A DYNAMIC USER INTERFACE AND A METHOD FOR GENERATING A DYNAMIC USER INTERFACE FOR INTERFACING WITH AN ELECTRONIC DATA REPOSITORY STORING A COLLECTION OF DATA ELEMENTS

摘要

A system (2) is provided for generating a dynamic user interface (1) in the form of a graphical user interface display on a visual display unit (8) of a computer (3) for facilitating interfacing with an electronic data repository storing a collection of data elements on a remote magnetic hard disc drive (4). A CD-ROM (6) containing a set of rules is installed on the computer (3). The computer (3) in response to the set of rules extracts the meta-data describing the data elements in a data model from the remote magnetic hard disc drive (4) and saves on a local hard disk (10) tabulated. The extracted meta-data is then processed which enables the computer (3) to generate a meta model. The computer (3) generates the dynamic user interface (1 ) based on the meta model for providing a visually perceptible representation of the meta model.