JP3304352B2 - Office processing system - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a business processing system, and more particularly, to a convenient business processing system using an electronic computer.

[0002]

[Prior art]

2. Description of the Related Art A business processing system using a computer according to the related art generally executes individual processes such as screens, ledgers, and forms in cooperation with each other. Conventional technologies related to this kind of office processing system include, for example, "handmade software made on a workstation" OFIS / FORM thorough use method, Kazunori Shiryosha, author Kazujiro Shimura, Toshio Terao March 1988
The technology described in "Issue 10th" is known.

[0003] This conventional technique is configured as follows, taking as an example the activation of a process by a business menu (hereinafter referred to as a menu).

That is, this conventional technology has a menu that can be defined in any number of layers, and a user can perform a menu process, a next menu, and the like for each menu of each layer using a menu definition screen for each layer. After that, the business processing system executes the processing according to these definitions.

[0005] For this reason, according to this conventional technique, regarding a process activated by a menu, in which existing menu this process is defined, and how many menus define the process? Etc. must be managed by the user, and when performing maintenance such as changing the specifications for the processing, removing from the menu, or shifting to another menu, the user performs processing on the side activated by the menu. The defined menu needs to be searched by some means.

[0006]

[Problems to be solved by the invention]

In the above-described conventional technology, activation-related information such as a name of a process to be activated is defined on a side that activates a process. For example, when a process is activated by a menu, a certain process becomes unnecessary. Remove it from the menu, or
When there is a change in the specification of a certain process and the process is to be transferred to another menu, the user must search the menu that defines the process name from multiple menus, making maintenance easier. It cannot be performed, and is inconvenient to use.

An object of the present invention is to solve the above-mentioned problems of the prior art, to enable an Eisa to easily search for an activation source process for a certain process, and to provide an office computer using an easy-to-maintain and easy-to-use computer. It is to provide a processing system.

[0008]

[Means for Solving the Problems]

According to the present invention, the object is to provide a business processing system that performs a task by executing a plurality of processes in cooperation with each other using an electronic computer. Means for defining a process to be started as start-up specification information, and means for extracting and storing a correspondence between a start-up process and a start-up process as start-up relationship information based on the start-up specification information. This is achieved by further providing a means for extracting and storing a start condition for each process from the start specification information.

When defining each process that constitutes a business, the process to be started defines startup-related information such as the start condition of the process itself. It is only necessary to make corrections.

[0010]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION

Hereinafter, an embodiment of a business processing system according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram showing an example of a business processing system to which the present invention is applied.

In this embodiment, a specification definition unit 100, an activation relation storage unit 110,
It comprises an execution control unit 120, an execution processing unit 130, specification definition information 140, and activation relation information 141.

Prior to using the illustrated business processing system, the user uses the specification definition unit 100 in advance to specify the processing name of each business processing,
A specification including the activation source process name and the activation condition is defined and stored as specification definition information 140. In the definition specification, the startup relationship storage unit 110 extracts the startup relationship information such as the process name defined in the specification definition information 140, its startup source process name, its startup condition, and the like.
Is accumulated as

The above-described specification definition for each business process and the generation process of the activation relation information are performed in advance for all the business processes necessary for the business process.

After that, when the execution of the business process defined above is instructed to the execution control unit 120 by executing the business process, the execution control unit 120 sets the process as an activation source based on the activation relationship information 141. A process (startup destination process) and its start condition are searched, and if the start condition matches, the execution processing unit 130 sends the specification definition information 1
The specification information of the business process in 40 is passed, and the execution of the process is instructed. The execution processing unit 130 starts execution of the instructed source process based on the specification definition information.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of the execution control unit 120 described above, which will be described below.

(1) When the start of a certain process is instructed, the execution control unit 120 extracts the start-related information of each process from the start-related information 141 one by one, and is instructed with the start-source process name of the extracted process. The processing name is compared with the processing name (steps 201 and 202).

(2) If there is a match in step 202, the start condition of the start destination process is extracted from the start relationship information 141, and it is checked whether the start condition is satisfied (step 20).
3).

(3) In step 203, if the designated process matches the activation condition, the execution of the process recorded as the activation destination process name in the activation relationship information 141 is performed by the execution processing unit 130. (Step 204).

The execution control unit 120 instructs the execution processing unit 130 to execute all the processes that must be sequentially performed as described above.

FIG. 3 is a view for explaining the data structure of the activation-related information.

As shown in FIG. 3, the start-related information includes a process name 301 as a start source, a process name 302 that must be started when the process of the process name 301 as a start source is started, and a process name thereof. And a field 303 for storing a condition 303 for activating. The start condition is, for example, a condition for determining one of a plurality of start destination processes to be started by a certain start source process. In the illustrated example, the start source process is a business menu process. The start condition is number information for designating a plurality of start destination processes specified in the start source process.

FIG. 4 shows an example of a business menu process screen, which is an example of a process serving as a start source. The business menu is used to start a boot destination business such as a sales slip issuance, a deposit slip issuance, and a withdrawal slip issuance. It is possible. Activation of the activation destination business is performed by inputting a number assigned to each displayed business from a keyboard or the like into a column 501 defined as “number”.

FIG. 5 shows an example of the case of defining a start-up business to be started by being specified by a business menu, and is an example of a definition screen of a sales slip issuing process.

The definition of the business process is based on the display drawing shown in FIG.
A start source process name 401 of the job and its start condition are defined. In the illustrated example, “business menu process” 411 is defined as the activation source process name 401, and “number = 1” 412 is defined as the activation condition 402.

The user of the business processing system according to the present invention defines the above-described start conditions for all the business processes. At this time, when one business process is started from a plurality of boot source processes. , The names of the activation source processes and the activation conditions are similarly defined. This definition process is performed by the specification definition unit 100, and the definition result is stored in the system as specification definition information.

As described above, the activation relation storage unit 110 stores the activation relation information 141 as shown in FIG.
In the above example, the contents of the activation relation information 141 are as shown in a row 311 in FIG.

As described above, the specification definition of the business process and the generation of the activation relation information from the defined specification information have been described. Next, the operation for actually executing the business will be described.

FIG. 6 is a diagram for explaining an execution state when the “business menu process” shown in FIG. 4 is executed, “number = 1” is input, and the sales slip issuing process is activated.

(1) When the business menu is activated, a business menu screen as shown in FIG. 4 is displayed on the display screen, and when “1” is input as a number, the execution control unit 120 activates From the related information 141, a process starting from “business menu process” is searched, and “sales slip issuing process”, “payment slip issuing process”, and “withdrawal slip issuing process” may be activated. (601).

(2) Next, the execution control unit 120 extracts the activation conditions of the three processes that may be activated, and activates the “sales slip issuing process” that meets the condition as “number = 1”. , And instructs the execution processing unit 130 (602).

(3) The execution processing unit 130 starts execution of the specified “sales slip issuing process” in accordance with the specified specification definition information. In this case, as the display screen, for example, the content in the frame shown as “sales slip issuance” in FIG. 5 is displayed (60).
3).

[0033]

【The invention's effect】

As described above, according to the present invention, since the definition relating to the activation of the process constituting the task is defined on the side of the process to be activated, the activation condition of the process becomes clear and the maintainability can be improved. The effect described above can be obtained.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram showing an example of a business processing system to which the present invention has been applied.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating an operation of an execution control unit 120.

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating a data structure of activation-related information.

FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example of a screen of a task menu process which is an example of a process serving as a start source.

FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating an example of a case of defining a start-up task to be started specified by a task menu;

FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating an execution state when a sales slip issuing process is started.

[Explanation of symbols]

 100: Specification definition section 110: Activation relation storage section 120: Execution control section 130: Execution processing section 140: Specification definition information 141: Activation relation information

──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continued on the front page (72) Inventor Naoyuki Takashima 1-16-5 Dogenzaka, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo Inside Hitachi Information Systems Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Masahiro Ise 1-16-15 Dogenzaka, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo Inside Hitachi Information Systems Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Hiroyuki Ikeuchi 1-16-5 Dogenzaka, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo Inside Hitachi Information Systems Co., Ltd. (56) References "Information Processing Society of Japan 40th ) National Conference Lecture Papers "(1990-3) p. 1489-1490, Proc. Of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Information Processing Society of Japan (late 1988), 1988-10, p. 1884-1885, Proc. Of the 35th Annual Conference of the Information Processing Society of Japan (early 1987), 1987-9, p. 2571−2572 (58) Field surveyed (Int.Cl. ⁷ , DB name) G06F 9/06 650 G06F 15/00 310 G06F 17/60 100

Claims (2)

(57) [Claims] 1. An office processing system for executing a task by executing a plurality of processes in cooperation by using a computer, a starting source process name and a start condition for starting a certain process are set as start specification information of the own process. Means for defining a process to be activated, and means for extracting and storing a correspondence between a process to be activated and a process to be activated as activation relationship information based on the activation specification information. And paperwork processing system. 2. The business processing system according to claim 1, further comprising means for extracting and storing a start condition for each process from said start specification information.