KR20130051594A - Web-based software generation method and apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention provides a web-based software generation method for creating an application customized by a user using a graphical user interface (GUI), the information of the application (Application) and a plurality of objects preset to be associated with the application Setting generation information for setting one or more objects, determining the number of columns of the universal information table so as to correspond to the set object, and generating a universal information table based on the determined number of columns, the generated universal information table A method of generating web-based software, comprising: receiving meta information defining column property information of each column of a column; and generating a customized application by associating setting information of the application with meta information and a set object; to provide. According to the present invention, it is possible to easily and intuitively create a web-based software related to SaaS by providing an interface for setting an object and authority management, which are applications and basic components of the application.

Description

 Web-based software generation method and apparatus {WEB-BASED SOFTWARE GENERATION METHOD AND APPARATUS}

The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for generating web-based software, and more particularly, to a method and apparatus for generating customized software for web-based software based on SAAS.

Recently, technological advances have been made on cloud computing, a computing environment that enables IT-related services such as information storage, network, and content use through a server on the Internet, and the development of services and products related to cloud computing. This is an increasing trend.

In particular, technological advancement of software as a service (SaaS) is being made in connection with cloud computing. SaaS refers to a form in which a software service is provided through the Internet without installing software on a computer. By using SaaS, technological advances are being made on a platform that provides independent services to multi-tenants using one application instance. Accordingly, the necessity of providing a development environment for building an application for providing a service on a SaaS platform is increasing.

SaaS development environment needs to provide integrated execution environment such as user interface (UI) creation, business logic generation, database table creation for developers considering multi-tenant, and developer to improve application development efficiency There is a need for developing a UI that can be easily manipulated and intuitively written in an application.

In generating web-based software on the SaaS platform, in the prior art, it is difficult to create an application when there is no specialized knowledge about program coding. Therefore, there is a need to provide a simple and intuitive method for creating an application. .

An embodiment of the present invention for achieving the above object is a web-based software generation method for creating a user-customized application, a plurality of preset information to be associated with the application (Application) and the application Creation information setting step of receiving at least one or more of the objects; Determining the number of columns of the universal information table so as to correspond to the set object, and generating a universal information table based on the determined number of columns; Receiving meta information defining column attribute information for each column of the generated universal information table; And generating a customized application based on the setting information of the application, the meta information, and the set object.

The generating information setting step may include receiving at least one information of an application ID, an application name, an application label, an application URL, and an application description of the application; And receiving at least one object from among a plurality of objects preset to be used in association with the application.

The receiving of the meta information may include generating a grid-type table in which attribute information of each column is expressed based on the universal information table; And receiving meta information that defines the property information corresponding to the set object.

Preferably, the meta information may include object basic information, object fields, object forms, object lists, and object related tool information.

In addition, the step of generating the application may include a permission management setting step of setting the access rights of the application; And generating a customized application based on the setting information of the application, the meta information, the set object, and the setting of the access authority.

The generating information setting step may further include receiving and displaying an image for an application logo.

An embodiment of the present invention for achieving the above object is a web-based software generating device for generating a user-customized application, the configuration information of the application (Application) and a plurality of preset to be associated with the application A generation information setting unit configured to receive at least one or more objects of the objects of the object; A table generator for determining a number of columns of a universal information table so as to correspond to the set object, and generating a universal information table based on the determined number of columns; A meta information input unit configured to receive meta information defining column attribute information of each column of the generated universal information table corresponding to the set object; And an application generator for generating a customized application by associating setting information of the application, the meta information, and the set object with each other.

The generation information setting unit may include a menu configuration unit configured to receive a menu regarding personal setting or application setting for an application generation environment; A main configuration unit configured to display information on a menu selected by the menu configuration unit, and to receive at least one of a plurality of objects preset to be used in association with information of the application and the application from the user; And a menu bar toolbar unit configured to display tool information related to the menu selected by the menu bar unit. It may be characterized in that it comprises a.

The meta information input unit may further include a meta information table generation unit generating a grid-type table in which attribute information of each column is expressed based on the generated universal information table; And a meta information defining unit configured to receive meta information defining basic information of the object, an object field, an object form, an object list, and object related tool information as attribute information. It may be characterized in that it comprises a.

The application generator may include a rights management setting unit configured to set access rights of the application; A customized application generator configured to generate a customized application based on setting of the application setting information, the meta information, the set object, and the access authority; It may be characterized in that it comprises a.

According to the present invention, it is possible to easily and intuitively create a web-based software related to SaaS by providing an interface for setting an object and authority management, which are applications and basic components of the application.

1 is a reference diagram for explaining an architecture for a SaaS platform.
2 is a flowchart of a web-based software generation method according to an embodiment of the present invention.
3 and 4 are reference diagrams for explaining generation information setting step of the web-based software generation method according to an embodiment of the present invention.
5 is a reference diagram for explaining a field editing step of an object in the web-based software generation method according to an embodiment of the present invention.
6 is a reference diagram for explaining a list editing step of an object in a web-based software generation method according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 7 is a reference diagram for explaining a permission management setting step of an object in a web-based software generation method according to an embodiment of the present invention.
8 is a block diagram of a web-based software generating device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, some embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. In addition, in describing the present invention, when it is determined that the detailed description of the related well-known configuration or function may obscure the gist of the present invention, the detailed description thereof will be omitted.

An architecture for the SaaS platform will be described with reference to FIG. 1.

The SaaS platform supports multi tenants and has a metadata-based architecture for providing application configuration. The SaaS platform can have three user modes: application developer, tenant administrator, and tenant user.

The user mode for an application developer may generate an application, an object constituting the application, and permissions for the application from a UI provided by a web browser through a development environment. The tenant administrator can customize the application written by the application developer according to the tenant characteristics, and the tenant user can use the application running on the platform through the operating environment of the system owned by the tenant user.

2 illustrates a web-based software generation method according to an embodiment of the present invention. The web-based software generation method according to an embodiment of the present invention may be performed in a web-based software generation device, the application generation device may be implemented as a SaaS platform, and the SaaS platform uses a processor and a memory. It can be implemented to process input information.

Learn how to create a web-based software that creates a user-customized application using a graphical user interface (GUI). The customized application includes a software, an application, etc., in which a user can set a specific object, function, UI, etc. by the user.

In operation S100, setting information of an application may be set, and at least one object among a plurality of objects preset to be associated with the application may be set.

Configuration information about the application can be set through the GUI. Users can load applications that are preset by users, such as customer relationship management (CRM), enterprise resource planning (ERP), and knowledge management system (KMS) stored in external storage devices. It can be implemented to load an application defined by a user, such as a Rule Management application. The application may be set in advance in an external storage device such as a database or a server. When an application is newly defined by a user, the application may be newly stored in an external storage device or an information storage unit.

The setting information of the application includes an identifier (ID) of the application, an application name, an application label, an application URL, a description of the application, a logo and an image of the application, and a plurality of objects set to be associated with the application. It may contain information about.

The plurality of objects preset to be associated with an application refers to attribute information such as objects, meta information, fields, etc., which are pre-set as being related to the application from a user. For example, when the application is related to Customer Relationship Management (CRM) , 'Customer management' menu can be set in advance to map with an object named Customer, which is a single object, and the object named Customer has a field with multiple attribute information such as customer name, head ID, meta information, etc. It can be set to include. Alternatively, it may be set in advance to a schema having an object called Customer.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the GUI may provide a web UI environment provided by the SaaSpia platform, which is one of application development tools, and the web UI environment may be a UI environment based on HTML-based components. The UI environment can be preset from the user according to the application, and the user can newly customize and generate the GUI. Also, it can be implemented to provide UI such as HTML UI component which is characteristic of WEB UI, Tab which can search the detailed sub menus at a glance, and Page Flow which shows continuous record list by connecting to page. In addition, the development environment UI can be implemented in JavaScript, Ajax, and can be implemented to modify the location information of the field of the object in a table form using the library provided by Ajax.

3 and 4, an embodiment of the step S100 according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described. Referring to FIG. 3, the apparatus for generating an application may provide a GUI including a menu constructing unit 110, a main constructing unit 120, and a menu-related toolbar constructing unit 130, and a toolbar constructing unit. 140, the tenant logo display unit 150 may be further included.

The menu configuration unit 110 may include a personal setting unit and an application setting unit, and the personal setting unit may include a function for managing application developer information to store and modify information of developers who have developed an application. You can make personal settings such as font attributes, paragraph or paragraph attributes, personal settings such as GUI position, size, and layout, and path information about the application's storage. Personal settings can be defined by the user. have.

The application setting unit has a tree form of an application management menu for defining and editing basic forms of an application, an object management menu for managing object information such as object creation and editing, and a permission management menu for creating and editing permissions. It is displayed and the settings related to the selected menu can be modified by the user.

Referring to Figure 4 will be described the step of receiving the generation information according to an embodiment of the present invention. The application generating apparatus may receive at least one or more information of an application ID, an application label, an application URL, and an application description. In addition, among the objects usable in association with the application, the user may display a plurality of objects which are preset as necessary when the user creates the application, and receive at least one of them.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the main component unit 120 may display detailed information on the menu selected by the menu component unit 110. If the user selects the FTA Rule Management application defined as ODE among the applications, it searches whether the application designated as ODE exists in the external storage device. If there is an application preset for the ODE, the generation information for the ODE is displayed on the main component unit 120. Referring to FIG. 4, an application ID is displayed as 'app_1', an application label is 'ODE', an application URL is '/ ODE', and an application description is 'FTA Rule Management Application'.

Regarding the application logo, the image inserting unit may be provided to the user, and when the user inputs the image, the method may include displaying the input image. For a plurality of preset objects related to the application, If an object related to the ODE is set to object 1 to object 5, the user may select only object 1 and object 3. In addition, according to the implementation, basic application information such as an application label, an application URL, an application description, and the like in the main component unit 120 may be newly defined or modified by the user, and the basic object forming the application may be implemented as a list box. Can be set.

The menu related toolbar configuration unit 130 may display tool information related to a menu to a user, and may include a configuration for controlling menu related information. For example, the menu configuration unit 110 may be implemented to include a menu defined by a user and a menu defined by a user, such as creation, deletion, transfer, storage, or cancellation, and the user may configure a menu related toolbar configuration unit ( When selecting a menu included in 130, the processor transmits a signal to process the corresponding operation.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the tool bar may further include a toolbar 140, and the toolbar may include a component that is not associated with the menu component 110 and the main component 120. For example, when the button "Home" is implemented, it may be implemented to be restored to the basic UI regardless of whether the user has performed any configuration or process among the menu component 110 and the main component 120. .

According to an embodiment of the present invention may further include a tenant logo display unit 150, the tenant logo display unit may display the logo of the application to the user, the version information of the application, the creation date, contact information, etc. When developing an application, it may be implemented to display information that is predetermined as necessary.

Step S200 determines the number of columns of the universal information table so as to correspond to the set object, and generates a universal information table based on the determined number of columns. By generating a universal information table to correspond to an object set by the user, it is possible to prevent the user from individually creating the information table according to the platform, and to implement a table having a certain format to run on different platforms.

When at least one object among a plurality of objects preset to be associated with the application is set, the number of columns of the general information table is determined to correspond to the set object. A universal information table is generated based on the determined number of columns. For example, if two objects are set in step S100, a general information table having two columns is created.

In step S300, the meta information defining column attribute information of each column of the general-purpose information table generated in step S200 corresponding to the set object is received. Meta information of the present invention can be implemented to include the basic information of the object, including the field ID, field label, field form, field list, field of the object, form of the object, object list and object-related tool information. Therefore, in order to make relevant object properties consistent with the developer, these detailed items can be represented as tabs, and a grid capable of modifying meta information with respect to the edit menu activated as shown in FIGS. Can be input as a table of the form

5 and 6, an example in which meta information corresponding to the number of columns of a general-purpose information table is input to an object set according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described. In operation S300, the object basic information setting step, a field editing step, a form editing step, a list editing step, and a toolbar editing step may include at least one or more steps.

In the object basic information setting step, when the user selects the object basic information in the main component unit 120, the object basic information for creating an object may be displayed to the user. The basic object information may include preset information about an object from a user, and may include information about a field ID, a field label, a data type, a size, and whether a primary key is set.

Referring to FIG. 5, a field editing step according to an embodiment of the present invention is a step of editing a field to be used for an object, and may be modified and changed for a field loaded by object basic information. For example, in FIG. 5, if the field ID is set to 'COM_NAME', the field label is set to 'customer company name', the data type is 'STRING', the size '20', and the primary key 'not applied'. The data type may be modified from the data type, and according to an embodiment of the present invention, the data type may be embodied to alternatively be set among preset data types such as 'STRING' and 'DATE'.

The form editing step is to set a layout of an object displayed to a user when creating an application, and can edit a layout displayed on a web page such as HTML. Form editing can be expressed in terms of aspect ratio and aspect ratio of the screen, display window, etc., depending on the user's settings. Can be implemented to display.

A list editing step according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. In the list editing step, the detailed screen of the list editing of an object may be modified and changed. Editing a list edits a state of an object displayed to a user in a grid, and a plurality of lists may be preset so that the list may be changed according to the tenant using the application. The object list may be preset by selecting fields displayed to the user, and the object may be filtered by performing grouping. That is, FIG. 6 illustrates a UI showing a plurality of list items and a UI displayed when a new list generation button is selected. Referring to FIG. 6, when the list editing step is selected, information about the list name, the number of list items, and whether or not the default setting is displayed to the user, and when the user selects the 'default view', Options, fields, alignment, and group information can be set. For example, the options can be set for the list name to display, the number of items per list, and the field can be set for the fields that the list contains. May be set, and the group may be set to display group information for a field having a specific value for the field.

The toolbar editing step may edit menus to be displayed in the menu related toolbar component 130 in relation to the customization application. For example, the menu-related toolbar component 130 may be set to be displayed on the menu-related toolbar component 130 with respect to 'previous', 'save', and 'cancel'.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the method may further include setting a right management of the application. SaaS-based applications may be restricted from accessing application resources depending on the tenant's user rights. Therefore, it can be implemented to create a permission applicable to the application.

Referring to FIG. 7, the steps for setting permission management of an application will be described. The step for setting the rights management may include a basic information setting step, an object permission setting step, and a field permission setting step.

The basic information setting step may set basic information regarding an access right of the application. For example, basic information about access authority includes authority to use an application. The user may determine whether the user has the authority to use the application, such as a person in charge, and set the user to allow access to the application only when the authority is granted.

In the object permission setting step, an access permission may be set for an object used in an application. An access right may be set for Create, Read, Update, and Delete of an object included in an application. For example, an application named ODE can only set permissions for create and read on an object label named 'Invoice', and create, read, update, and delete all permissions on an object label named 'Package'. have. As another example, the 'All' menu can be set to allow all privileges for 'Package'.

In operation S400, a customized application is generated based on the setting information of the set application, the input meta information, and the set object. That is, the object is created to have attributes defined according to the meta information on the object by matching the input object with the set meta information in the generation information setting step, and the application is generated based on the setting information of the set application. can do. Alternatively, the application may be generated to be implemented on a specific platform based on the application and meta information input from the user. For example, it may be generated in web-based software to be implemented in the SaaS platform.

8 is a block diagram showing a web-based software generating device according to an embodiment of the present invention. Contents that overlap with those described in the web-based software creation method are replaced with the above descriptions.

The web-based software generating apparatus may include a generation information setting unit 100, a table generation unit 200, a meta information input unit 300, and an application generation unit 400.

The generation information setting unit 100 may receive at least one object from among a plurality of objects preset to be associated with the application setting information and the application. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the generation information setting unit 100 may include a menu configuration unit 110, a main configuration unit 120, and a menu-related toolbar configuration unit 130. The menu configuration unit 110 may receive a menu regarding personal setting or application setting for the application generation environment. The main configuration unit 120 may display information on a menu selected by the menu configuration unit, and receive at least one object from among a plurality of objects preset to be used in association with the application information and the application from the user. The menu toolbar configuration unit 130 may display tool information related to the menu selected by the menu component.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, the toolbar component and the tenant logo display may further include, and the description thereof is replaced with the above description.

The table generator 200 may determine the number of columns of the universal information table so as to correspond to the set object, and generate the universal information table based on the determined number of columns.

The meta information input unit 300 may receive meta information that defines column attribute information of each column of the generated universal information table corresponding to the set object. The meta information input unit 300 may include a meta information table generator 310 and a meta information definer 320. The meta information table generator 310 may generate a grid-type table in which attribute information of each column is expressed based on the generated general information table. The meta information defining unit 320 may receive meta information for defining basic information of an object, an object field, an object form, an object list, and object related tool information as attribute information.

The application generating unit 400 may generate a customized application based on the setting information of the set application, the input meta information, and the set object. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the rights management setting unit may further include a customized application generation unit. The authority management setting unit may set the access right of the application, and the customized application generation unit may generate a customized application based on the setting of the application setting information, meta information, the set object, and the access right.

Embodiments according to the present invention can be written as a computer program. Codes and code segments constituting this computer program can be easily inferred by a computer programmer in the art. In addition, the computer program is stored in a computer readable medium (Computer Readable Media), and the embodiment is implemented by being read and executed by a computer. The information storage medium includes a magnetic recording medium, an optical recording medium and a carrier wave medium.

The present invention has been described above with reference to preferred embodiments. It will be understood by those skilled in the art that the present invention may be embodied in various other forms without departing from the spirit or essential characteristics thereof. Therefore, the above-described embodiments should be considered in an illustrative rather than a restrictive sense. The scope of the present invention is shown not in the above description but in the claims, and all differences within the scope should be construed as being included in the present invention.

Claims (1)

In the web-based software generation method for creating a user-customized application,
A generation information setting step of receiving setting information of the application and setting at least one of a plurality of objects preset to be associated with the application;
Determining the number of columns of the universal information table so as to correspond to the set object, and generating a universal information table based on the determined number of columns;
Receiving meta information that defines column attribute information of each column of the generated universal information table corresponding to the set object; And
And generating a customized application based on the setting information of the application, the meta information, and the set object.

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