Patent ID: 8656352

Claim:
A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed on a processor, cause the processor to: interact with a graphical model in a graphical modeling environment, the graphical model representing a process or a system, where: the graphical model comprises a plurality of components, and the plurality of components includes a first component and a second component; display a step of a workflow, the step associated with the first component of the graphical model; receive an instruction, the received instruction identifying the step of the workflow; execute the step of the workflow based on the received instruction; synchronize the graphical modeling environment with the executing the step of the workflow, the synchronizing comprising: reconfiguring the graphical modeling environment to synchronously display: the first component with the executing of the step of the workflow, and the second component with the executing of the step of the workflow; indicate, based on the synchronously displaying, that the first component is associated with the executing the step of the workflow; and indicate, based on the synchronously displaying, that the second component is not associated with the executing the step of the workflow.