REPRESENTING CRITICAL DATA FIELDS OF DATA TABLE

• US 20140096085A1
• Filed: 09/28/2012
• Published: 04/03/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/28/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: SAP SE
• Original Assignee: Andre Adam, Paul Skiba
• Inventors: ADAM, ANDRE, SKIBA, PAUL
• Application Number:
  US13/629,632
• Publication Number:
  US 20140096085A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/846
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/206 Drawing of charts or graphs

Abstract

Various embodiments of systems and methods for representing data fields of a data table are described herein. In one aspect, the method includes determining at least one data field of a data table. Data related to the determined at least one data field is read. A graphical representation of the data related to the determined at least one data field is generated. The generated graphical representation is displayed along with the data table. A user selection of a subset of data displayed on the graphical representation is received. A subset of the data table is displayed based upon the selected subset of data.

Claims

1. An article of manufacture including a non-transitory computer readable storage medium to tangibly store instructions, which when executed cause one or more computers in a network of computers to:

determine at least one data field from a plurality of data fields of a data table;

read data related to the determined at least one data field;

generate a graphical representation of the data related to the determined at least one data field;

display the generated graphical representation along with the data table;

receive a selection of a subset of the data displayed on the graphical representation; and

display a subset of the data table based upon the selected subset of the data.

2. The article of manufacture of claim 1 further comprising instructions which when executed cause the one or more computers in the network of computers to:

identify a modification in the determined at least one data field of the data table; and

based upon the identified modification in the determined at least one data field, modify the graphical representation.

3. The article of manufacture of claim 1, wherein the data table is related to alerts and the determined at least one data field includes at least one of a risk score related to the alerts, a risk value related to the alerts, a time period within which the alerts are due, and a user responsible for the alerts.

4. The article of manufacture of claim 1, wherein the determined at least one data field is more frequently analyzed data field of the data table.

5. The article of manufacture of claim 1, wherein the determined at least one data field is predefined.

6. The article of manufacture of claim 1, wherein the graphical representation comprises a filter for the at least one data field of the plurality of data fields of the data table and one or more filter options are associated with the filter.

7. The article of manufacture of claim 6 further comprising instructions which when executed cause the one or more computers in the network of computers to:

receive a selection of a filter option from the one or more filter options; and

based upon the selection of the filter option, modify the graphical representation.

8. The article of manufacture of claim 1, wherein the graphical representation is displayed in one of a horizontal orientation and a vertical orientation relative to the data table.

9. The article of manufacture of claim 1, wherein the graphical representation is displayed upon receiving a command from a user.

10. A computer-implemented method for representing at least one data field of a data table, the method comprising:

determining the at least one data field from a plurality of data fields of the data table;

reading data related to the determined at least one data field;

generating a graphical representation of the data related to the determined at least one data field;

displaying the generated graphical representation along with the data table;

receiving a selection of a subset of the data displayed on the graphical representation; and

displaying a subset of the data table based upon the selected subset of the data.

11. The method of claim 10 further comprising:

identifying a modification in the determined at least one data field of the data table; and

based upon the identified modification in the determined at least one data field, modifying the graphical representation.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the graphical representation is displayed upon receiving a user'"'"'s command through a user interface element displayed on the data table.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein the data table is related to alerts and the determined at least one data field includes at least one of a risk score related to the alerts, a risk value related to the alerts, a time period within which the alerts are due, and a user responsible for the alerts.

14. The method of claim 10, wherein the graphical representation comprises a filter for the at least one data field of the plurality of data fields of the data table and one or more filter options are associated with the filter.

15. The method of claim 14 further comprising:

receiving a selection of a filter option from the one or more filter options; and

based upon the selection of the filter option, modifying the graphical representation.

16. A computer system for representing data fields of a data table, the computer system comprising:

a memory to store program code; and

a processor communicatively coupled to the memory, the processor configured to execute the program code to render a GUI, the GUI comprising;

a data table comprising at least one of;

one or more critical data fields and data corresponding to the one or more critical data fields; and

one or more non-critical data fields and data corresponding to the one or more non-critical data fields;

and

a graphical representation of the data related to at least one of the one or more critical data fields and the one or more non-critical data fields, the graphical representation comprising;

a plurality of selectable geometrical shapes representing the data related to the at least one of the critical data fields and the non-critical data fields, wherein the GUI is configured to receive a selection of one or more of the geometrical shapes and upon receiving the selection, a subset of the data table is displayed based upon the one or more selected geometrical shapes.

17. The computer system of claim 16, wherein the GUI further comprises an icon for performing one of:

displaying the graphical representation; and

hiding the graphical representation.

18. The computer system of claim 16, wherein the graphical representation further comprises a filter element for at least one of the one or more critical data fields and the one or more non-critical data fields and one or more selectable filter options is associated with the filter element.

19. The computer system of claim 16, wherein the graphical representation is displayed in one of a horizontal orientation and a vertical orientation relative to the data table.

20. The computer system of claim 16, wherein the data table is related to alerts and the one or more critical data fields include at least one of a risk score related to the alerts, a risk value related to the alerts, a time period within which the alerts are due, and a user responsible for the alerts.