Patent ID: 8326864

Claim:
A method for implementing automated worklists, comprising: generating a worklist, comprising: retrieving a worklist template corresponding to the worklist from a storage device; creating the worklist template that defines the worklist by specifying a template ID for the worklist template, defining the first query, storing the first query in the worklist template, defining the second query; and storing the second query in the worklist template; via a first query stored in the worklist template, selecting a listing of members, member attributes, and an assignee and populating the listing of members, member attributes, and the assignee in the worklist, the member attributes including a status indicator of an action item specified for each of the members of the worklist; via a second query stored in the worklist template, and using attributes of a worklist member table corresponding to the member attributes, identifying up-to-date values of the member attributes; and outputting the up-to-date values to the worklist; and presenting the worklist to the assignee, wherein for each of the members in the worklist, a value of the status indicator is editable by the assignee to update a status of the member.