Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Jon Harris

Stephen Michael Danton

Jonah Sterling

Jesse Francisco

Michael Bach

Jodie Eilers

Jon Lee

Dina-Marie LeDonne Supino

Adam Abdelhamed

Karandeep Singh Anand

William James Staples

Madhur Joshi

Muhammad Bilal Aslam

Jefferson King

Leon Welicki

Brad Olenick

Vishal R Joshi

Christopher Scrosati

Mo Wang

Alvaro Rahul Dias

Kristofer John Owens

Dina-Marie Ledonna Supino

Khetthai Laksanakorn

Nathan J Totten

Josh Keckley

Sunay Vaishnav

Wai Man Yuen

Andrew Birck

Bradley D Millington

Brendyn Alexander

Federico Silva Armas

Syed Nadir Ahmed

Alaa Shaker

David Anson

Timothy Michael McBride

Jean-Sebastien Guopil

Guru Kumaraguru

Jamey Baumgardt

Guruprasad M Airy

Leon Ezequiel Welicki

Jesse David Francisco

Jonah Bush Sterling

Adam Mohamed Abdelhamed

Timothy Michael Mcbride

Various techniques for implementing computer dashboards as cloud-based services are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a dashboard file at a server via a computer network, the dashboard file identifying a dashboard having one or more graphical user interface elements individually configured to display and dynamically update data associated with a cloud-based service. The dashboard file further contains metadata indicating a cloud-based subscription. The method also includes associating the received dashboard file with the cloud-based subscription, identifying one or more entities allowed to access the dashboard based on the cloud-based subscription, and displaying, via the computer network, the dashboard identified by the dashboard file to the one or more entities upon verification of the cloud-based subscription.

Dashboard as remote computing services

An organization mode in a user interface that displays multiple user interface elements. The multiple user interface elements fit over a grid positions that are at least conceptually imposed over a canvas. In organization mode, the grid positions are displayed, allowing the user to more easily see where user interface elements may be placed. As the user moves and/or resizes a user interface element, one or more corresponding grid positions are highlighted to show where the user interface element would be placed if the move or resize operation were to conclude at that moment. The organization mode may also provide a contextual actions menu with respect to a particular user interface element. The contextual actions menu includes multiple organization mode commands, including one or more that may be directed selected from the contextual actions menu to invoke the command.

Organization mode support mechanisms

A gallery user interface element that includes multiple selectable service user interface elements. Each of the selectable service user interface elements, when selected, initiates a corresponding predetermined action. Thus, the gallery may be used to initiate any number of predetermined actions by selecting appropriate service user interface elements. The predetermined actions may be performed by a number of user interface elements that are collectively offered by a variety of different applications, application extensions, or the system itself. The predetermined actions may include at least one predetermined action that extends an extendible canvas with one or more additional user interface elements. The gallery may include multiple pinnable elements and have different versions depending on a context in which the gallery was opened.

Service gallery user interface presentation

A multi-act creation user interface element that is displayed when a user instructs a computing system to initiate creation of a resource that has multiple associated creation processing acts. For each of some or all of the creation processing acts, the multi-act creation user interface element causes a set of one or more controls to appear, which the user may then enter creation information into. The multi-step creation user interface element persists creation information so entered so that the creation information is available for further creation processing acts.

Multi-act creation user interface element

Display screen with graphical user interface

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Jon Harris