Systems and methods for performing operations in a reporting system

• US 8,522,192 B1
• Filed: 06/20/2002
• Issued: 08/27/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/20/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microstrategy Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Microstrategy Incorporated
• Inventors: Bedell, Jeffrey A., Cappiello, Scott, Hurwood, William, Li, Wenfeng, Ramachandran, Ramkumar, Saylor, Michael J., Trundle, Stephen S., Warikoo, Abhimanyu, Avalos, Rodolfo, Freixas, Alejandro, Gonzalez, Raul, Li, Benjamin, Liu, Ningning, Orozco, Luis V.
• Primary Examiner(s): Kang, Insun
• Application Number:
  US10/175,328
• Time in Patent Office: 4,086 Days
• Field of Search: 717101-103, 715/733, 715/764
• US Class Current: 717/100
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/629 to features or functions of an application
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2113 Multi-level security, e.g. mandatory access control
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45512 Command shells
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management

Abstract

A system and method for facilitating the performance of administrator tasks in performing changes to enterprise level data that is associated with various users. The method includes the steps of generating a login dialog box to accept login information from an administrator; establishing a connection to at least one project source name; providing an outline to the administrator, the outline facilitating the creation and submission of command based instruction by providing syntax for a purpose, the outline being maintained in a predetermined folder; and providing a history feature to save a set instructions that were executed successfully.

Claims

1. A method for facilitating the performance of administrator tasks in performing changes to enterprise level data that is associated with various users, the method comprising:

generating a login dialog box to accept login information from an administrator using a computer processor, wherein the login information received is used for authentication before a command may be executed;

receiving a request to connect to at least one project source name and establishing a connection to the at least one project source name based on the request;

in response to a user selection of at least one outline, providing the outline to the administrator via an editor box located at a data display area of a command manager dialog box, wherein the editor box serves to modify scripts developed for command based instructions in the outline, the command based instructions are for changes to enterprise level data that is associated with various users, the outline provides (i) syntax for the development of the scripts for the command based instructions, (ii) a shell for the development of the scripts for the command based instructions, and submits the command based instructions for execution, the outline being maintained in a predetermined folder;

displaying, with the outline, one or more results of the submitted command based instructions and one or more status messages related to the command based instructions;

compiling a business intelligence report based on the submitted command based instructions and one or more status messages, wherein the business intelligence report is generated based on assigned report priority values of normalized priority variables; and

providing a history feature to save a set of the command based instructions that were executed successfully for future presentation in a business intelligence reporting system.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the command based instructions are provided via a command line interface.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the command based instructions comprise adding, deleting, or updating the enterprise-level data associated with users or groups of users.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the administrator tasks in performing the changes to the enterprise level data that is associated with various users are performed over the Internet.

5. A system for facilitating the performance of administrator tasks in performing changes to enterprise level data that is associated with various users, the system comprising:

a processor;

generation code for generating by the processor a login dialog box to accept login information from an administrator using a computer processor, and utilize the accepted login information for authentication before a command may be executed;

connection code for receiving by the processor a request to connect to at least one project source name and establishing a connection to the at least one project source name based on the request;

an outline processor to, in response to a user selection of at least one outline, provide the outline to the administrator via an editor box located at a data display area of a command manager dialog box, wherein the editor box serves to modify scripts developed for command based instructions in the outline, the command based instructions are for changes to enterprise level data that is associated with various users, the outline provides (i) syntax for the development of the scripts for the command based instructions, (ii) a shell for the development of the scripts for the command based instructions, and submits the command based instructions for execution, the outline being maintained in a predetermined folder; and

history code for displaying, with the outline, one or more results of the submitted command based instructions and one or more status messages related to the command based instructions, compiling a business intelligence report based on the submitted command based instructions and one or more status messages, wherein the business intelligence report is generated based on assigned report priority values of normalized priority variables; and

providing a history feature to save a set of the command based instructions that were executed successfully for future presentation in a business intelligence reporting system.

6. The system of claim 5 wherein the command based instructions are provided via a command line interface.

7. The system of claim 5 wherein the command based instructions comprise adding, deleting, or updating the enterprise-level data associated with users or groups of users.

8. The system of claim 5 wherein the administrator tasks in performing the changes to the enterprise level data that is associated with various users are performed over the Internet.