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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 02, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 22, 2005
David K. Clark, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Mary W. Ferguson, Austin, TX (US);
Julie L. Gilbreath, Austin, TX (US);
Theodore J. Shrader, Austin, TX (US);
David K. Clark, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Mary W. Ferguson, Austin, TX (US);
Julie L. Gilbreath, Austin, TX (US);
Theodore J. Shrader, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Methods, computer program products and systems are provided for navigating a display of a table in a computer application that includes enabling a context sensitive action menu, detecting activation of the action menu in the displayed table, and executing a table display control instruction from the context sensitive action menu to reformat and redisplay the table in a collapsed or an expanded format around one or more selected cells of the table. The display instruction indicates which columns, etc. are to be reformatted. Further steps may include populating an array with data from corresponding cells of the table and executing an array display control instruction to display at least a portion of the array on an action menu display panel. Navigation tools provide selection of array elements and reformatting and redisplaying the table in the collapsed or the expanded format around a table cell corresponding to the selected array cell.