JP2008033647A - Document set forming device and document set forming method - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To reduce the usage of resources of a system. <P>SOLUTION: This device comprises a reading means for reading a form document set; a data acquisition instruction information editing means for editing data acquisition instruction information contained in the form document set according to a user's operation through an operation screen; and an update means for applying difference information showing a difference between unedited data acquisition information which is stored in a storage means and edited data acquisition instruction information to the data acquisition instruction information contained in the form document set to update the data acquisition instruction information. The data acquisition instruction information updated by the update means is combined with a form template in the form document set to form a new form document set. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a document set creation apparatus and a document set creation method.

  Conventionally, a system has been proposed in which a user inputs a search condition from a client terminal, searches and prints a form file (form) stored in a storage unit of a server (see, for example, Patent Document 1).

  Furthermore, a system has been proposed in which a search condition necessary for inputting a search condition is displayed and a user selects the search condition to search and print a stored form file. (For example, refer to Patent Document 2).

JP 2005-84784 A JP 2005-122454 A

  However, in the prior art, for example, when an original form is edited for each user and a new customized form is created, there is a problem that all newly created forms must be stored. That is, each time a new form is created, the form is stored in the system memory or the like, and there is a problem that many system resources are consumed.

  The present invention has been made in view of such problems, and an object thereof is to reduce the amount of system resources used.

  Therefore, the document set creation apparatus of the present invention provides a form template composed of form format information and data merge information that defines where the obtained data is to be inserted, and a data acquisition instruction related to the data acquisition instruction. Reading means for reading a form document set composed of information, data acquisition instruction information editing means for editing data acquisition instruction information included in the form document set in response to a user operation via an operation screen, and the form Apply the difference information indicating the difference between the data acquisition instruction information before editing and the data acquisition instruction information after editing stored in the storage means to the data acquisition instruction information included in the document set. Updating means for updating, the data acquisition instruction information updated by the updating means, and the form document document A combination of a form template in the Tosetto, characterized in that it created a new form document set.

  With this configuration, for example, when editing a form, the difference information between the form that has been edited to meet the user's purpose and the original form is recorded, and the original form is updated with the difference information at the next use. You can create an edited form. Therefore, the amount of system resources used can be reduced.

  Here, the document set creation apparatus corresponds to, for example, a copier described later. Note that the document set creation apparatus is not limited to a copying machine, and may be an embedded device having other printing functions such as a printer, a handy terminal, and a digital camera. The operation screen corresponds to, for example, an editing UI described later.

  Further, the present invention may be a document set creation method, a program, and a storage medium.

  According to the present invention, the amount of system resources used can be reduced.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

<Embodiment 1>
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a copying machine. In FIG. 1, reference numeral 101 denotes a central processing unit (CPU) that controls the entire copying machine 100.

  Reference numeral 102 denotes a random access memory (RAM) that temporarily stores a program supplied from an external device or the like, data acquired from the database 110, intermediate data during execution of the program, and created form data. Reference numeral 107 denotes a hard disk fixedly installed in the copying machine 100, and stores a program for controlling the copying machine 100, a program for creating a form, created form data, and data acquisition instruction information difference information. Note that the CPU 101 reads out and executes a program for creating a form from the hard disk, and performs processing according to a flowchart described later. Further, as will be described later, the data acquisition instruction information difference information may be stored in a file server.

  Reference numeral 103 denotes a printing unit that performs printing. An operation unit 108 is operated by a user, and includes a button and a touch panel. Reference numeral 109 denotes a display unit which is used for displaying form data before printing, checking the result of editing the form, and displaying a user interface. The copying machine 100 may have a display with a touch panel in which the display unit 109 and the operation unit 108 are integrated.

  A network adapter 104 acquires data from the database 111 via the network 105 according to a program. The network adapter 104 also stores form data and / or data acquisition instruction information difference information in the file server 112 via the network 105. Here, the database 111 is stored in a hard disk or the like of another apparatus (for example, a database server) that can communicate with the copying machine 100 via the network 105.

  A scanner 106 captures a document. Reference numeral 110 denotes an authentication device such as an IC card reader for inputting user identification information or a device for recognizing biometric information such as fingerprints and veins. Reference numeral 113 denotes a bus that connects the devices.

FIG. 2 is a diagram for explaining a form document set.
The form document set includes a form template 201 and data acquisition instruction information 202.

  The data acquisition instruction information 202 includes, for example, a database server name 214 and a search condition 215 for acquiring data from the database. Further, in the data acquisition instruction information 202, reference numeral 216 describes what data item of the data acquired by the search condition 215 is acquired.

  In the example of FIG. 2, the data acquisition instruction information 202 is searched for data whose address in the item 216 is “Tokyo” from the form data storage server (file server) “database.university.com”. Is described. The data acquisition instruction information 202 describes that data is acquired as a data list 217 having a “name” element 218, a “tel” element 219, and an “address” element 220.

  On the other hand, the form template 201 is composed of form format information indicated by 203 to 208 and data merge information indicating how the acquired data indicated by 209 to 213 are merged.

  As the merge information 209 to 213, data included in the data list dataList 217 is extracted one by one. This is a description indicating that each “name” element, “tel” element, and “address” element constituting the extracted data is extracted and merged with the template.

  Here, the form document set is stored in the hard disk 107 that is fixed to the copying machine as indicated by reference numeral 501 in FIG. The form document set may be stored in an external file server 112 that can be accessed via the network 105 by the network adapter 104. FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of information stored in the hard disk 107.

  FIG. 4A is a diagram (part 1) illustrating a management table for managing the correspondence between the ledger document set for each user who has logged into the copier 100 and the data acquisition instruction information difference information. The management table shown in FIG. 4 is stored in the hard disk 107 of the copying machine 100 as indicated by 502 in FIG.

  The management table 300 shown in FIG. 4A is a management table when the form document set has not yet been edited and has not been customized to meet the user's purpose.

FIG. 4B is a diagram (part 2) of the management table for managing the correspondence between the ledger document set for each user who has logged into the copier 100 and the data acquisition instruction information difference information.
The management table 301 shown in FIG. 4-2 represents the following several states. A state in which the user A edits the data acquisition instruction information 202 in the form document A (501) and records the data acquisition instruction information difference information (difference information 1). Similarly to the user A, the user B also edits the data acquisition instruction information 202 in the form document A (501) as the original form document and records the data acquisition instruction information difference information (difference information 2). Further, the user C has edited the data acquisition instruction information 202 in the form document B (503) and recorded the data acquisition instruction information difference information (difference information 3).

FIG. 4C is a diagram (part 3) of the management table for managing the correspondence between the ledger document set for each user who has logged into the copier 100 and the data acquisition instruction information difference information.
As shown in the management table 302 in FIG. 4C, the data acquisition instruction information difference information is not limited to one for each user, and the same user has different data acquisition instruction information difference information for the same form document set. Can have. In the management table 302, the user A edits the data acquisition instruction information in the form document A twice, and there are two pieces of data acquisition instruction information difference information (difference from the difference information 1). Information 11).

FIG. 4-4 is a diagram (part 4) of a management table for managing the correspondence between the ledger document set for each user who has logged into the copying machine 100 and the data acquisition instruction information difference information.
Further, as shown in the management table 303 of FIG. 4-4, the same user can also have data acquisition instruction information difference information for different form document sets. In the management table 303, the user A first edits the data acquisition instruction information 202 in the form document A (501) to indicate that the data acquisition instruction information difference information exists (difference information 1). Further, the data acquisition instruction information 202 in the form document B (503) is edited to indicate that the data acquisition instruction information difference information exists (difference information 4).

  As described above, the management table records the relationship between the user identification information, the ledger document set, and the data acquisition instruction information difference information. The data acquisition instruction information difference information itself is stored in the hard disk 107 of the copying machine 100 as indicated by reference numeral 504 in FIG.

  FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a flow of processing until a form is output in the copying machine 100.

  If the authentication device 110 is an IC card device, in step S401, the user reads the IC card, inputs authentication information, and logs in. The authentication device 110 is not limited to an IC card device, and may be a biometric authentication device such as a fingerprint or a vein. In addition, the user may log in by inputting authentication information by inputting a user account and a password using the operation unit 108. The copying machine 100 performs authentication based on the input authentication information and, for example, authentication information held in the hard disk 107.

  In step S402, the copier 100 inquires of the user by displaying on the display unit 109 whether or not to use the customized form-derived document set. FIG. 6A is a first diagram illustrating a UI (user interface) displayed on the display unit 109. In step S402, the copying machine 100 displays a UI as shown in the customized form use inquiry UI 1201 in FIG.

  Here, the user account name is user A. When using the customized form derivation document set, the user A presses the “use” button. If it is determined that the user A has pressed the “use” button, the copying machine 100 proceeds to step S414.

  On the other hand, when not using the customized form derivation document set, the user A presses the “not use” button. If it is determined that the user A has pressed the “not used” button, the copying machine 100 proceeds to step S403.

  In step S <b> 403, the copying machine 100 displays a list of form document sets that are installed (or stored in the hard disk 107) on the display unit 109. FIG. 6B is a second diagram illustrating a UI displayed on the display unit 109. In step S403, the copying machine 100 displays a UI as shown in the form document set list display UI 1202 in FIG.

  In step S404, the copying machine 100 causes the user to select a form document set to be handled from the displayed list. FIG. 6B illustrates an example in which the user has selected a university directory. The user confirms the selection by pressing the “OK” button.

  In step S405, the copying machine 100 reads the selected form document set from, for example, the hard disk 107. In step S406, the copying machine 100 acquires data according to the data acquisition instruction information 202 included in the read form document set. In step S407, the copying machine 100 performs data merging in accordance with the data merge information of the form template included in the read form document set.

  Subsequently, in step S408, the copying machine 100 outputs a form. At this time, the output may be printed using the printing unit 103 in FIG. 1 or may be displayed on the display unit 109. Here, an example in which a form is displayed on a display with a touch panel having both the operation unit 108 and the display unit 109 is shown in FIG. FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating an example in which a form is displayed on a display with a touch panel.

  In step S409, the copying machine 100 causes the user to select whether to edit and customize the form document set. If the copying machine 100 determines that the user has selected to edit and customize the form document set, the process proceeds to step S410. On the other hand, when the copying machine 100 determines that the form document set is edited and selected not to be customized, the process shown in FIG.

  The case where the form document set is not edited and customized is, for example, the case where the user wants to output the form document set as default.

  Here, when the copying machine 100 prints a form in step S408, when the user presses, for example, the “*” button among the various buttons 601 shown in FIG. 7, the copying machine 100 enters the editing mode. If the copier 100 displays the form on the display unit 107 or the like in step S408, the copier 100 displays an edit button on the display 701 with a touch panel as shown in FIG. When the edit button is pressed by the user, the copying machine 100 enters the edit mode. FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating an example in which a form and an edit button are displayed on the display 701 with a touch panel.

  In step S410, the copying machine 100 edits the data acquisition instruction information included in the form document set.

  When the editing mode is entered, the copier 100 creates a UI for editing from the data structure of the database 214 and the search conditions 215 and 216 in FIG. Then, the copier 100 presents the created editing UI to the user. Here, FIG. 9 shows an example of an editing UI that allows the user to select a database and a search condition. FIG. 9 is a diagram (part 1) illustrating a UI for editing displayed on a display with a touch panel.

  In the data acquisition instruction information 202 in FIG. 2, the database is database. university. com is selected, and the search condition is data such that the address includes “Tokyo”. Therefore, in the database list 801 of FIG. 9, “university (database.university.com)” is selected in advance as the name list database. In the data search condition list 802, “Tokyo” is selected in advance as a search condition. FIG. 10 is a diagram in which the user edits in this state and selects “high school (database.highschool.com)” as the database. FIG. 10 is a diagram (part 2) illustrating a UI for editing displayed on a display with a touch panel.

  Further, FIG. 11 is a diagram in which the user selects “Chiba Prefecture” as the data search condition. FIG. 11 is a diagram (No. 3) illustrating an editing UI displayed on a display with a touch panel. In the UI shown in FIG. 11, when the user presses the “Save” button to finish editing, the copying machine 100 proceeds to step S411. In step S411, the copying machine 100 extracts the difference between the original data acquisition instruction information and the edited data acquisition instruction information as difference information.

  FIG. 12 is a diagram for explaining an example of the difference information extraction method according to the first embodiment. The original data acquisition instruction information before editing is the original data acquisition instruction information 1101. The edited data acquisition instruction information is post-edit data acquisition instruction information 1102. The copying machine 100 has the same function as the diff function used when creating a difference between text files in UNIX (registered trademark), and the difference between the original data acquisition instruction information 1101 and the edited data acquisition instruction information 1102. Use to extract. The result of extracting the difference is data acquisition instruction information difference information 1103.

  In the first half of the data acquisition instruction information difference information 1103, the fourth line is database. university. com to database. highschool. com. The second half of the data acquisition instruction information difference information 1103 indicates that the seventh line has been changed from “address =“ Tokyo ”” to “address =“ Chiba Prefecture ””.

  Subsequently, in step S412, the copying machine 100 stores the user identification information and the difference information in association with each other. More specifically, the copier 100 includes a management table as shown in FIG. 4, a form document set including user identification information, original data acquisition instruction information 1101, data acquisition instruction information difference information 1103, Save. Here, the user identification information is, for example, a user account (user name) in the case of a configuration of logging in using an IC card and a configuration of logging in using a user ID, a user account and a password.

  FIG. 13 is a diagram (No. 5) showing a management table for managing the correspondence between the ledger document set for each user logged into the copying machine 100 and the data acquisition instruction information difference information.

  The management table 1301 already contains information on a junior high school age list (residents in Saitama Prefecture). The copying machine 100 stores only the added data acquisition instruction information difference information in the management table. As described above, the management table may be stored in the hard disk 107, or may be stored in the external file server 112 or the like via the network adapter 104 and the network 105.

  Subsequently, in step S413, the copying machine 100 causes the user to select whether or not to output the customized derivative form. If the copying machine 100 determines that the user has selected not to output the customized derivative form, the process shown in FIG. On the other hand, when the copying machine 100 determines that the user has selected to output the customized derivative form, the process proceeds to step S417.

  In step S414, the copier 100 reads the form-derived document set customized by the user from the management table 1301, and displays the form-derived document set on the display unit 109 as a list. FIG. 6C is a diagram (part 3) illustrating a UI displayed on the display unit 109. In step S414, the copying machine 100 displays a UI as shown in the form-derived document set list display UI 1203 in FIG.

  In step S415, the copying machine 100 causes the user to select a form-derived document set to be handled from the list displayed. FIG. 6C illustrates an example in which the user selects a high school name list (residents in Chiba Prefecture). The user confirms the selection by pressing the “OK” button.

  Next, in step S416, the copying machine 100 reads the original form document set derived by customization from, for example, the hard disk 107. In the case of the management table 1301, the copier 100 reads “university name list” as a ledger document set.

  In step S417, the copying machine 100 reads data acquisition instruction information difference information from the hard disk 107, for example. In the case of the management table 1301, the copier 100 reads “high school name list (residents in Chiba Prefecture)”, that is, data acquisition instruction information difference information 1103.

  In step S418, the copying machine 100 updates the data acquisition instruction information 1102 from the data acquisition instruction information (original data acquisition instruction information 1101) included in the original form document set and the data acquisition instruction information difference information 1103. .

Here, FIG. 14 is a diagram for explaining the form-derived document set creation process.
The copier 100 obtains edited (customized) data acquisition instruction information 1102 from the original data acquisition instruction information 1101 and the data acquisition instruction information difference information 1103. For example, the copying machine 100 updates the data acquisition instruction information using a function similar to the patch function used when updating a file based on a difference of a text file with UNIX (registered trademark).

  That is, the copying machine 100 determines that the fourth line of the original data acquisition instruction information 1101 from the data acquisition instruction information difference information 1103 is database. university. com to database. highschool. com. Similarly, the copying machine 100 updates the seventh line of the original data acquisition instruction information from address = “Tokyo” to address = “Chiba Prefecture” from the data acquisition instruction information difference information 1103. By performing such processing, the copying machine 100 obtains post-edit data acquisition instruction information 1102.

  Subsequently, in step S419, the copying machine 100 acquires data according to the data acquisition instruction information 1102. Subsequently, in step S420, the copying machine 100 performs data merging according to the data merge information of the form template 201 included in the original form document set.

  In step S421, the copying machine 100 creates a form-derived document set 1401 customized by the user. That is, the copying machine 100 creates a form-derived document set 1401 as a result of the data merge in step S420.

  In step S422, the copying machine 100 outputs a form-derived document set 1401 customized by the user. Then, the copying machine 100 ends the process shown in FIG. FIG. 15 is a diagram illustrating an example in which a form customized by the user is displayed on the display with a touch panel according to the first embodiment. Note that the copier 100 may print the form-derived document set 1401 customized by the user using the printing unit 103.

<Embodiment 2>
In the first embodiment, the method for extracting the number of lines and the difference character string is shown as the method for extracting the difference information of the data acquisition instruction information in S411 of FIG. However, in the present embodiment, a conversion definition for converting XML text defined by W3C, a method using XSLT, is shown. Here, W3C is an abbreviation for World Wide Web Consortium. XML is an abbreviation for eXtensible Markup Language. XSLT is an abbreviation for eExtensible Style Language Transformation.

  Since XSLT is a kind of programming language, it can describe complicated processing. However, when there is a simple difference and a small amount of data acquisition instruction information, the data acquisition instruction information difference information may be larger than the edited data acquisition instruction information. In this case, the method of Embodiment 1 may be taken.

  However, although the data amount of the data acquisition instruction information shown in the first embodiment is small, the data amount of the data acquisition instruction information is large in an actual form. The original data acquisition instruction information 1101 shown in FIG. 12 of the first embodiment and the original data acquisition instruction information 1601 shown in FIG. 16 will be described as examples. FIG. 16 is a diagram for explaining an example of the difference information extraction method according to the second embodiment.

  Compared to the original data income instruction information 1101, the original data acquisition instruction information 1601 includes items of tels 1, 2, and 3 and e-mail (e-mail) 1, 2, and 3. In addition, items such as a home page, blood type, and date of birth are also added.

  The post-edit data acquisition instruction information 1602 is post-edit data acquisition instruction information in which the database and the search conditions are changed from the original data acquisition instruction information 1601 as in the first embodiment. The data acquisition instruction information difference information 1603 is obtained by describing the difference information between the original data acquisition instruction information 1601 and the edited data acquisition instruction information 1602 in XSLT.

  In the data acquisition instruction information difference information 1603, when the server tag matches with XSLT, <server> database. juniorhigh. com </ server>. Further, it is described that when it matches the query tag, it is changed to <query> address = “Chiba Prefecture” </ query>, and everything else is copied.

  In step S412, the copying machine 100 stores the user identification information and the data acquisition instruction information difference information 1603 in association with each other. Thus, the copying machine 100 can create a customized derived form through steps S414 to S423 in FIG. 5 as in the first embodiment. FIG. 17 shows a diagram in which the copying machine 100 outputs the customized derivative form to the display unit 109 in step S423. FIG. 17 is a diagram illustrating an example in which a form customized by the user is displayed on the display with a touch panel according to the second embodiment.

In the first embodiment, the user identification information, the ledger document set, and the data acquisition instruction information difference information are recorded in the management table. However, as shown in FIG. 18, in the data acquisition instruction information difference information described in XSLT, in XML,
<User>
User identification information </ user>
When,
<OriginalData>
Ledger document set </ originalData>
May be described. FIG. 18 is a diagram illustrating an example of data acquisition instruction information difference information.

  With such a configuration, the user identification information and the ledger document set can be acquired from the data acquisition instruction information difference information, so that the management table can be eliminated.

  However, in step S418 in FIG. 5, the user tag and the originalData tag are unnecessary tags when obtaining the post-edit data acquisition instruction information 1602. Therefore, when the copying machine 100 actually executes step S418, data acquisition instruction information difference information obtained by removing the user tag and the originalData tag is used.

<Other embodiments>
Needless to say, the object of the present invention can be achieved as follows. That is, a recording medium (or storage medium) that records a program code of software that implements the functions of the above-described embodiments is supplied to a system or apparatus. Then, the computer (or CPU or MPU) of the system or apparatus reads and executes the program code stored in the recording medium. In this case, the program code itself read from the recording medium realizes the functions of the above-described embodiment, and the recording medium on which the program code is recorded constitutes the present invention.

  Also, by executing the program code read by the computer, an operating system (OS) or the like operating on the computer performs part or all of the actual processing based on the instruction of the program code. Needless to say, the process includes the case where the functions of the above-described embodiments are realized.

  Furthermore, it is assumed that the program code read from the recording medium is written in a memory provided in a function expansion card inserted into the computer or a function expansion unit connected to the computer. After that, based on the instruction of the program code, the CPU of the function expansion card or function expansion unit performs part or all of the actual processing, and the function of the above-described embodiment is realized by the processing. Needless to say.

  When the present invention is applied to the recording medium, the recording medium stores program codes corresponding to the flowcharts described above.

  As described above, according to each of the above-described embodiments, when the user edits the original form so as to meet the user's purpose, the copying machine 100 records the difference information between the edited form and the original form for the next use. Sometimes the form is updated with the original form and the difference information. Then, the form edited by the user is restored. Thereby, since it is not necessary to record all the form data, the amount of system resources used can be reduced.

  The preferred embodiments of the present invention have been described in detail above, but the present invention is not limited to such specific embodiments, and various modifications can be made within the scope of the gist of the present invention described in the claims.・ Change is possible.

1 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a copying machine. It is a figure for demonstrating a form document set. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of information stored in a hard disk 107. FIG. FIG. 6 is a diagram (part 1) illustrating a management table for managing correspondence between a ledger document set for each user who has logged into the copier 100 and data acquisition instruction information difference information. FIG. 11 is a diagram (part 2) illustrating a management table for managing the correspondence between a ledger document set for each user who has logged into the copier 100 and data acquisition instruction information difference information. FIG. 11 is a diagram (No. 3) illustrating a management table for managing the correspondence between a ledger document set for each user who has logged into the copying machine 100 and data acquisition instruction information difference information; FIG. 10 is a diagram (No. 4) illustrating a management table for managing correspondence between a ledger document set for each user who has logged into the copier 100 and data acquisition instruction information difference information; 6 is a flowchart showing a flow of processing until a form is output in the copying machine. FIG. 10 is a diagram (No. 1) illustrating a UI displayed on the display unit 109; FIG. 10 is a diagram (part 2) illustrating a UI displayed on the display unit 109; FIG. 14 is a diagram (No. 3) illustrating a UI displayed on the display unit 109; It is a figure which shows an example which displayed the form on the display with a touch panel. It is a figure which shows an example which displayed the form and the edit button on the display with a touch panel 701. FIG. 6 is a diagram (part 1) illustrating a UI for editing displayed on a display with a touch panel. It is FIG. (2) which shows UI for edit displayed on a display with a touch panel. FIG. 6 is a diagram (part 3) illustrating a UI for editing displayed on a display with a touch panel. It is a figure for demonstrating an example of the difference information extraction method of Embodiment 1. FIG. FIG. 14 is a diagram (No. 5) illustrating a management table for managing the correspondence between a ledger document set for each user logged into the copying machine and data acquisition instruction information difference information; It is a figure for demonstrating a form derivative document set creation process. It is a figure which shows an example which displayed the form customized by the user on the display with a touch panel in Embodiment 1. FIG. It is a figure for demonstrating an example of the difference information extraction method of Embodiment 2. FIG. It is a figure which shows an example which displayed the form customized by the user on the display with a touch panel in Embodiment 2. FIG. It is a figure which shows an example of data acquisition instruction information difference information.

Explanation of symbols

101 CPU
102 RAM
DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 103 Printing part 104 Network adapter 105 Network 106 Scanner 107 Hard disk 108 Operation part 109 Display part 110 Authentication apparatus 111 Database 112 File server 113 Bus

Claims (7)

Reads a form document set consisting of a form template consisting of form format information and data merge information that defines where the acquired data is to be inserted, and data acquisition instruction information related to the data acquisition instruction. Reading means;
Data acquisition instruction information editing means for editing data acquisition instruction information included in the form document set in response to a user operation via an operation screen;
Data acquisition instruction applied to the data acquisition instruction information included in the form document set by applying difference information indicating a difference between the data acquisition instruction information before editing and the data acquisition instruction information after editing stored in the storage unit An updating means for updating the information;
Have
A document set creation apparatus that creates a new form document set by combining data acquisition instruction information updated by an updating unit and a form template in the form document set. Using the data acquisition instruction information before editing and the data acquisition instruction information after editing, further comprising an extraction means for extracting the difference information;
2. The document set creation apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the storage unit stores the difference information extracted by the extraction unit in association with user identification information for identifying a user involved in the editing.   3. The document set creation apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising user identification information input means for inputting user identification information for identifying a user. Data acquisition means for acquiring data based on data acquisition instruction information included in the form document set;
Data merge means for creating form data by inserting the data obtained by the data obtaining means into the form template based on the data merge information of the form template included in the form document set;
Form output means for outputting the form data created by the data merging means;
The document set creation device according to claim 1, further comprising: A document set creation method in a document set creation device,
Reads a form document set consisting of a form template consisting of form format information and data merge information that defines where the acquired data is to be inserted, and data acquisition instruction information related to the data acquisition instruction. Reading process;
A data acquisition instruction information editing step for editing data acquisition instruction information included in the form document set in response to a user operation via an operation screen;
Data acquisition instruction applied to the data acquisition instruction information included in the form document set by applying difference information indicating a difference between the data acquisition instruction information before editing and the data acquisition instruction information after editing stored in the storage unit An update process for updating the information;
Have
A document set creation method, wherein a new form document set is created by combining data acquisition instruction information updated in an update step and a form template in the form document set.   A program for causing a computer to execute the document set creation method according to claim 5.   A computer-readable storage medium storing the program according to claim 6.

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