JP2017072906A - Information management system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a user-friendly workflow system.SOLUTION: The information management system in an embodiment may includes: a storage unit in which nodes, which are capable of making a request for update processing to the record, are defined in an orderly manner; an authority transfer unit that transfers the authority for requesting an update processing of the node according to the order defined in the storage unit; an associating unit that correlates the plurality of records with each other; and an update processing unit that carries out the update processing on all of the plurality of records which are correlated with each other according to the update processing request made by the node to one record in the plurality of records which are correlated with each other by the associating unit.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

Description

  The present invention relates to a workflow information management apparatus.

  In an organization such as a company, for example, when a certain employee wishes to travel, the employee must apply for a business trip, apply for travel expenses related to the business trip, apply for business expenses related to the business trip, etc. Then, after a business trip, it is common to report a business trip, report the actual travel expenses and entertainment expenses. If the business trip is successful and a new customer can be acquired, a new customer registration application may be made. Employees who make such applications and reports generally make such applications and reports to the superiors of the department to which they belong. After that, through a predetermined route (examination / approval route), the approval is finally obtained from the general affairs or management department, and the procedure is completed. Here, from the viewpoint of easy understanding, a company is used for explanation, but the organization is not limited to a company, and may be a public organization or the like.

  Such an application or report may be made on a paper medium, but may also be made on a system using a computer with the recent development of computer technology. A so-called workflow system is known as a system for realizing such an application or report submission route on the system.

  By the way, in the workflow system, the above-mentioned application and report are made individually, and the supervisor who conducts examination / approval needs to examine and approve each one individually, so that the work is complicated. was there. In order to solve such a problem, in Patent Document 1, authentication information is added to document data to be approved to generate document data after approval, and a plurality of pieces of document data to which authentication information is added are combined. Disclosed is a technology that enables batch browsing and approval of electronic documents of a plurality of cases by adding authentication information to the entire batch approval data after forming and displaying the approval data. .

JP 2002-132759 A

  However, in the prior art, as shown in FIG. 10, the documents after the individual electronic documents are circulated to the approver and compiled into the batch approval data, or after the individual electronic documents are collectively approved. There is a problem that the data is stored in a document table as new document data and is not easy to use.

  The present invention is intended to solve the problems associated with the prior art as described above, and an object thereof is to provide a user-friendly workflow system.

  According to an embodiment of the present invention, a storage unit in which nodes that can make an update process request for a record are ordered and defined, and an update process request authority of the node is transferred according to the order defined in the storage unit An authority transfer unit, an association unit that associates a plurality of the records with each other, and an update processing request by the node for one record among a plurality of records that are associated with each other by the association unit, And an update processing unit that performs update processing on all of the plurality of records associated with the information management apparatus.

  The association unit may associate a plurality of the records with each other by an association command by the node.

  An information management apparatus may further be provided that further includes an association elimination unit that eliminates association of a plurality of records associated with each other by the association unit.

  The association cancellation unit may cancel association of a plurality of records associated with each other by the association unit by an association cancellation command from the node.

  The association cancellation unit may cancel the association of the plurality of records after the update processing in the update processing unit is performed, and the storage unit may store the individual records in which the association has been canceled, respectively. .

  An information management apparatus may further be provided that further includes an identifier generation unit that generates an identifier for uniquely specifying the plurality of records to be associated when the plurality of records are associated with each other.

  The identifier may be generated based on a time at which the plurality of records are associated with each other and an identifier of the node.

  According to the present invention, a user-friendly workflow system can be provided.

It is a block diagram which shows an example of a structure of the information management apparatus which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows an example of the data structure in the approval path | route information storage part shown in FIG. It is a figure which shows an example of a data structure in the application information storage part shown in FIG. It is the schematic which shows how to put together the some application information which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows an example of the list screen which sets and cancels | releases the distribution set of the some application document which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention. It is the schematic for demonstrating optimization of the circulation set which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention. It is a flowchart for demonstrating optimization of the circulation set which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows an example of the screen which can cancel | release the circulation set of the some application document which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention. It is a block diagram which shows an example of a structure of the information management apparatus which concerns on one Embodiment of this invention. It is a figure which shows the outline | summary of the conventional document approval system.

  Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. The following embodiments are examples of the embodiments of the present invention, and the present invention is not limited to these embodiments. Note that in the drawings referred to in this embodiment, the same portion or a portion having a similar function is denoted by the same reference symbol or a similar reference symbol (a reference symbol simply including A, B, etc. after a number) and repeated. The description of may be omitted. In addition, even if the value of data stored in “˜storage unit” is actually “0” or “1”, it is expressed as the meaning of the data from the viewpoint of easy understanding.

<First Embodiment>
[Configuration of information management device]
The outline of the information management apparatus 1 will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an example of the configuration of an information management apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. The information management apparatus 1 includes a communication control unit 30, a control unit 40, and a storage unit 50. In the information management apparatus 1, user terminals 20 a, 20 b and 20 c to be connected are connected via the network 27. In addition, when it is not necessary to distinguish between user terminals, “user terminal 20” is used. The user terminal 20 functions as an applicant terminal when used by an applicant, and functions as an approver terminal when used by an approver. The information management device 1 provides an application function based on a predetermined workflow to an applicant of a connected user terminal 20 (applicant terminal), and an application from the applicant to an approver of the user terminal 20 (approver terminal). Provides an approval function for.

  Here, the network 27 is a network such as a LAN (Local Area Network) or the Internet, for example, and there is a network environment in which the user terminal 20 can connect to the information management apparatus 1 regardless of a wireless / wired line, a dedicated line, or the like. Applied.

  The user terminal 20 includes a multi-function mobile phone, a mobile communication terminal device such as a mobile phone and a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant), an information processing terminal device having a communication function and an arithmetic function such as a personal computer. In addition, a browser is provided as a display control function for displaying a screen provided by the information management apparatus 1, and includes a communication control unit 30 that performs communication control between the CPU, the memory, and the workflow information management apparatus 1. Furthermore, an operation input device such as a mouse, a keyboard, and a touch panel, and a display device can be provided.

  The storage unit 50 includes a personnel information storage unit 51, an approval route information storage unit 55, and an application information storage unit 57.

[Data structure in the personnel information storage unit]
A data structure in the personnel information storage unit 51 will be described. Here, the personnel information is information indicating, for example, the affiliation or position of a member constituting an organization such as a company. The members of the company may be full-time employees, part-time employees, or temporary employees, and there are no restrictions. Employees are given authority according to their affiliation and job title. For example, the section manager has the authority to approve the transportation expenses cleared by the section member, or the member of the general affairs department has the authority to approve the application for taking out confidential materials outside the company. Or Also, the effective period during which this authority is recognized is basically the period during which the employee is in the position of the department to which the employee belongs.

  The personnel information includes, for example, user ID, name, employee number, entry date, organization ID, organization name (sometimes referred to as “department”), title ID, title, start date, end date, home phone number, and home. Although an address etc. are included, it is not limited to these, A branch office name etc. may be included. Here, the start date means the date on which the position of the organization is started, and the end date means the date on which the position of the organization is ended.

[Data structure in the approval route information storage unit]
The data configuration in the approval route information storage unit 55 will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an example of a data configuration in the approval route information storage unit illustrated in FIG. 1. In this example, the approval route information of the sales department 1 is shown. Sales department 1 consists of 11 sections, 12 sections, 13 sections and 14 sections, and each section member applies to each section manager, and if each section manager approves, will the section manager in sales section 1 approve? It will be judged. A broken line extends from the head of the sales department 1 to the accounting department. This means that the approval of the general manager of the sales department 1 does not end with the approval of the general manager of the sales department 1, but the approval of the general manager of the accounting department may be necessary. For example, in the case of an application for a business trip report report, the approval of the general manager of the sales department 1 is sufficient, but in the case of an application related to expenses such as transportation expenses, the approval of the general manager of the accounting department is also required.

  Here, “node” refers to an access terminal for accessing a record or file in a database. In this embodiment, “node” means an employee such as a section member, a section manager, or a section manager. The database record is, for example, employee application information. Updating the database record means, for example, circulating, approving, denying, or correcting employee application information. Therefore, a node such as a section member can make an update processing request such as a circulation processing request to a database record such as employee application information. Here, the meaning of “can make an update process request” does not mean that an update process request can be made without limitation, but an update process request can be made when the user has update process authority. It just means that. For example, when a section member circulates an application for transportation expenses, the update process request authority is transferred to the section manager, and the section member cannot make an update process request for the application information of the transportation expenses.

[Data structure in the application information storage unit]
The data structure in the application information storage part 57 is demonstrated using FIG. FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating an example of a data configuration in the application information storage unit illustrated in FIG. 1. The application information includes, for example, an application number 571, an application date 572, an applicant 573, an organization name 574, an application item 575, an approval route 576, input data 577, and application contents 578, as shown in FIG. It is not limited. In the input data 577 column, for example, if it is a transportation cost, the actual transportation cost is entered.

[Configuration of control unit]
The control unit 40 includes an authority transfer unit 41, an association unit 43, an update processing unit 45, and an association cancellation unit 47.

[Authority Transfer Department]
The authority transfer unit 41 transfers the update processing request authority of a node such as a member in accordance with the order defined in the approval route information storage unit 55. For example, when a section member circulates an application for transportation expenses, the authority transfer unit 41 transfers the update processing request authority for the application information from the section member to the section manager.

[Associated part]
The associating unit 43 associates a plurality of records with each other. For example, the associating unit 43 combines application information for a plurality of transportation expenses into one. Here, how to collect a plurality of pieces of application information will be described with reference to FIGS. 4 and 5. FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram showing how to collect a plurality of pieces of application information according to an embodiment of the present invention. The associating unit 43 associates a plurality of records with each other by an association command by a node. Specifically, when the section member A issues an instruction to combine a plurality of pieces of application information, the association unit 43 combines the pieces of application information into one. It is not limited to a section member that can make an association instruction, and may be a section manager or a section manager as long as it is a node. For example, when the section manager I approves the application information individually applied by the section manager A and approves the information to the department manager K, the section manager I issues an order to combine multiple pieces of application information into one. Thus, the associating unit 43 collects a plurality of pieces of application information into one. In another example, sales staff A and section B of sales department 1 section 11 make one or more applications, and section 11 manager I combines applications of section A and section B into one. If the manager I approves and circulates the information to the department manager K, the section manager I collects a plurality of pieces of application information by issuing a command for combining the pieces of application information into one.

  FIG. 5 is a view showing an example of a list screen for setting / releasing a circulation set of a plurality of application documents according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 5, on the screen, the presence / absence 601 of simultaneous circulation setting, details 603, business name 605, status 607, circulation destination department 609, circulation destination 611, circulation destination name 613, item 1 column 615, item 2 column 617, important column 619, and simultaneous circulation column 621, but are not limited thereto. When a node such as a section member presses the simultaneous circulation setting icon 623, it can be set whether or not simultaneous circulation is performed. As shown in FIG. 5, the business name “MMC-000001” has “●” in the simultaneous circulation column 621. This means that simultaneous circulation has already been set. Here, a single application that is distributed at the same time is called a circulation set.

  According to the present embodiment, not only the final approver but also the applicant, the intermediate approver, and the final approver issue a command to combine a plurality of pieces of application information into one, so that the association unit 43 has a plurality of associations. Application information can be combined into one. Therefore, unlike the conventional technique in which documents are collected at the first time when they are circulated to the final approver, it is possible to provide a more convenient workflow system.

  The associating unit 43 may automatically associate a plurality of records with each other when a predetermined condition is satisfied without depending on an association command by a node. Specifically, associating with an application from the same applicant, the same application date, the same application item, the same organization name, the same approval route, etc. 43 may automatically combine a plurality of pieces of application information into one. A combination of a plurality of these conditions may be used. Specifically, when the two conditions of the same organization name and the same application item are combined and the two conditions are satisfied, the associating unit 43 automatically combines a plurality of application information into one You may summarize.

  For example, as shown in FIG. 3, the application information includes an application date 572, an applicant 573, an organization name 574, an application item 575, and an approval path 576. From this information, it is judged whether the application is from the same applicant, whether it is the same application date, whether it is the same application item, whether it is the same organization name, and whether it is the same approval route. The

  On the other hand, even if the application is from the same applicant, the same application date, the same application item, the same organization name, the same approval route, etc. There may be applications that do not qualify for. For example, if an important column (not shown) of application information is checked, the application information may be set so as not to be collected.

  According to this embodiment, basically, it is an application from the same applicant, the same application date, the same application item, the same organization name, the same approval route, etc. As a condition, the associating unit 43 can automatically combine a plurality of pieces of application information into one. Therefore, there is an effect that it does not take time for an applicant, an intermediate approver, a final approver, and the like to combine a plurality of pieces of application information into one.

  Of course, whether there is an association order by a node such as a section member or automatically, if there are too many items to be collected, too much application information will be reviewed and approved by the intermediate approver and final approver at once. On the contrary, the situation of becoming complicated can occur. Therefore, in order to avoid such a situation, an upper limit of the number to be collected may be set. For example, when the upper limit number of application information to be combined into 10 is exceeded, if it exceeds 10, the associating unit 43 does not handle application information exceeding 10 even if there is an association command by the node. Not put together.

  Further, if there is too much application information included in the circulation set, the intermediate approver or the final approver may be distracted to confirm each application. Therefore, attention may be drawn to an important application or an application included in a circulation set that has different information from others. For example, when the upper limit number of application information is combined into 10 and the application combined into one is an application for the settlement of transportation expenses, the control unit 40 determines that the amount of money is the most from all the application information. An alert may be displayed for large applications. As a display method for alerting, the display position, angle, color, etc. of the target application may be changed from those of other applications, but it is not limited to this, and there is an element that appeals to the user's vision. Good.

[Optimization of circulation set by prioritization]
A mechanism for optimizing a circulation set when priority is set and an upper limit of the number to be combined is set will be described with reference to FIGS. 6 and 7. FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram for explaining optimization of a circulation set according to an embodiment of the present invention. For example, among the above-mentioned predetermined conditions, the first priority when combining into one circulation set is “the same organization name”, the second is “the same application item”, and the third is “the same” It is assumed that the application is an application from the applicant and the fourth is “same application date”, and the upper limit of the number to be combined is five. On September 30, 2015, Section A, Section 11 Sales Section A applied for 4 transportation expenses, and Section 1 Section 11 Sales Section B applied for transportation expenses. In this case, as shown in FIG. 6 (a), the section manager who meets the conditions of "same organization name", "same application item" and "same application date" and is an intermediate approver Under I, these five applications are combined into one circulation set and stored in the storage unit 50.

  In this state, if section I submits an application for the settlement of transportation expenses on October 1, 2015 without section I examining this circulation set on the same day, the distribution set is optimized. Will be. In other words, since the third priority in the case of grouping into one circulation set is “applications from the same applicant” and the fourth is “same application date”, September 30, 2015 The application for clearing transportation costs by member A on October 1, 2015 has a higher priority than the application for clearing transportation costs by Day B. Therefore, the circulation set that was combined into one was canceled once, 5 applications for clearing the transportation expenses by section A were combined into one distribution set, and one application for transportation expenses by section B was If there are other applications that are treated as one application or combined into a circulation set, they are combined into one circulation set.

  This will be specifically described with reference to FIG. FIG. 7 is a flowchart for explaining optimization of the circulation set according to the embodiment of the present invention. First, the control unit 40 checks whether or not there is a new application (S102). If no new application is confirmed (No in S102), the control unit 40 loops until a new application is confirmed. On the other hand, when the control unit 40 confirms that there is a new application (Yes in S102), the control unit 40 determines whether there is a circulation set whose status 607 is “being created” in the storage unit 50. Is confirmed (S103). When there is a circulation set whose status 607 is “being created” in the storage unit 50 (Yes in S103), the control unit 40 sets the number of applications included in the circulation set as an upper limit. It is confirmed whether or not the number is exceeded (S104). When the number of applications included in the circulation set does not exceed the number set as the upper limit (No in S104), the control unit 40 determines that the new application is an existing circulation set. It is confirmed whether or not a predetermined condition is satisfied (S105b). For example, if the number set as the upper limit is 5 and there are 4 applications for settlement of transportation expenses by the member A on September 30, 2015 as an existing circulation set, When one application for clearing transportation expenses is made by section B, the conditions of “same organization name”, “same application item”, “same application date” are satisfied (as a predetermined condition, For example, satisfying three conditions), the associating unit 43 applies for the settlement of transportation expenses by the section B on September 30, 2015. The application for the settlement of transportation expenses by the section B on the four existing circulation sets. A circulation set with one added is generated (S106b).

  On the other hand, when the number of applications included in the circulation set exceeds the number set as the upper limit (Yes in S104), the control unit 40 determines the organization name and application item from the application information of the new application. After extracting information on the applicant and the application date, the storage unit 50 is scanned according to the set priority order. For example, in the case of the above example, first, from the application information of a new application, the control unit 40 determines that the organization name is Sales Department 1 Section 11, the application item is transportation expenses, the applicant is member A, and the application date is 2015. Extract that it is October 1st. And if the control part 40 scans the memory | storage part 50 in order of an organization name, an application item, and an applicant, it will be the member B on the same day as four applications for the settlement of transportation expenses applied by the member A on September 30, 2015. The existing circulation set in which one application for the settlement of transportation expenses applied for is collected. Subsequently, the control unit 40 extracts and compares the application information of the new application and the application information of the individual application included in the extracted circulation set, and the new application is included in the distribution set. When it is determined that the priority order is higher than the individual application, the association resolution unit 47 resolves the existing circulation set. For example, in the existing circulation set, four applications for transportation fee settlement applied by section A on September 30, 2015 and one application for settlement of transportation expenses applied by section B on the same day are collected. It is a circulation set. In this case, the first priority when combining them into one circulation set is “same organization name”, the second is “same application item”, the third is “application from the same applicant” If the fourth is “same application date”, one application for clearing of transportation expenses applied by member A on October 1, 2015 will be issued on September 30, 2015. It is determined that the priority is higher than one application for clearing transportation expenses applied by section B (Yes in S105a). In this case (in the case of Yes in S105a), the association canceling unit 47 applies the traffic application applied by the member B on the same day as four applications for the settlement of the transportation expenses applied by the member A on September 30, 2015. Eliminate an existing circulation set that includes a single application for the settlement of expenses. Then, as shown in FIG. 6 (b), the associating unit 43, the application for the settlement of transportation expenses by the section A on September 30, 2015 and the transportation expenses by the section A on October 1, 2015 One application for settlement is made into a circulation set (S106a).

  However, if there is no circulation set whose status 607 is “being created” in the storage unit 50 (No in S103), if the new application does not satisfy the predetermined condition of the existing circulation set (No in S105b) In the case where the new application has a lower priority than any individual application included in the existing circulation set (No in S105a), the control unit 40 determines that the new application is an existing one. It is confirmed whether or not a predetermined condition is satisfied in relation to an individual application (S106c). If the predetermined condition is satisfied (Yes in S106c), the associating unit 43 adds a new application and an existing individual A circulation set with the application is generated (S107), and if not (No in S106c), the storage unit 50 stores the application as an individual application without making a circulation set (S108). .

  According to the present embodiment, there is an effect that a circulation set can be optimized by dynamically collecting and canceling a plurality of applications.

[Update processing section]
The update processing unit 45 performs update processing on all of a plurality of records associated with each other by an update processing request by a node for one record among the plurality of records associated with each other by the association unit 43. do. For example, after the member A issues a command to combine a plurality of applications into one, and the association unit 43 combines the plurality of applications into one, the update processing unit 45 determines that the member A is one of the plurality of applications. By requesting section manager I to circulate a single application, the circulation process is performed for all of the applications combined into one. When a circulation process is performed on all applications combined by a circulation process request for one application, it is called simultaneous circulation. In addition, for example, the update processing unit 45 may request that the general manager K perform final approval processing for one application of applications in which the association unit 43 combines a plurality of applications into one. Approve all of the applications listed in one.

  According to the present embodiment, as described above, not only the final approver but also the applicant, the intermediate approver, and the final approver issue a command to combine a plurality of pieces of application information into one, 43 can combine a plurality of pieces of application information into one. Therefore, when an applicant or an intermediate approver puts together multiple pieces of application information, when these people circulate to the next approver, one of the grouped pieces of application information By making a circulation processing request for the application information, all of the plurality of pieces of application information are distributed. Therefore, there exists an effect that it can circulate in a lump.

[Relationship cancellation section]
The association canceling unit 47 cancels the association of the plurality of records associated with each other by the association unit 43. For example, the association canceling unit 47 cancels the summarization of the applications that are desired to be resolved and returned to individual applications among a plurality of pieces of application information gathered together by the association unit 43.

  The cancellation of the summary will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 8 is a diagram showing an example of a screen that can release a circulation set of a plurality of application documents according to an embodiment of the present invention. Clicking on the part where “●” is in the simultaneous column 621 in FIG. 5 displays the simultaneous circulation list screen in FIG.

  The association canceling unit 47 cancels the association of a plurality of records associated with each other by the association unit 43 by an association canceling instruction by a node. For example, the association canceling unit 47 cancels the summarization of a plurality of applications combined into one by the association canceling instruction by the section manager I. To cancel the summary, the summary of all the applications may be resolved into individual applications, or only a part of the summaries of all the applications may be resolved. As shown in FIG. 8, when eight applications with business names “MMC-000131” to “MMC-000138” are combined into one, in order to release the business name “MMC-000132” from the circulation set. When a check is put in the release column 631 and a release icon is pressed, the business name “MMC-000132” is released from the circulation set. On the other hand, if the release column 631 corresponding to eight business names “MMC-000131” to “MMC-000138” is checked and the release icon is pressed, the summary of all applications is canceled into individual applications.

  According to the present embodiment, even if the applications are combined into one at a time, a node such as a section manager who determines that the combined application is inappropriate is applied to the inappropriate application. By issuing the association cancellation command, it is possible to cancel from the group, and there is an effect that a more flexible way of grouping can be achieved. For example, if the final approver approves 7 applications out of 8 applications that are grouped together, and rejects one application, only one application that you want to deny will be dissociated. By giving an order, the association can be canceled and seven applications can be approved at once. Even in this case, the final approver does not need to return all the applications to the applicant or the intermediate approver, and the process can be completed by the final approver alone.

  The association canceling unit 47 may automatically cancel the association of a plurality of records that are associated with each other independently of the association cancellation command by the node. For example, a request for an approval process is requested for one application among a plurality of applications in which the final approver is grouped together, and a set of a plurality of applications is canceled after the approval process is performed. And the memory | storage part 50 memorize | stores the state by which each application was approved.

  In the case of the prior art, the document data after approving each electronic document is stored in the document table as new document data. For this reason, when searching for individual documents, unnecessary documents are collectively output in the search result, and tracking of the individual documents becomes complicated. On the other hand, according to the present embodiment, unlike the prior art, after approval by the final approver, the association resolution unit automatically resolves a set of multiple applications, and the storage unit is approved for each individual application. Remember. Therefore, when it is desired to search for an individual application after approval, the search can be performed for each individual application, and it is easy to track the individual application.

Second Embodiment
The outline of the information management apparatus 1A will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 9 is a block diagram showing an example of the configuration of the information management apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention. This embodiment is substantially the same as the first embodiment. Therefore, description of overlapping points is omitted, and only different points are described in detail. Unlike the first embodiment, this embodiment includes an identifier generation unit 49.

  The identifier generation unit 49 generates an identifier that uniquely identifies a plurality of records to be associated when the plurality of records are associated with each other. For example, when the association unit 43 combines a plurality of applications into one, the identifier generation unit 49 specifies an identifier that specifies a plurality of applications to be combined into one, that is, a unique identifier (ID) that specifies a circulation set. Is generated. This ID is called a circulation set ID.

  The identifier is generated based on the time when a plurality of records are associated with each other and the identifier of the node. Specifically, the circulation set ID is automatically generated by combining three pieces of information of the application ID, the login user ID, and the current time as a base point when creating the circulation set, but is limited to these three pieces of information. The name information of the logged-in user may be used instead. A node is an access terminal for accessing a database record or file. Since a record or file is accessed by a program, the node may be called a program for performing specific information processing. it can. Then, the program ID or the like may be used as the node identifier.

  Also in this embodiment, as in the first embodiment, an effect that a more convenient workflow system can be provided, that an applicant, an intermediate approver, a final approver, and the like combine a plurality of pieces of application information into one. The effect that there is no hassle, the effect that it can be circulated in a lump, the effect that it can be more flexible, the final approver does not need to return all of the application to the applicant or intermediate approver, The effect that only the final approver can complete the process, and the effect that it is possible to search for each individual application when it is desired to search for an individual application after approval, and it is easy to track the individual application Play.

  According to the present embodiment, the circulation set ID is attached, so that the circulation set can be uniquely specified.

  Note that the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment, and can be modified as appropriate without departing from the spirit of the present invention.

1, 1A: Information management device 20: User terminal 27: Network 30: Communication control unit 40: Control unit 41: Authority transfer unit 43: Association unit 45: Update processing unit 47: Association cancellation unit 50: Storage unit 51: Personnel information storage unit 55: Approval route information storage unit
57: Application information storage unit 60: In-process / circulation list 63: Simultaneous circulation list 571: Application number 572: Application date 573: Applicant 575: Application item 577: Input data 578: Application content 601: Setting for simultaneous circulation Presence / absence 601 603: details 605: business name 607: status 609: circulation destination department 609 611: circulation destination 611
613: Name of circulation destination 615: Item 1 column 617: Item 2 column 619: Important column 621: Simultaneous circulation column 623: Simultaneous circulation setting icon 625: Simultaneous circulation cancellation icon 631: Cancellation column 633: Display details 635: Detail column 637: Business name 639: Status 641: Person in charge department 643: Title 645: Name of person in charge

Claims (7)

A storage unit in which nodes that can make an update request for a record are ordered and defined;
An authority transfer unit that transfers the update processing request authority of the node according to the order defined in the storage unit;
An associating unit for associating a plurality of the records with each other;
Update processing for performing update processing on all of the plurality of records associated with each other in response to an update processing request by the node for one record among the plurality of records associated with each other by the association unit And
An information management device comprising:   The information management apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the association unit associates a plurality of the records with each other by an association command by the node.   The information management apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising an association cancellation unit that cancels association of a plurality of records associated with each other by the association unit.   The information management apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the association canceling unit cancels association of a plurality of records associated with each other by the association unit according to an association canceling instruction from the node. The association canceling unit cancels the association of the plurality of records after the update processing in the update processing unit is performed,
The information management apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the storage unit stores each individual record in which the association is canceled.   The information management apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising: an identifier generation unit configured to generate an identifier that uniquely specifies the plurality of records to be associated when the plurality of records are associated with each other.   The information management device according to claim 6, wherein the identifier is generated based on a time at which the plurality of records are associated with each other and an identifier of the node.

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