Providing portal navigation for alerts

• US 20050283463A1
• Filed: 06/18/2004
• Published: 12/22/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 06/18/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: SAP SE
• Original Assignee: SAP AG (SAP SE)
• Inventors: Zern, Stefan, Meurer, Wolfgang, Busch, Stefan, Hayer, Roman, Wachholz-Prill, Andre, Dill, Marcus, Weidner, Jens, Diewald, Martin, Kupke, Markus
• Granted Patent: US 8,266,123 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/954 Navigation, e.g. using categorised browsing
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/06 Buying, selling or leasing transactions

Abstract

Navigating from an alert related to a state of a data object to a source of the alert includes displaying alerts in a portal environment. The portal environment has an analytical portal application associated with an analytical data store and a transaction portal application associated with a transaction data store. One of the alerts includes a transaction alert that is associated with a data object in the transaction data and another of the alerts includes an analytical alert that is associated with a data object. An indication of a transaction alert or an analytical alert is received from a user. When the indication is an indication of an analytical alert, navigation occurs to the analytical portal application. When the indication is an indication of the transaction alert, navigation occurs to the transaction portal application.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for navigating from an alert related to a state of a data object to a source of the alert, the method comprising:

displaying alerts in a portal environment having an analytical portal application associated with an analytical data store and a transaction portal application associated with a transaction data store, wherein one of the alerts comprises a transaction alert that is associated with a data object in the transaction data and another of the alerts comprises an analytical alert that is associated with a data object;

receiving, from a user, an indication of one of the transaction alert or the analytical alert;

when the indication is an indication of the analytical alert, navigating to the analytical portal application; and

when the indication is an indication of the transaction alert, navigating to the transaction portal application.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein navigating to the analytical portal application comprises navigating to an analytical data object associated with the analytical portal application.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein navigating to the analytical portal application comprises navigating to a particular data object in the analytical data object, the particular data object having a state that is a basis for generating the analytical alert.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein navigating to the transaction portal application comprises navigating to a particular data object associated with the transaction portal application.

5. The method of claim 4 wherein navigating to the transaction portal application comprises navigating to a particular data object having a state that is a basis for generating the transaction alert.

6. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

generating a first hyperlink to navigate to an analytical data object in the analytical portal application; and

generating a second hyperlink to navigate to a transaction data object in the transaction portal application,

wherein the indication of the analytical alert comprises the first hyperlink and the indication of the transaction alert comprises the second hyperlink.

7. A computer program product tangibly embodied in an information carrier, the computer program product including instructions that, when executed, perform a navigation process from an alert related to a state of a data object to a source of the alert, and is configured to:

display alerts in a portal environment having an analytical portal application associated with an analytical data store and a transaction portal application associated with a transaction data store, wherein one of the alerts comprises a transaction alert that is associated with a data object in the transaction data and another of the alerts comprises an analytical alert that is associated with a data object;

receive, from a user, an indication of one of the transaction alert or the analytical alert;

when the indication is an indication of the analytical alert, navigate to the analytical portal application; and

when the indication is an indication of the transaction alert, navigate to the transaction portal application.

8. The computer program product of claim 7 wherein the navigation to the analytical portal application comprises navigating to an analytical data object associated with the analytical portal application.

9. The computer program product of claim 8 wherein the navigation to the analytical portal application comprises navigating to a particular data object in the analytical data object, the particular data object having a state that is a basis for generating the analytical alert.

10. The computer program product of claim 7 wherein the navigation to the transaction portal application comprises navigating to a particular data object associated with the transaction portal application.

11. The computer program product of claim 10 wherein the navigation to the transaction portal application comprises navigating to a particular data object having a state that is a basis for generating the transaction alert.

12. The computer program product of claim 7 further configured to:

generate a first hyperlink to navigate to an analytical data object in the analytical portal application; and

generate a second hyperlink to navigate to a transaction data object in the transaction portal application,

wherein the indication of the analytical alert comprises the first hyperlink and the indication of the transaction alert comprises the second hyperlink.

13. A system for navigating from an alert related to a state of a data object to a source of the alert, the system comprising a processor connected to a storage device and one or more input/output devices, wherein the processor is configured to:

display alerts in a portal environment having an analytical portal application associated with an analytical data store and a transaction portal application associated with a transaction data store, wherein one of the alerts comprises a transaction alert that is associated with a data object in the transaction data and another of the alerts comprises an analytical alert that is associated with a data object;

receive, from a user, an indication of one of the transaction alert or the analytical alert;

when the indication is an indication of the analytical alert, navigate to the analytical portal application; and

when the indication is an indication of the transaction alert, navigate to the transaction portal application.

14. The system of claim 13 wherein the navigation to the analytical portal application comprises navigating to an analytical data object associated with the analytical portal application.

15. The system of claim 14 wherein the navigation to the analytical portal application comprises navigating to a particular data object in the analytical data object, the particular data object having a state that is a basis for generating the analytical alert.

16. The system of claim 13 wherein the navigation to the transaction portal application comprises navigating to a particular data object associated with the transaction portal application.

17. The system of claim 16 wherein the navigation to the transaction portal application comprises wherein the navigation to a particular data object having a state that is a basis for generating the transaction alert.

18. The system of claim 13 further configured to:

generate a first hyperlink to navigate to an analytical data object in the analytical portal application; and

generate a second hyperlink to navigate to a transaction data object in the transaction portal application,

wherein the indication of the analytical alert comprises the first hyperlink and the indication of the transaction alert comprises the second hyperlink.