Workflow application and user interface builder integrating objects, relationships, and actions

A computer-implemented method comprising:

• by one or more computer processors executing program instructions:
• accessing an ontology that defines:
• a set of data object types;
• and
• actions associated with the data object types;
• adding an interactively-configurable component to an interactively-configurable layout;
• determining, based on the ontology, a first data object type associated with the interactively-configurable component;
• accessing, from the ontology, a first action associated with the determined first data object type;
• automatically configuring the interactively-configurable component with the first action;
• generating a workflow user interface based on the interactively-configurable layout and including a component based on the interactively-configurable component;
• and
• in response to a selection of the component via the workflow user interface, performing a part of a workflow on one or more objects of a set of data objects based on the first action of the interactively-configurable component.

A computing system comprising:

• a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith;
• and
• one or more processors configured to execute the program instructions to cause the computing system to:
• access an ontology that defines:
• a set of data object types;
• and
• actions associated with the data object types;
• add an interactively-configurable component to an interactively-configurable layout;
• determine, based on the ontology, a first data object type associated with the interactively-configurable component;
• access, from the ontology, a first action associated with the determined first data object type;
• automatically configure the interactively-configurable component with the first action;
• generate a workflow user interface based on the interactively-configurable layout and including a component based on the interactively-configurable component;
• and
• in response to a selection of the component via the workflow user interface, perform a part of a workflow on one or more objects of a set of data objects based on the first action of the interactively-configurable component.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium including computer-executable instructions that, when executed by a computing system, cause the computing system to perform operations comprising:

• accessing an ontology that defines:
• a set of data object types;
• and
• actions associated with the data object types;
• adding an interactively-configurable component to an interactively-configurable layout;
• determining, based on the ontology, a first data object type associated with the interactively-configurable component;
• accessing, from the ontology, a first action associated with the determined first data object type;
• automatically configuring the interactively-configurable component with the first action;
• generating a workflow user interface based on the interactively-configurable layout and including a component based on the interactively-configurable component;
• and
• in response to a selection of the component via the workflow user interface, performing a part of a workflow on one or more objects of a set of data objects based on the first action of the interactively-configurable component.