Patent ID: 6988242

Claim:
A method for generating a custom spreadsheet, said method implemented by execution of a control program on a processor of a computer system, said method comprising transforming a portion of a database into the custom spreadsheet, wherein the transforming includes determining selected from the group consisting of determining whether to omit in the custom spreadsheet a column that is in the portion, determining whether to add to the custom spreadsheet a column that is not in the portion, and combinations thereof, wherein the transforming includes performing N functions F 1 , F 2 , . . . , F N based on N rule sets R 1 , R 2 , . . . , R N , respectively, wherein N is at least 1, wherein the transforming includes executing a control program, wherein executing the control program includes invoking N software modules M 1 , M 2 , . . . , M N which respectively retrieve the rule sets R 1 , R 2 , . . . , R N , wherein the database is a LOTUS DOMINO database, wherein each module is a LOTUS script, and wherein the custom spreadsheet is a LOTUS 1-2-3 spreadsheet.