| CPC G06F 40/186 (2020.01) [G06F 8/34 (2013.01); G06F 16/901 (2019.01); G06F 16/903 (2019.01); G06F 17/11 (2013.01); G06F 40/103 (2020.01); G06F 40/16 (2020.01); G06F 40/174 (2020.01); G06F 40/18 (2020.01); G06F 40/205 (2020.01); G06F 9/453 (2018.02)] | 19 Claims |
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1. A method of copying from one document to another document elements that automatically coordinating multiple build updates, including:
maintaining multiple builds of property sets that include formatting properties and content, and publishing resulting build sets for use by elements of both documents;
applying, to an individual element of the document, fine-grained selection by a user among the formatting properties and content from both first and second build sets, thereby causing the individual element to subscribe to some, but not all of the formatting properties and content of each of the first and second build sets;
upon updating of the first build set, including updating of at least a first one of the formatting properties and content to which the individual element subscribes, automatically propagating a first update to the individual element;
upon updating of the second build set, including updating of at least a second one of the formatting properties and content to which the individual element subscribes, automatically propagating a second update to the individual element;
thereby automatically selectively multi-way replicating to the individual element subscribed-to properties from both the first and the second builds; and
copying from one document to another document one or more elements retaining the selectively multi-way replicating to the individual element subscribed-to properties from both the first and the second builds.
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