Method and system for interaction state restoration

1 . A system comprising:

a memory storing program code; and

one or more processing units to execute the program code to cause the system to:

receive a graphical user interface (GUI) element, the received GUI element having an initial state;

receive at least one state change to the received GUI element, the at least one state change resulting in the GUI element having a current state;

generate a bookmark for the current state of the GUI element;

append the generated bookmark to a presentation content file as a tag; and

store the appended bookmark in the tag.

2 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the bookmark is generated in response to copying an image of the current state of the GUI element to a side of a presentation application.

3 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the current state is different from the initial state.

4 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the tag is mapped to a given image in the presentation content file.

5 . The system of claim 4 , wherein the presentation content file for the given image includes the tag and at least one of: a GUI element identifier tag, a GUI type tag, a GUI name tag, and a tenant tag.

6 . The system of claim 1 , further comprising program code to cause the system to:

receive a refresh request for the GUI element having the current state;

determine the GUI element having the current state has the stored appended bookmark;

render the initial state of the GUI element;

retrieve the stored appended bookmark;

apply the retrieved appended bookmark to the rendered initial state of the GUI element;

render the current state of the GUI element with updated data; and

display the rendered current state of the GUI element with the updated data on a user interface.

7 . The system of claim 6 , wherein the current state of the GUI element is rendered via a GUI element render Application Programming Interface (API).

8 . The system of claim 6 , wherein the stored appended bookmark is retrieved via a Get Bookmark Application Programming Interface (API).

9 . The system of claim 6 , further comprising program code to cause the system to:

determine the refresh request is received from an authorized source.

10 . The system of claim 6 , further comprising program code to cause the system to:

encrypt an image of the rendered current state of the GUI element including the appended bookmark.

11 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the at least one state change is one of a filter, a sort, a ranking, a combine and split, an add, and a remove.

12 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the generated bookmark is in a JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) format.

13 . A computer-implemented method comprising:

receiving a graphical user interface (GUI) element, the received GUI element having an initial state;

receiving at least one state change to the received GUI element, the at least one state change resulting in the GUI element having a current state;

generating a bookmark for the current state of the GUI element;

appending the generated bookmark to a presentation content file as a tag, wherein the tag is mapped to a given image in the presentation content file; and

storing the appended bookmark in the tag.

14 . The method of claim 13 , wherein the bookmark is generated in response to copying an image of the current state of the GUI element to a side of a presentation application.

15 . The method of claim 13 , further comprising:

receiving a refresh request for the GUI element having the current state;

determining the GUI element having the current state has the stored appended bookmark;

rendering the initial state of the GUI element;

retrieving the stored appended bookmark;

applying the retrieved appended bookmark to the rendered initial state of the GUI element;

rendering the current state of the GUI element with updated data; and

displaying the rendered current state of the GUI element with the updated data on a user interface.

16 . The method of claim 15 , wherein the current state of the GUI element is rendered via a GUI element render Application Programming Interface (API).

17 . The method of claim 13 , wherein the at least one state change is one of a filter, a sort, a ranking, a combine and split, an add, and a remove.

18 . One or more non-transitory, computer-readable medium storing instructions, that, when executed by a computing system, cause the computing system to perform operations comprising:

receiving a refresh request for a Graphic User Interface (GUI) element having a current state;

determining the GUI element having the current state has a stored appended bookmark;

rendering an initial state of the GUI element;

retrieving the stored appended bookmark;

applying the retrieved appended bookmark to the rendered initial state of the GUI element;

rendering the current state of the GUI element with updated data; and

displaying the rendered current state of the GUI element with the updated data on a user interface.

19 . The one or more non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 18 , wherein the bookmark is generated in response to copying an image of the current state of the GUI element to a side of a presentation application.

20 . The one or more non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 18 , further comprising, a refresh process comprising:

receiving a refresh request for the GUI element having the current state;

determining the GUI element having the current state has the stored appended bookmark;

rendering the initial state of the GUI element;

retrieving the stored appended bookmark;

applying the retrieved appended bookmark to the refresh process rendered initial state of the GUI element;

rendering the current state of the GUI element with updated data; and

displaying the rendered current state of the GUI element with the updated data on the user interface.