Patent ID: 7574689

Claim:
A method associated with a business information enterprise system having a front-end system and a back-end system, comprising: determining, at the front end system, that a first object access display is to be provided at the front-end system for a first object of a first object type; using a generic interface between the front-end system and the back-end system to provide the first object access display with a first object view based on the first object type; determining, at the front end system, that a second object access display is to be provided at the front-end system for a second object of a second object type, the second object type being different than the first object type; and using the generic interface to provide the second object access display with a second object view based on the second object type, the second object view being different than the first object view; wherein a presentation layer at the back-end system arranges to provide the first object access display using the first object view based on the first object type; wherein said arranges to provide the first object access display includes determining display properties for the first object access display in accordance with entries in a behavior table stored at the back-end system; and wherein the behavior table includes: a first field that specifies an object identifier associated with the first object type; a second field that specifies whether to include a first icon in the first object access display; and a third field that specifies whether to include a second icon in the first object access display.