Multi-pane graphical user interface with dynamic panes to present web data

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10338937-B2
Application number	US-201113307577-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 30, 2011
Priority date	Nov 30, 2011
Publication date	Jul 2, 2019
Grant date	Jul 2, 2019

Abstract

A server computing system provides a web application graphical user interface (GUI) that has a first pane and a second pane. The first pane includes data items of the web application. When a user selects multiple data items in the first pane, the second pane identifies the actions that are available for the data items that are selected in the first pane. When an action is selected in the second pane, the data items in the first pane are modified in response to the selection without a web browser refreshing or reloading a corresponding web page. The server computing system receives a user request for additional information for a data item in the first pane and provides the additional information in a third pane that is together with the first pane in the GUI without the web browser refreshing or reloading the corresponding web page.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
receiving a selection of one or more system administration data items in a data item pane in a web application graphical user interface (GUI), the web application GUI comprising the data item pane and a multi-selection pane in a window of the web application GUI, the data item pane comprising a set of system administration data items of the web application;
determining a number of the one or more system administration data items from the set of system administration data items of the web application that have been selected in the data item pane;
responsive to determining that a single system administration data item of the set of system administration items has been selected in the data item pane, sliding, by a processing device, another pane with a display of permission information for the selected system administration data item in a horizontal direction away from the data item pane within the window of the web application GUI to cover the multi-selection pane in the window, wherein content of the data item pane is fully visible in the window of the web application GUI;
responsive to determining that a plurality of the system administration data items of the set of system administration items have been selected in the data item pane, providing one or more actions to remove permissions from each system administration data item of the selected plurality of system administration data items, the one or more actions being provided in the multi-selection pane;
receiving a request to perform an action of the one or more actions for the selected plurality of system administration data items in the data item pane to remove a permission from each of the plurality of system administration data items selected in the data item pane from the window of the web application GUI, the request corresponding to a selection of the action at the multi-selection pane; and
responsive to receiving the request, removing, by the processing device, the permission from each of the plurality of system administration data items selected in the data item pane from the window of the web application GUI.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
sending, via a back-end server communication framework, a data identifier for the set of system administration data items and a user identifier to determine whether a user is authorized to access the permission information for the plurality of the system administration data items of the set of system administration data items;
receiving, via the back-end server communication framework, the permission information for the plurality of the system administration data items in view of the user being authorized; and
displaying the permission information in the another pane in the web application GUI without a web browser refreshing or reloading the web application GUI.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
causing display of a user interface element for an edit action, wherein selection of the user interface element edits the permission for each of the plurality of the system administration data items.

4. The method of claim 3 , further comprising:
determining the edit action and the user interface element for the edit action to display in view of an authorization level associated with a user.

5. The method of claim 3 , wherein the edit action comprises at least one of deleting data for each of the plurality of system administration data items in the database, adding data for each of the plurality of system administration data items to the database, or editing data for the each of the plurality of system administration data items in the database.

6. A system comprising:
a memory; and
a processing device, operatively coupled with the memory, to:
receive a selection of one or more system administration data items in a data item pane in a web application graphical user interface (GUI), the web application GUI comprising the data item pane and a multi-selection pane in a window of the web application GUI, the data item pane comprising a set of system administration data items of the web application;
determine a number of the one or more system administration data items from the set of system administration items of the web application that have been selected in the data item pane;
responsive to determining that a single system administration data item of the set of system administration items has been selected in the data item pane, slide another pane with a display of permission information for the selected system administration data item in a horizontal direction away from the data item pane within the window of the web application GUI to cover the multi-selection pane in the window, wherein content of the data item pane is fully visible in the window of the web application GUI;
responsive to determining that a plurality of the system administration data items of the set of system administration items have been selected in the data item pane, provide one or more actions to remove permissions from each system administration item of the selected plurality of system administration data items, the one or more actions being provided in the multi-selection pane;
receive a request to perform an action of the one or more actions for the selected plurality of system administration data items in the data item pane to remove a permission from each of the plurality of system administration data items selected in the data item pane from the window of the web application GUI, the request corresponding to a selection of the action at the multi-selection pane; and
responsive to receiving the request, remove the permission from each of the plurality of system administration data items selected in the data item pane from the window of the web application GUI.

7. The system of claim 6 , wherein the processing device is further to:
send, via a back-end server communication framework, a data identifier for the system administration data item and a user identifier to determine whether a user is authorized to access the permission information for the plurality of the system administration data items of the set of system administration data items;
receive, via the back-end server communication framework, the permission information for the plurality of the system administration data items in view of the user being authorized; and
display the permission information in the another pane in the web application GUI without a web browser refreshing or reloading the corresponding web application GUI.

8. The system of claim 6 , wherein the processing device is further to:
cause display of a user interface element for an edit action, wherein selection of the user interface element edits the permission for each of the plurality of the system administration data item.

9. The system of claim 8 , wherein the processing device is further to:
determine the edit action and the user interface element for the edit action to display in view of an authorization level associated with a user.

10. The system of claim 8 , wherein selection of the user interface element for the edit action, the processing device is to at least one of delete data for each of the plurality of the system administration data items in the database, add data for each of the plurality of the system administration data items to the database, or edit data for each of the plurality of the system administration data items in the database.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium including instructions that, when executed by a processing device, cause the processing device to:
receive a selection of one or more system administration data items in a data item pane in a web applicati

Assignees

• Rist Jason E
• Hughes Shannon Ray
• Red Hat Inc

Inventors

• Rist Jason E
• Hughes Shannon Ray

Classifications

• G06F9/451 Primary

  Execution arrangements for user interfaces · CPC title

• G06F3/0482

  Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus · CPC title

• G06F9/4443

  Physics · mapped topic