Patent ID: 8171418
Filing Date: 2012-05-01
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for providing an interface for object relationships, comprising: (a) receiving, at a database from a user machine that is remote from the database, a selection of at least a first object and a second object stored in an on-demand database service on a computer readable medium of a memory system of the database and a definition of at least one relationship between the first object and the second object; (b) providing, by a processor system of the database, based upon the at least one relationship between the first object and the second object, a diagram illustrating the at least one relationship; (c) providing, by the processor system of the database, a pictorial indication of how a data set resulting from applying the at least one relationship to the first object and the second object is expected to be represented in a report associated with the diagram; (d) providing, by the processor system of the database, a representation of a Venn diagram; and (e) providing, by the processor system of the database, a visual representation that there is a relationship between the Venn diagram and the pictorial indication;