EP1820146A1 - Communication method - Google Patents
Communication methodInfo
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- EP1820146A1 EP1820146A1 EP05819215A EP05819215A EP1820146A1 EP 1820146 A1 EP1820146 A1 EP 1820146A1 EP 05819215 A EP05819215 A EP 05819215A EP 05819215 A EP05819215 A EP 05819215A EP 1820146 A1 EP1820146 A1 EP 1820146A1
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- European Patent Office
- Prior art keywords
- field content
- field
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- management information
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- G—PHYSICS
- G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
- G06F—ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
- G06F40/00—Handling natural language data
- G06F40/10—Text processing
- G06F40/12—Use of codes for handling textual entities
- G06F40/126—Character encoding
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- G—PHYSICS
- G06—COMPUTING; CALCULATING OR COUNTING
- G06F—ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
- G06F16/00—Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor
- G06F16/20—Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor of structured data, e.g. relational data
- G06F16/25—Integrating or interfacing systems involving database management systems
- G06F16/258—Data format conversion from or to a database
Definitions
- the invention relates first of all to a method for communication between a management information system in which a field content is stored, and an executing system, wherein the field content in the job definition format is transmitted from the management information system to the executing system, then a method for communication between an originating system in which a field content is stored in a file in the Job Definition Format, and an executing system, wherein the field content in the Job Definition Format is transmitted from the originating system to the executing system, and finally a communication module, by means of which a field content in the job Definition format is transferable to an executing system.
- JDF job definition format
- JMF job messaging format
- JDF is based on the Extensible Markup Language "XML", a well-known metalanguage for defining document types developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (“W3C", www.w3.org), and is not only intended for the CIP4 consortium all production areas of a networked printing house, especially in sales, costing and order processing, production planning and control, in actual production in prepress, printing, postpress and shipping, in the cross - sectional areas of materials and warehousing, finance and payroll accounting, controlling, cost accounting and quality assurance serve as a uniform data format for the description of processes and products.
- XML Extensible Markup Language
- W3C World Wide Web Consortium
- JDF By vertically integrating data on the one hand of the production process and on the other hand of the commercial areas, JDF should provide in a comprehensible and consistent data structure a high transparency of all production processes, a standardized Documentation of the relevant target and actual data and continuous production control.
- an order in JDF is to be described only once in a form that also in the external communication with both end customers and with subcontractors and their implementing systems in the human-machine and machine-machine communication via voice and Platform boundaries across all process participants.
- job data is stored in commonly known executing systems on commercially available computer components, particularly fixed or removable media.
- the name of a job is used as the directory name for structuring the data on the data carrier.
- the characters available for directory names are restricted to different degrees. In principle, the known file systems do not permit the use of certain special characters in file and directory names.
- the FAT file system which is still widely used in older software and hardware components in particular, limits each file and directory name to the "8.3 format" (also well-known) Besides such system-related restrictions on the field contents that can be processed on the known executing systems
- address fields are constructed in multiple lines as an "edit text" field, the individual lines being separated by newline characters (for example " ⁇ n").
- address data is often processed as a one-line field.
- the known methods rely on the definition of restricted input formats in the management information systems used for communication between systems with incompatible field formats or on the other hand on manual reworking of the transmitted field contents directly to the executing systems.
- the DescriptiveName field specified for a single-line job name is defined as a no-length string, except in the CIS Interoperability Conformance Specification (ICS) for communicating a Management Information System with an executing system Keep the string "as short as possible".
- ICS CIS Interoperability Conformance Specification
- the invention has for its object to simplify the communication between management information systems or systems originating and Ausbowenden systems in Job Definition Format and less error prone to make.
- the field content is first adapted according to a rule specified for the management information system or originating system and the executing system and subsequently transmitted to the executing system.
- the application of a rule individualized for the communication between a special management information system or originating system and a special executing system to a field content stored in the management information system enables the maintenance of established - and in part decades proven - internal conventions for data structures and formats within the field Management Information Systems or original system and at the same time ensures the compatibility of the transmitted data with the requirements of the executive system.
- the application of the method according to the invention is thereby significantly simplified compared with the known methods.
- the field can also be assigned to a node not defined in the file. Furthermore, in the context of such a method according to the invention, it can be specified that a field defined in the file with the field content or even a node containing the field and defined in the file is not transmitted.
- Such a method according to the invention makes it possible to reduce the subsystems specified for different receiver systems to a smaller number of quasi "standardized" JDF base formats.
- the JDF files generated in such a basic format can then be reworked rule-based for the respective receiver system
- This revision since now only text files are handled, can be implemented with simple scripting languages (for example PHP)
- Such a method according to the invention with two-stage adaptation of JDF data on the one hand with an MIS and on the other hand by means of scripts also enables in contrast to multiple adaptation and recompilation of the MIS) during operation a considerably simplified modification of the communication.
- a plurality of rules specified for each executing system is stored in a configuration file, and after selecting the executing system, the field content is adapted according to the rule specified for this.
- the same field content can also be adapted differently based on the different rules specified for these executing systems.
- a uniform, structured configuration file again serves the user-friendliness of the method according to the invention.
- the administration is simplified if the rules are stored in text format and editable with an editor.
- different rules can also each in its own File in its own directory or in a database file, for example, in a native registry.
- a character string which can not be represented in the format can be converted to a character string that can be represented in the format, a field content reduced to a limited number of characters or combined with another field content or a structured field content containing a plurality of information to be reduced to part of this information.
- the field content can be transmitted in a private file to the executing system. This is useful, for example, if the field content for this executing system contains specific information such as access data that identifies the author of the data transmitted in the Job Definition Format on the executing system and authorizes him / her to access personal or protected areas.
- An inventive method is preferably used in the context of a communication module, by means of which a field content in the Job Definition Format can be transmitted to an executing system.
- the definition of a completed communication module in the context of a management information system or original system, which is connected to the other modules via defined interfaces, on the one hand facilitates the program creation and maintenance, but also allows the resource-friendly communication module to call only when actually communicating with an executing system is requested by the management information system.
- a screen mask for entering order data in a management information system which communicates with an executing system according to the method of the invention does not have any JDF-specific field descriptions or specific restrictions for the connected executing system the definition of field contents in the Management Information System.
- the field contents stored in the management information system and their format, apart from the fact that the field contents must abstractly contain the information required by the connected executing systems are independent of both the one used for communication with the executing systems also of the format used in the connected executive systems and required there for a meaningful processing of this information.
- the field contents are transferred to a communication module which uses this information to compile a JDF file specific to the executing system.
- a communication module which uses this information to compile a JDF file specific to the executing system.
- the rules for the implementation of the field contents from the Management Information System are defined in the information required to process the order in the executing system. These instructions are stored in a central configuration file in text format.
- the communication module is instructed to change the field content of the field with the identifier "order_number" from the Management Information System as a decimal number into the fields "ID" and "JobID" of the currently being written XML. Take nodes of a JDF file.
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