Patent ID: 8438493

Claim:
A method comprising: embedding a preset navigator activation arrangement in a record selection interface of an application, the activation arrangement instantiating, responsive to an activation, a preset navigator interface pane to limit records eligible for display in the record selection interface; generating a list of user customized filters, each filter including at least one user selected criterion for at least one user selected data field of the records to initially identify those records and fields eligible for display in the record selection interface when a respective filter is selected from the list of filters; identifying a data field of the initially eligible records containing parental relationship information according to the following: determining whether an external lookup table defining a parent-child relationship for the initially eligible records exists; when the external lookup table exists: comparing the data fields of the initially eligible records to those included in the external lookup table; and determining the parent-child relationship for the initially eligible records from the parent-child relationship specified in the lookup table; when the external lookup table does not exist: identifying at least one parent-child field in the initially eligible records defining the parent-child relationship between two of the records; comparing information in the identified at least one parent-child field of the initially eligible records; and determining the parent-child relationship for the initially eligible records from the compared information; generating a tree structure depicting a hierarchical parental relationship between the initially eligible records from the determined parent-child relationship for the initially eligible records; and responsive to activating a node in the tree structure, displaying for selection those records containing a parental relationship information field value descending from the activated node.