Patent ID: 8117529
Filing Date: 2012-02-14
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of navigating within a portal environment including a client and a portal, the method including: receiving a request based on a user's selection of a given business object from a plurality of business objects presented in a source portal snippet, each business object including a kernel and business logic, the selected business object having a plurality of operations that are associated thereto, the plurality of operations including first and second operations; determining an appropriate operation to invoke from the plurality of operations; and launching a first target portal snippet associated with the first operation if the first operation has been determined to be the appropriate operation at the determining step, wherein the first portal snippet includes a query portion to retrieve desired information and a presentation portion to display the retrieved information to the user; and wherein the first portal snippet is displayable in a table of an operation editor that associates a plurality of portal snippets with the first operation, the plurality of portal snippets including the first portal snippet; wherein the first and second operations are provided with first and second priority values, respectively; wherein the first and second priority values are displayable in priority fields of the operation editor; and wherein the operation editor is for review and modification of the priority values displayed in the priority fields.