Patent Document ID: 8200780
Application ID: 12986935

Base Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: for entries that have been declared in a form and that identify available connections to data repositories and fields of the form that are associated with the connections, enabling a one-to-many mapping from fields in the form to one or more data repositories using declarative statements that specify a task to be performed, but not how the task is to be performed; inspecting the entries to identify a field from among the fields of the form associated with first and second connections from among the available connections identified by the entries; importing first data from the first connection; associating the imported first data with the field from among the fields of the form; exporting the first data associated with the field from among the fields of the form to the second connection; importing second data, different from the first data associated with the field from among the fields of the form, from the second connection; disassociating the first data from the field from among the fields of the form; and associating the imported second data with the field from among the fields of the form.

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Claim 8:
8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the entries comprise: one or more connect elements to indicate if the field from among the fields of the form provides input, output, or both for at least one of the available connections associated with the field from among the fields of the form; and a connection set comprising the at least one of the available connections.