Patent ID: 8601383

Claim:
A computer system, comprising: a processor unit; and a computer-readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by the processor unit, cause the processor unit to create a graphical user interface for creating a data summary table, the user interface comprising: displaying a data summary table; and displaying a task pane separate from the data summary table, the task pane comprising: displaying a field pane including a displayed list of a plurality of fields; and displaying a layout pane comprising a row zone, a column zone, a value zone, and a filter zone; determining when, one or more of the plurality of fields from the field pane is dragged from the field pane and dropped into any one of the row zone, the column zone, the value zone, and the filter zone of the layout pane, wherein: the row zone defines row labels of the data summary table; the column zone defines column labels of the data summary table; the value zone includes fields that are of a numeric type; and the filter zone includes filters associated with fields of the row zone, the column zone, and the value zone, wherein the filters are both user selectable to be associated with a selected field prior to addition of the selected field to the data summary table, and user selectable to be associated with an existing field in the data summary table, and wherein, when one filter of the filters is associated with the selected field prior to addition of the selected field to the data summary table, the one filter is applied to the selected field before the selected field is added to the displayed data summary table; wherein the display of the data summary table is updated upon one or more of the plurality of fields being dropped into any one of the row zone, the column zone, the value zone, and the filter zone.