Generating component pages to render in a configuration page in a graphical user interface to configure a computing resource

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10613879-B2
Application number	US-201816132348-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 14, 2018
Priority date	Oct 28, 2015
Publication date	Apr 7, 2020
Grant date	Apr 7, 2020

Abstract

Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for generating component pages to render in a configuration page in a graphical user interface (GUI) to configure a computing resource. A plurality of component pages are generated to render in the configuration page. Each component page includes user configuration setting controls to enable the user to set configuration parameters for component resources to configure the computer resource. The configuration page is generated to: render a main panel in the GUI program; render graphical component page selection controls in the GUI program associated with the component pages; receive user selection of a selected one of the graphical component page selection controls associated with one of the component pages; and render the component page associated with the selected graphical component page selection control.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computer program product for generating a configuration page rendered in a graphical user interface (GUI) program to use to configure a computer resource, the computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therein that executes to perform operations, the operations comprising:
generating a plurality of component pages, wherein each component page includes user configuration setting controls to enable a user to set configuration parameters for a component resource of a plurality of component resources to configure;
saving, for each component page of a plurality of the component pages, user entered values for configuration parameters to configure the component resource configured through the component page that are indicated as unapplied to the component resource;
rendering a plurality of graphical component page selection controls simultaneously in a user interface, wherein each graphical component page selection control represents one of the component pages and is used to select and open the represented component page;
rendering, for each of the simultaneously rendered graphical component page selection controls representing pages having saved unapplied user entered values for the configuration parameters, indication that the component page represented by the graphical component page selection control has saved unapplied user entered values that are unapplied;
in response to user selection of one of the graphical component page selection controls for which indication is rendered of saved unapplied user entered values, rendering the component page represented by the user selected graphical component page selection control; and
receiving user selection in the rendered component page to apply the saved unapplied user entered values for configuration parameters to configure the component resource configured through the rendered component page.

2. The computer program product of claim 1 , wherein the rendering the graphical component page selection controls simultaneously comprises:
rendering the graphical component page selection controls according to a specified ordering indicating a preferred order in which configuration parameters presented in the component pages should be entered to satisfy dependency relationships of the configuration parameters.

3. The computer program product of claim 1 , wherein the rendering the graphical component page selection controls simultaneously comprises:
rendering each of the graphical component page selection controls with information indicating a number of configuration parameters not having applied values in the component page associated with the graphical component page selection control.

4. The computer program product of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise:
receiving through one of the user configuration setting controls rendered in a component page user selection of a value for a configuration parameter; and
rendering conflict information indicating a dependency conflict in response to a determination that there is a dependency conflict between the user selected value for the configuration parameter of the component resource and a value provided for another component resource having a dependency relationship with the component resource for which the user selected value is provided.

5. The computer program product of claim 4 , wherein the dependency conflict is determined by:
accessing dependency information indicating a plurality of dependency relationships between component resources configured in any of the component pages, wherein each of the dependency relationships indicates a dependency rule that determines whether user selected values for the component resources in the dependency relationship are in conflict;
determining whether one of the dependency relationships is between the component resource for which the value was entered and another component resource; and
in response to determining that there is the dependency relationship, determining, according to the dependency rule for the dependency relationship whether the user selected value conflicts with the value provided for another component resource in the dependency relationship.

6. The computer program product of claim 5 , wherein the dependency conflict is determined by at least one of the GUI program executing code embedded in the configuration page and a resource computing program that communicates with the GUI program executing the configuration page.

7. The computer program product of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise:
rendering an apply graphical control for the saved unapplied user entered values, wherein the receiving user selection for the rendered component page comprises receiving user selection of the apply graphical control;
causing the saved unapplied user entered values for the configuration parameters in a component page to be indicated as applied in response to receiving user selection of the apply graphical control; and
rendering the apply graphical control as unselectable in response to determining that there is at least one dependency conflict between one of the saved unapplied user entered values for the component resource configured by rendered component page and an additional saved unapplied user entered value for another component resource configured through another of the component pages.

8. A system for generating a configuration page rendered in a graphical user interface (GUI) program to use to configure a computer resource, comprising:
a processor; and
a computer readable storage medium having program code that when executed by the processor performs operations, the operations comprising:
generating a plurality of component pages, wherein each component page includes user configuration setting controls to enable a user to set configuration parameters for a component resource of a plurality of component resources to configure;
saving, for each component page of a plurality of the component pages, user entered values for configuration parameters to configure the component resource configured through the component page that are indicated as unapplied to the component resource;
rendering a plurality of graphical component page selection controls simultaneously in a user interface, wherein each graphical component page selection control represents one of the component pages and is used to select and open the represented component page;
rendering, for each of the simultaneously rendered graphical component page selection controls representing pages having saved unapplied user entered values for the configuration parameters, indication that the component page represented by the graphical component page selection control has saved unapplied user entered values that are unapplied;
in response to user selection of one of the graphical component page selection controls for which indication is rendered of saved unapplied user entered values, rendering the component page represented by the user selected graphical component page selection control; and
receiving user selection in the rendered component page to apply the saved unapplied user entered values for configuration parameters to configure the component resource configured through the rendered component page.

9. The system of claim 8 , wherein the rendering the graphical component page selection controls simultaneously comprises:
rendering the graphical component page selection controls according to a specified ordering indicating a preferred order in which configuration parameters presented in the component pages should be entered to satisfy dependency relationships of the configuration parameters.

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Raveh Yoni
• Sinay Gal
• Weiss Moshe
• Wiegner Malki

Classifications

• G06F9/451 Primary

  Execution arrangements for user interfaces · CPC title