JP2003167759A - Document management system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a document management system that can manage documents of clients corresponding to a plurality of different languages in a common server. <P>SOLUTION: When document management clients 2-1 to 2-3 request the acquisition of a log of their requests from a document management server 1, the document management server 1 writes out, from log data of a plurality of languages that it holds, log information corresponding to language information about the clients 2-1 to 2-3 along with identification information and language information about the clients 2-1 to 2-3, and creates a log of language information handled by the document management server 1. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document management system, and more particularly to a document management system capable of managing documents in a plurality of different languages.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art The present invention is a server / client model in a document management system for managing, as a document, a collection of data constituting a page such as image data and text data on a computer, and the client is available in a plurality of languages. The existing document management system aims to display the information provided from the server to the client in multiple languages. When the conventional software is developed in a language corresponding to the operating OS and is operated in another language OS, it is necessary to provide language information depending on the OS, that is, localize it. In this case, there is a problem in that both the stand-alone model and the client / server model must design software depending on each language.
Therefore, conventionally, in order to support a plurality of languages with a single document management system, it is necessary to switch and use a plurality of software, which causes a drawback that file management is complicated and operation is complicated.

[0003]

As described above, in the conventional document management system, when a plurality of processing languages are supported, it is necessary to switch and use a plurality of software, which makes file management complicated and complicated operations. There was a drawback. An object of the present invention is to solve this problem by a relatively simple method and to realize a document management system capable of managing a document of a client corresponding to a plurality of different languages by a common server.

[0004]

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention manages a collection of data constituting a page such as image data or text data as a document, and registers, records, deletes these documents, A document management system that provides a management function for searching, displaying, and outputting, comprising a document management server that registers, records, deletes, and searches documents, and a plurality of document management clients that display and output documents, A plurality of document management clients are provided with an OS (Operative) for each document management client.
ng Systems) are different in language, and the document management server manages the document in response to requests from the document management client such as a means for identifying the language of the document management client and a document registration, deletion, or search from the document management client. The means to do, the logs corresponding to these requests,
And a means for recording an error log when an error occurs during these requests or during request document management, and the document management client can browse these logs on the document management server. It is possible, and it is possible to request the document management server to acquire a log for its own request when necessary, and display the acquired log in each language. As a result, it is possible to realize a document management system capable of managing a document of a client corresponding to a plurality of different languages on a common server.

[0005]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION A document management system according to the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the functional arrangement of an embodiment of the document management system of the present invention. In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 is a document management server, reference numerals 2-1 to 2-3 ...
Is a document management client, and in the document management server 1, reference numeral 11 is a management unit, reference numeral 12 is a log input / output unit, reference numeral 13 is a document type management unit, and reference numeral 14 is a language processing unit. The document management system of the present invention is a document management server 1.
And a plurality of document management clients 2-1 to 2-3. Of these, the document management server 1 is a management unit 1 that manages actual data of a document such as registration / search / deletion.
1, a log input / output unit 12 for writing (outputting) a log and acquiring (input) a log depending on a language, a document type management unit 13 for managing a document type for each language, and a language processing unit for determining a language of a client Have fourteen.

FIG. 2 shows the relationship between the document 3 managed by the document management server 1, the pages 31 constituting the document 3 and the bibliographic items 32 attached to the document. The document 3 includes each page 31 such as an image file and application data, and a bibliographic item 32 representing the document characteristic items such as the document name and the registration date. FIG. 3 shows document management clients 2-1 to 2-1 in multiple languages.
2 shows the relationship between 2-3 and the document management server 1. The document management clients 2-1 to 2-3 request the document management server 1 for a document operation. The case of registration will be described below as an example of a document operation request. Clients 2-1 to 2
-3 adds the language information of the clients 2-1 to 2-3 to the server 1 when making a document registration request. In FIG. 3, when the client C2-3 requests the server 1 for document registration, for example, Table 1
Such information is sent to the server 1.

[0008]

[Table 1]

[0009] In Table 1, "processing type" represents the type of processing requested to the server 1. "Document type I
“D” is information indicating which format is used among a plurality of existing attribute information. Information about the document type is held inside the server 1.

[0010]

[Table 2]

Table 2 is an example showing a data structure of a document type. Here, for example, the “document type A” includes five document attributes of “registrant name”, “document name”, “registration date”, “page number”, and “remark”. "Document type B"
Is composed of four document attributes of "registrant name", "registration date", "number of pages", and "retention date". In Table 1, "client address" and "document information" are information indicating the location of the document to be registered. The "client address" contains information for identifying the client on the network. In this example, the IP address (internet protocol
address) is included. “Document information” indicates the position of document data on the client 2. In this example, it contains the directory path and file name. The server 1 receives the document data from the client 2 based on these pieces of information. "Language code" in Table 1 is for client 2
Represents the language of the OS. In this example, it is in French.

The server 1 receives the document registration information of Table 1 from the client 2-3 and registers the document in the database. The result of document registration is classified into various statuses such as normal termination, writing error, parameter error, and data format error. The server 1 writes a status indicating these results in a log.

[0013]

[Table 3]

The server 1 has a status character string for each language. Table 3 shows an example of the status. Server 1 writes "Language information" in Table 1 when writing to the log.
Based on the above, in addition to the languages supported by the server 1, the status corresponding to the “language information” of the client 2 among the statuses in Table 3 is written in the log.

When the server 1 fails to obtain any object in response to the document registration request in Table 1, the log ID for the error of the server 1 is 0002. Also, the log ID for the error when loading fails is 00.
It will be 01. In addition, log information according to various situations is prepared according to "language information". Since the language supported by the server 1 is English, information in English is written in the log first. Furthermore, the "language code" of the client 2-3
Is "French", so the corresponding log information and client information are written in the log. Table 4 shows an example of a log record describing these. Table 4 shows the contents written in one log record.

[0016]

[Table 4]

The client 2 can acquire a log from the server 1. The server 1 searches the records in the format of Table 4 for the “client address”, lists the matching log records, and returns them to the client 2. 4 and 5 are flowcharts of a sequence in which the server 1 writes the log and a sequence in which the server 1 returns the log to the client 2.

In the flow chart of the log writing operation of FIG. 4, in step 101, the "language information" of the client 2 is displayed.
Is identified, and in step 102, the operation of acquiring the character string of the corresponding language from the log information for each language is started. At this time, in step 103, check whether the corresponding language exists,
If the corresponding language exists, in step 104, the server language character string and the client language character string are described in the log record, and the process ends. If the corresponding language does not exist in step 103, the log record is described in the character string of the original default language, that is, the server language in step 105, and the process ends.

In the flow chart of the operation of returning the log shown in FIG.
Acquire the corresponding language from the processing request information. Then, in step 202, the log record record is searched using the client name and the corresponding language as keys. In step 203, it is determined whether or not a record exists, and if the record exists, a client log list is created with the corresponding record, output, and the process ends. If the record does not exist, that fact is output and the process ends. Through the above processing, the client 2 can acquire the log character string according to the language used.

Next, another embodiment of the document management system of the present invention will be described. The document type information in this embodiment includes the number of items and item names. In Table 2, the document type A has five attribute items, and the item names are “creator”, “document name”, “registration date”, “page number”, and “remark”. These item names are passed to the client 2, and these item names are used when displaying the document attributes, the document search conditions, and the like. Therefore, as the item name, it is necessary to display the character string of the language handled by the client 2. The server 1 has a character string to be displayed in each language for each document type. A character string that can be displayed is returned according to the language information of the client 2.

[0021]

[Table 5]

[0022]

[Table 6]

Tables 5 and 6 show examples of document types possessed by the server. Table 5 is a data structure representing one document type. One document type consists of one corresponding language. The document type block includes “document type name” (for example, registered document for XX), “number of items” (number of items included in document type block), “language mode” that is corresponding language information, and “ It consists of "item name" and "item name type" (display format of item name contents). The server 1 manages a plurality of document type blocks as shown in Table 6. The "number of document types" indicates the type, and the "number of supported languages" indicates how many languages the item of the document type has. The example of Table 6 shows that the server 1 has two types of document types, and has document type blocks of three countries A, B, and C, respectively.

FIG. 6 shows a sequence in which the server 1 returns the corresponding document type when the client 2 requests the acquisition of the document type. In the flowchart of FIG. 6,
In step 301, the corresponding language is obtained from the processing request information of the client 2. Next, in step 302, the document type block is searched using the "number of document types" and the "corresponding number of languages" as keys. In step 303, it is determined whether or not the document type of the client language is present. If the document type is present, in step 304 it is added to the document type list. Then, the process returns to step 303 to determine the existence of the client language document type,
After all the document types have been added to the document type list, the document type list is returned to the client 2 in step 305, and the process ends. Thereby, the client can obtain the document type corresponding to the display language of the client. The document type list created according to FIG. 6 is passed to the client, and the client 2 can know the document types that the server 1 can support and obtain the attribute item name included in the document type by the displayable characters. be able to.

[0025]

As described above, according to the invention of claim 1 of the present invention, the document management system registers, records, and deletes a document.
It has a document management server for searching and a plurality of document management clients for displaying and outputting documents, each of which has a different OS language, and the document management client logs to the document management server for its own request. When the document management server requests the acquisition of the log information, the document management server writes the log information corresponding to the client's language information from the log data in multiple languages, including the client's identification information and language information, and the language information handled by the document management server. Create a log of. As a result, in response to a log acquisition request from a document management client with a different display language, it is possible to provide logs in the language that the document management client can display
Logs can be displayed on the document management clients in different languages. At the same time, the log can be displayed on the document management server itself in a language that the document management server can display. Therefore, it is not necessary to prepare a plurality of language management servers for the document management clients of a plurality of languages, and one document management server can serve the document management clients of a plurality of languages.

In the invention of claim 2, the document management server is
The bibliographic information of a document is managed in a language that can be displayed by each document management client and in a variable format suitable for each document, and the document type that corresponds to the client's language information can be selected from the document management types of multiple languages that are stored. provide.
As a result, the document type display on the document management clients having different display languages can be performed in the displayable language of the document management client. On the document management server, it is possible to perform centralized management that does not depend on the language of the document to be registered in response to a document registration request from a document management client having a plurality of display languages.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a functional configuration of an embodiment of a document management system of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a relationship between a document managed by a document management server, pages constituting the document, and bibliographic items attached to the document.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a relationship between a document management client in multiple languages and a document management server.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart of an operation in which a server writes information in a log record.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart of an operation in which a server outputs a log to a client in response to a request from the client.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart of an operation in which the server outputs a corresponding document type in response to a request for acquiring the document type from the client.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 Document management server 2, 2-1 to 2-3 Document management client 3 documents 11 Administration Department 12 Log input / output section 13 Document Type Management Department 14 Language Processing Department Page 31 32 Bibliographic information

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A document management system for managing a collection of data constituting a page such as image data and text data as a document and providing a management function of registering, recording, deleting, searching, displaying and outputting these documents. , A document management server for registering, recording, deleting, and searching for documents, and a plurality of document management clients for displaying and outputting documents. Each of the plurality of document management clients has an OS for each document management client. (Operating Sy
The documents management server performs document management in response to requests from the document management client such as means for identifying the language of the document management client and registration, deletion, and retrieval of documents from the document management client. Means, a log corresponding to these requests (usage status record), and a means for recording an error log (error status record) when an error occurs during these requests or while managing the request document. However, the document management client can browse these logs on the document management server, request the document management server to acquire a log for its own request when necessary, and The management server logs in each language that can be displayed by the document management client that requested the request. Document management system, characterized in that it is capable of providing. 2. The document management server manages bibliographic information of a document in a language that can be displayed by the document management client and in a variable format suitable for each document. Document management system.