Patent ID: 8726174

Claim:
A method for showing a display panel in a graphical user interface, comprising: displaying, on a display device and using a computer processor, the graphical user interface comprising a data area, a display panel wrapper, and a display panel control, wherein the display panel wrapper comprises the display panel, wherein the display panel wrapper is associated with a client-side script variable, wherein the display panel comprises an input control for manipulating the data area, wherein the display panel is initially hidden in the graphical user interface, wherein the client-side script variable initially indicates that the display panel is hidden in the graphical user interface; receiving, at the display panel control, a first user event indicating a requirement to display the display panel; modifying, using the computer processor, in response to the first user event, the client-side script variable to show the display panel in the graphical user interface; showing, in response to modifying the client-side script variable, the display panel in the graphical user interface, wherein the data area in the graphical user interface comprises a table comprising sortable data, wherein the data area is not hidden in the graphical user interface; receiving, at the input control of the display panel, a second user event comprising a sort request to sort the table in the data area; and displaying, on the display device and in response to the sort request, a sorted table comprising the sortable data in the table sorted.