Patent ID: 7831902

Claim:
A method for displaying interrelated changes in a scheduling document, the method comprising: monitoring a scheduling document, wherein the scheduling document is used to schedule activities; determining if a first scheduling event residing in a first grid cell has changed, the first scheduling event comprising a task, the task comprising scheduling data; if a change to the first grid cell occurs, changing viewing characteristics of the first grid cell to a highlighted state and determining if the change to the first scheduling event changes a second scheduling event residing in a second grid cell, wherein the second scheduling event comprises a task which is dependent on the scheduling data for the task in the first scheduling event; if the change to the scheduling data for the task in the first scheduling event changes the scheduling data for the task in the second scheduling event residing in a second grid cell, changing viewing characteristics of the second grid cell to a highlighted state; and displaying the scheduling document, wherein the displayed scheduling document displays the first grid cell and the second grid cell in the highlighted state.