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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 24, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 12, 2009
Jean-jacques Aureglia, Saint Martin du Var, FR;
Frederic Bauchot, Saint Jeannet, FR;
Jean-Jacques Aureglia, Saint Martin du Var, FR;
Frederic Bauchot, Saint Jeannet, FR;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
The present invention is directed to a method, system and program for displaying and/or hiding, in an electronic multi-dimensional spreadsheet on a user interface, elements of a range of cells, a range of cells having one or more contiguous elements aligned along a given spreadsheet dimension, an element of a range of cells having one or more cells along one or a plurality of spreadsheet dimensions. The method includes (A) detecting a command for hiding at least one element in a selected range of cells, the command comprising means for identifying the selected range of cells and means for identifying a display focus level selected among a plurality of ordered display focus levels defined for the selected range of cells; (B) identifying the selected range of cells in the element to hide; (C) identifying the selected display focus level; (D) identifying a table associated with the selected range of cells, the table associating each defined display focus level with at least one cell content criteria to apply to the content of the at least one cell; and (E) selectively displaying the element on the user interface based on the relationship of the selected display focus level with the display focus level associated with the element.