Patent ID: 7620637

Claim:
A method for displaying a summary page for a business object to a user, comprising: receiving input generated by a first user selecting a desired business object from a business object database; accessing at least one business object within a business object database based on the user-generated selection, the business object comprising a plurality of fields of data; querying a database to determine that the first user has a first role, the first role being one of a plurality of roles; accessing at least one predefined summary page definition file within a definition file database based on the user-generated selection, each of the summary page definition files providing information pertaining to a summary page including a layout of the summary page and a selection of fields from the business object to display in the summary page, the fields displayed differing for the first user with the first role from a second user with a second role different than the first role; and displaying a summary page based on the business object from the business object database, the layout and fields from the business object displayed on the summary page being based on a corresponding summary page definition file from the definition file database, and a user role of the user, at least one of the layout and fields differing based on whether the user is the first user or the second user.