Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Mo Wang

Leon Welicki

Christopher Scrosati

Brad Olenick

Jon Harris

Jesse Francisco

Adam Abdelhamed

Stephen Michael Danton

Jonah Sterling

Vishal R Joshi

Kristofer John Owens

Dina-Marie Ledonna Supino

Khetthai Laksanakorn

Josh Keckley

Jonathan Reed Harris

Karandeep Singh Anand

Stephen Christopher Siciliano

William James Staples

Prabir Krishna Shrestha

Angela L Moulden

Alvaro Rahul Dias

Mark David Overholt

Syed Nadir Ahmed

Alaa Shaker

Ryan A Jansen

Amin Bagheri

Dasaradha Ramu Yalamanchili

Julio O Casal Terreros

Zhao Yu

Joshua Prentice Keckley

Leon Ezequiel Welicki

Julio 0 Casal Terreros

Jesse David Francisco

Jonah Bush Sterling

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

Techniques are described herein that are capable of providing a pivot-based tile gallery with an adapted tile (e.g., in an application, such as a web application in a browser). A pivot is code that enables selection of a subset of tiles from multiple subsets of tiles. A pivot element is an interface element that represents a pivot. For instance, selection of the subset of tiles via the pivot may cause a user interface (UI) representation of the tile gallery to include UI representations of the tiles in the selected subset (e.g., and not UI representations of the tiles that are not included in the selected subset). An adapted tile is a tile that includes a wrapper and a second tile. The wrapper wraps the second tile. For instance, the wrapper may enable the adapted tile to use the second tile to implement functionality of an aspect of a resource.

Pivot-based tile gallery with adapted tile(s)

A user interface control that has different logic components for processing different role logic depending on a role that is played by the user interface control. The user interface control may also have a general function component that performs general functions that may be common across multiple user interface controls. Also, a protocol for use in communicating between two user interface controls to establish a communications link. A first user interface control requests information from a second user interface control, which then obtains the requested information. The second user interface control then provides the requested information to the first user interface control, and then awaits the validation of the requested information.

User interface control and communication

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Seattle, WA, United States of America

Mo Wang