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Abstract

A universal way of providing contextual actions on electronic business forms or rich documents in a consistent manner irrespective of the document format or its hosting application utilizes metadata along with the actual data that will invoke the same context menu in any application. Actions can be taken on the document or GUI data field regardless of the hosting application or the document format. This seamless behavior is provided through first provisioning the context data in the document or the GUI field as a hyperlink with a custom protocol. The contextual information available at predetermined places in the document is preserved during document format transformation or document transition. Second, providing relevant actions to the user in a consistent manner at the predetermined places in the document is accomplished by creating and registering a Protocol Handler that will be invoked when a user clicks on the hyperlink.

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