form is associated with a respective workflow;
locating, by the form processing engine, the previously added field in the non-native form;
extracting, by the form processing engine, the GUID that identifies the first native form of the plurality of native forms from the previously added field and form data from data fields of the non-native form;
retrieving, by the form processing engine utilizing the GUID, a virtual copy of the first native form identified by the GUID;
populating, by the form processing engine, the virtual copy of the first native form with the form data from the data fields of the non-native form by mapping the data fields of the non-native form with data fields from the native form; and
processing, by the form processing engine, the virtual copy of the first native form according to the respective workflow associated with the first non-native form.