Data cylinder for managing ad-hoc data sets

摘要

A data cylinder functioning as a graphical user interface for managing ad-hoc data is disclosed. The data cylinder stores therein a plurality of related data sets representing ad-hoc data, and displays one of these data sets at a time. The data cylinder is laterally rotatable to display a different one of the related data sets. A new set of related data can be easily created based on existing data sets. By selecting the data set of the data cylinder displayed to the user, current data fields are automatically filled with the values in the selected data set.