Patent ID: 8185453

Claim:
A method of accessing features of a business management application (BMA), the method comprising: generating, by a hardware processor and for a user, a single global workflow diagram (GWD) comprising a vendor domain having a plurality of vendor nodes arranged in a vendor workflow, a customer domain having a plurality of customer nodes arranged in a customer workflow, an employee domain having a plurality of employee nodes arranged in an employee workflow, and a plurality of checkboxes corresponding to and positioned adjacent to the plurality of vendor nodes, the plurality of customer nodes, and the plurality of employee nodes; generating, by the hardware processor, an auxiliary function area (AFA) comprising a customization icon and a plurality of account balances for a plurality of financial accounts controlled by the user; displaying, simultaneously and by the hardware processor, the single GWD and the AFA adjacent to the single GWD; identifying, by the hardware processor, a subset of the plurality of checkboxes selected by the user on the single GWD; identifying a checkbox of the plurality of checkboxes excluded from the subset; removing, by the processor, a customer node corresponding to the checkbox from the single GWD; and displaying, in response to user input selecting a node in the single GWD, a user interface element associated with a feature corresponding to the node.