Abstract: A workflow guidance widget presents rows of buttons. Each button, when triggered, initiates a procedure for completing a respective task. The spatial order of buttons in a row corresponds to temporal positions of their respective tasks in a workflow. Each button indicates whether or not the respective task has been completed and whether or not the button can be triggered without completing a non-respective task. For hierarchically arranged rows, a button in the parent row ray indicate completeness of a task based on completeness indications in its one or more child rows. Accordingly, a user can tell, at a glance, the current state of the workflow, what actions are required to advance the workflow, and what actions are available without having to complete a non-respective task.