Patent ID: 8250125

Claim:
In a system of the type including a CPU and software modules for execution thereon, a method of providing at least first and second views of a first data object in association with other data objects within a framework of a production system, each of the views corresponding to a different hierarchical data structure, the method comprising the steps of: providing a set of objects, wherein objects are part objects within said framework of said production system; forming from the set of objects a first hierarchical structure containing the first data object; forming from the set of objects a second hierarchical structure different from the first hierarchical structure and containing the first data object; providing a view of the first object in the context of the first hierarchical structure; and wherein the viewed first object serves as a user selectable linking point of transition between the first and second hierarchical structures so that activating the first object location viewable while viewing the first hierarchical structure switches to a view of the second hierarchical structure which view includes the first object, wherein the first hierarchical structure is an organization of a first subset of the set of objects and the second hierarchical structure is an organization of a second subset of the set of objects which is different from the first subset.