JP2001022782A - Method for retrieving/displaying detailed explanation of message having no guide id - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To refer to the detailed explanation of a system message not to display a guide ID by selecting a word, that which a display style is distinguished from a peripheral display style, as a retrieval key out of single or plural sentences as representative of a sentence to be displayed. SOLUTION: When it is desired to refer to the detailed explanation of the system message displayed on a display device 1, a program function key is pressed, a guide manual retrieval program is called from a magnetic disk 6 to a main storage device 3 and execution is started. Next, a system message manual retrieval picture 70 is displayed and one set of object word and predicate is selected out of the displayed system message as a key for retrieving the detailed explanation of the sentence. This is entered to an entry column 71 of an object name on the retrieval picture 70 and one underline is drawn under that. Besides, the word of a predicate part is entered in a predicate name column 72 and made clear by drawing two underlines. When an ENTER key is pressed in this case, the detailed explanation of this message is displayed.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION Many messages and sentences displayed from a system or a user program are short,
When the message cannot be understood by itself or requires some action to be taken by the message, the user needs to know more detailed contents.

[0002] The present invention relates to a technique for searching for the meaning and details of a displayed sentence from a message as described above.

[0003]

2. Description of the Related Art Messages for general-purpose computers or personal computers.

A detailed description is searched using a guide ID or a large classification code of the guide ID as a key for searching the online guide manual. In this case, when an option for not displaying the guide ID is specified, it is impossible to display the detailed description.

[0005] In the case of a personal computer.

A system guide message and the like are displayed in a pop-up dialog. However, there is no mechanism for displaying an explanation supplementing the content. Therefore, you must rely on the features of the Answer Wizard. In the Answer Wizard, the system displays a series of search terms in a window and displays a table of contents associated with them. The user selects and displays an item that is likely to be related from the items. The user needs to select the detailed description that he or she needs from among the detailed descriptions that are out of order.

[0007]

Problems to be solved by the present invention and objects of the present invention will be described.

[0008] The respective objects of the invention described in all claims will be described.

The above prior art does not provide a means for searching for a detailed explanation from a sentence. For example, in order to display the detailed explanation from the displayed error guide message or to display the next expected action. Has input and displayed a guide ID meaningless to humans in an online manual.

Further, if an option for not displaying the guide ID is specified, the detailed description cannot be displayed. Further, when trying to know the detailed description of the displayed simple sentence, the search means for displaying the detailed description was limited to inefficient means as shown by the Answer Wizard. In the present invention, in order to avoid inefficiencies and detailed descriptions on these human interfaces from becoming undeployable,
It is an invented method.

[0011]

What technical means have been adopted to achieve the object will be described in accordance with the claims.

(1) In a sentence to be displayed, in a single sentence or a compound sentence representing the sentence, a display form of a word serving as a search key is distinguished from a surrounding display form. This allows the user to clearly know what to use as a search key when requesting a detailed description from the system.

(2) In displaying the detailed explanation of a sentence, two or three keywords are selected instead of one. And to represent the Event or Status represented by the statement,
The subject or object (Object) and predicate (Predicate) of the sentence are 1
As a set, select the key to search for a detailed description of the sentence. By doing so, you have selected the minimum required keywords to define a unique Event. The designation of the word is a keyword recognized by a human and stored as a mental model.

[0014]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS As an example of the present invention, an example in which a system message is taken as an example of a system guide message will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows a system configuration of a "display method of detailed explanation in a system guide display" according to the present invention.
To refer to the detailed description of the system message displayed on the display device (1), press the program function key F1. Then, the online guide manual search program (4) is called from the magnetic disk (6) in the main storage device (3), and the execution is started. Next, a “system message manual search screen” shown in FIG. 4 is displayed. Then, the displayed system message JAE6
One underlined word in 99E (31) is “PWFFUNCTION” (34), which is the object name. This is entered in the entry field (71) of the object name on the search screen of the system message manual. Under the guide text (object name) in this entry column, an underline having the same form as the underline of the object portion of the message displayed first is drawn. Also, the double-underlined "INOPERATIVE" part (33) of FIG. 2 teaches that it is a predicate part,
This word is entered in the predicate name column (72) of FIG. Again, this column is underlined with two lines to identify the predicate. The user can distinguish the predicate name, object name, or other phrase name from the underline.
Pressing the ENTER key on the screen shown in FIG. 4 displays a detailed explanation (32) of this message.

As a mechanism, in order to increase the search speed,
The search table shown in FIG. 3 is created in advance on a magnetic disk. The format is a table format. JAE in Figure 2
Taking the message 699E as an example, a search table made up of a predicate name and an object name includes a predicate name (60) as a search key, an object name (62), and a reference when a search result is hit. The guide ID (61) of the message is obtained as a disk storage location where a detailed description of the system message to be sent is placed. This ID
Is used to access the file in which the detailed description is stored, and obtain the desired detailed description of the message. The format of the message displayed on the display device (1) for displaying the message is of three types shown in FIG. First
Is a sentence where the message is made up of the object name and the predicate name. The second is a sentence in which the message is made up of only the object part. The third is a sentence containing neither an object name nor a predicate part, and contains only other words (47) such as conjunctions. Each search table is stored in the data set (7) as an independent table.

On the other hand, in the message displayed on the display device (1), a word group having one solid underline is
A word group with two solid underlines indicates that it is a keyword of an object name, and a word group with two dashed underlines indicates that it is a keyword other than these. .

In the system message manual search screen displayed by the system message manual search program (6), a single solid underline is drawn in the input guide of the object name so as to match these classifications, and the underline of the predicate name is drawn. In this case, two solid underlines are drawn, and a dashed underline is drawn for input guidance of other keywords so that the user can easily input a corresponding part of the word. 5 and 6 are stored in the data set in which the system message manual is stored. FIG. 5 stores the guide ID (30, 85, 88) of the system message in the directory section (80) in association with the pointer to the detailed description (83) having the format of FIG. FIG.
5 are all stored in the data section (81) of FIG.

The above will be described generally.

FIG. 1 shows an example of a system configuration of a display method of a detailed explanation in a system guide display according to the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 2, the type of the message is
Divided into types. Then, a search table suitable for each type is created. The first is a message having an object name (34) and a predicate name (33). The second is a message having only the object name (40).
Third is a message text having neither an object name nor a predicate name, and other words such as conjunctions (47).
Is the message text containing only

FIG. 3 is a table for increasing the search speed. Three types of search tables were provided. First
Is the message predicate (60) and the object name (6
It is a table in which the set of 2) and the guide ID (61) are paired. Sort by predicate name and object name of each predicate. The second is a search table that does not include a predicate and includes only the object name (63). It has a pair of an object name and a guide ID (65). Lastly, this is a search table for messages having neither a predicate name nor an object name, and has a pair of other words (67) such as a conjunction included in the message text and the message ID (68).

FIG. 4 shows an input screen for retrieving a system message manual. The user extracts the following word group from the displayed message text and inputs the extracted word group into each item. Object name (71), predicate name (7
2) Other search items (73). These items are configured such that the corresponding items in the displayed message text have different display forms. For example, in this example, one solid underline represents an object name. Two solid underlines represent predicate names. One broken underline represents other search items.

FIG. 5 shows a disk storage format of the system message manual. This is a section data set, which is made up of a directory part (80) and a data part (81). In addition, the article of each message (Message I
D (85), message text (86), and detailed description of the message (87)) are stored in the directory section (8) in FIG.
0), and is stored in the message explanation part (83).

FIG. 6 shows the format of the explanation part of the message. This is the content of 83 in FIG. The content is
Message ID (85), message text (8
6) There is a detailed explanation of the message (87).

7 to 10, first, a predicate name is read from a search screen input by the operator (100). As a result, if there is a predicate name, the search of the predicate name-object name search table (60, 61) is started (from 104 to 1).
20). If there is no predicate name, it is determined that the message may have only the object name, and the search of the search table (63, 65) having the object name is started (124 to 130). Further, for a message having neither a predicate name nor an object name, if other words or phrases are included, a search is performed using the input data (73) in a search table (67 to 68) for those messages. (134-140). Finally, the input screen (Fig. 4)
If nothing has been entered, it is interpreted that the transmission key was pressed by mistake, and the search program is terminated without performing any search.

[0027]

As a method of searching the online message manual for a detailed description from a system message that does not display the guide ID (30) and referring to the message, a method of inputting it to a search screen using a word representing an Event is as follows. Can be used by users without resistance. Convenience is as simple as entering the keyword in the input field where the same classification keyword can be understood.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing types of messages.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing types of search tables.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a search screen of a system message manual.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a storage format of a message manual file on a disk.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a format of a message explanation part.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a system message manual search procedure.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a system message manual search procedure.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing a system message manual search procedure.

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a system message manual search procedure.

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. During computer processing, the system or a user program displays a system guide on a screen of a user system or a screen of a system console when an event occurs, and when the displayed guide is a system message, The user searches the online manual by using the displayed guide ID as a key, displays a detailed description thereof, and displays a phrase serving as a search key in the displayed message in a form such as a color, a shape, or an auxiliary line. Search for a detailed description of a message without a guide ID, characterized by using the differences to visually clarify and get a detailed description of this guide message by the user entering these keywords ·Display method. 2. The subject or object of a sentence (Object) and a predicate (P
redicate) as a keyword and by specifying these combinations as search keys, the guide ID
Is faster than searching for a detailed description in one dimension, and because these two words define a sentence,
It is a system in which humans can easily remember these keywords, prevent input errors at the time of searching for an online manual by remembering meaningless guide IDs, and have an option in which guide IDs are not displayed. Also, a method for searching and displaying a detailed description of a message having no guide ID, wherein an object name and a predicate name are designated from a message manual. 3. An online guide manual for using the present invention, and tables and programs required for the guide manual are stored in a storage medium such as a CD-ROM.
How to search and display the detailed explanation of the message without D.