COLLECTION VIEW EXPANDER

A Collection View Expander process improves human productivity by expanding collection views into detailed collection view information that can be used by application programs to manipulate collection views in advanced ways that were not previously possible. Collection views are groups of related collection references that can be processed by human workers using a single operation on a single set of collection references, rather than by performing a series of individual operations on individual collections. In operation, a Collection View Expander receives expansion requests from request originators, expands collection vie ws into collection view information using detailed, user-defined collection view member referen ce type definitions, and returns aggregated collection view information to the request originator s. Collection View Expanders improve human productivity by enabling people to represent and manipulate whole groups of collections as collection views.