Patent ID: 7424685

Claim:
A method of providing access to database objects, the method comprising: displaying in a computer user interface an object selection area capable of presenting representations of a plurality of database objects for selection by a user, the plurality of database objects being of a type that is configured to include a plurality of data portions, each of the database objects having stored therewith one of a plurality of predetermined contexts applicable to the type of the database objects, the one predetermined context defining that at least one of the plurality of data portions is relevant for the predefined context, the user interface comprising a plurality of panels for presenting portions of data belonging to database objects selected in the object selection area, some of which panels are relevant to more than one of the contexts; receiving an input from the user selecting a database object presented in the object selection area; identifying, in response to the input, one of the plurality of predetermined contexts that is associated with the selected database object; selecting one of a plurality of panel selection controls using the identified context, each of the plurality of panel selection controls being associated with one of the predetermined contexts, the selected panel selection control providing that the user can select for display any of the panels that are relevant to the context of the selected database object, wherein any of the selectable panels that are relevant also to a different context can also be selected in a panel selection control associated with the different context; and displaying the selected panel selection control in the user interface.