JP2525936B2 - Paperwork method - Google Patents

Description

The present invention relates to an office processing system using an electronic computer, and more particularly to an office processing method using screen specification definition information in the office processing system.

[Prior Art] An office processing system using an electronic computer according to the prior art generally executes individual processes such as a screen, a ledger, and a form in cooperation with each other. Examples of conventional technologies related to this type of office processing system include, for example, “Handmade software made with workstations” OFIS / FORM thorough utilization method, edited by Technical Review Co., Kazuro Shimura, Toshio Terao 1988 3
The technology described in "Issued 10th of March" is known.

In the processing definition of the data item of the screen specification in the office processing system according to the above-mentioned conventional technology, key input or screen display is first specified, and a check expression at the time of input and a value expression at the time of display can be described including conditions. .

Hereinafter, such a conventional screen specification defining method will be described with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing an example of a screen specification description format in a screen specification definition according to the related art.

The screen specification can be defined for any number of items, but in the example shown in FIG. 10, the items include a processing date, a processing classification, a name code, and a name. For each item, a processing order, input / display classification, code table display, input guidance, error message, item display formula / input item check formula are given.

When defining specifications according to the display screen shown in the figure,
First, first, a check expression for checking an input data value when executing the screen input process is specified. This data value is
The designation of the error message displayed when the check expression is not satisfied is performed in the "error message" column 330. This error message contains information about the presence or absence of an error (Yes:
Only "Y", blank: blank) can be specified, and specification of multiple types of error messages for one item is not allowed.

Secondly, for each item specified in the "item name" column 310, the input / display category of that item is specified in the "I / O" column 320, and the "item display formula / input item check formula" column At (340), for (input / display category O) ((optional conditional expression) + item display expression, for input / display category I, ((optional conditional expression) + input item check expression) is described.

In the above “I / O” column 320, one item is I (input item)
Or O (display item) or both I and O (display input item). Further, how to process the above-mentioned display input items is defined as the system specifications as follows.

That is, in this example, the “item name” column 310 is the name 3
In the case of 60, in the contents of the “item display formula / input item check formula” column 340 corresponding to O in the “I / O” column, the conditional formula 361 is evaluated first, and if the result is true, the display formula 362 is displayed. Is displayed, and control is passed to the processing of the next processing order item. Also, the conditional expression
If the evaluation result of 361 is false, it is considered that input is possible, the cursor is positioned at the item, the user is prompted to input, and the input value is echoed.

For this reason, the above-described related art cannot describe a specification such that the cursor is positioned at the item immediately after the display and the input is performed, and the description ability is low.

Further, according to this conventional technique, when reprocessing of an item in the same screen occurs due to an error occurrence or a user's correction, the item display formula corresponding to O in the "I / O" column is not evaluated at all, and is always evaluated. The specifications are the same as the input items.

For this reason, at the time of reprocessing, only input is allowed under certain conditions, the evaluation result of the value expression is displayed under certain conditions, and input / output specifications are flexibly written according to the conditions. I can't.

This is because the condition cannot be described in the "I / O" column and the input / output specifications are "item display formula / input item check formula".
This is because it depends on the processing condition of the value formula or check formula described in the column.

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] As described above, according to the definition method of the screen specification in the related art, a plurality of check expressions are specified at the time of input and only a value expression is specified at the time of display for one data item. It is possible to

However, the above-mentioned conventional technique enables input / display of a certain data item according to conditions, changes the content of the input guidance according to the value of the item processed before the certain data item, or changes the check content. Therefore, it is not possible to deal with processing such as changing the content of the error message,
There is a problem that the description ability of item processing specifications is low.

An object of the present invention is to solve the above-mentioned problems of the prior art, and in the item processing definition of the screen specifications used in the office processing system, a screen specification definition that has a high descriptive ability and can perform a simple and easy-to-understand description. Provide a way,
It is to provide an office processing method using the screen specification definition information defined by this.

[Means for Solving the Problems] According to the present invention, the above object is to provide a data item identifier indicating each item in a display screen for each data item in an office processing method in an office processing system using an electronic computer. And a first layer of a definition element group that is subordinate to the identifier in a one-to-one correspondence and defines an item processing order, and an item processing condition for the item and a one-to-one subordinate to the condition. The second layer of the definition element group that defines the condition of the display content, the value check formula that defines the numerical range of the item, and the definition element group that subordinates to the check formula in a one-to-one correspondence and defines the check result. The third layer according to the above is described in a format having a hierarchical structure, and the screen specification definition described in the format having the hierarchical structure is accumulated as it is, and based on this accumulated information, this accumulation is performed. Shi This is achieved by generating a program that executes the generated information and executing the generated program.

[Operation] By describing the definition of screen specifications with a hierarchical structure, it is possible to specify multiple definition elements for one data item according to the conditions, thus improving the description ability. In addition, the condition for multiple definition elements
Since they are aggregated into one definition element, the description of each other definition element can be simplified. Then, by using such screen specifications, even a person who is not familiar with the office processing system can easily proceed with the office processing by using the screen specifications.

[Embodiment] An embodiment of a screen specification defining method used in an office processing method according to the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating a hierarchical structure between definition elements in a screen specification definition to which the present invention is applied.

As shown in FIG. 1, the hierarchy between the definition elements is the first with an item identifier 20 and a definition element group 30 corresponding to the item identifier 20.
Layer 10, a second layer 40 consisting of item processing conditions 50 and a definition element group 60 corresponding to 1: 1, and an item value check expression 80 and definition element group 90 corresponding to 1: 1 It is composed of three layers of the third layer 70 by.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a table example of description of screen specifications to which the present invention having a hierarchical structure between definition elements is applied.

In FIG. 2, an item name 20 as an item identifier and a definition element group 30 such as an item processing order corresponding to 1: 1 are described in the first layer 10. In the illustrated example, the processing cost, the processing category, the name code, and the name are listed as the item examples. Next, as the processing content of each item, the item processing condition 50, the display content (item value formula) corresponding to the item processing condition 1 and the definition element group 60 such as input enable / disable information are described as the second layer 40. . Furthermore, a value check formula 80 that determines the numerical range of items, etc.
And the definition element group 90 such as the error message content of the check result corresponding to 1: 1 are described as the third layer 70.

By making the description of the screen specifications as described above, a plurality of item processing conditions 50 can be set for one item, and the processing content according to the item processing conditions can be described. For example, in the example shown in FIG.
When the item name 20 is “processing date”, the item processing condition 50 in the second layer 40 includes “processing month = 2” and “processing month = 4 | = 6 | = 9 |
= 11 "and" blank "(meaning that the above conditions are not met) are described, and the processing contents corresponding to each of the 3 conditions are described in the definition elements after that (to the right of the condition). are doing.

In the example of FIG. 2, a plurality of item value check expressions 80 and definition element groups 90 corresponding to the item value check expressions 80 are described for the processing contents of an item designated by a certain item processing condition 50. It is possible. For example, the item processing condition 50 is “processing month =
In the case of 2 ", as the check expression 80 in the third layer 70, two of"> = 1 "and"<= 29 "are described, and the error message 10 corresponding to each of these two conditions is
The processing contents such as 0 are described in the definition elements after that (on the right side of these check expressions).

Further, in the example of FIG. 2, since the item processing condition 50 relating to each definition element is provided and aggregated in one description field in this way, the description content of each other definition element field is simplified. It becomes possible to do.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a hierarchical diagram (the description of the name code and the specification concerning the name is omitted) in which the screen specifications having the same contents as those in FIG. 2 are described, and FIG. 4 is also FIG. It is a figure which shows the coding example which described the screen specification of the same content as.

As described above with reference to FIGS. 1 to 4, the description of the screen specifications to which the present invention is applied can be represented by a table set, a hierarchy diagram, coding, etc., and can be easily described without any erroneous description. You can

Next, the configuration and operation of the system that executes processing according to the screen specifications defined as described above will be described.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an embodiment of a system to which the present invention is applied. In FIG. 5, 400 is a processing device, 410 is a definition unit, 420 is an execution unit, 430 is an execution control unit, and 4
40 is an item processing unit, 450 is a keyboard, 460 is a display, and 470 is a disk.

In one embodiment of the invention shown in FIG.
0 is composed of a definition unit 410 that defines specifications by the description method described with reference to FIGS. 1 to 4, and an execution unit 420 that executes processing based on the definition contents. The execution unit 420 is composed of an item processing unit 440 that processes one item and an execution control unit 430 that controls the processing of the item.
The processing device 400 also includes a keyboard 410, a display 460, and a disk 470 necessary for the above-mentioned definition and processing.
Is connected.

The execution unit 420 is defined by the definition unit 410 according to the present invention.
Although the description contents of the hierarchy can be directly executed, it is also possible to execute the program after generating a program based on the above description contents. When the description contents are executed by executing the program, the processing device 40 described above is used.
Within 0, a program generation unit is required in addition to the definition unit 410 and the execution unit 420.

FIG. 6 is a data structure diagram of the definition information storage image which cites the screen specification description format example described with reference to FIGS. 2 to 4.

The structure of the illustrated data is composed of three tables 510, 520 and 530 which are characterized by the structure of three layers shown in FIG. In FIG. 6, table 520 includes item names 521 and table 53.
Item names and conditions 531 are added to 0 as key items, and each table is shown as a normalized table.

FIG. 7 is a processing flowchart for explaining the operation of the execution control unit 430, which will be described below.

(1) First, as an initialization process, an execution file having the data structure shown in FIG. 6 is read, a storage area required for the process is secured, and the like, and then a user-defined screen is displayed. (Steps 610, 620).

(2) For each defined item, the process of that item is sequentially performed one item at a time (steps 630 to 650).

(3) In step 640, when it is determined that the input of one screen has ended and the input processing is desired to be ended, a key menu or the like meaning "end" is input and the processing is ended. At this time, processing such as releasing the secured storage area and clearing the contents of the display screen is executed (step 670).

(4) In step 640, when the data of the screen on which the input processing is performed is to be registered in the disk 470 shown in FIG. 5, the user selects and inputs a key menu or the like which means “confirm”. As a result, it is checked whether or not one screen of data to be registered is available (step
660).

(5) Depending on the determination result of step 660, the error information is displayed or the input data display content for one screen is cleared, and the processing from step 630 or 620 is continued (steps 690 and 700).

8 and 9 are flowcharts for explaining the processing operation of one item in the item processing unit 440.
With reference to this figure, an example of the process of one item for executing the specification description content according to the hierarchical structure between the definition elements in the screen specification definition shown in FIG. 1 will be described.

(1) First, for a certain processing target item, the pointer is positioned in the condition column of the item, and it is checked whether or not there is a description of the item processing condition (steps 810, 820).

(2) If there is a description in the condition column, condition evaluation is performed to check whether or not the condition is satisfied (steps 830 and 840).

(3) If the evaluation result in step 840 is false, that is, it does not match the condition, it is checked whether or not there is a processing condition next to the item, and if it exists, the pointer is positioned in the next condition column, and The processing from 820 is repeatedly executed, and if it does not exist, the processing of the item according to the user's definition cannot be executed, and the processing of the item is terminated because the system is entrusted with the processing (steps 850 and 860).

(4) If there is no description in the condition column in the check in step 820, and if the evaluation result in step 840 is true, that is, the condition is met, it is checked whether or not there is a description in the “output” column, and the description is If there is, the description content is evaluated and the result is displayed on the display 460 shown in FIG. 5 (step 870,
880).

(5) Next, the contents of the “input” column for designating whether or not the input is possible are checked, and if the contents are “Y”, the input is possible and the input cursor is positioned at the item. At this time, if there is a description in the “guidance” column, the content of the guidance is displayed on the display 460 shown in FIG. If there is no description of "Y" in the input field, the process ends (step 890).
~ 910).

The above-described processing of steps 810 to 910 represents the processing content corresponding to the second hierarchy 40 in FIG.

The processing of steps 920 to 1000 is the data input to the item by the user and the processing of the subsequent items, that is, the first
The processing contents corresponding to the third layer 70 in the figure are shown, and the description will be continued.

(6) First, the user's input is accepted from the keyboard 450 shown in FIG. 5, then the pointer is positioned in the “check formula” column, and it is checked whether there is a description in the “check formula” column, and there is a description. In this case, the check expression is evaluated and the evaluation result is checked (steps 920 to 960).

(7) If the evaluation result of step 960 is true, that is, if the input data value is within the range of the check expression, it is determined whether or not there is the next check expression (the check expression has an AND condition). If the next check expression is found, the pointer is positioned in the next check expression column, and the process returns to step 940 to perform the same evaluation. Also, if there is no next check expression,
The input data value is regarded as satisfying the check condition described by the user, and the process ends (steps 970 and 980).

(8) If the evaluation result in step 960 is false, that is, if the input data value is outside the range of the check formula, the input value is regarded as invalid, and the user input is performed again step 920
Move to the process from. At this time, if there is a description in the "error message" column, the content of the error message is displayed on the display 460 shown in FIG. 5 (step 99).
0, 1000).

As described above, the execution unit 420 can execute the execution process according to the description content of the screen specifications according to the present invention.

[Effects of the Invention] As described above, according to the present invention, definition of screen specifications used in an office processing system can be performed by a description method having high description ability and simple and easy description of each definition element. By using such screen specifications, even a person who is not accustomed to the office processing system can easily proceed with the office processing by using the screen specifications.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram for explaining the hierarchical structure between definition elements in the screen specification definition to which the present invention is applied, FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a description example of the screen specification in a table set, and FIG. 3 is a description example of the screen specification. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing coding examples of screen specifications by coding, FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an embodiment of a system to which the present invention is applied, and FIG. 6 is screen specifications. The figure which shows the data structure of the definition information storage image of description format, 7th
FIG. 8, FIG. 9 and FIG. 9 are process flow charts for explaining the operation of the execution control unit, and FIG. 10 is a diagram showing an example of the screen specification description format in the screen specification definition according to the prior art. 400 ... Processor, 410 ... Definition part, 420 ... Execution part, 430
...... Execution control unit, 440 ... Item processing unit, 450 ... Keyboard, 460 ... Display, 470 ... Disc.

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Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. In a business processing method in a business processing system using an electronic computer, for each data item in a display screen, a data item identifier indicating the item and a subordinate subordinate to the identifier in a one-to-one correspondence. A first layer of a definition element group that defines an item processing order and the like, and a second layer of a definition element group that defines an item processing condition for the item and a condition of its display content that is subordinate to the condition in a one-to-one correspondence Hierarchy of
A value check expression for defining the numerical range of the item and a third hierarchy with a definition element group that corresponds to the check expression in a one-to-one correspondence and defines the check result are described in a format having a hierarchical structure, The screen specification definition described in the format having the hierarchical structure is accumulated as it is, a program for executing the accumulated information is generated based on the accumulated information, and the generated program is executed. A business processing method characterized by: