Patent ID: 8261181

Claim:
A computer-readable storage medium device having computer-executable instructions which when executed perform a method for recording and presenting annotations in a scorecard, the method executed by the computer-executable instructions comprising: receiving a plurality of annotations corresponding to an associated scorecard element, each of the plurality of annotations including a dimension parameter; storing the plurality of annotations based on the associated scorecard element and the dimension parameter such that the plurality of annotations are independent from a configuration of the scorecard; receiving a selection of multiple elements of the scorecard, wherein receiving the selection of multiple elements of the scorecard comprises receiving a request to view any annotations associated with the selected elements; and providing the plurality of annotations associated with the selected elements of the scorecard for a report view presentation based on a filtering of the dimension parameter, wherein providing the plurality of annotations for the report view presentation based on the filtering of the dimension parameter comprises: combining each selected element's corresponding annotations, sorting the combined annotations based on the dimension parameter, and presenting the combined and sorted annotations in the report view presentation.