Contextualized report building

摘要

A system and method for facilitating rendering a user interface display screen or portion thereof. An example method includes determining context information associated with a user, wherein the context information includes use job role information; and employing the context information to select one or more visualization types from a set of available visualization types. The method may further include using the context information to provide one or more first user options to select one or more categories of data pertaining to a business task; referencing the one or more categories to facilitate determining one or more data attributes, dimensions, or measures associated with the context information; utilizing the one or more data attributes and the context information to select the one or more visualization types from the set of available visualization types; and providing a second user option to choose a visualization type from among selected visualization types.

主权项

1. A method for facilitating generating a report, the method executed at least in part by a processor coupled to a user input device and to a display screen, the method comprising:
launching a visual information builder software application in response to a call received from a business process software application processing a business task selected by a user; determining with respect to a state of the business process software application associated with the launching of the visual information builder software application context information associated with the business task and the user; using the context information to display a decision tree on the display screen; using the context information to determine a starting point of the decision tree and user options specific to the business task; determining data attributes characterizing underlying data associated with the business task; filtering the data attributes based on the context information to form a set of filtered data attributes; and determining from the set of filtered data attributes and the context information a set of visualizations types relevant to the user.