Table filtering in a computer user interface

Computer-readable medium with program instructions stored thereon that when executed perform the following functions for providing display information on a display device of a computer system:

• displays a first view on the display device, the first view comprising a plurality of objects in a table of rows and columns, each object displayed as a row in the table and comprised of a plurality of fields, each field being in a column of the table;
• displays a blank input row corresponding to the table, the input row having input fields corresponding to the columns of the table;
• receives an input in the form of a character string in a selected input field of the input row;
• receives a filter command;
• and
• performs, in response to the filter command, a filtering function on a field of the objects corresponding to the selected input field of the input row using the character string, and displaying filtered data.