Providing additional hierarchical information for an object displayed in a tree view in a hierarchical relationship with other objects

• US 20060174216A1
• Filed: 01/28/2005
• Published: 08/03/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 01/28/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Wang, Ningning, Peterson, Trenten, Underkofler, Erik Bruce
• Application Number:
  US11/046,431
• Publication Number:
  US 20060174216A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/853
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/10 File systems; File servers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/904 Browsing; Visualisation therefor for navigating the web G06F16/954; browsing optimisation for the web G06F16/957

Abstract

Provided are a method, system and program for providing additional hierarchical information for an object displayed in a tree view in a hierarchical relationship with other objects. A representation of the hierarchical arrangement of the objects is displayed. Selection is received of one object in the displayed hierarchical arrangement and a determination is made as to whether a table is associated with the selected object. The table associated with the selected object is displayed in response to determining that the table is associated with the selected object.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

displaying a representation of a hierarchical arrangement of a plurality of objects;

receiving selection of one object in the displayed hierarchical arrangement;

determining whether a table is associated with the selected object; and

displaying the table associated with the selected object.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

displaying, in the table, entries arranged in an entry hierarchical relationship to provide information on the object associated with the table.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

displaying selectable controls associated with the entries in the displayed table;

receiving selection of one selectable control associated with one entry; and

displaying at least one child entry for the entry associated with the selected selectable control.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein displaying the at least one child entry comprises displaying child entries as hierarchical children to the entry associated with the selected selectable control.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the selectable control selected to display the at least one child entry comprises a first selectable control, further comprising:

receiving selection of a second selectable control for one entry in the table whose at least one child entry is displayed; and

removing the display of the at least one child entry in the table for the entry associated with the selected second selectable control.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the table displayed for the selected object includes a first column having a category descriptor and a second column having a description of the category descriptor.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving user selection to add an entry to the displayed table for the selected object at an entry hierarchical relationship with respect to the entries in the table; and

updating the table to include the added entry and to indicate the entry hierarchical relationship of the added entry with the entries in the table.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving user selection to delete or modify an entry in the displayed table for the selected object; and

updating the table to indicate the deletion or modification of the entry selected by the user.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one additional object is associated with at least one additional table, further comprising:

receiving selection of one additional object; and

displaying the additional table associated with the selected additional object.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the objects are a member of the set of objects comprising:

files in a file system, objects, file folders, XML files, and attributes or classifications that may be assigned to an object.

11. A system, comprising:

a processor;

an output device in communication with the processor;

a memory indicating a hierarchical arrangement of objects and a table associated with one object;

a computer readable medium including code executed by the processor to cause operations to be performed, the operations comprising;

(i) displaying at the output device a representation of the hierarchical arrangement of objects;

(ii) receiving selection of one object in the displayed hierarchical arrangement;

(iii) determining whether the table is associated with the selected object; and

(iv) displaying the table associated with the selected object in response to determining that the table is associated with the selected object.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the operations further comprise:

displaying, in the table, entries arranged in an entry hierarchical relationship to provide information on the object associated with the table.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the operations further comprise:

displaying selectable controls associated with the entries in the displayed table;

receiving selection of one selectable control associated with one entry; and

displaying at least one child entry for the entry associated with the selected selectable control.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein displaying the at least one child entry comprises displaying child entries as hierarchical children to the entry associated with the selected selectable control.

15. The system of claim 13, wherein the selectable control selected to cause the display of the at least one child entry comprises a first selectable control, wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving selection of a second selectable control for one entry in the table whose at least one child entry is displayed; and

removing the display of the at least one child entry in the table for the entry associated with the selected second selectable control.

16. The system of claim 11, wherein the table displayed for the selected object includes a first column having a category descriptor and a second column having a description of the category descriptor.

17. The system of claim 11, wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving user selection to add an entry to the displayed table for the selected object at an entry hierarchical relationship with respect to the entries in the table; and

updating the table to include the added entry and to indicate the entry hierarchical relationship of the added entry with the entries in the table.

18. The system of claim 11, wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving user selection to delete or modify an entry in the displayed table for the selected object; and

updating the information for the table to indicate the deletion or modification of the entry selected by the user.

19. The system of claim 11, wherein at least one additional object is associated with at least one additional table, wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving selection of one additional object; and

displaying the additional table associated with the selected additional object.

20. The system of claim 11, wherein the objects are a member of the set of objects comprising:

files in a file system, objects, file folders, XML files, and attributes or classifications that may be assigned to an object.

21. An article of manufacture including code capable of causing operations to be performed, the operations comprising:

displaying a representation of a hierarchical arrangement of a plurality of objects;

receiving selection of one object in the displayed hierarchical arrangement;

determining whether a table is associated with the selected object; and

displaying the table associated with the selected object in response to determining that the table is associated with the selected object.

22. The article of manufacture of claim 21, wherein the operations further comprise:

displaying, in the table, entries arranged in an entry hierarchical relationship to provide information on the object associated with the table.

23. The article of manufacture of claim 22, wherein the operations further comprise:

displaying selectable controls associated with the entries in the displayed table;

receiving selection of one selectable control associated with one entry; and

displaying at least one child entry for the entry associated with the selected selectable control.

24. The article of manufacture of claim 23, wherein displaying the at least one child entry comprises displaying child entries as hierarchical children to the entry associated with the selected selectable control.

25. The article of manufacture of claim 22, wherein the selectable control to cause the display of the child entries comprises a first selectable control, wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving selection of a second selectable control for one entry in the table whose at least one child entry is displayed; and

removing the display of the at least one child entry in the table for the entry associated with the selected second selectable control.

26. The article of manufacture of claim 21, wherein the table displayed for the selected object includes a first column having a category descriptor and a second column having a description of the category descriptor.

27. The article of manufacture of claim 21, wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving user selection to add an entry to the displayed table for the selected object at an entry hierarchical relationship with respect to the entries in the table; and

updating the table to include the added entry and to indicate the entry hierarchical relationship of the added entry with the entries in the table.

28. The article of manufacture of claim 21, wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving user selection to delete or modify an entry in the displayed table for the selected object; and

updating the table to indicate the deletion or modification of the entry selected by the user.

29. The article of manufacture of claim 21, wherein at least one additional object is associated with at least one additional table, wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving selection of one additional object; and

displaying the additional table associated with the selected additional object.

30. The article of manufacture of claim 21, wherein the objects are a member of the set of objects comprising:

files in a file system, objects, file folders, XML files, and attributes or classifications that may be assigned to an object.