Sorting and filtering activities in an activity-centric collaborative computing environment

An activity-centric collaborative data processing system, comprising:

• an activity list view comprising a listing of activities, each of the activities comprising at least one task;
• an activity view comprising a rendering of properties associated with a selected activity in the activity list view;
• a persons and roles view comprising at least a listing of collaborators available for association with the selected activity in said activity list view;
• an activity object filter coupled to a plurality of filtering criterion;
• and,
• an activity map comprising a view of an activity thread of activity objects for a selected one of the activities in the activity list view, the view being filtered according to selected ones of the filtering criterion.

A computer program product comprising a computer usable medium embodying computer usable program code for filtering and sorting activity objects in an activity-centric computing environment, the computer program product comprising:

• computer usable program code for generating at least one activity thread of hierarchically arranged activity objects;
• computer usable program code for selecting at least one filtering criterion for the activity objects;
• and,
• computer usable program code for filtering the activity objects in the activity threads.