Method for dynamical determination of actions to perform on a selected item in a web portal GUI environment

The idea of the present invention is to define a set of rules that: determine the set of actions that apply based on the context of a selected object and UI operating system environment (known hereafter as Filter Rules), determine for a selected action it's input values, again based on the above context (known hereafter as Input Rules) and determine the set of backend tasks to run in order to perform that action (known here after as Task Rules). A software engine is postulated that will consume these rules, performing the operations described above. The advantages of such an implementation are a system that can be adapted to changing conditions by altering or augmenting the rules in its database.