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US 8,799,796 B2Granted
System and method for generating graphical dashboards with drill down navigation
AssigneeSap SE
InventorsStefan Ehrler, Judith Roess, Kattia Jordan-Philipp
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Abstract
A system, machine-readable medium and a method that may provide a dashboard that may be created with menu controls that allow a user to navigate to the underlying data, manipulate the data, and present the manipulated data in the dashboard upon navigation back to the dashboard. The menu controls may include a data link to an address of a data location containing the data presented in the dashboard.
Claims18
A method for creating a custom dashboard with drill down navigation, comprising:
- selecting, by a processor, a type of dashboard from a plurality of dashboard templates;
- presenting, by the processor, the selected dashboard for population with data retrieved from a data location;
- creating data links, by the processor, to the data location related to the data shown in the selected dashboard, wherein the data link directs a processor to the data location;
- in response to a selection of the data link in the selected dashboard:
- generating a query to access the data in near real-time, wherein the generated query, based on the data location, includes one of attributes to query a specific file and attributes to query a specific area of a data source;
- navigating to the data location;
- and
- opening, by the processor, another screen over the dashboard for displaying data retrieved from the data location;
- in response to user input, manipulating the data at the data location;
- and
- presenting the user-manipulated data in the selected dashboard,
- wherein selection of a user control device causes the processor to provide a menu for selection of a specific data set from a plurality of data sets presented in a specific portion of the dashboard and the data address of the user control device for following the data link corresponds to the specific data set selected from the menu.
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A computer system for testing computer application functions, comprising:
- a server for providing access to a plurality of data storage devices;
- a display device for presenting data;
- a processor connected to the server and the display device, the processor configured to:
- select a type of dashboard from a plurality of dashboard templates;
- present selected dashboard for population with data retrieved from a data location;
- create data links to the data location related to the data shown in the selected dashboard, wherein the data link directs a processor to the data location;
- in response to a selection of the data link in the selected dashboard:
- generate a query to access the data in near real-time, wherein the generated query, based on the data location, includes one of attributes to query a specific file and attributes to query a specific area of a data source;
- navigate to the data location;
- and
- open another screen over the dashboard for displaying data retrieved from the data location;
- in response to user input, manipulate the data at the data location;
- present the user-manipulated data in the selected dashboard;
- and
- in response to the selection of a user control device, provide a menu for selection of a specific data set from a plurality of data sets presented in a specific portion of the dashboard, wherein the data address of the user control device for following the data link corresponds to the specific data set selected from the menu.
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A machine-readable storage medium embodied with computer program instructions for causing a processor to execute a method for testing computer application functions, the method comprising:
- selecting a type of dashboard from a plurality of dashboard templates;
- presenting the selected dashboard for population with data retrieved from a data location;
- creating data links to the data location related to the data shown in the selected dashboard, wherein the data link directs a processor to the data location;
- in response to a selection of the data link in the selected dashboard:
- generating a query to access the data in near real-time, wherein the generated query, based on the data location, includes one of attributes to query a specific file and attributes to query a specific area of a data source;
- navigating to the data location;
- and
- opening another screen over the dashboard for displaying data retrieved from the data location;
- in response to user input, manipulating the data at the data location;
- and
- presenting the user-manipulated data in the selected dashboard,
- wherein selection of a user control device causes the processor to provide a menu for selection of a specific data set from a plurality of data sets presented in a specific portion of the dashboard, and the data address of the user control device for following the data link corresponds to the specific data set selected from the menu.
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A method for creating custom dashboard with drill down navigation, comprising:
- selecting, by a processor, a type of dashboard from a plurality of dashboard templates;
- presenting, by the processor, the selected dashboard for population with data retrieved from a data location;
- creating data links, by the processor, to the data location related to the data shown in the selected dashboard, wherein the data link directs a processor to the data location;
- in response to a selection of the data link in the selected dashboard:
- generating a query to access the data in near real-time, wherein the generated query, based on the data location, includes one of attributes to query a specific file and attributes to query a specific area of a data source;
- navigating to the data location;
- and
- opening, by the processor, another screen over the dashboard for displaying data retrieved from the data location;
- in response to user input, manipulating the data at the data location;
- and
- presenting the user-manipulated data in the selected dashboard, wherein the data is related to potential successors to present leaders in a plurality of employment departments and the dashboard presents the data as a chart indicating a number of successors per each respective department.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.