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Adrian L Orth

Anastasia Paushkina

Brian Russell Glaeske

Michael M Santos

Kevin M Honeyman

Prasant Sivadasan

Christopher R Garty

Julie B Hagen

Ray J Ridl

Sridhar Srinivasan

Michael J McCormack

Ted Cyrek

Steven P Anonsen

Anne Gerssen

Brian L Welcker

Kyle Stapley Young

Patrick E Plaisted

Lisa Renee Mueller

Wayne C Higgins

Suriya Narayanan

Julianne Prekaski

Timothy J Brookins

Todd Lefor

Steven Virgil Harter

Crystal L Gilson

Daniel Edward Seefeldt

Anton Shakirzianov

John P Burrows

Sunil Garg

Anees Ansari

Michael R Nordick

Matthew R Maertens

Jeremy S Ellsworth

Chris R Garty

Claudia Betz-Haubold

Jeremy Joe Jensen

Rupa Mantravadi

Katherine Spengler

A search user input mechanism is displayed on a user interface display. User actuation of the search user input mechanism is detected, to identify a query for a navigation structure that identifies an entry point into an application in the computing system. A path navigation hierarchy is searched to identify the entry point and the path in the navigation hierarchy where the entry point is located. A navigable search result is displayed to the user for actuation, to navigate to the entry point.

Language and security aware search for user navigable entry points

An entity hub display includes a plurality of different sections, each section including a plurality of different components. The sections each correspond to a different aspect of data that makes up an entity. Each component is a user interface display element that is related to data within the corresponding section. The individual components can be selected and placed on the entity hub display based on a user's role and activities or tasks performed by a user in that role.

Displaying different views of an entity

A set of metadata defines a hierarchical structure. The metadata is compared against a pattern or sub pattern for the hierarchical structure. Comparison results are generated that show differences between a core structure defined by the pattern and a core structure in the hierarchical data, as well as content defined by a sub pattern, and content in the hierarchical structure.

Pattern-based validation, constraint and generation of hierarchical metadata

A workspace display includes a plurality of different groups, each group including a plurality of different components. Each group corresponds to a task, set of tasks or topic of information related to a user's role. The particular components included in each group are user interface display elements that are each related to an item of content within the corresponding group. The workspace display has filter mechanisms that are actuated to filter the content displayed in the components on the workspace display.

Filtering content on a role tailored workspace

Scrollbar control is utilized for manually scanning for displayed/available information while controlling the amount of information that is actually materialized. In response to a drag and hold of the 'thumb' to a beginning or end location of the scrollbar, additional records may be retrieved depending on a display order of data on the user interface. If the location corresponds to an end of records (whether at the beginning or at the end of the order), that may be indicated. Upon release, the thumb may be moved automatically to a predefined location to indicate additional available records at the source if that is the case.

Interactive scrollbars for unknown data size

A programming model for customized data objects is provided. For several embodiments, a method for providing customizable data objects comprises storing an abstract definition of an entity in metadata, the definition including a set of properties of the entity; and generating an entity view class based on the set of properties of the entity and including at least one property of the entity in the entity view. When programming against the entity view class, only those properties included in the entity view class are allowed to be seen or modified.

Programming model for customized data objects

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