Flattening a subset of configuration user interface (UI) panels in a hierarchy of UI panels

A flattening data processing system comprising:

• a host computer with at least one processor and memory;
• an application executing in the host computer, the application comprising a hierarchy of panels through which different configuration parameter values are provided for correspondingly different configurable artifacts of the application;
• a search index of artifacts comprising a plurality of records for corresponding artifacts, each record referencing an artifact, at least one keyword and also a reference to a panel through which at least one configuration parameter value is established for the artifact, wherein the panel is retrieved directly with the reference;
• and,
• a flattening module coupled to the application, the flattening module comprising program code enabled upon execution in the host computer to execute a query against the search index of artifacts, to receive a result set of artifacts from the search index for the query, to identify panels in the hierarchy of panels corresponding to artifacts in the result set, and to display a single window in the application with an arrangement of the identified panels.

A computer program product for flattening a subset of configuration user interface (UI) panels in a hierarchy of UI panels, the computer program product comprising:

• a computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith, the computer readable program code comprising:
• computer readable program code for establishing a search index of configurable artifacts of an application, wherein configuration parameters for the configurable artifacts are receivable in a hierarchy of UI panels, wherein the search index includes different keywords associated with the configurable artifacts along with a reference to a corresponding one of the UI panels in the hierarchy with which the corresponding one of the UI panels is retrieved directly;
• computer readable program code for executing a query against the search index of the configurable artifacts;
• computer readable program code for receiving a result set of artifacts from the search index for the query;
• computer readable program code for identifying UI panels in the hierarchy corresponding to artifacts in the result set;
• and,
• computer readable program code for displaying a single window in the application with an arrangement of the identified UI panels.