ANNOTATING DOCUMENTS IN A COLLABORATIVE APPLICATION WITH DATA IN DISPARATE INFORMATION SYSTEMS

摘要

Systems and methods for annotating documents in provided in a collaborativeapplication with data from disparate information systems are provided. Thecollaborative application enables the annotation of a document with dataprovided by another application. Particularly, the collaborative applicationenables a user to pick an item from a data store associated with anotherapplication. An association is established between the document and the pickeditem and retrieves data associated with the picked item from the data store.The document is annotated with the retrieved data. Because of the association,the collaborative application can determine that the picked item in the datastore has been modified by the other application. The collaborativeapplication may retrieve modified data associated with the picked item fromthe data store and update the annotation data associated with the documentwith the modified data.