Abstract: Functionality and corresponding procedures are described for building a management system. The management system provides description language content (such as markup language content) which describes different aspects of the management system in a declarative manner. The management system also includes generic resource content for performing various general purpose tasks that can be applied to different applications of the management system. The management system provides a specific management-related service by combining the description language content with the generic resource content. In other words, the description language content effectively tailors the generic code content to provide the management-related service. One aspect of the description language content governs a manner of populating management information to be presented by the management system. Another aspect of the description language content governs a manner of displaying the retrieved management information to a user.

Abstract: The present application is directed to a re-use wizard. Embodiments of the re-use wizard are directed at recording data input during a wizard session into a stored “template” which may be used to re-use data when the wizard is subsequently executed. More specifically, in one aspect the re-use wizard performs a method that leverages data input during a previous wizard session. In this regard, when a relevant command is identified, the method allows the user to choose among one or more “templates” that may be used to satisfy the command. If the user selects an available template, the method causes data stored in the template to be applied to an application object that is the target of the command. As a result, the user does not need to repetitively enter data when tasks handled by the re-use wizard are scheduled to be performed.

Abstract: A system is described for building a dialog-related user interface presentation. The system includes description language content (such as markup language content) which describes different aspects of the dialog-related user interface presentation. The system also includes generic resource content for providing various general purpose user interface resources that can be used in different dialog-related user interface presentations. The system provides the specific dialog-related user interface presentation by combining the description language content and the generic resource content. In other words, the description language content effectively tailors the generic resource content to provide the specific dialog-related user interface presentation. One aspect of the description language content defines the type of the dialog-related user interface presentation that is to be deployed.

Abstract: Functionality and corresponding procedures are described for building a management system. The management system provides description language content (such as markup language content) which describes different aspects of the management system in a declarative manner. The management system also includes generic resource content for performing various general purpose tasks that can be applied to different applications of the management system. The management system provides a specific management-related service by combining the description language content with the generic resource content. In other words, the description language content effectively tailors the generic code content to provide the management-related service. One aspect of the description language content governs a manner of populating management information to be presented by the management system. Another aspect of the description language content governs a manner of displaying the retrieved management information to a user.