International Business Machines Corporation

Bruce A Viars

Michael Peter Etgen

Elizabeth Ann Black-Ziegelbein

A computer automated method for bubbling-up condition severity indicators in a hierarchical tree control can include identifying a node in the hierarchical tree control that has been obscured in a collapsed branch of the hierarchical tree control, bubbling-up a status for the identified node to a visible parent node, rendering a status icon for the status adjacent to the visible parent node, and, responsive to an expansion of the collapsed branch rendering the identified node visible, relocating the status icon adjacent to the identified node. Optionally, a depth can be determined for the identified node, a visual characteristic for the status icon can be selected based upon the depth, and the status icon can be rendered using the selected visual characteristic.

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Bruce A Viars