CN114445023A

CN114445023A - Approval process configuration method, device, equipment and storage medium

Info

Publication number: CN114445023A
Application number: CN202011228253.6A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 黄铁鸣
Original assignee: Tencent Technology Shenzhen Co Ltd
Current assignee: Tencent Technology Shenzhen Co Ltd
Priority date: 2020-11-06
Filing date: 2020-11-06
Publication date: 2022-05-06

Abstract

The application provides an approval process configuration method, an approval process configuration device, an approval process configuration equipment and a storage medium; the method comprises the following steps: on the approval process management page, responding to a preset creating operation to enter a process configuration page, and displaying a basic process layout corresponding to the preset creating operation on the process configuration page, wherein a process trend line in the basic process layout comprises an adding type control; in response to a branch adding operation for adding a class control, creating and displaying a first branch flow parallel to an initial branch flow in the basic flow layout so as to obtain a current flow layout; and receiving configuration operation aiming at least one of the condition setting node, the basic node and the first branch node, and generating and issuing target process configuration data corresponding to the current process layout, wherein the target process configuration data are used for presenting and driving the corresponding target approval process on an approval terminal for running the approval process. By the method and the device, flexibility and efficiency of examination and approval process configuration can be improved.

Description

Approval process configuration method, device, equipment and storage medium

Technical Field

The present application relates to computer technologies, and in particular, to an approval process configuration method, apparatus, device, and storage medium.

Background

At present, for a scenario in which some electronic Business processes are configured in an Office Automation (OA) system, such as a scenario in which an approval Process in an electronic Office Process is configured, a current configuration method generally performs approval Process diagram configuration based on a specification language of Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN). However, the configuration supported by the current approval process interface is not flexible enough, only supports linear process configuration, and needs professional developers to specify the process trend through code writing of specific logic when setting various parallel, serial, or even nested branches, thereby affecting the flexibility and efficiency of process configuration.

Disclosure of Invention

The embodiment of the application provides an approval process configuration method, an approval process configuration device, approval equipment and a computer-readable storage medium, and flexibility and efficiency of approval process configuration can be improved.

The technical scheme of the embodiment of the application is realized as follows:

the embodiment of the application provides an approval process configuration method, which comprises the following steps:

on an approval process management page, responding to a preset creating operation to enter a process configuration page, and displaying a basic process layout corresponding to the preset creating operation on the process configuration page, wherein the basic process layout at least comprises basic nodes of a process object type and a process trend line, and the process trend line comprises an adding type control;

in response to a branch adding operation for the adding type control, creating and displaying a first branch flow parallel to an initial branch flow in the basic flow layout so as to obtain a current flow layout; the first branch process at least comprises condition setting nodes according to a preset branch template layout, first branch nodes of the process object type and a process trend line;

and receiving configuration operation aiming at least one of the condition setting node, the basic node and the first branch node, and generating and issuing target process configuration data corresponding to the current process layout, wherein the target process configuration data is used for presenting and driving a corresponding target approval process on an approval terminal for running an approval process.

The embodiment of the application provides an approval process configuration device, including:

the display module is used for responding to a preset creating operation to enter a process configuration page on an approval process management page and displaying a basic process layout corresponding to the preset creating operation on the process configuration page, wherein the basic process layout at least comprises basic nodes of process object types and a process trend line, and the process trend line comprises an adding type control;

a branch creating module, configured to create and display a first branch flow parallel to an initial branch flow in the basic flow layout in response to a branch adding operation for the add-type control, so as to obtain a current flow layout; the first branch process at least comprises condition setting nodes according to a preset branch template layout, first branch nodes of the process object type and a process trend line;

and the generating module is used for receiving configuration operation aiming at least one of the condition setting node, the basic node and the first branch node, and generating and issuing target process configuration data corresponding to the current process layout, wherein the target process configuration data is used for presenting and driving a corresponding target approval process on an approval terminal for running the approval process.

In the device, the flow configuration page is provided with a preset release control; the configuring operation includes: issuing an operation instruction, a condition configuration operation and an attribute configuration operation; the generating module is further configured to generate a hit condition corresponding to the first branch process in response to the condition configuration operation for a preset condition setting entry on the condition setting node; responding to attribute configuration operation of a preset attribute setting entry on an object node aiming at the process object type, and generating attribute configuration data corresponding to the object node; the object node includes: the base node or the first branch node; and responding to a release operation instruction aiming at the preset release control, and generating and releasing the target process configuration data according to the hit condition and the attribute configuration data.

In the above apparatus, the condition configuring operation includes: the generating module is further configured to respond to the condition setting triggering operation of the preset condition setting entry, and pop up a preset condition setting panel in a first preset display area of the process configuration page; the preset condition setting panel comprises at least one condition setting control; and receiving the condition data configuration operation through the at least one condition setting control, and generating a hit condition corresponding to the first branch process according to the condition data configuration operation.

In the above apparatus, the attribute configuration operation includes: the generation module is further used for responding to the attribute setting triggering operation aiming at the preset attribute setting inlet and popping up a preset attribute setting panel in a second preset display area; the preset attribute setting panel comprises at least one attribute setting control; and receiving the attribute data configuration operation through the at least one attribute setting control, and generating attribute configuration data corresponding to the object node according to the attribute data configuration operation.

In the above apparatus, the at least one condition setting control comprises: a condition dimension setting control and a condition data setting control; the conditional data configuration operation comprises: the generating module is further configured to display at least one preset hit condition dimension on the preset condition setting panel in response to the condition dimension display operation for the condition dimension setting control; receiving the condition dimension selection operation aiming at the at least one preset hit condition dimension, and taking the preset hit condition dimension pointed by the condition selection confirmation operation as a target dimension; displaying a condition data setting control corresponding to the target dimension on the preset condition setting panel, and in response to a condition data setting operation for the condition data setting control, regarding a correspondence between the target dimension and operation data of the condition data setting operation as the hit condition; wherein the hit condition is displayed on the condition setting node

Among the above-mentioned device, still include on the preset condition setting panel: a priority configuration control; the generating module is further configured to respond to the condition setting triggering operation for the preset condition setting entry, pop up a preset condition setting panel in a first preset display area of the process configuration page, respond to a priority setting instruction for the priority configuration control, in at least one preset priority, use a preset priority specified by the priority setting instruction as a target execution priority corresponding to the first branching process, and display the target execution priority on a condition setting node corresponding to the first branching process.

In the above apparatus, the condition setting node includes: copy controls and/or delete controls; the generating module is further configured to create and display a first branch flow parallel to an initial branch flow in the basic flow layout in response to a branch adding operation for the adding type control, and generate a replica branch flow parallel to the first branch flow in response to a replication operation instruction when the replication operation instruction for the replication control is received after the current flow layout is obtained, where the configuration of the replica branch flow is consistent with that of the first branch flow; updating and displaying the replica branch flow in the current flow layout; and when a deletion operation instruction aiming at the deletion control is received, responding to the deletion operation instruction, deleting the first branch flow from the target approval flow structure diagram, and correspondingly updating the current flow layout.

In the above apparatus, the approval process management page includes: presetting a flow template inlet and/or an existing flow import inlet, wherein the presetting creation operation comprises the following steps: the display module is further used for determining a target preset approval process template from preset approval process templates of at least one approval type in response to the template selection operation when the template selection operation aiming at the preset process template inlet is received on the approval process management page, and skipping to the process configuration page based on the target preset approval process template; performing layout rendering on the process configuration page based on the process configuration data corresponding to the target preset approval process template, and generating and displaying the basic process layout; when a process import operation aiming at the existing process import is received on the approval process management page, determining a target existing approval process from at least one existing approval process in response to the process import operation, and jumping to the process configuration page based on the target existing approval process; and performing layout rendering on the process configuration page based on the process configuration data corresponding to the target existing approval process, and generating and displaying the basic process layout.

In the above device, the approval process configuration device further includes a dragging module, where the dragging module is configured to, after entering a process configuration page in response to a preset creation operation on an approval process management page and displaying a basic process layout corresponding to the preset creation operation on the process configuration page, move a target process node to a dragging position corresponding to a dragging operation in response to the dragging operation for the target process node on the process configuration page; the target process nodes comprise basic process nodes, condition setting nodes and branch process nodes; and taking the flow after the dragging position as a lower flow corresponding to the target flow node, and generating a flow trend line from the target flow node to the lower flow.

In the above apparatus, the process object types include: applicant type, approver type and transcriber type; the display module is further configured to respond to the attribute setting triggering operation of the preset attribute setting entry, after popping up a preset attribute setting panel in the second preset display area, and when the process object type is the approver type, respond to the attribute setting triggering operation of the preset attribute setting entry, and display the at least one attribute configuration control in the preset attribute setting panel as an approver configuration control, an approval mode configuration control, and an approval authority configuration control; when the process object type is the transcriber type, responding to attribute setting triggering operation aiming at the preset attribute setting inlet, and enabling the at least one attribute configuration control displayed in the preset attribute setting panel to be an approver configuration control and a transcribing range configuration control; and when the flow object type is the applicant type, responding to the attribute setting triggering operation aiming at the preset attribute setting inlet, and configuring the control for the applicant by the at least one attribute configuration control displayed in the preset attribute setting panel.

In the above apparatus, the generating module is further configured to generate, by a preset rule engine, a rule expression corresponding to the first branching process based on the hit condition in response to an operation instruction for the preset issuing control;

adding the rule expression and the attribute configuration data to the current process layout through a preset process diagram engine, and converting the rule expression and the attribute configuration data into current process configuration data in a preset format;

carrying out validity check on the current flow configuration data to obtain a check result;

and when the verification result is that the target process configuration data passes, sending the current process configuration data serving as the target process configuration data to a background server so as to finish the storage and release of the target process configuration data through the background server.

In the above apparatus, the generating module is further configured to not generate the target process configuration data when the verification result is that the verification result is failed, and prompt an exception message on the process configuration page.

An embodiment of the present application provides an electronic device, including:

a memory for storing executable instructions;

and the processor is used for realizing the approval process configuration method provided by the embodiment of the application when the executable instructions stored in the memory are executed.

The embodiment of the application provides a computer-readable storage medium, which stores executable instructions and is used for causing a processor to execute the executable instructions so as to realize the approval process configuration method provided by the embodiment of the application.

The embodiment of the application has the following beneficial effects:

by responding to the operation of adding the type control on any flow trend line, the branch flow can be added between any nodes of the basic flow layout, and the flexibility of flow configuration is improved; furthermore, the newly added branch flow and the original basic flow layout are used as the current flow layout and are simultaneously displayed in the flow configuration page, the configuration of the whole flow can be completed on the flow configuration page through the configuration of the current flow layout, and the target flow configuration data is finally generated, so that the flow configuration efficiency is improved.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is an alternative structural diagram of an approval process configuration system architecture provided by an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of an alternative structure of an approval process configuration apparatus according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 3 is a schematic flow chart diagram illustrating an alternative approval process configuration method provided by an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram illustrating an alternative effect of a process configuration page provided in an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram illustrating an alternative effect of a process configuration page provided in an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 6 is a schematic flow chart diagram illustrating an alternative approval process configuration method provided by an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 7 is a schematic diagram illustrating an optional effect of a process configuration page provided in an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 8 is a schematic diagram illustrating an alternative effect of a process configuration page provided in an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 9 is a schematic diagram illustrating an alternative effect of a process configuration page provided in an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 10 is a schematic diagram illustrating an alternative effect of a process configuration page provided by an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 11 is a schematic diagram illustrating an alternative effect of a process configuration page provided in an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 12 is a schematic diagram illustrating an alternative effect of a process configuration page provided by an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 13 is a functional block diagram of an approval process configuration method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 14 is a schematic diagram illustrating an alternative effect of a target approval process interface according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 15 is a schematic diagram illustrating an alternative effect of a process configuration page provided by an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 16 is a diagram illustrating an alternative effect of a process configuration page provided by an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 17 is a schematic diagram of an alternative effect of a use end of an approval process provided by an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 18 is a schematic diagram illustrating an optional effect of the flow configuration page provided in the embodiment of the present application.

Detailed Description

In order to make the objectives, technical solutions and advantages of the present application clearer, the present application will be described in further detail with reference to the attached drawings, the described embodiments should not be considered as limiting the present application, and all other embodiments obtained by a person of ordinary skill in the art without creative efforts shall fall within the protection scope of the present application.

In the following description, reference is made to "some embodiments" which describe a subset of all possible embodiments, but it is understood that "some embodiments" may be the same subset or different subsets of all possible embodiments, and may be combined with each other without conflict.

Where similar language of "first/second" appears in the specification, the following description is added, and where reference is made to the term "first \ second \ third" merely for distinguishing between similar items and not for indicating a particular ordering of items, it is to be understood that "first \ second \ third" may be interchanged both in particular order or sequence as appropriate, so that embodiments of the application described herein may be practiced in other than the order illustrated or described herein.

Unless defined otherwise, all technical and scientific terms used herein have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this application belongs. The terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing embodiments of the present application only and is not intended to be limiting of the application.

Before further detailed description of the embodiments of the present application, terms and expressions referred to in the embodiments of the present application will be described, and the terms and expressions referred to in the embodiments of the present application will be used for the following explanation.

1) Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG): a loop-free directed graph.

2) In response to the condition or state on which the performed operation depends, one or more of the performed operations may be in real-time or may have a set delay when the dependent condition or state is satisfied; there is no restriction on the order of execution of the operations performed unless otherwise specified.

The following describes an exemplary application of the approval process apparatus provided in the embodiments of the present application, and the electronic device provided in the embodiments of the present application may be implemented as a terminal of various types of users, such as a notebook computer, a tablet computer, a desktop computer, a set-top box, a mobile device (e.g., a mobile phone, a portable music player, a personal digital assistant, a dedicated message device, a portable game device), and may also be implemented as a server. In the following, an exemplary application will be explained when the device is implemented as a terminal.

Referring to fig. 1, fig. 1 is an alternative architecture diagram of an approval process configuration system 100 provided in an embodiment of the present application, in which a terminal 400 (exemplarily showing a terminal 400-1 and a terminal 400-2) is connected to a server 200 through a network 300, and the network 300 may be a wide area network or a local area network, or a combination of both.

The terminal 400-1 belongs to a configurator of the approval process and is used for displaying an approval process management page through a browser page 410-1 to interact with the configurator; on the approval process management page, responding to a preset creating operation to enter a process configuration page, and displaying a basic process layout corresponding to the preset creating operation on the process configuration page, wherein the basic process layout at least comprises basic nodes of process object types and a process trend line, and the process trend line comprises an adding type control; in response to a branch adding operation for adding a class control, creating and displaying a first branch flow parallel to an initial branch flow in the basic flow layout so as to obtain a current flow layout; the first branch process at least comprises a condition setting node according to the layout of a preset branch template, a first branch node of the process object type and a process trend line; and receiving configuration operation aiming at least one of the condition setting node, the basic node and the first branch node, and generating target process configuration data corresponding to the current process layout, wherein the target process configuration data is used for presenting and driving a corresponding target approval process on an approval terminal for running the approval process.

The terminal 400-1 is further configured to send the target process configuration data to the server 200 through the network 300, and the server 200 stores the target process configuration data in the database 500, thereby completing the distribution of the target process configuration data.

The server 200 is configured to receive the target process configuration data transmitted by the terminal 400-1 through the network 300 and store the target process configuration data in the database 500.

Terminal 400-2, an approval terminal, is attributed to a user of the approval process, and in some embodiments, the role of the user may include: the applicant, the approver and the copy-to-copy in the approval process. When the user is an applicant, the terminal 400-2 is configured to receive a process approval request operation initiated by the applicant through the application 410-2, pull target process configuration data from the server 200 in response to the process approval request operation, and render and display a corresponding approval process application interface on the application 410-2 according to the target process configuration data; receiving the operation of an applicant on an approval process application interface, generating a target approval request according to the data input by the operation, and sending the target approval request to the server 200, so that the server 200 generates a target pending approval process according to the target approval request. When the user is an approver or a transcriber, the terminal 400-2 is configured to receive an approval notification sent by the server, generate a prompt message according to the approval notification, and prompt through the application 410-2; on an approval process processing interface, responding to the operation of an approver or a transcriber for a prompt message, and acquiring the approval progress of the target to-be-approved process from the database 500 through the server 200; based on the approval progress, displaying a corresponding approval process processing interface and a preset process processing control in the application 410-2 so that an approver or a transcriber can approve the target to-be-approved process; and responding to the operation of the preset process processing control, acquiring a processing result of the target to-be-examined and approved process, and returning the processing result to the server 200.

The server 200 is further configured to generate a target pending approval process according to the target approval request, store the target pending approval process in the database 500, generate an approval notification of the target pending approval process, and send the approval notification to an approver and/or a transcriber; and receiving the processing result of the target process to be approved by the approver and/or the transcriber, and updating the approval progress of the target process to be approved in the database 500 according to the processing result.

In some embodiments, the server 200 may be an independent physical server, may also be a server cluster or a distributed system formed by a plurality of physical servers, and may also be a cloud server providing basic cloud computing services such as a cloud service, a cloud database, cloud computing, a cloud function, cloud storage, a network service, cloud communication, a middleware service, a domain name service, a security service, a CDN, and a big data and artificial intelligence platform. The terminal 400 may be, but is not limited to, a smart phone, a tablet computer, a notebook computer, a desktop computer, a smart speaker, a smart watch, and the like. The terminal and the server may be directly or indirectly connected through wired or wireless communication, and the embodiment of the present application is not limited.

Referring to fig. 2, fig. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of a terminal 400-1 according to an embodiment of the present application, where the terminal 400-1 shown in fig. 2 includes: at least one processor 410, memory 450, at least one network interface 420, and a user interface 430. The various components in the terminal 400 are coupled together by a bus system 440. It is understood that the bus system 440 is used to enable communications among the components. The bus system 440 includes a power bus, a control bus, and a status signal bus in addition to a data bus. For clarity of illustration, however, the various buses are labeled as bus system 440 in fig. 2.

The Processor 410 may be an integrated circuit chip having Signal processing capabilities, such as a general purpose Processor, a Digital Signal Processor (DSP), or other programmable logic device, discrete gate or transistor logic device, discrete hardware components, or the like, wherein the general purpose Processor may be a microprocessor or any conventional Processor, or the like.

The user interface 430 includes one or more output devices 431, including one or more speakers and/or one or more visual displays, that enable the presentation of media content. The user interface 430 also includes one or more input devices 432, including user interface components that facilitate user input, such as a keyboard, mouse, microphone, touch screen display, camera, other input buttons and controls.

The memory 450 may be removable, non-removable, or a combination thereof. Exemplary hardware devices include solid state memory, hard disk drives, optical disk drives, and the like. Memory 450 optionally includes one or more storage devices physically located remote from processor 410.

The memory 450 includes either volatile memory or nonvolatile memory, and may include both volatile and nonvolatile memory. The nonvolatile Memory may be a Read Only Memory (ROM), and the volatile Memory may be a Random Access Memory (RAM). The memory 450 described in embodiments herein is intended to comprise any suitable type of memory.

In some embodiments, memory 450 is capable of storing data, examples of which include programs, modules, and data structures, or a subset or superset thereof, to support various operations, as exemplified below.

An operating system 451, including system programs for handling various basic system services and performing hardware-related tasks, such as a framework layer, a core library layer, a driver layer, etc., for implementing various basic services and handling hardware-based tasks;

a network communication module 452 for communicating to other computing devices via one or more (wired or wireless) network interfaces 420, exemplary network interfaces 420 including: bluetooth, wireless compatibility authentication (WiFi), and Universal Serial Bus (USB), etc.;

a presentation module 453 for enabling presentation of information (e.g., user interfaces for operating peripherals and displaying content and information) via one or more output devices 431 (e.g., display screens, speakers, etc.) associated with user interface 430;

an input processing module 454 for detecting one or more user inputs or interactions from one of the one or more input devices 432 and translating the detected inputs or interactions.

In some embodiments, the approval process configuration apparatus provided in this embodiment may be implemented in software, and fig. 2 illustrates the approval process configuration apparatus 455 stored in the memory 450, which may be software in the form of programs and plug-ins, and includes the following software modules: a display module 4551, a branch creation module 4552, and a generation 4553, which are logical and thus may be arbitrarily combined or further split depending on the functions implemented.

The functions of the respective modules will be explained below.

In other embodiments, the approval process configuration apparatus provided in this embodiment may be implemented in hardware, and for example, the approval process configuration apparatus provided in this embodiment may be a processor in the form of a hardware decoding processor, which is programmed to execute the approval process configuration method provided in this embodiment, for example, the processor in the form of the hardware decoding processor may be one or more Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs), DSPs, Programmable Logic Devices (PLDs), Complex Programmable Logic Devices (CPLDs), Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), or other electronic components.

The approval process configuration method provided by the embodiment of the present application will be described with reference to exemplary applications and implementations of the terminal provided by the embodiment of the present application.

Referring to fig. 3, fig. 3 is an alternative flowchart of an approval process configuration method provided in an embodiment of the present application, and will be described with reference to the steps shown in fig. 3.

S101, entering a process configuration page in response to a preset creating operation on an approval process management page, and displaying a basic process layout corresponding to the preset creating operation on the process configuration page, wherein the basic process layout at least comprises basic nodes and a process trend line of a process object type, and the process trend line comprises an adding type control.

The approval process configuration method provided in the embodiment of the application is suitable for a process configuration manager of an organization such as an enterprise or an organization to perform an approval process configuration scene in an electronic approval process configuration system according to a preset approval process specification. Illustratively, according to the office specifications of the enterprise, an administrator of the OA system of the enterprise performs approval process configurations such as business trip, leave asking for, seal and the like on a background of the OA system to generate a target approval process scene corresponding to each approval process type.

In this embodiment of the present application, the approval process configuration system may provide an entry for management functions such as creation, update, and deletion of an approval process of at least one approval type through an approval process management page, and in some embodiments, the approval process management page may be a page in a terminal browser, or an application page in a terminal process configuration application, and is specifically selected according to an actual situation, which is not limited in this embodiment of the present application.

In this embodiment of the application, the approval process management page may include at least one new operation entry. For example, the at least one new operation entry may include a preset flow template entry for loading a preset template, and/or an existing flow import entry for importing an existing approval flow. The approval process configuration device can receive preset creation operations for different newly created operation entries, jump from the approval process management page to the process configuration page in response to the preset creation operations, and display a basic process layout corresponding to the preset creation operations on the process configuration page.

In the embodiment of the present application, the basic process layout may correspond to at least one preset approval type, where the at least one approval type may include types of fake duty, administration, finance, personnel and the like involved in the office approval process, and exemplarily, the at least one approval type may include a leave request type, a business trip type, a stamp use type, a reimbursement type, an enrollment approval type and the like, which are specifically selected according to actual situations. For different approval types, the layout structure or page elements of the basic process layout can be the same or different, but the basic process layout of each approval type at least comprises basic nodes and process trend lines of process object types.

In the embodiment of the application, a basic node of a process object type and a process trend line are page elements of a basic process layout, wherein the process object type is used for representing a process processing object corresponding to each level of approval process, and the process object type can be an applicant type, an approver type and a transcriber type by way of example; the basic nodes of the same flow object type can be displayed in the same format in the flow configuration page, such as a tab bar with the same color, the same general information description and the same layout display format, and the like. The basic node is a node of a flow object type contained by default in the basic flow layout.

In the embodiment of the application, the flow trend line is used for specifying the trend of the flow among the nodes, so that the upper and lower driving relations in the basic flow layout are formed. The flow direction lines comprise an adding type control, and when the flow direction lines are multiple, each flow direction line correspondingly comprises an adding type control.

In the embodiment of the application, the class control is added to create a new branch flow at the flow trend line where the class control is located.

In some embodiments, when the approval type is a business trip type, the process configuration page may be as shown in FIG. 4. FIG. 4 shows the base nodes 40-1, 40-2, and 40-3 of the three flow object types in the base flow layout 40; wherein 40-1 is a basic node of an applicant type, 40-2 is a basic node of an approver type, and 40-3 is a basic node of a transcriber type. Fig. 4 also shows three flow direction lines 41-1, 41-2, and 41-3 between the three base nodes, and between 40-3 and the flow end point, respectively, where each flow direction line correspondingly includes an add-class control, 42-1, 42-2, and 42-3, respectively.

In some embodiments, as shown in fig. 4, the examination and approval process configuration apparatus may further display the template copy entry 43 on the process configuration page, so as to load the basic process layout corresponding to the other process template on the process configuration interface by responding to the operation on the template copy entry 43, thereby completing the configuration of multiple examination and approval processes based on the process configuration page, reducing page switching when different examination and approval process configurations are performed, and improving the configuration efficiency of the examination and approval processes.

S102, in response to a branch adding operation aiming at an adding type control, creating and displaying a first branch flow parallel to an initial branch flow in a basic flow layout so as to obtain a current flow layout; the first branch process at least comprises a condition setting node according to the layout of a preset branch template, a first branch node of the process object type and a process trend line.

In the embodiment of the application, when the examination and approval process configuration device receives a branch adding operation for an adding class control on a process configuration page, a first branch process parallel to an initial branch process is created and displayed in a basic process layout in response to the branch adding operation.

In the embodiment of the present application, the branch adding operation may be a branch adding operation initiated for any one of the addition-type controls, and the approval process configuration apparatus may add the branch process at any process node in the basic process layout by responding to the operation for any addition-type control.

In this embodiment, the first branch process may at least include a condition setting node, a first branch node, and a process trend line, where the first branch process is laid out according to a preset branch template. In some embodiments, the preset branch templates may be preset in the same layout format, or may also be preset in different layout formats according to different approval types, which is specifically selected according to an actual situation, and the embodiments of the present application are not limited.

In this embodiment of the present application, the condition setting node is a type of node for configuring a hit condition of the branch flow, and the flow direction line in the first branch flow also includes an addition type control, so that the approval flow configuration apparatus may continue to add the next-stage branch flow of the first branch flow to the first branch flow by receiving the addition type control on the flow direction line in the first branch flow.

In the embodiment of the application, the first branch node and the basic node both belong to nodes of a flow object type, and the branch positions of the first branch node and the basic node are different. The first branch node and the base node may contain the same function control and the same control response logic, so that the attribute data may be configured for the first branch node and the base node through the same configuration operation.

In the embodiment of the present application, the initial branch flow includes a lower flow after the position of the add-class control receiving the branch add operation in the basic flow layout.

In some embodiments, the preset branch flow template may be composed of a condition setting node, two object nodes, and a flow trend line; the approval process configuration device may receive a click operation for the add-class control 42-1 in the basic process layout shown in fig. 4, and display a first branch process 51 and an initial branch process 52 shown in fig. 5 based on a preset branch process template. Wherein, the initial branch flow 52 is a lower flow pointed by the flow trend line 41-1 where the add-class control 42-1 is located; the first branch thread 51 includes a condition setting node 51_1, and may receive configuration operation of a hit condition of the first branch thread 51 through at least one control preset on the condition setting node 51_1, where the first branch thread 51 further includes first branch nodes 51_2 and 51_3, and flow routing lines 51_4, 51_5, and 51_6, where the flow routing line 51_4 corresponds to an add-type control 51_7, the flow routing line 51_5 corresponds to an add-type control 51_8, and the flow routing line 51_6 corresponds to an add-type control 51_ 9. The approval process configuration means takes the process layout currently displayed on the process configuration page as the current process layout 50.

In some embodiments, as shown in fig. 5, the approval process configuration apparatus may further continue to add a second branch process or more branch processes juxtaposed to the first branch process 51 and the initial branch process 52 in response to a click operation on the "add condition" control 54 on a process flow line connecting the first branch process 50 and the initial branch process 52.

S103, receiving configuration operation aiming at least one of the condition setting node, the basic node and the first branch node, generating and issuing target process configuration data corresponding to the current process layout, wherein the target process configuration data are used for presenting and driving the corresponding target approval process on an approval terminal for running the approval process.

In the embodiment of the application, the approval process configuration device may obtain the hit condition of the first branch process by receiving configuration data corresponding to the configuration operation of the condition setting node in the current process layout; and obtaining attribute configuration data of each base node and each first branch node by receiving configuration data corresponding to configuration operations of the base node and/or the first branch nodes. The approval process configuration device generates target process configuration data by combining at least one item of the hit conditions, the attribute configuration data of each basic node and the attribute configuration data of each first branch node based on the topological structure of the current process layout.

In this embodiment of the application, the approval process configuration apparatus may store the generated target process configuration data in the background server, so as to complete the release of the target process configuration data. The target process configuration data includes path layout information of the whole approval process and attribute information of each level of nodes, and can be used for presenting and driving the corresponding target approval process on an approval terminal of the approval process. The approval terminal can acquire target process configuration data issued by the approval process configuration device from the background server, display a corresponding target approval process on the approval terminal according to the target process configuration data and the process node and approval progress corresponding to the approval terminal, receive a processing result of the approval terminal on the target approval process, and drive the target approval process to enter the next stage of processing according to the processing result and the target process configuration data.

It should be noted that, for the basic flow layout imported according to the preset template or the existing approval flow or the first branch flow created according to the preset branch template, the node therein may correspondingly include configured node configuration data, for example, the condition setting node in the basic flow layout may include a pre-configured hit condition, or the node of the flow object type may also include pre-configured attribute configuration data. For the condition of existing configuration data in the node, the approval process configuration device may re-edit the configuration data in the node, or may be used to generate target process configuration data corresponding to the current process layout based on the existing configuration data and in combination with the received configuration of other node data.

It can be understood that, in the embodiment of the present application, the approval process configuration apparatus may add a branch process between any nodes of the basic process layout by responding to the operation of the add-type control on any process trend line, so as to increase flexibility of process configuration; furthermore, the newly added branch flow and the original basic flow layout are used as the current flow layout and are simultaneously displayed in the flow configuration page, the configuration of the whole flow can be completed on the flow configuration page through the configuration of the current flow layout, and the target flow configuration data is finally generated, so that the flow configuration efficiency is improved.

In some embodiments, the process configuration page is provided with a preset publishing control; the configuration operation includes: based on fig. 3, S103 may be implemented by executing S1031 to S1033, as follows:

and S1031, responding to the condition configuration operation of the preset condition setting inlet on the condition setting node, and generating a hit condition corresponding to the first branch process.

In the embodiment of the application, when the examination and approval process configuration device receives the condition configuration operation through the preset condition setting entrance on the condition setting node, the hit condition corresponding to the first branch process is generated by receiving the data corresponding to the condition configuration operation.

In the embodiment of the present application, the hit condition is an entry condition for executing the first tributary routine, that is, when the target approval process meets the hit condition in the operation process, the target approval process correspondingly enters the first tributary routine for execution. The examination and approval process configuration device can control the trend of the target examination and approval process by setting the hit conditions.

In some embodiments, the condition configuration operation includes a condition setting triggering operation and a condition data configuration operation, and S1031 may be specifically implemented by executing S001 to S002, which will be described with reference to each step.

S001, responding to a condition setting triggering operation aiming at a preset condition setting inlet, and popping up a preset condition setting panel in a first preset display area of a process configuration page; the preset condition setting panel comprises at least one condition setting control.

In the embodiment of the present application, the condition setting triggering operation is a preset condition setting entry on the condition setting node, and can trigger a control response logic pre-bound on the preset condition setting entry, such as an operation of entering a node setting function. When the examination and approval process configuration device receives condition setting triggering operation, such as clicking, right-clicking and the like, aiming at a preset condition setting inlet on a condition setting node, popping up a preset condition setting panel in a first preset display area of a process configuration page.

In the embodiment of the application, the area of the first preset display area may be smaller than the flow configuration page, so that when the hit condition of the branch flow is set on the preset condition setting panel in the first preset display area, at least part of the current flow layout may be kept to be continuously presented, so as to prevent the branch setting process and the overall flow from being split. The first preset display area may pop up from the process configuration page, or pop up beside the condition setting node that receives the condition setting triggering operation, which is specifically selected according to the actual situation.

In the embodiment of the present application, at least one condition setting control is displayed on the preset condition setting panel, and is used for providing an entry for setting hit conditions from different dimensions and receiving data of corresponding settings.

And S002, receiving the condition data configuration operation through at least one condition setting control, and generating a hit condition corresponding to the first branch process according to the condition data configuration operation.

In the embodiment of the application, the condition data configuration operation is a corresponding operation performed on at least one condition setting control according to different preset operation modes corresponding to different controls in the at least one condition setting control. The condition data configuration operation is used for setting or entering corresponding data in at least one condition setting control. The approval process configuration device can receive data corresponding to the condition data configuration operation through at least one condition setting control, and generate a hit condition corresponding to the first branch process according to the data corresponding to the condition data configuration operation.

In some embodiments, as shown in fig. 7, based on the branch flow 51 of fig. 5, a preset condition setting entry 70 is displayed on the condition class setting node 51_1, and when the approval flow configuration apparatus receives an operation on the preset condition setting entry 70, in response to the operation on the preset condition setting entry 70, a preset condition setting panel 71 is displayed in a first preset display area of the right half screen of the flow configuration page, for example, the preset condition setting panel 71 may be overlaid on the flow configuration page in an opaque display manner, and other parts of the flow configuration page may be overlaid with a gray mask as a background display. At least one condition setting control, such as a node name setting control 71_1, a priority configuration control 71_2, a condition dimension setting control 71_3, and a condition data setting control 71_4, is displayed in the preset condition setting panel 71. Wherein, the node name setting control 71_1 is currently displayed as "condition 1", and editing and setting of the node name can be received through 71_ 1; when triggered, the priority configuration control 71_2 may display a drop-down list including a plurality of preset priorities, so as to select a corresponding target priority from among conditional data configuration operations; the condition dimension setting control 71_3 includes a condition dimension setting control displayed as an applicant and a condition dimension setting control displayed as a business trip day dimension, and other hit condition dimensions can be set by switching the operation of the condition dimension setting control 71_ 3; the condition data setting control 71_4 may have different display formats corresponding to the condition dimension setting control 71_3, for example, when the condition dimension setting control 71_3 is currently selected as an applicant, a control for clicking to perform personnel selection or modification is displayed, and when the condition dimension setting control 71_3 is currently selected as a day of business trip, a control for inputting a specific numerical value is displayed. The approval process configuration device may receive an external configuration operation through the condition setting control, illustratively, click on the applicant and the business trip days to obtain configuration data that simultaneously satisfies that the applicant is employee a and the business trip days are greater than 5 days, and the configuration data is used as the hit condition corresponding to the branch process 51. Thus, when employee a initiates a business trip application with a business trip number of days greater than 5 days, the corresponding target approval process may be executed according to branch process 51.

In some embodiments, S002 can be specifically realized by S201 to S203, which will be described with reference to the respective steps.

S201, responding to the condition dimension display operation of the condition dimension setting control, and displaying at least one preset hit condition dimension on a preset condition setting panel.

In the embodiment of the present application, the condition dimension exhibiting operation is used to exhibit at least one preset hit condition dimension that is selectable when the hit condition is set. And when the examination and approval process configuration device receives a condition dimension display operation aiming at the condition dimension setting control, responding to the condition dimension display operation, and displaying at least one preset hit condition dimension on a preset condition setting panel.

In some embodiments, the condition setting interface 12 may be as shown in FIG. 8, wherein a condition dimension setting control 12_1 is included. When the condition dimension setting control 12_1 is clicked, in response to an operation for 12_1, a condition type form 12_2 is displayed, the condition type form containing at least one preset hit condition dimension, which may be "applicant" and "days on business trip" as shown in fig. 8.

S202, receiving a condition dimension selection operation aiming at least one preset hit condition dimension, and taking the preset hit condition dimension pointed by the condition selection confirmation operation as a target dimension.

In an embodiment of the present application, the conditional dimension selection operation is configured to specify a target dimension in at least one predetermined hit conditional dimension. And when the examination and approval process configuration device receives the condition dimension selection operation in at least one displayed preset hit condition dimension, taking the preset hit condition dimension pointed by the condition dimension selection operation as a target dimension.

In some embodiments, based on fig. 8, as shown in fig. 9, when at least one preset hit condition dimension is "applicant" and "days on business trip", a condition dimension selection operation, such as a click operation, for "days on business trip" is received, the "days on business trip" is taken as a target dimension, and the condition data setting control 12_3 corresponding to the "days on business trip" is displayed.

S203, displaying a condition data setting control corresponding to the target dimension on a preset condition setting panel, responding to the condition data setting operation aiming at the condition data setting control, and taking the corresponding relation between the target dimension and the operation data of the condition data setting operation as a hit condition; wherein the hit condition is displayed on the condition setting node.

In the embodiment of the application, the condition data setting control can be correspondingly displayed in different data receiving forms according to different types of target dimensions. For example, when the target dimension is "applicant", the condition data setting control may be a control suitable for selecting the applicant in the applicant directory for addition, and when the target dimension is "days on business trip", the condition data setting control may contain a control suitable for numerical value input. The examination and approval process configuration device can receive and acquire the operation data of the condition data setting operation through the condition data setting control, and takes the corresponding relation between the target dimension and the operation data of the condition data setting operation as a hit condition.

In some embodiments, based on fig. 9, as shown in fig. 10, for the condition data setting control 12_3, the approval process configuration means may receive the operation data "less than" and "3" by receiving a condition data setting operation such as a click and input operation, and when receiving a click operation for the confirmation control 12_4, the approval process configuration means displays a correspondence relationship between "days on business trip" and "less than" and "3" as a hit condition on the condition setting node 12_ 5.

S1032, responding to the attribute configuration operation of a preset attribute setting inlet on the object node aiming at the flow object type, and generating attribute configuration data corresponding to the object node; the object node includes: a base node or a first branch node.

In this embodiment of the application, the approval process configuration apparatus may use a basic node or a first branch node of the process object type as an object node, and display a preset attribute setting entry on the object node, where the preset attribute setting entry is used to enter a setting page for setting attribute data of the object node. The approval process configuration device may enter a setting page in which the attribute data of the object node is set in response to an attribute configuration operation for a preset attribute setting entry on the object node, and generate the attribute configuration data corresponding to the object node by continuously receiving data corresponding to the configuration operation in the setting page.

In some embodiments, the attribute configuration operation comprises: the attribute setting triggering operation and the attribute data configuration operation, S1032 can be specifically implemented by S301 to S302, and will be described with reference to each step.

S301, responding to an attribute setting triggering operation aiming at a preset attribute setting inlet, and popping up a preset attribute setting panel in a second preset display area; the preset attribute setting panel comprises at least one attribute setting control.

In the embodiment of the application, the attribute setting triggering operation is to set an entry for a preset attribute on the object node, and can trigger a control response logic pre-bound to the preset attribute setting entry, for example, an operation of setting a page for entering attribute data of the object node. And when the examination and approval process configuration device receives condition setting triggering operation, such as clicking, right-clicking and the like, aiming at the preset attribute setting inlet, displaying a preset attribute setting panel and at least one attribute setting control in a second preset display area.

In this embodiment, the first preset display area and the second preset display area may be the same display area.

It should be noted that, in the embodiment of the present application, the attribute configuration of the approval process configuration apparatus on the object node may use the object node as a unit, and perform attribute configuration of independent data on each object node, so that different data may be set on different nodes, and the attribute configuration of the approval process is refined to a node level, thereby improving flexibility of the approval process configuration.

In some embodiments, the process object types include an applicant type, an approver type, and a transcriber type, and S301 may be specifically implemented by executing S401 to S403, which will be described with reference to each step.

S401, when the process object type is an approver type, responding to attribute setting triggering operation aiming at a preset attribute setting inlet, and displaying at least one attribute configuration control in a preset attribute setting panel as an approver configuration control, an approval mode configuration control and an approval authority configuration control.

In the embodiment of the application, when the process object type is an approver type, at least one attribute configuration control displayed on the preset attribute setting panel by the approval process configuration device is an approver configuration control, an approval mode configuration control and an approval authority configuration control. The approver configuration control is used for setting object information in the attribute configuration data; the examination and approval mode configuration control is used for setting a processing mode in the attribute configuration data, and the examination and approval authority configuration control is used for setting authority information in the attribute configuration data.

In some embodiments, based on fig. 5, as shown in fig. 11, each object node 40-2, 40-3, 51_2 and 51_3 included in fig. 5 has a preset attribute setting entry displayed thereon, and based on any one of the object nodes, such as 51_2, the approval process configuration apparatus may respond to the operation of the preset attribute setting entry 80 on 51_2 to display a preset attribute setting panel 81 in the second preset display area on the right half of the process configuration page. At least one property setting control is displayed in the preset property setting panel 81, and for example, in the tab of "approver setting" of 81, approver configuration controls 81_1 and 81_2 may be displayed.

S402, when the flow object type is the type of the copying machine, responding to the attribute setting triggering operation aiming at the preset attribute setting inlet, and configuring the control for the copying machine and the copying range by at least one attribute configuration control displayed in the preset attribute setting panel.

In the embodiment of the application, when the flow object type is the type of a transcriber, the approval flow configuration device responds to the attribute setting triggering operation aiming at the preset attribute setting inlet, and at least one attribute configuration control displayed in the preset attribute setting panel configures controls for the transcriber and the transcribing range. The copying and sending device comprises a copying and sending device configuration control, a copying range configuration control and a copying and sending range configuration control, wherein the copying and sending device configuration control is used for setting identity information of a copying and sending device, and the copying and sending range configuration control is used for setting a range of the copying and sending device.

In some embodiments, when the flow object type is a cc type, the preset property setting panel 16 may be as shown in fig. 12, where the preset property setting panel 81 includes a cc configuration control 16_1 and a cc range configuration control 16_ 2.

And S403, when the flow object type is the applicant type, responding to the attribute setting triggering operation aiming at the preset attribute setting inlet, and configuring the control for the applicant by at least one attribute configuration control displayed in the preset attribute setting panel.

In the embodiment of the application, when the process object type is the applicant type, the approval process configuration device responds to the attribute setting triggering operation aiming at the preset attribute setting inlet, and at least one attribute configuration control displayed in the preset attribute setting panel configures the control for the applicant. The applicant configuration control is used for configuring identity information of an applicant.

S302, receiving attribute data configuration operation through at least one attribute setting control, and generating attribute configuration data corresponding to the object node.

In the embodiment of the application, the attribute data configuration operation is a corresponding operation performed on at least one condition setting control according to different preset operation modes corresponding to different controls in the at least one condition setting control. The property data configuration operation is used to set or type corresponding data in at least one property setting control. The approval process configuration device can receive data corresponding to the attribute data configuration operation through at least one attribute setting control, and generate attribute configuration data corresponding to the object node according to the data corresponding to the attribute data configuration operation.

In the embodiment of the present application, the attribute configuration data includes at least one of object information, authority information, and a processing manner of the process processing object. The object information represents identity information of the process processing object, such as a name of a person, a department or group name, a tag and the like of the process processing object; the permission information represents the permission possessed by the process processing object, and can be information displayed to the process processing object in the target approval process, such as whether to display information of a business trip event, a business trip place, a business trip application attachment and the like to the process processing object A in the business trip approval process; the processing mode may be a mode in which the process processing object is approved on the object node, such as signing, countersigning, sequential approval, and the like, and is specifically selected according to an actual situation, which is not limited in the embodiment of the present application.

In some embodiments, based on fig. 11, the approval process configuration apparatus may receive the attribute data configuration operation through the approver configuration control 81_1 or 81_2, and receive the attribute data configuration operation in the permission setting tab page through the attribute setting control included in the permission setting tab page, so as to complete configuration of the identity information and the permission information of the approver corresponding to the object node 51_2, and obtain the attribute configuration data.

And S1033, responding to the issuing operation instruction aiming at the preset issuing control, and generating and issuing target process configuration data according to the hit condition and the attribute configuration data.

In the embodiment of the present application, the approval process configuration method may be represented by a functional architecture diagram shown in fig. 13. Wherein, the user operation layer 130 is used for receiving interface operations from a user from the outside, the visualization operation layer 131 encapsulates various visualization operation methods, and function menu item entries of various visualization operation methods are correspondingly provided on the visualization interface, so as to invoke corresponding methods according to specific operations of the user when receiving user operations on the visualization interface, and then render and display a function interface corresponding to the method through the rendering engine 132, render and display function controls such as node names, attributes and forms related to the methods on the function interface, receive user settings through the function controls, and transmit parameters set in the methods and methods to the BPMN flow chart engine, and invoke a rule expression generated by the rule engine 134 through the flow chart engine 133, so as to convert interface elements on the interface into target flow configuration data in a preset format, stored in server storage 135.

In some embodiments, the preset format may be a DAG format.

In some embodiments, S1033 may be implemented by performing S501-S504, which will be described in conjunction with various steps.

S501, responding to an operation instruction aiming at a preset issuing control, and generating a rule expression corresponding to the first branch process based on a hit condition through a preset rule engine.

In this embodiment of the application, the preset issuing control may be a "save" button on the process configuration page, and when the approval process configuration apparatus completes editing of the current process layout and receives an operation instruction for the preset issuing control, the rule expression corresponding to the first branch process is generated according to the hit condition configured in the condition setting node by the preset rule engine in fig. 13 in response to the operation instruction for the preset issuing control.

In the embodiment of the application, when the current flow layout includes a plurality of condition setting nodes and corresponding branch flows, the approval flow configuration device generates a rule expression corresponding to each branch flow based on the hit conditions configured in each condition setting node.

S502, adding the rule expression and the attribute configuration data into the current flow layout through a preset flow chart engine, and converting the rule expression and the attribute configuration data into current flow configuration data in a preset format.

In the embodiment of the application, the approval process configuration device appends the rule expression and the attribute configuration data of each object node to the current process layout through the preset process diagram engine, and jointly converts the rule expression and the attribute configuration data into the current process configuration data in a preset format, such as a DAG format.

S503, carrying out validity check on the current flow configuration data to obtain a check result.

In this embodiment of the application, the approval process configuration apparatus may utilize the check module in the flowchart engine shown in fig. 13 to perform integrity and validity check on the target process configuration data, for example, if all object node attributes cannot be null, all paths must include an approver, and the like, so as to obtain a check result.

And S504, when the verification result is that the target process configuration data passes, sending the current process configuration data serving as the target process configuration data to a background server so as to finish the storage and release of the target process configuration data through the background server.

In the embodiment of the application, when the verification result is that the verification result passes, the examination and approval process configuration device sends the current process configuration data as the target process configuration data to the background server for storage, so that the background server provides the target process configuration data to the examination and approval terminal to generate the target to-be-examined and approved process, and the storage and the release of the target process configuration data are completed.

In this embodiment of the application, the approval terminal may obtain the target process configuration data from the background server, and present an interface of the target approval process, as shown in fig. 14, on an interface of the approval terminal based on the target process configuration data.

In some embodiments, after S503, S505 is further included, as follows:

and S505, when the verification result is that the data are not passed, target process configuration data are not generated, and abnormal information is prompted on a process configuration page.

In the embodiment of the present application, when the verification result does not pass, it indicates that an error path or error configuration data exists in the current flow layout, the approval flow configuration device does not generate target flow configuration data, and prompts abnormal information on a flow configuration page, as shown in fig. 15.

It can be understood that, in the embodiment of the present application, the approval process configuration apparatus may convert the branch process into a form of a regular expression and directly attach the form of the regular expression to the current process layout to generate the target process configuration data, and it is not necessary to check whether there is an executable branch process from another condition configuration file, thereby improving the efficiency of the approval process configuration.

In some embodiments, S102 may be specifically implemented by S1021-S1022, and will be described with reference to each step.

S1021, responding to the operation aiming at the adding type control, and correspondingly displaying a component adding panel at the position where the adding type control is located; the component addition panel contains a branch addition control;

in the embodiment of the present application, based on fig. 4, as shown in fig. 16, the approval process configuration apparatus, in response to a click operation for the addition-type control 42-1, displays the component addition panel 10 at a position where the addition-type control 42-1 is located, where the component addition panel includes a branch addition 10_ 1.

S1022, responding to the operation of adding the control aiming at the branch, creating a default condition setting node, and taking a lower flow after the default condition setting node and the position where the added control is located as an initial branch flow; the initial branch flow is a flow executed when the hit condition of the branch flow is not met;

in the embodiment of the present application, as shown in fig. 17, in response to an operation of adding a class control 10_1 to a setting class node, the approval process configuration apparatus based on fig. 4 adds a default condition setting node 10_3 before the initial branch process 10_2, and takes the default condition setting node 10_3 and the initial branch process as the initial branch process 10_ 4.

In the embodiment of the present application, the initial branch flow is a flow executed when the hit condition of the branch flow is not satisfied.

And S1023, creating and displaying a branch flow at a position parallel to the initial branch flow in the basic flow layout based on a preset branch flow template, so as to obtain the current flow layout.

In the embodiment of the present application, as shown in fig. 17, the approval process configuration apparatus creates and displays a branch process 10_5 in a basic process layout 10_6 at a position parallel to an initial branch process 10_4 based on a preset branch process template, so as to obtain a current process layout 10_ 7.

In some embodiments, the component addition panel may further include an object node addition control, such as an "approver" and a "transcriber" addition control shown in fig. 16, for adding object nodes of different process object types at any node position, so as to further improve flexibility of the approval process configuration.

In some embodiments, the condition setting interface comprises: after S1031, S601 may be further executed, which will be described with reference to the steps.

S601, responding to a priority setting instruction for the priority configuration control, taking a preset priority specified by the priority setting instruction as a target execution priority corresponding to the first branch flow in at least one preset priority, and displaying the target execution priority on a condition setting node corresponding to the first branch flow.

In this embodiment of the application, based on the condition setting interface shown in fig. 7, for the priority configuration control 71_2 shown in fig. 7, the approval process configuration apparatus displays at least one preset priority in a pull-down list manner in response to a priority setting instruction for the priority configuration control, and in the at least one preset priority, takes the preset priority specified by the priority setting instruction as a target execution priority corresponding to the first branching process, and displays the target execution priority on a condition setting node corresponding to the first branching process.

In this embodiment of the present application, the approval process configuration apparatus may set different execution priorities for different branch processes, so that when there are multiple branch processes with the same hit condition, a branch process with a high execution priority may be selected.

In some embodiments, the condition setting node includes a copy control and/or a delete control, and after S102, the method further includes S701 to S703, which will be described with reference to the steps.

And S701, when a copy operation instruction for the copy control is received, generating a copy branch flow parallel to the first branch flow in response to the copy operation instruction, wherein the configuration of the copy branch flow is consistent with that of the first branch flow.

In the embodiment of the application, each condition setting node includes a copy control, and the approval process configuration device may generate a copy branch process parallel to the branch process based on the same preset branch process template in response to an operation instruction for the copy control, where the configuration of the copy branch process is consistent with the branch process.

It should be noted that, in the embodiment of the present application, the branch flow created by adding the class control is created according to a preset branch template, and the duplicate branch flow created by duplicating the control is duplicated according to the first branch flow, and has layout and configuration data consistent with that of the first branch flow.

And S702, updating and displaying the copy branch flow in the current flow layout.

In the embodiment of the application, the copy branch flow of the approval flow configuration device is updated and displayed in the current flow layout, so that the current flow layout comprises the newly copied copy branch flow.

And S703, when a deletion operation instruction for the deletion control is received, responding to the deletion operation instruction, deleting the first branch flow from the target approval flow structure diagram, and correspondingly updating the current flow layout.

In the embodiment of the application, each condition setting node comprises a deletion control, when the examination and approval process configuration device receives an operation instruction through the deletion control, the branch process corresponding to the condition setting node is deleted from the current process layout, and the current process layout is updated based on the deletion result.

In some embodiments, based on the implementation of fig. 3, the approval process configuration method provided in the embodiment of the present application further includes S801 to S802, which will be described with reference to each step.

S801, responding to the dragging operation aiming at the target process node on the process configuration page, and moving the target process node to a dragging position corresponding to the dragging operation; the target flow nodes comprise basic flow nodes, condition setting nodes and branch flow nodes;

in this embodiment of the application, the approval process configuration device may receive the drag operation instruction, use the node of the process object type or the condition setting node pointed by the drag operation instruction as the target process node, and monitor the drag position of the drag operation instruction.

S802, taking the flow after the dragging position as a lower flow corresponding to the target flow node, and generating a flow trend line from the target flow node to the lower flow.

In the embodiment of the application, in response to the dragging operation instruction, the approval process configuration device adjusts the target process node to the dragging position, and updates the current process layout after adjusting the post-stage process after the dragging position to the target process node.

It can be understood that, in the embodiment of the present application, the approval process configuration apparatus may perform operations of setting, copying, and deleting the priority of the branch process, and may edit the current process layout in a dragging manner, thereby further increasing flexibility of the approval process configuration.

In some embodiments, before S101, S901 or S902 is further included, which will be described in conjunction with each step.

S901, when a template selection operation aiming at a preset flow template inlet is received on an approval flow management page, responding to the template selection operation, determining a target preset approval flow template from at least one approval type preset approval flow template, and jumping to a flow configuration page based on the target preset approval flow template; performing layout rendering on a flow configuration page based on flow configuration data corresponding to a target preset approval flow template, and generating and displaying a basic flow layout;

in the embodiment of the application, when the approval process configuration device receives a template selection operation for a preset process template entry on an approval process management page, in response to the template selection operation, a preset approval process template of at least one approval type is correspondingly displayed on the approval process management page, in response to the template selection operation for the preset approval process template of at least one approval type, a target preset approval process template is determined from the preset approval process templates of at least one approval type, and then the process is skipped from the approval process management page to a process configuration page, and layout rendering is performed on the process configuration page by using process configuration data corresponding to the target preset approval process template, so that a process layout corresponding to the target preset approval process template is generated and displayed as a basic process layout.

In some embodiments, the preset approval process template of at least one approval type on the approval process management page may be as shown in 18_1 in fig. 18, and when the approval process configuration apparatus receives a click operation for a "out-of-business" preset approval process template in the preset approval process templates of at least one approval type, the process configuration page is skipped to, and the process layout 82 corresponding to the "out-of-business" preset approval process template is displayed as the basic process layout.

S902, when a process import operation aiming at an existing process import is received on an approval process management page, determining a target existing approval process from at least one existing approval process in response to the process import operation, and jumping to a process configuration page based on the target existing approval process; and performing layout rendering on the process configuration page based on the process configuration data corresponding to the target existing approval process, and generating and displaying a basic process layout.

In the embodiment of the application, when the approval process configuration device receives a trigger operation through an existing process import, at least one approval process to be imported is correspondingly displayed on an approval process management page in response to the trigger operation aiming at the existing process import, wherein the at least one approval process to be imported is a target approval process historically created by the approval process configuration device. The examination and approval process configuration device receives selection operation aiming at least one target examination and approval process to be imported in the examination and approval process, jumps from an examination and approval process management page to a process configuration page, and displays the process layout of the target examination and approval process to be imported on the process configuration page as basic process layout.

It can be understood that, in the embodiment of the present application, the approval process configuration apparatus may select to obtain the basic process layout by presetting the template or importing the configured approval process according to the actual configuration requirement, so as to reduce the workload of editing the current process layout and improve the efficiency of the approval process configuration.

Continuing with the exemplary structure of the approval process configuration apparatus 455 provided by the embodiments of the present application implemented as software modules, in some embodiments, as shown in fig. 2, the software modules stored in the approval process configuration apparatus 455 of the memory 450 may include:

the display module 4551 is configured to enter a flow configuration page in response to a preset creation operation on an approval flow management page, and display a basic flow layout corresponding to the preset creation operation on the flow configuration page, where the basic flow layout at least includes a basic node of a flow object type and a flow line, and the flow line includes an addition type control;

a branch creating module 4552, configured to create and display, in response to a branch adding operation for the add-class control, a first branch flow parallel to an initial branch flow in the basic flow layout, so as to obtain a current flow layout; the first branch process at least comprises condition setting nodes according to a preset branch template layout, first branch nodes of the process object type and a process trend line;

a generating module 4553, configured to receive a configuration operation for at least one of the condition setting node, the base node, and the first branch node, and generate and issue target process configuration data corresponding to the current process layout, where the target process configuration data is used to present and drive a corresponding target approval process on an approval terminal running an approval process.

In some embodiments, the process configuration page is provided with a preset publishing control; the configuring operation includes: issuing an operation instruction, a condition configuration operation and an attribute configuration operation; the generating module 4553 is further configured to generate a hit condition corresponding to the first branch process in response to the condition configuration operation on a preset condition setting entry on the condition setting node; responding to attribute configuration operation of a preset attribute setting inlet on an object node of the flow object type, and generating attribute configuration data corresponding to the object node; the object node includes: the base node or the first branch node; and responding to a release operation instruction aiming at the preset release control, and generating and releasing the target process configuration data according to the hit condition and the attribute configuration data.

In some embodiments, the conditional configuration operation comprises: the generating module 4553 is further configured to, in response to the condition setting triggering operation for the preset condition setting entry, pop up a preset condition setting panel in a first preset display area of the process configuration page; the preset condition setting panel comprises at least one condition setting control; and receiving the condition data configuration operation through the at least one condition setting control, and generating a hit condition corresponding to the first branch process according to the condition data configuration operation.

In some embodiments, the attribute configuration operation comprises: the generating module 4553 is further configured to, in response to the attribute setting triggering operation for the preset attribute setting entry, pop up a preset attribute setting panel in the second preset display area; the preset attribute setting panel comprises at least one attribute setting control; and receiving the attribute data configuration operation through the at least one attribute setting control, and generating attribute configuration data corresponding to the object node according to the attribute data configuration operation.

In some embodiments, the at least one condition setting control comprises: a condition dimension setting control and a condition data setting control; the conditional data configuration operation comprises: the generating module 4553 is further configured to display at least one preset hit condition dimension on the preset condition setting panel in response to the condition dimension display operation on the condition dimension setting control; receiving the condition dimension selection operation aiming at the at least one preset hit condition dimension, and taking the preset hit condition dimension pointed by the condition selection confirmation operation as a target dimension; displaying a condition data setting control corresponding to the target dimension on the preset condition setting panel, and taking a corresponding relationship between the target dimension and operation data of the condition data setting operation as the hit condition in response to a condition data setting operation for the condition data setting control; wherein the hit condition is displayed on the condition setting node.

In some embodiments, the preset condition setting panel further comprises: a priority configuration control; the generating module 4553 is further configured to, in response to the condition setting triggering operation for the preset condition setting entry, after a preset condition setting panel pops up in a first preset display area of the process configuration page, in response to a priority setting instruction for the priority configuration control, in at least one preset priority, use a preset priority specified by the priority setting instruction as a target execution priority corresponding to the first tributary process, and display the target execution priority on a condition setting node corresponding to the first tributary process.

In some embodiments, the condition setting node comprises: copy controls and/or delete controls; the generating module 4553 is further configured to, in response to a branch adding operation for the add-class control, create and display a first branch flow parallel to an initial branch flow in the basic flow layout, and after obtaining a current flow layout, when a copy operation instruction for the copy control is received, generate a copy branch flow parallel to the first branch flow in response to the copy operation instruction, where a configuration of the copy branch flow is consistent with that of the first branch flow; updating and displaying the replica branch flow in the current flow layout; and when a deletion operation instruction aiming at the deletion control is received, responding to the deletion operation instruction, deleting the first branch flow from the target approval flow structure diagram, and correspondingly updating the current flow layout.

In some embodiments, the approval process management page includes: presetting a flow template inlet and/or an existing flow import inlet, wherein the presetting creation operation comprises the following steps: the display module 4551 is further configured to, when a template selection operation directed to the preset flow template entry is received on the approval flow management page, determine a target preset approval flow template from preset approval flow templates of at least one approval type in response to the template selection operation, and jump to the flow configuration page based on the target preset approval flow template; performing layout rendering on the process configuration page based on the process configuration data corresponding to the target preset approval process template, and generating and displaying the basic process layout; when a process import operation aiming at the existing process import is received on the approval process management page, determining a target existing approval process from at least one existing approval process in response to the process import operation, and jumping to the process configuration page based on the target existing approval process; and performing layout rendering on the process configuration page based on the process configuration data corresponding to the target existing approval process, and generating and displaying the basic process layout.

In some embodiments, the approval process configuration apparatus 455 further includes a dragging module, where the dragging module is configured to, after entering a process configuration page in response to a preset creation operation on an approval process management page and displaying a basic process layout corresponding to the preset creation operation on the process configuration page, move a target process node to a dragging position corresponding to a dragging operation in response to the dragging operation for the target process node on the process configuration page; the target process nodes comprise basic process nodes, condition setting nodes and branch process nodes; and taking the flow after the dragging position as a lower flow corresponding to the target flow node, and generating a flow trend line from the target flow node to the lower flow.

In some embodiments, the process object types include: applicant type, approver type and transcriber type; the generating module 4553 is further configured to, when the process object type is the approver type, respond to a property setting triggering operation for the preset property setting entry, and display the at least one property configuration control in the preset property setting panel as an approver configuration control, an approval mode configuration control, and an approval authority configuration control; when the flow object type is the transcriber type, responding to attribute setting triggering operation aiming at the preset attribute setting inlet, and configuring a control for transcribing the at least one attribute configuration control and a control for transcribing the range configuration control for the transcriber displayed in the preset attribute setting panel; and when the flow object type is the applicant type, responding to the attribute setting triggering operation aiming at the preset attribute setting inlet, and configuring the control for the applicant by the at least one attribute configuration control displayed in the preset attribute setting panel.

In some embodiments, the generating module 4553 is further configured to generate, by a preset rule engine, a rule expression corresponding to the first branching process based on the hit condition in response to an operation instruction for the preset issuing control; adding the rule expression and the attribute configuration data to the current process layout through a preset process diagram engine, and converting the rule expression and the attribute configuration data into current process configuration data in a preset format; carrying out validity check on the current flow configuration data to obtain a check result; and when the verification result is that the target process configuration data passes, sending the current process configuration data serving as the target process configuration data to a background server so as to finish the storage and release of the target process configuration data through the background server.

In some embodiments, the approval process configuration apparatus further includes an alarm module, and the alarm module is further configured to perform validity check on the current process configuration data, obtain a check result, and when the check result is invalid, not generate the target process configuration data, and prompt the abnormal information on the process configuration page.

It should be noted that the above description of the embodiment of the apparatus, similar to the above description of the embodiment of the method, has similar beneficial effects as the embodiment of the method. For technical details not disclosed in the embodiments of the apparatus of the present application, reference is made to the description of the embodiments of the method of the present application for understanding.

Embodiments of the present application provide a computer program product or computer program comprising computer instructions stored in a computer readable storage medium. The processor of the computer device reads the computer instructions from the computer-readable storage medium, and executes the computer instructions, so that the computer device executes the approval process configuration method described in this embodiment of the present application.

Embodiments of the present application provide a computer-readable storage medium having stored therein executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform a method provided by embodiments of the present application, for example, a method as illustrated in fig. 3 or fig. 6.

In some embodiments, the computer-readable storage medium may be memory such as FRAM, ROM, PROM, EPROM, EEPROM, flash, magnetic surface memory, optical disk, or CD-ROM; or may be various devices including one or any combination of the above memories.

In some embodiments, executable instructions may be written in any form of programming language (including compiled or interpreted languages), in the form of programs, software modules, scripts or code, and may be deployed in any form, including as a stand-alone program or as a module, component, subroutine, or other unit suitable for use in a computing environment.

By way of example, executable instructions may correspond, but do not necessarily have to correspond, to files in a file system, and may be stored in a portion of a file that holds other programs or data, such as in one or more scripts in a hypertext Markup Language (HTML) document, in a single file dedicated to the program in question, or in multiple coordinated files (e.g., files that store one or more modules, sub-programs, or portions of code).

By way of example, executable instructions may be deployed to be executed on one computing device or on multiple computing devices at one site or distributed across multiple sites and interconnected by a communication network.

In summary, according to the embodiment of the present application, the approval process configuration apparatus can add a branch process between any nodes of the basic process layout by responding to the operation of adding a class control on any process trend line, so as to increase the flexibility of process configuration; furthermore, the newly added branch flow and the original basic flow layout are used as the current flow layout and are simultaneously displayed in the flow configuration page, the configuration of the whole flow can be completed on the flow configuration page through the configuration of the current flow layout, and the target flow configuration data is finally generated, so that the flow configuration efficiency is improved. In addition, the attribute configuration of the examination and approval process configuration device on the object nodes can be carried out on each object node by taking the object node as a unit, so that different data can be set on different nodes, and the attribute configuration of the examination and approval process is refined to a node level, thereby further improving the flexibility of the examination and approval process configuration. Moreover, the examination and approval process configuration device can convert the branch processes into a regular expression form and directly attach the regular expression form to the current process layout to generate target process configuration data, and whether executable branch processes exist or not does not need to be checked from other condition configuration files, so that the examination and approval process configuration efficiency is further improved.

The above description is only an example of the present application, and is not intended to limit the scope of the present application. Any modification, equivalent replacement, and improvement made within the spirit and scope of the present application are included in the protection scope of the present application.

Claims

1. An approval process configuration method, comprising:

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the process configuration page is provided with a preset publishing control; the configuring operation includes: issuing an operation instruction, a condition configuration operation and an attribute configuration operation;

the receiving configuration operations for at least one of the condition setting node, the base node, and the first branch node, and generating and publishing target process configuration data corresponding to the current process layout includes:

responding to the condition configuration operation of a preset condition setting inlet on the condition setting node, and generating a hit condition corresponding to a first branch process;

responding to attribute configuration operation of a preset attribute setting inlet on an object node of the flow object type, and generating attribute configuration data corresponding to the object node; the object node includes: the base node or the first branch node;

and responding to a release operation instruction aiming at the preset release control, and generating and releasing the target process configuration data according to the hit condition and the attribute configuration data.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the conditional configuration operation comprises: the method comprises the following steps of performing condition setting triggering operation and condition data configuration operation, wherein the step of generating a hit condition corresponding to a first branch process in response to the condition configuration operation aiming at a preset condition setting inlet on a condition setting node comprises the following steps:

responding to the condition setting triggering operation aiming at the preset condition setting inlet, and popping up a preset condition setting panel in a first preset display area of the process configuration page; the preset condition setting panel comprises at least one condition setting control;

and receiving the condition data configuration operation through the at least one condition setting control, and generating a hit condition corresponding to the first branch process according to the condition data configuration operation.

4. The method of claim 2 or 3, wherein the attribute configuration operation comprises: the generating of the attribute configuration data corresponding to the object node in response to the attribute configuration operation of a preset attribute setting entry on the object node for the process object type includes:

responding to an attribute setting triggering operation aiming at the preset attribute setting inlet, and popping up a preset attribute setting panel in a second preset display area; the preset attribute setting panel comprises at least one attribute setting control;

and receiving the attribute data configuration operation through the at least one attribute setting control, and generating attribute configuration data corresponding to the object node according to the attribute data configuration operation.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the at least one condition setting control comprises: a condition dimension setting control and a condition data setting control; the conditional data configuration operation comprises: the method comprises the following steps of performing condition dimension display operation, condition dimension selection operation and condition data setting operation, receiving the condition data configuration operation through the at least one condition setting control, and generating a hit condition corresponding to the first branch process according to the condition data configuration operation, wherein the hit condition comprises the following steps:

responding to a condition dimension display operation of the condition dimension setting control, and displaying at least one preset hit condition dimension on the preset condition setting panel;

receiving the condition dimension selection operation aiming at the at least one preset hit condition dimension, and taking the preset hit condition dimension pointed by the condition selection confirmation operation as a target dimension;

displaying a condition data setting control corresponding to the target dimension on the preset condition setting panel, and taking a corresponding relationship between the target dimension and operation data of the condition data setting operation as the hit condition in response to a condition data setting operation for the condition data setting control; wherein the hit condition is displayed on the condition setting node.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the preset condition setting panel further comprises: a priority configuration control; after the condition setting trigger operation for the preset condition setting entry is responded and a preset condition setting panel pops up in a first preset display area of the process configuration page, the method further comprises the following steps:

and responding to a priority setting instruction for the priority configuration control, taking a preset priority specified by the priority setting instruction as a target execution priority corresponding to the first branch flow in at least one preset priority, and displaying the target execution priority on a condition setting node corresponding to the first branch flow.

7. The method according to any one of claims 1, 5 or 6, wherein the condition setting node comprises: copy controls and/or delete controls; the method further includes, in response to a branch adding operation for the add-class control, creating and displaying a first branch flow juxtaposed to the initial branch flow in the basic flow layout, and after obtaining a current flow layout:

when a copy operation instruction for the copy control is received, generating a copy branch flow parallel to the first branch flow in response to the copy operation instruction, wherein the configuration of the copy branch flow is consistent with that of the first branch flow;

updating and displaying the replica branch flow in the current flow layout;

and when a deletion operation instruction aiming at the deletion control is received, responding to the deletion operation instruction, deleting the first branch flow from the target approval flow structure diagram, and correspondingly updating the current flow layout.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the approval process management page comprises: presetting a flow template inlet and/or an existing flow import inlet, wherein the presetting creation operation comprises the following steps: the method comprises the following steps that template selection operation and process import operation are carried out, a preset creating operation is responded to enter a process configuration page on an approval process management page, and basic process layout corresponding to the preset creating operation is displayed on the process configuration page, and the method comprises the following steps:

when a template selection operation aiming at the preset flow template inlet is received on the approval flow management page, responding to the template selection operation, determining a target preset approval flow template from at least one approval type preset approval flow template, and jumping to the flow configuration page based on the target preset approval flow template; performing layout rendering on the process configuration page based on the process configuration data corresponding to the target preset approval process template, and generating and displaying the basic process layout;

when a process import operation aiming at the existing process import is received on the approval process management page, determining a target existing approval process from at least one existing approval process in response to the process import operation, and jumping to the process configuration page based on the target existing approval process; and performing layout rendering on the process configuration page based on the process configuration data corresponding to the target existing approval process, and generating and displaying the basic process layout.

9. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 8, wherein after entering a process configuration page in response to a preset creation operation on an approval process management page and displaying a basic process layout corresponding to the preset creation operation on the process configuration page, the method further comprises:

on the flow configuration page, responding to a dragging operation aiming at a target flow node, and moving the target flow node to a dragging position corresponding to the dragging operation; the target process nodes comprise basic process nodes, condition setting nodes and branch process nodes;

and taking the flow after the dragging position as a lower flow corresponding to the target flow node, and generating a flow trend line from the target flow node to the lower flow.

10. The method of claim 4, wherein the process object types comprise: applicant type, approver type and transcriber type; the popping up a preset attribute setting panel in the second preset display area in response to the attribute setting triggering operation aiming at the preset attribute setting inlet comprises the following steps:

when the process object type is the approver type, responding to attribute setting triggering operation aiming at the preset attribute setting inlet, and enabling the at least one attribute configuration control displayed in the preset attribute setting panel to be an approver configuration control, an approval mode configuration control and an approval authority configuration control;

when the flow object type is the transcriber type, responding to attribute setting triggering operation aiming at the preset attribute setting inlet, and configuring a control for transcribing the at least one attribute configuration control and a control for transcribing the range configuration control for the transcriber displayed in the preset attribute setting panel;

and when the flow object type is the applicant type, responding to the attribute setting triggering operation aiming at the preset attribute setting inlet, and configuring the control for the applicant by the at least one attribute configuration control displayed in the preset attribute setting panel.

11. The method according to claim 2, wherein the generating and publishing the target process configuration data according to the hit condition and the attribute configuration data in response to the publishing operation instruction for the preset publishing control comprises:

responding to an operation instruction aiming at the preset issuing control, and generating a rule expression corresponding to the first branch process based on the hit condition through a preset rule engine;

12. The method of claim 11, wherein after the validity check is performed on the current process configuration data to obtain a check result, the method further comprises:

and when the verification result is that the target process configuration data is failed, not generating the target process configuration data, and prompting abnormal information on the process configuration page.

13. An approval process configuration apparatus, comprising:

14. An electronic device, comprising:

a memory for storing executable instructions;

a processor for implementing the method of any one of claims 1 to 12 when executing executable instructions stored in the memory.

15. A storage medium storing executable instructions for performing the method of any one of claims 1 to 12 when executed by a processor.