CN109814791B - Method and device for processing flow nodes, storage medium and electronic equipment - Google Patents
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The disclosure relates to a method, a device, a storage medium and an electronic device for processing flow nodes, wherein a flow operation end determines a flow node to be coordinated in a first flow processing interface of the flow operation end; when the flow node to be coordinated is dragged, acquiring the movement information of the flow node to be coordinated; determining whether the mobile information meets a preset cooperation condition; when the mobile information is determined to meet the preset cooperation condition, acquiring the current position of the flow node to be cooperated on the first flow processing interface; and sending the movement information and the current position to a process cooperation end so that the process cooperation end can control the target process node to simulate the movement process of the process node to be cooperated in the first process processing interface according to the current position and the movement information.
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Technical Field
The present disclosure relates to the field of process template establishment, and in particular, to a method and an apparatus for processing a process node, a storage medium, and an electronic device.
Background
The process template defines a business process, comprises nodes and connecting paths among the nodes, is mainly applied to an interactive collaborative business system, and for cross-organization complex process design, a plurality of organization responsible persons generally complete the process design in an online collaboration mode, namely each organization is responsible for the process design in a department.
When a traditional flow template is operated cooperatively, a part of flows are changed in a regular synchronization mode, namely, change information of flow nodes can be sent to a cooperative terminal according to a preset frequency, in order to keep the synchronism of the cooperative operation, the node information can be synchronized according to a higher preset frequency, but a large amount of network resources are occupied, the burden of network communication is caused, in order to reduce the burden of the network communication, the preset frequency can be reduced, but the cooperative terminal cannot check the flows in other organizations in real time, and therefore the efficiency of establishing the flow template can be reduced.
Disclosure of Invention
The disclosure provides a method, a device, a storage medium and an electronic device for processing flow nodes.
In a first aspect, a method for processing a flow node is provided, which is applied to a flow operation end, and the method includes: determining a flow node to be coordinated in a first flow processing interface of a flow operation end; when the flow node to be coordinated is dragged in the first flow processing interface, acquiring the movement information of the flow node to be coordinated when dragged; determining whether the mobile information meets a preset cooperation condition; when the mobile information is determined to meet the preset cooperation condition, acquiring the current position of the flow node to be cooperated on the first flow processing interface; and sending the mobile information and the current position to a process collaboration end, so that after the process collaboration end determines a target process node corresponding to the process node to be collaborated in a second process processing interface of the process collaboration end, the target process node is controlled in the second process processing interface according to the current position and the mobile information to simulate the mobile process of the process node to be collaborated in the first process processing interface.
Optionally, the moving information includes a moving speed and a moving direction, and the preset cooperation condition includes: determining that the absolute value of the moving acceleration of the flow node to be coordinated when being dragged is larger than or equal to a preset acceleration threshold according to the moving speed; and/or the direction of movement is changed.
In a second aspect, a method for processing a flow node is provided, and is applied to a flow collaboration end, where the method includes: determining a flow node to be coordinated in a first flow processing interface of a flow operation end at the flow operation end, and receiving the moving information of the flow node to be coordinated when being dragged and the current position of the flow node to be coordinated on the first flow processing interface, which are sent by the flow operation end, after the flow node to be coordinated is dragged; determining a target process node corresponding to the process node to be coordinated in a second process processing interface of the process coordination terminal; and controlling the target process node to simulate the moving process of the process node to be coordinated in the first process processing interface in the second process processing interface according to the current position and the moving information.
Optionally, the moving information includes a moving speed and a moving direction, and the controlling, according to the current position and according to the moving information, the target process node to simulate the moving process of the process node to be coordinated in the second process interface in the first process interface includes: and when the target process node moves to the current position, controlling the target process node to move in the second process processing interface according to the moving speed and the moving direction.
Optionally, the moving information further includes identification information of the process node to be coordinated, and the determining, in the second process processing interface of the process coordination terminal, the target process node corresponding to the process node to be coordinated includes: and determining the process node corresponding to the identification information as the target process node in the process nodes of the second process processing interface.
In a third aspect, an apparatus for processing a flow node is provided, and is applied to a flow operation end, where the apparatus includes: the first determining module is used for determining the flow nodes to be coordinated in a first flow processing interface of the flow operation end; a first obtaining module, configured to obtain, when the to-be-coordinated process node is dragged in the first process processing interface, movement information of the to-be-coordinated process node when the to-be-coordinated process node is dragged; the second determining module is used for determining whether the mobile information meets a preset cooperation condition; a second obtaining module, configured to obtain a current position of the to-be-coordinated process node on the first process processing interface when it is determined that the mobile information meets the preset coordination condition; and the sending module is used for sending the mobile information and the current position to a process collaboration end so that the process collaboration end controls a target process node in a second process processing interface of the process collaboration end according to the mobile information and the current position to simulate a mobile process of the target process node in the first process processing interface after determining the target process node corresponding to the process node to be collaborated in the second process processing interface.
Optionally, the moving information includes a moving speed and a moving direction, and the preset cooperation condition includes: determining that the absolute value of the moving acceleration of the flow node to be coordinated when being dragged is larger than or equal to a preset acceleration threshold according to the moving speed; and/or the direction of movement is changed.
In a fourth aspect, an apparatus for processing a flow node is provided, where the apparatus is applied to a flow cooperation terminal, and the apparatus includes: the receiving module is used for determining a flow node to be coordinated in a first flow processing interface of a flow operation end at the flow operation end, and receiving the movement information of the flow node to be coordinated when the flow node to be coordinated is dragged and the current position of the flow node to be coordinated on the first flow processing interface, which are sent by the flow operation end, after the flow node to be coordinated is dragged; a third determining module, configured to determine, in a second process processing interface of the process collaboration end, a target process node corresponding to the process node to be collaborated; and the control module is used for controlling the target process node to simulate the moving process of the process node to be coordinated in the second process processing interface according to the current position and the moving information.
Optionally, the moving information includes a moving speed and a moving direction, and the control module is configured to control the target process node to move in the second process processing interface according to the moving speed and the moving direction when the target process node moves to the current location.
Optionally, the mobile information further includes identification information of the process node to be coordinated, and the third determining module is configured to determine, in the process node of the second process processing interface, the process node corresponding to the identification information as the target process node.
In a fifth aspect, there is provided a computer readable storage medium having stored thereon a computer program which, when executed by a processor, performs the steps of the method of the first aspect of the disclosure.
In a sixth aspect, an electronic device is provided, comprising: a memory having a computer program stored thereon; a processor for executing the computer program in the memory to implement the steps of the method of the first aspect of the disclosure.
In a seventh aspect, a computer readable storage medium is provided, on which a computer program is stored, which when executed by a processor, performs the steps of the method of the second aspect of the disclosure.
In an eighth aspect, an electronic device is provided, including: a memory having a computer program stored thereon; a processor for executing the computer program in the memory to implement the steps of the method of the second aspect of the disclosure.
Through the technical scheme, the process operation end can determine the process node to be coordinated in the first process processing interface of the process operation end, and when the process node to be coordinated is dragged in the first process processing interface, the process operation end obtains the movement information of the process node to be coordinated when the process node to be coordinated is dragged; determining whether the mobile information meets a preset cooperation condition; when the mobile information is determined to meet the preset cooperation condition, acquiring the current position of the flow node to be cooperated on the first flow processing interface; sending the mobile information and the current position to a process collaboration end, so that the process collaboration end determines a target process node corresponding to a process node to be collaborated in a second process processing interface of the process collaboration end, and then controls the target process node to simulate a moving process of the process node to be collaborated in the first process processing interface according to the current position and the mobile information according to the current position, that is, when the process operation end determines that the mobile information of the process node to be collaborated when being dragged meets the preset collaboration condition, the process operation end sends the mobile information and the current position of the process node to be collaborated like the process collaboration end, so that the number of network communication times can be reduced, and the burden of network communication can be reduced, in addition, when the process collaboration end receives the mobile information and the current position, the target process node corresponding to the process node to be coordinated can be controlled according to the current position and the movement information to simulate the movement process of the process node to be coordinated in the first process processing interface in the second process processing interface of the process coordination terminal, so that the real-time performance of the cooperative operation of the process coordination terminal during the process template design can be ensured.
Additional features and advantages of the disclosure will be set forth in the detailed description which follows.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram illustrating a scenario of a process flow node in accordance with an illustrative embodiment;
FIG. 2 is a flow diagram illustrating a first method of processing flow nodes in accordance with an exemplary embodiment;
FIG. 3 is a flow diagram illustrating a second method of processing flow nodes in accordance with an exemplary embodiment;
FIG. 4 is a flow diagram illustrating a third method of processing flow nodes in accordance with an illustrative embodiment;
FIG. 5 is a block diagram illustrating an apparatus of a first process flow node in accordance with an exemplary embodiment;
FIG. 6 is a block diagram illustrating an apparatus of a second process flow node in accordance with an exemplary embodiment;
FIG. 7 is a block diagram illustrating an electronic device in accordance with an example embodiment.
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The following detailed description of specific embodiments of the present disclosure is provided in connection with the accompanying drawings. It should be understood that the detailed description and specific examples, while indicating the present disclosure, are given by way of illustration and explanation only, not limitation.
Fig. 1 is a schematic view of a processing flow node scenario shown according to an exemplary embodiment, and the application scenario of the present disclosure is described below with reference to fig. 1, in an actual flow template setup scenario, the setup of a flow template may be generally completed by means of a flow design tool (e.g., flow design software installed on a terminal), specifically, a flow designer may perform related operations such as creating a node, dragging a node, and the like in a first flow processing interface (which may be an interface of the flow design software installed on the flow operation end) of a flow operation end shown in fig. 1, and for a cross-organization complex flow design, the flow designer of multiple organizations may complete the flow design through a flow collaboration end shown in fig. 1 (which may be one or more, only one of which is schematically shown in fig. 1) in an online collaboration manner, at this time, when the node information of the process operation end changes (for example, the position of a newly-built node or a historical node changes), the node change information of the corresponding node (the node change information may include movement information and a current position described below) needs to be synchronized to the process collaboration end, so that a process designer at the process collaboration end can conveniently and timely check the process change of other organizations, for example, when a "node a" is newly built at a position 1 of a process designer at the process operation end in a first process processing interface of the process operation end, and the node a is dragged at a movement speed of 10cm/s and a movement direction (V in fig. 1 indicates the movement direction) of 30 degrees (the angle may be an included angle between the movement direction of the node a on the first process processing interface and the positive direction of an X axis), the process collaboration end of a department B, which completes the process template in cooperation with the department a, also needs to be dragged at a position in a second process processing interface 1, a target process node 'node a 1' corresponding to the 'node a' is newly created, and the 'node a 1' is controlled to move from the position 1 (for example, the position with the position coordinates of (122, 122)) according to the moving speed of 10cm/s and the moving direction of 30 degrees, so that the node a at the process operation end and the node a1 at the process cooperation end are ensured to change synchronously.
In the related art, in order to ensure the synchronization of the cooperative operation, the process operation end needs to send the change information of the corresponding node to the process cooperative end in real time, but a large amount of network bandwidth is occupied, and network burden is caused; in order to reduce the burden of the network, the process operation end can also send the change information of the corresponding node to the process cooperation end at intervals, but the process cooperation end cannot check the process change in other organizations in real time.
In order to solve the problems in the related art, the present disclosure provides a method, an apparatus, a storage medium, and an electronic device for processing a flow node, wherein a flow operation end obtains movement information of the flow node to be coordinated when determining that the flow node to be coordinated of the flow operation end is dragged, and sends the movement information and a current position of the flow node to be coordinated to the flow coordination end only when determining that the movement information satisfies a preset coordination condition, so as to reduce the number of network communications, thereby reducing the burden of network communications, and in addition, the flow coordination end can control a target flow node corresponding to the flow node to be coordinated in a second flow processing interface of the flow coordination end according to the current position and the movement information to simulate the movement process of the flow node to be coordinated in the first flow processing interface when receiving the movement information and the current position, therefore, the real-time performance of the cooperative operation of the process cooperative end can be ensured.
The following description of the embodiments of the present disclosure will be made with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Fig. 2 is a flowchart illustrating a method for processing a flow node according to an exemplary embodiment, which is applied to a flow operation side, and as shown in fig. 2, the method includes the following steps:
s201, determining a flow node to be coordinated in a first flow processing interface of a flow operation end.
The process operation end and the subsequently mentioned process cooperation end may include terminals such as a computer and a mobile phone that can establish a process template through a process design tool (e.g., a process design application), and in a general case, the process operation end may include a terminal in which a node is dragged by a user, and the process cooperation end may include other cooperation terminals that belong to the same business system as the process operation end, as shown in fig. 1, the first process processing interface may include a process design interface on the process operation end, and the process node to be cooperated may include a node newly created in the first process processing interface by the user, or may include a history node existing in the first process processing interface.
In a possible implementation manner, a flow operation end user may log in a flow design application installed at the flow operation end to establish a flow template, and therefore, in this step, the flow operation end may determine the flow node to be coordinated according to a trigger operation (such as a click operation, a press operation, or a drag operation) of the user, for example, as shown in fig. 1, when it is acquired that the user triggers an existing "node a" in the first flow processing interface, the "node a" may be determined as the flow node to be coordinated, and when it is acquired that the user newly establishes a "node b" in the first flow processing interface, the "node b" may be determined as the flow node to be coordinated, which is only an example and is not limited by this disclosure.
S202, when the to-be-coordinated process node is dragged in the first process processing interface, acquiring the movement information of the to-be-coordinated process node when dragged.
The moving information may include information such as identification information, moving speed, moving direction, and the like of the process node to be coordinated, the identification information may include information such as a name or an ID number preset for the process node to be coordinated by a user, and the moving direction may be represented by an included angle between the moving direction of the process node to be coordinated on the process processing interface and the positive direction of the X axis.
In a possible implementation manner, the process operation end may pre-establish a node copy for each node, where the node copy is used to store information such as identification information of a corresponding node, current location information, current moving speed, and current moving direction, and therefore, in this step, the process operation end may obtain the moving information in the node copy of the process node to be coordinated, and in addition, a specific implementation manner in which the process operation end determines the moving speed and the moving direction of the process node to be coordinated may refer to related descriptions in the prior art, which is not described herein again.
S203, determining whether the movement information satisfies a preset cooperation condition.
Wherein the preset cooperation condition may include: determining that the absolute value of the moving acceleration of the flow node to be coordinated when the flow node is dragged is larger than or equal to a preset acceleration threshold according to the moving speed; and/or the direction of movement is changed.
In consideration of an actual application scenario, when the to-be-coordinated process node is dragged, in a normal situation, when an inflection point occurs (for example, when the to-be-coordinated process node is dragged, the previous time moves in a positive direction of an X axis, and the next time moves in a negative direction of a Y axis, that is, when the inflection point occurs), a moving speed is significantly reduced, at this time, an absolute value of the moving acceleration is significantly increased, and in addition, when the to-be-coordinated process node is dragged from a point a in the first process processing interface to a point B farther from the point a, the moving speed is significantly increased, at this time, the absolute value of the moving acceleration is also significantly increased, and since the to-be-coordinated process end needs to synchronize movement information of the to-be-coordinated process node in time in the second process processing interface of the process coordinating end, therefore, when it is determined that the absolute value of the moving acceleration of the to-be-coordinated process node when dragged is greater than or equal to a preset plus value When the speed threshold value is reached, determining that the mobile information of the flow node to be coordinated meets the preset coordination condition; in addition, when it is determined that the moving direction of the flow node to be coordinated is changed in the dragging process (for example, when the flow node to be coordinated is dragged, an included angle between the moving direction at the previous moment and the positive direction of the X axis is 30 degrees, and an included angle between the moving direction at the next moment and the positive direction of the X axis is 45 degrees), the moving information also needs to be sent to the flow coordination end in time, so that when it is determined that the moving direction of the flow node to be coordinated is changed in the dragging process, it is determined that the moving information of the flow node to be coordinated meets the preset coordination condition; of course, when it is determined that the absolute value of the movement acceleration of the flow node to be coordinated when being dragged is greater than or equal to the preset acceleration threshold and the movement direction is also changed, it is determined that the movement information of the flow node to be coordinated meets the preset coordination condition.
In a possible implementation manner, the process operation end may determine an absolute value of a moving acceleration of the process node to be coordinated when being dragged according to the moving speed in the moving information, for example, the absolute value of the moving acceleration may be obtained by calculating a variation of the moving speed within a preset time period.
It should be further noted that, when it is determined that the mobile information does not satisfy the preset coordination condition, the process operation end does not send the mobile information and the current position to the process coordination end, so that the number of network communications can be reduced, and the network load can be reduced.
And S204, when the mobile information is determined to meet the preset cooperation condition, acquiring the current position of the flow node to be cooperated on the first flow processing interface.
S205, sending the moving information and the current position to a process cooperative end, so that the process cooperative end determines a target process node corresponding to the process node to be cooperative in a second process processing interface of the process cooperative end, and then controls the target process node to simulate a moving process of the process node to be cooperative in the first process processing interface according to the current position and the moving information in the second process processing interface.
When the process operation end determines that the movement information of the process node to be coordinated meets the preset coordination condition, it may be determined that the movement speed of the process node to be coordinated when being dragged changes significantly, and/or it is determined that the movement direction of the process node to be coordinated when being dragged changes, and because the process coordination end needs to synchronize the movement information of the process node to be coordinated in time in the second process processing interface of the process coordination end, when it is determined that the movement information of the process node to be coordinated meets the preset coordination condition, it is necessary to send the movement information and the current position to the process coordination end in time, so that the process coordination end may control the target process node corresponding to the process node to be coordinated to move in the second process processing interface according to the latest obtained movement speed and movement direction.
By adopting the method, the process operation end sends the mobile information and the current position of the flow node to be coordinated to the process coordination end when determining that the mobile information of the flow node to be coordinated of the process operation end when being dragged meets the preset coordination condition, so that the network communication frequency can be reduced, and the burden of network communication can be reduced.
Fig. 3 is a flowchart illustrating a method for processing a flow node, applied to a flow collaboration end, according to an exemplary embodiment, and the method includes the following steps:
s301, after a process operation end determines a process node to be coordinated in a first process processing interface of the process operation end and the process node to be coordinated is dragged, the process operation end receives movement information of the process node to be coordinated when the process node to be coordinated is dragged and the current position of the process node to be coordinated on the first process processing interface, wherein the movement information is sent by the process operation end when the process node to be coordinated is dragged.
The process operation end and the process cooperation end may include terminals such as a computer and a mobile phone that can establish a process template through a process design tool (e.g., a process design application), and in a general case, the process operation end may include a terminal in which a node is dragged by a user, and the process cooperation end may include other cooperation terminals that belong to the same business system as the process operation end, as shown in fig. 1, the first process processing interface may include a process design interface on the process operation end, and the process node to be cooperated may include a node newly created in the first process processing interface by the user, or may include a history node existing in the first process processing interface; the moving information may include information such as identification information, moving speed, moving direction, and the like of the to-be-coordinated process node, the identification information may include information such as a name or an ID number preset for the to-be-coordinated process node by a user, the moving direction may be represented by an included angle between the moving direction of the to-be-coordinated process node on the process processing interface and a horizontal positive direction of the process processing interface, and the current position may include a position of the to-be-coordinated process node on the first process processing interface, which is obtained when the process operation end determines that the moving information of the to-be-coordinated process node satisfies a preset coordination condition.
And S302, determining a target process node corresponding to the process node to be coordinated in a second process processing interface of the process coordination end.
For example, as shown in fig. 1, when the flow node to be coordinated is a "node a" in the first flow processing interface, the target flow node is a "node a 1" in the second flow processing interface in fig. 1.
It should be noted that, when the to-be-cooperated process node is any one node selected from the historical nodes existing in the first process processing interface by the user of the process operation end, the process cooperation end may determine the target process node in the second process processing interface according to the identification information, and when the to-be-cooperated process node is a node newly created in the first process processing interface by the user of the process operation end, the process cooperation end may receive the movement information and the current position of the newly created node sent by the process operation end, and then newly create the target process node corresponding to the newly created node in the first process processing interface in the second process processing interface according to the received movement information and the current position of the newly created node.
In this step, a flow node corresponding to the identification information may be determined as the target flow node in the flow nodes of the second flow processing interface.
And S303, controlling the target process node to simulate the moving process of the process node to be coordinated in the first process processing interface in the second process processing interface according to the current position and the moving information.
In this step, when the target process node moves to the current position, the target process node may be controlled to move in the second process interface according to the moving speed and the moving direction.
It should be noted that, in this step, when the process coordination end controls the target process node to move to the current position, the process coordination end controls the target process node to move to the current position according to the mobile information received last time by the process coordination end, and then controls the target process node to move in the second process processing interface according to the moving speed and the moving direction in the mobile information received last time, so as to achieve the purpose of controlling the target process node in the second process processing interface and the process node to be coordinated in the first process processing interface to change synchronously.
In a possible implementation manner, the process cooperation terminal, when the mobile information and the current position received latest at present, first, the position of the target process node in the second process interface is compared with the latest received current position, when the position of the target process node in the second process interface does not correspond to the current position received recently, the position of the target process node in the second process interface needs to be adjusted to the latest received current position (the adjustment process is performed according to the moving speed and moving direction in the moving information received last time), and then controlling the target process node to move in the second process processing interface from the latest received current position according to the currently latest received moving speed and moving direction.
By adopting the method, the process cooperation end only when the process operation end determines that the mobile information of the process operation end to be cooperated when the process node to be cooperated is dragged meets the preset cooperation condition, the mobile information and the current position of the node of the process to be coordinated sent by the process operation end are received, this can reduce the number of times of network communication, thereby reducing the burden of network communication, and in addition, when the process cooperation terminal receives the movement information and the current position, the process cooperation terminal can control a target process node corresponding to the process node to be cooperated to simulate the movement process of the process node to be cooperated in the first process processing interface of the process cooperation terminal according to the current position and the movement information, therefore, the real-time performance of the cooperative operation of the flow collaboration end during the design of the flow template can be ensured, and the efficiency of establishing the flow template is improved.
FIG. 4 is a flow chart illustrating a method of processing a flow node, as shown in FIG. 4, according to an exemplary embodiment, including the steps of:
s401, the process operation end determines the process node to be coordinated in the first process processing interface of the process operation end.
The process operation end and the subsequently mentioned process cooperation end may include terminals such as a computer and a mobile phone that can establish a process template through a process design tool (e.g., a process design application), the first process processing interface may include a process design interface on the process operation end, and the process node to be cooperated may include a node newly created in the first process processing interface by a user or may include a history node existing in the first process processing interface.
In a possible implementation manner, a flow operation end user may log in a flow design application installed at the flow operation end to establish a flow template, and therefore, in this step, the flow operation end may determine the flow node to be coordinated according to a trigger operation (such as a click operation, a press operation, or a drag operation) of the user, for example, as shown in fig. 1, when it is acquired that the user triggers an existing "node a" in the first flow processing interface, the "node a" may be determined as the flow node to be coordinated, and when it is acquired that the user newly establishes a "node b" in the first flow processing interface, the "node b" may be determined as the flow node to be coordinated, which is only an example and is not limited by this disclosure.
S402, when the process operation end determines that the process node to be coordinated is dragged in the first process processing interface, the process operation end acquires the movement information of the process node to be coordinated when the process node to be coordinated is dragged.
The moving information may include information such as identification information, moving speed, moving direction, and the like of the process node to be coordinated, the identification information may include information such as a name or an ID number preset for the process node to be coordinated by a user, and the moving direction may be represented by an included angle between the moving direction of the process node to be coordinated on the process processing interface and the positive direction of the X axis.
In a possible implementation manner, the process operation end may pre-establish a node copy for each node, where the node copy is used to store information such as identification information of a corresponding node, current location information, current moving speed, and current moving direction, and therefore, in this step, the process operation end may obtain the moving information in the node copy of the process node to be coordinated, and in addition, a specific implementation manner in which the process operation end determines the moving speed and the moving direction of the process node to be coordinated may refer to related descriptions in the prior art, which is not described herein again.
S403, the process operation end determines whether the movement information satisfies a preset cooperation condition.
The preset cooperation condition may include that the absolute value of the movement acceleration of the flow node to be cooperated when being dragged is determined to be greater than or equal to a preset acceleration threshold according to the movement speed; and/or the direction of movement is changed.
In consideration of an actual application scenario, when the to-be-coordinated process node is dragged, in a normal situation, when an inflection point occurs (for example, when the to-be-coordinated process node is dragged, the previous time moves in a positive direction of an X axis, and the next time moves in a negative direction of a Y axis, that is, when the inflection point occurs), a moving speed is significantly reduced, at this time, an absolute value of the moving acceleration is significantly increased, and in addition, when the to-be-coordinated process node is dragged from a point a in the first process processing interface to a point B farther from the point a, the moving speed is significantly increased, at this time, the absolute value of the moving acceleration is also significantly increased, and since the to-be-coordinated process end needs to synchronize movement information of the to-be-coordinated process node in time in the second process processing interface of the process coordinating end, therefore, when it is determined that the absolute value of the moving acceleration of the to-be-coordinated process node when dragged is greater than or equal to a preset plus value When the speed threshold value is reached, determining that the mobile information of the flow node to be coordinated meets the preset coordination condition; in addition, when it is determined that the moving direction of the flow node to be coordinated is changed in the dragging process (for example, when the flow node to be coordinated is dragged, an included angle between the moving direction at the previous moment and the positive direction of the X axis is 30 degrees, and an included angle between the moving direction at the next moment and the positive direction of the X axis is 45 degrees), the moving information also needs to be sent to the flow coordination end in time, so that when it is determined that the moving direction of the flow node to be coordinated is changed in the dragging process, it is determined that the moving information of the flow node to be coordinated meets the preset coordination condition; of course, when it is determined that the absolute value of the movement acceleration of the flow node to be coordinated when being dragged is greater than or equal to the preset acceleration threshold and the movement direction is also changed, it is determined that the movement information of the flow node to be coordinated meets the preset coordination condition.
In a possible implementation manner, the process operation end may determine an absolute value of a moving acceleration of the process node to be coordinated when being dragged according to the moving speed in the moving information, for example, the absolute value of the moving acceleration may be obtained by calculating a variation of the moving speed within a preset time period.
It should be further noted that, when it is determined that the mobile information does not satisfy the preset coordination condition, the process operation end does not send the mobile information and the current position to the process coordination end, so that the number of network communications can be reduced, and the network load can be reduced.
S404, when it is determined that the mobile information meets the preset cooperation condition, the process operation end obtains a current position of the to-be-cooperated process node on the first process processing interface.
S405, the process operation end sends the movement information and the current position to a process cooperation end, and the movement information comprises the movement speed, the movement direction and the identification information of the process node to be cooperated.
When the process operation end determines that the movement information of the process node to be coordinated meets the preset coordination condition, it may be determined that the movement speed of the process node to be coordinated when being dragged changes significantly, and/or it is determined that the movement direction of the process node to be coordinated when being dragged changes, and because the process coordination end needs to synchronize the movement information of the process node to be coordinated in time in the second process processing interface of the process coordination end, when it is determined that the movement information of the process node to be coordinated meets the preset coordination condition, it is necessary to send the movement information and the current position to the process coordination end in time, so that the process coordination end may control the target process node corresponding to the process node to be coordinated to move in the second process processing interface according to the latest obtained movement speed and movement direction.
And S406, the process cooperative end determines the process node corresponding to the identification information as the target process node in a second process processing interface of the process cooperative end.
For example, as shown in fig. 1, when the flow node to be coordinated is a "node a" in the first flow processing interface, the target flow node is a "node a 1" in the second flow processing interface in fig. 1.
It should be noted that, when the to-be-cooperated process node is any one node selected from the historical nodes existing in the first process processing interface by the user of the process operation end, the process cooperation end may determine the target process node in the second process processing interface according to the identification information, and when the to-be-cooperated process node is a node newly created in the first process processing interface by the user of the process operation end, the process cooperation end may receive the movement information and the current position of the newly created node sent by the process operation end, and then newly create the target process node corresponding to the newly created node in the first process processing interface in the second process processing interface according to the received movement information and the current position of the newly created node.
S407, when the target process node moves to the current position, the process coordination end controls the target process node to move in the second process processing interface according to the moving speed and the moving direction.
It should be noted that, in this step, when the process coordination end controls the target process node to move to the current position, the process coordination end controls the target process node to move to the current position according to the mobile information received last time by the process coordination end, and then controls the target process node to move in the second process processing interface according to the moving speed and the moving direction in the mobile information received last time, so as to achieve the purpose of controlling the target process node in the second process processing interface and the process node to be coordinated in the first process processing interface to change synchronously.
In a possible implementation manner, the process cooperation terminal, when the mobile information and the current position received latest at present, first, the position of the target process node in the second process interface is compared with the latest received current position, when the position of the target process node in the second process interface does not correspond to the current position received recently, the position of the target process node in the second process interface needs to be adjusted to the latest received current position (the adjustment process is performed according to the moving speed and moving direction in the moving information received last time), and then controlling the target process node to move in the second process processing interface from the latest received current position according to the currently latest received moving speed and moving direction.
For example, taking "node a" in the first process processing interface shown in fig. 1 as the process node to be collaborated as an example for description, at this time, "node a 1" in the second process processing interface shown in fig. 1 is the target process node corresponding to the process node to be collaborated, and it is assumed that the mobile information of the process node to be collaborated "node a" received last time by the process collaboration end is "name: a node a; direction: '60'; '20' ″, the current position of the node a of the flow to be coordinated, which is received last time, is position: { x: 122; 122} ", the currently latest received mobile information of the flow node to be coordinated" node a "is" name: a node a; direction: '50'; '30' ″, the current position of the node "node a" of the flow to be coordinated, which is received recently, is position: { x: 110; y:110} ", the process collaboration end may control the target process node" node a1 "to move in the second process interface from the current position with coordinates (122 ) in the moving direction with a moving speed of 20cm/s and an angle of 60 degrees with the positive direction of the x-axis after receiving the moving information and the current position last time, and then the process collaboration end first determines whether the position of the target process node" node a1 "is the same as the current position with the newly received coordinates (110 ) after receiving the moving information and the current position last time, and may control" node a1 "to move to the current position with coordinates (110 ) in the moving direction with a moving speed of 20cm/s and an angle of 60 degrees with the positive direction of the x-axis when the position of" node a1 "is not the same as the current position with coordinates (110 ), and then controlling the node a1 to move in the second process interface from the current position with the coordinate (110 ) according to the moving direction with the moving speed of 30cm/s and the included angle of 50 degrees with the positive direction of the x-axis, so as to ensure that the target process node a1 and the process node a to be coordinated change synchronously.
By adopting the method, the process operation end sends the mobile information and the current position of the flow node to be coordinated to the process coordination end when determining that the mobile information of the flow node to be coordinated of the process operation end when being dragged meets the preset coordination condition, so that the network communication frequency can be reduced, and the burden of network communication can be reduced.
Fig. 5 is a block diagram illustrating an apparatus for processing a flow node according to an exemplary embodiment, which is applied to a flow operation side, and as shown in fig. 5, the apparatus includes:
a first determining module 501, configured to determine a flow node to be collaborated in a first flow processing interface of a flow operation end;
a first obtaining module 502, configured to obtain, when the to-be-coordinated process node is dragged in the first process processing interface, movement information of the to-be-coordinated process node when dragged;
a second determining module 503, configured to determine whether the movement information meets a preset cooperation condition;
a second obtaining module 504, configured to obtain a current position of the to-be-coordinated process node on the first process processing interface when it is determined that the mobile information meets the preset coordination condition;
a sending module 505, configured to send the mobile information and the current position to a process cooperation end, so that after the process cooperation end determines a target process node corresponding to the process node to be cooperated in a second process processing interface of the process cooperation end, the target process node is controlled according to the current position and the mobile information to simulate a moving process of the process node to be cooperated in the first process processing interface in the second process processing interface.
Optionally, the moving information includes a moving speed and a moving direction, and the preset cooperation condition includes: determining that the absolute value of the moving acceleration of the flow node to be coordinated when the flow node is dragged is larger than or equal to a preset acceleration threshold according to the moving speed; and/or the direction of movement is changed.
By adopting the device, the process operation end sends the mobile information and the current position of the flow node to be coordinated to the process coordination end when determining that the mobile information of the flow node to be coordinated of the process operation end when being dragged meets the preset coordination condition, so that the network communication frequency can be reduced, and the burden of network communication can be reduced.
Fig. 6 is a block diagram illustrating an apparatus for processing a flow node according to an exemplary embodiment, which is applied to a flow collaborating end, and as shown in fig. 6, the apparatus includes:
a receiving module 601, configured to determine a to-be-coordinated process node in a first process processing interface of a process operation end at the process operation end, and after the to-be-coordinated process node is dragged, receive movement information of the to-be-coordinated process node when the to-be-coordinated process node is dragged and a current position of the to-be-coordinated process node on the first process processing interface, where the movement information is sent by the process operation end;
a third determining module 602, configured to determine, in a second process processing interface of the process collaboration end, a target process node corresponding to the process node to be collaborated;
a control module 603, configured to control, according to the current position and according to the movement information, the target process node to simulate, in the second process interface, a movement process of the process node to be coordinated in the first process interface.
Optionally, the moving information includes a moving speed and a moving direction, and the control module 603 is configured to control the target process node to move in the second process interface according to the moving speed and the moving direction when the target process node moves to the current location.
Optionally, the movement information further includes identification information of the flow node to be coordinated, and the third determining module 602 is configured to determine, in the flow node of the second flow processing interface, the flow node corresponding to the identification information as the target flow node.
With regard to the apparatus in the above-described embodiment, the specific manner in which each module performs the operation has been described in detail in the embodiment related to the method, and will not be elaborated here.
By adopting the device, the process operation end sends the mobile information and the current position of the flow node to be coordinated to the process coordination end when determining that the mobile information of the flow node to be coordinated of the process operation end when being dragged meets the preset coordination condition, so that the network communication frequency can be reduced, and the burden of network communication can be reduced.
Fig. 7 is a block diagram illustrating an electronic device 700 in accordance with an example embodiment. As shown in fig. 7, the electronic device 700 may include: a processor 701 and a memory 702. The electronic device 700 may also include one or more of a multimedia component 703, an input/output (I/O) interface 704, and a communication component 705.
The processor 701 is configured to control the overall operation of the electronic device 700, so as to complete all or part of the steps in the method for processing the flow node. The memory 702 is used to store various types of data to support operation at the electronic device 700, such as instructions for any application or method operating on the electronic device 700 and application-related data, such as contact data, transmitted and received messages, pictures, audio, video, and the like. The Memory 702 may be implemented by any type of volatile or non-volatile Memory device or combination thereof, such as Static Random Access Memory (SRAM), Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory (EEPROM), Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory (EPROM), Programmable Read-Only Memory (PROM), Read-Only Memory (ROM), magnetic Memory, flash Memory, magnetic disk, or optical disk. The multimedia components 703 may include screen and audio components. Wherein the screen may be, for example, a touch screen and the audio component is used for outputting and/or inputting audio signals. For example, the audio component may include a microphone for receiving external audio signals. The received audio signal may further be stored in the memory 702 or transmitted through the communication component 705. The audio assembly also includes at least one speaker for outputting audio signals. The I/O interface 704 provides an interface between the processor 701 and other interface modules, such as a keyboard, mouse, buttons, etc. These buttons may be virtual buttons or physical buttons. The communication component 705 is used for wired or wireless communication between the electronic device 700 and other devices. Wireless Communication, such as Wi-Fi, bluetooth, Near Field Communication (NFC), 2G, 3G, 4G, NB-IOT, eMTC, or other 5G, etc., or a combination of one or more of them, which is not limited herein. The corresponding communication component 705 may thus include: Wi-Fi module, Bluetooth module, NFC module, etc.
In an exemplary embodiment, the electronic Device 700 may be implemented by one or more Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs), Digital Signal Processors (DSPs), Digital Signal Processing Devices (DSPDs), Programmable Logic Devices (PLDs), Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), controllers, microcontrollers, microprocessors, or other electronic components for performing the above-described method for Processing flow nodes.
In another exemplary embodiment, a computer readable storage medium is also provided, which comprises program instructions, which when executed by a processor, implement the steps of the method of processing a flow node according to the first or second aspect described above. For example, the computer readable storage medium may be the memory 702 described above comprising program instructions executable by the processor 701 of the electronic device 700 to perform the method of processing a flow node described above.
The preferred embodiments of the present disclosure are described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, however, the present disclosure is not limited to the specific details of the above embodiments, and various simple modifications may be made to the technical solution of the present disclosure within the technical idea of the present disclosure, and these simple modifications all belong to the protection scope of the present disclosure.
It should be noted that, in the foregoing embodiments, various features described in the above embodiments may be combined in any suitable manner, and in order to avoid unnecessary repetition, various combinations that are possible in the present disclosure are not described again.
In addition, any combination of various embodiments of the present disclosure may be made, and the same should be considered as the disclosure of the present disclosure, as long as it does not depart from the spirit of the present disclosure.
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1. A method for processing a flow node is applied to a flow operation end, and the method comprises the following steps:
determining a flow node to be coordinated in a first flow processing interface of a flow operation end;
when the flow node to be coordinated is dragged in the first flow processing interface, acquiring the movement information of the flow node to be coordinated when dragged;
determining whether the mobile information meets a preset cooperation condition;
when the mobile information is determined to meet the preset cooperation condition, acquiring the current position of the flow node to be cooperated on the first flow processing interface;
and sending the mobile information and the current position to a process collaboration end, so that after the process collaboration end determines a target process node corresponding to the process node to be collaborated in a second process processing interface of the process collaboration end, the target process node is controlled in the second process processing interface according to the current position and the mobile information to simulate the mobile process of the process node to be collaborated in the first process processing interface.
2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the movement information comprises a movement speed and a movement direction, and the preset cooperation condition comprises:
determining that the absolute value of the moving acceleration of the flow node to be coordinated when being dragged is larger than or equal to a preset acceleration threshold according to the moving speed; and/or the presence of a gas in the gas,
the direction of movement is changed.
3. A method for processing a flow node, which is applied to a flow collaboration end, includes:
determining a flow node to be coordinated in a first flow processing interface of a flow operation end at the flow operation end, and receiving the moving information of the flow node to be coordinated when being dragged and the current position of the flow node to be coordinated on the first flow processing interface, which are sent by the flow operation end, after the flow node to be coordinated is dragged; the current position is the position of the flow node to be coordinated on the first flow processing interface, which is obtained when the flow operation end determines that the mobile information meets the preset coordination condition;
determining a target process node corresponding to the process node to be coordinated in a second process processing interface of the process coordination terminal;
and controlling the target process node to simulate the moving process of the process node to be coordinated in the first process processing interface in the second process processing interface according to the current position and the moving information.
4. The method of claim 3, wherein the movement information comprises a movement speed and a movement direction, and wherein the preset cooperation condition comprises: determining that the absolute value of the moving acceleration of the flow node to be coordinated when being dragged is larger than or equal to a preset acceleration threshold according to the moving speed; and/or the direction of movement is changed; the step of controlling the target process node in the second process processing interface to simulate the moving process of the process node to be coordinated in the first process processing interface according to the current position and the movement information includes:
and when the target process node moves to the current position, controlling the target process node to move in the second process processing interface according to the moving speed and the moving direction.
5. The method according to claim 3 or 4, wherein the movement information further includes identification information of the process node to be coordinated, and the determining, in the second process processing interface of the process coordination terminal, the target process node corresponding to the process node to be coordinated includes:
and determining the process node corresponding to the identification information as the target process node in the process nodes of the second process processing interface.
6. An apparatus for processing a flow node, applied to a flow operation end, the apparatus comprising:
the first determining module is used for determining the flow nodes to be coordinated in a first flow processing interface of the flow operation end;
a first obtaining module, configured to obtain, when the to-be-coordinated process node is dragged in the first process processing interface, movement information of the to-be-coordinated process node when the to-be-coordinated process node is dragged;
the second determining module is used for determining whether the mobile information meets a preset cooperation condition;
a second obtaining module, configured to obtain a current position of the to-be-coordinated process node on the first process processing interface when it is determined that the mobile information meets the preset coordination condition;
and the sending module is used for sending the mobile information and the current position to a process collaboration end so that the process collaboration end controls a target process node in a second process processing interface of the process collaboration end according to the mobile information and the current position to simulate a mobile process of the target process node in the first process processing interface after determining the target process node corresponding to the process node to be collaborated in the second process processing interface.
7. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the movement information comprises a movement speed and a movement direction, and wherein the preset cooperation condition comprises:
determining that the absolute value of the moving acceleration of the flow node to be coordinated when being dragged is larger than or equal to a preset acceleration threshold according to the moving speed; and/or the presence of a gas in the gas,
the direction of movement is changed.
8. An apparatus for processing a flow node, applied to a flow collaboration end, the apparatus comprising:
the receiving module is used for determining a flow node to be coordinated in a first flow processing interface of a flow operation end at the flow operation end, and receiving the movement information of the flow node to be coordinated when the flow node to be coordinated is dragged and the current position of the flow node to be coordinated on the first flow processing interface, which are sent by the flow operation end, after the flow node to be coordinated is dragged; the current position is the position of the flow node to be coordinated on the first flow processing interface, which is obtained when the flow operation end determines that the mobile information meets the preset coordination condition;
a third determining module, configured to determine, in a second process processing interface of the process collaboration end, a target process node corresponding to the process node to be collaborated;
and the control module is used for controlling the target process node to simulate the moving process of the process node to be coordinated in the second process processing interface according to the current position and the moving information.
9. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the movement information comprises a movement speed and a movement direction, and wherein the preset cooperation condition comprises: determining that the absolute value of the moving acceleration of the flow node to be coordinated when being dragged is larger than or equal to a preset acceleration threshold according to the moving speed; and/or the direction of movement is changed; and the control module is used for controlling the target process node to move in the second process processing interface according to the moving speed and the moving direction when the target process node moves to the current position.
10. The apparatus according to claim 8 or 9, wherein the movement information further includes identification information of the flow node to be collaborated, and the third determining module is configured to determine, as the target flow node, a flow node corresponding to the identification information in the flow nodes of the second flow processing interface.
11. A computer-readable storage medium, on which a computer program is stored which, when being executed by a processor, carries out the steps of the method as claimed in claim 1 or 2.
12. An electronic device, comprising:
a memory having a computer program stored thereon;
a processor for executing the computer program in the memory to carry out the steps of the method of claim 1 or 2.
13. A computer-readable storage medium, on which a computer program is stored which, when being executed by a processor, carries out the steps of the method of any one of claims 3 to 5.
14. An electronic device, comprising:
a memory having a computer program stored thereon;
a processor for executing the computer program in the memory to carry out the steps of the method of any one of claims 3 to 5.
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