JP4432460B2 - Electronic bulletin board management apparatus, electronic bulletin board management method, and program - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to an electronic bulletin board management apparatus, and more particularly to an electronic bulletin board apparatus that manages a plurality of electronic bulletin boards.

  In the prior art, there is an electronic bulletin board as a software tool for sharing information between users. Electronic bulletin boards are usually set up separately depending on the type of information exchanged between users. For example, in an enterprise, an electronic bulletin board may be set up for each department or for each project set up to achieve one task. Further, in the case of a project, one project is further classified into a plurality of work items, and an electronic bulletin board is set up for each work item. On the electronic bulletin board thus set up, each user shares information by exchanging messages and files attached to the messages with other members.

JP 2001-202405 A JP 2002-358395 A

  However, among electronic data such as messages exchanged in units of electronic bulletin boards, there is electronic data related to other electronic bulletin boards beyond the frame of one electronic bulletin board. In the case of an electronic bulletin board in a company project, a project manager who manages each work item needs to sequentially grasp electronic data on the electronic bulletin board of a plurality of work items. However, in the conventional electronic bulletin board, since electronic data such as messages is displayed on the screen in units of electronic bulletin boards, it is difficult to refer to electronic data related to a plurality of electronic bulletin boards all at once. Therefore, in order to grasp the electronic data of a plurality of electronic bulletin boards at a time, the user must go back and forth between the plurality of electronic bulletin boards on the screen, and the screen operation is complicated.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and an object thereof is to efficiently browse electronic data included in an electronic bulletin board.

  An electronic bulletin board management apparatus according to the present invention is an electronic bulletin board management apparatus for managing a plurality of electronic bulletin boards, storing a group of messages posted on the electronic bulletin board, storage means provided for each electronic bulletin board, A number of electronic bulletin boards are extracted from the plurality of electronic bulletin boards based on storage means for storing association information between posted message groups and storage means for storing the message groups, and designated extraction conditions. Extraction means and storage means for storing message groups posted on the extracted several electronic bulletin boards based on the association information, and acquisition means for acquiring message groups from the specified storage means respectively And by collecting the acquired multiple message groups and sorting the aggregated message groups according to the specified sort condition, A virtual message group generation means for generating a virtual message group virtual bulletin board, characterized in that it comprises a.

  According to the present invention, a message group of an electronic bulletin board extracted from a plurality of electronic bulletin boards according to a desired extraction condition can be displayed on the screen as a virtual message group of one virtual electronic bulletin board. This eliminates the need to display a group of messages from a plurality of electronic bulletin boards to be browsed separately and to switch screens.

The present invention includes a reply message input means for accepting an input of a reply message to the specified target message from the virtual message groups, based on the correspondence information to identify the storage means storage location of the target message, Writing means for writing the input reply message in the specified storage means is provided.

  According to the present invention, when a reply message for a message posted on the virtual electronic bulletin board is written in the storage means, the reply message can be written in the same storage means as the highly relevant message.

  According to one aspect of the electronic bulletin board management apparatus according to the present invention, related message input means for receiving input of related messages related to the virtual message group, and list information of the electronic bulletin board constituting the virtual electronic bulletin board when the related messages are input And the configuration information storage means for storing the configuration information including the sort condition of the virtual message group in association with the input related message, and specified from the message group of the electronic bulletin board or the virtual message group of the virtual electronic bulletin board Configuration information acquisition means for acquiring configuration information corresponding to a related message from the configuration information storage means, and a plurality of electronic bulletin boards constituting a virtual electronic bulletin board at the time of inputting a specified related message based on the acquired configuration information Specifying means for specifying, and the obtaining means displays on the plurality of specified electronic bulletin boards. Storage means for storing the specified message group is specified based on the association information, each message group is acquired from the specified storage means, and the virtual message group generation means aggregates the plurality of acquired message groups The virtual message group of the new virtual electronic bulletin board is generated by sorting according to the sorting condition included in the configuration information, and the screen display control unit displays the screen of the virtual message group of the generated new virtual electronic bulletin board. It is characterized by controlling.

  According to the present invention, the user can browse the contents of the message after grasping the contents of the message group described before the message registered on the virtual electronic bulletin board of the virtual work item. Therefore, it is possible to easily grasp under what circumstances the message is registered.

  According to one aspect of the electronic bulletin board management apparatus according to the present invention, the related message is a reply message to the target message designated from the virtual message group, and the configuration information storage means is configured to input the related information. The configuration information is stored in association with the target message for the message and the related message, and the screen display control means uses the target message associated with the configuration information in the generated virtual message group as another message. The display is controlled to be displayed in a different display format.

  According to the present invention, the user can browse the contents of the message after easily grasping the registered message based on which message is registered on the electronic bulletin board.

  A first embodiment of the present invention (hereinafter referred to as Embodiment 1) will be described below with reference to the drawings.

  FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram of the electronic bulletin board system according to the first embodiment. The electronic bulletin board management device 100 is a device that manages a plurality of electronic bulletin boards, and is a device that provides a message group to be posted on the electronic bulletin board to the client terminal 200 and receives and holds a new message from the client terminal 200. . The client terminal 200 is an apparatus that is connected to the electronic bulletin board management apparatus 100 via a wired or wireless network and communicates with the electronic bulletin board management apparatus 100. Specifically, the client terminal 200 transmits to the electronic bulletin board management apparatus 100 a screen display request for displaying an electronic bulletin board on which a message related to a desired topic is exchanged. In response to the request, the client terminal 200 receives a message group posted on the electronic bulletin board transmitted from the electronic bulletin board management apparatus 100, displays the message group on the screen, or displays the message group on the electronic bulletin board displayed on the screen. Register new messages related to the topic. Here, an electronic bulletin board is a software tool that enables one-to-many information transmission that allows users to view messages and attachments on a common topic, and register new messages. is there.

  Next, the configuration of the electronic bulletin board management apparatus 100 will be further described based on the block configuration diagram shown in FIG.

  The bulletin board control unit 110 controls the screen of the electronic bulletin board displayed on the display of the client terminal. Specifically, the bulletin board control unit 110 includes, for example, a CPU and a memory (RAM or ROM), and controls the screen when the CPU reads a program stored in the memory. The memory for storing the program may be a storage medium such as a floppy (registered trademark) disk, a hard disk, or a CD-ROM. The database 120 is provided for each electronic bulletin board, and stores a group of messages such as messages and attached files to be posted on the electronic bulletin board. The database may be configured with a hard disk for each electronic bulletin board, or may be configured with software divided partitions. Further, the database 120 may be installed at a location away from the bulletin board control unit 110 and communicate with the bulletin board control unit 110 via a network.

  The storage unit 111 stores association information between a message group of each electronic bulletin board and a database storing the message group. When the bulletin board control unit 110 receives a screen display request for displaying the message group of the electronic bulletin board on the screen from the client terminal 200, the bulletin board control unit 110 specifies the electronic bulletin board targeted for screen display specified by the screen display request. Then, the bulletin board control unit 110 identifies the database 120 that holds the message group of the identified electronic bulletin board based on the association information stored in the storage unit 111. Subsequently, the bulletin board control unit 110 acquires a message group of the designated electronic bulletin board from the specified database 120, provides the message group to the client terminal 200 that has transmitted the screen display request, and displays the screen. Thereby, the message group of the designated electronic bulletin board is displayed on the display of the client terminal 200.

  Each electronic bulletin board may be set so that any user can view it, or a user who can browse can be registered for each electronic bulletin board in advance. In order to limit the users who can browse, authentication may be performed as follows. That is, the electronic bulletin board management apparatus 100 includes a user information storage unit that stores user information that can be browsed for each electronic bulletin board in advance. When a screen display request is received, an authentication unit is provided that authenticates whether the request is a request from a user who can view the designated electronic bulletin board based on the stored user information. For users who are not authenticated, it is possible to limit the users who can browse by not transmitting the message group of the electronic bulletin board.

  Furthermore, a characteristic point of the electronic bulletin board management apparatus 100 according to the first embodiment is that a virtual electronic bulletin board control unit 112 is provided. The virtual electronic bulletin board control unit 112 extracts several electronic bulletin boards from a plurality of electronic bulletin boards based on extraction conditions designated from the client terminal 200. The extracted message group of the electronic bulletin board is aggregated to generate a virtual message group of one virtual electronic bulletin board, and the virtual message group is provided to the bulletin board control unit 110. The bulletin board control unit 110 displays the provided virtual message group on the screen of the client terminal 200 that has transmitted the extraction condition. In the present embodiment, the bulletin board control unit 110 and the virtual electronic bulletin board control unit 112 have been described as separate modules. Specifically, the bulletin board control unit 110 and the virtual electronic bulletin board control unit 112 are configured by one CPU and each unit stored in the memory. What is necessary is just to read and execute the program which performs processing sequentially. Of course, a CPU may be provided and executed for each.

  Further, in addition to the extraction condition, the user may also specify a message group sorting condition via the client terminal 200, and the virtual message group that has been sorted under the specified sorting condition may be displayed on the screen. The sort condition is, for example, the order of registration date / time, the order of the name of the registrant, the order of importance of the message, the order of the data amount of the message, and the like, and is a condition indicating how to sort the aggregated message group. . The sorting condition may be simply arranging the message groups in the order of acquisition.

  Here, the extraction condition transmitted from the client terminal 200 will be described. The extraction condition is a condition for extracting a plurality of electronic bulletin boards that the user wants to display as one virtual electronic bulletin board on the screen. For example, to display an electronic bulletin board that handles a common topic as a single electronic bulletin board, a word related to the common topic is used as a keyword, and an electronic bulletin board in which a message including the keyword exists in a message group. Extract it. In addition, when registering a user who can view each electronic bulletin board, and wanting to display the message group of the electronic bulletin board in which a specific user is registered as one virtual electronic bulletin board message group, the user An electronic bulletin board in which the same user is registered may be extracted using the name as a keyword. As described above, the extraction condition is a condition for extracting an electronic bulletin board having a common or similar attribute using the electronic bulletin board itself or an attribute included in the message group as a key.

  In this way, an extraction condition for extracting a plurality of electronic bulletin boards that the user wants to display as one virtual electronic bulletin board is defined, and the plurality of electronic bulletin boards extracted according to the extraction condition are displayed on the screen as one virtual electronic bulletin board. This eliminates the need for the user to display a group of messages from a plurality of electronic bulletin boards to be browsed separately and to switch screens.

  Subsequently, a second embodiment (hereinafter referred to as a second embodiment) of the present invention will be described. In the second embodiment, an electronic bulletin board used in a so-called project management system will be described as an example. In this embodiment, an electronic bulletin board is set up for each actual work item necessary to achieve one project, and members are registered in each actual work item. Registered members use the electronic bulletin board to which they belong to exchange messages and share information among members. Furthermore, in this embodiment, progress management is also performed using an electronic bulletin board. In other words, on the bulletin board, in addition to a group of messages related to actual work items, a list of registered members, the scheduled start date and scheduled completion date for each work item, and the current implementation status are displayed. To do.

  More specifically, the project management system of this embodiment will be described with reference to the drawings.

  FIG. 3 is a system configuration diagram in the project management system of the present embodiment. The management server 150 manages a project composed of a plurality of work items including management of an electronic bulletin board divided for each actual work item and its message group. The management server 150 holds various databases (hereinafter referred to as DBs), extracts necessary information for each actual work item from the electronic data stored in these DBs, and stores the information on the display of the client terminal 200. Display. The client terminal 200 displays information provided from the management server 150 on the display.

  In the present embodiment, a project refers to an aggregate that is planned to achieve a desired purpose and in which a plurality of users participate as members. This project is further divided into a plurality of actual work items. The actual work item is a breakdown of the work contents that each user should do to achieve the purpose of the project. For example, if the project is a computer program development project, the actual work item is, for example, Requirements analysis, basic design, detailed design, etc. Furthermore, the actual work items may be subdivided into a plurality of actual work items, and the work contents of each actual work item may be narrowed down. In this way, according to this system, a single project has a hierarchical structure of large actual work items, solid actual work items, and small actual work items, and information sharing and progress management are performed for each actual work item. Can do.

  In each actual work item, a user necessary for achieving the work is registered as a member. Then, the user registers a message and an attached file on the electronic bulletin board of the actual work item, browses a group of messages on the electronic bulletin board displayed on the display, and checks the progress status. Thereby, the user can share information among members.

  FIG. 4 is an example of a screen image displayed on the display of the client terminal 200 used by the user. Specifically, the message written on the electronic bulletin board of the actual work item “screen specification” included in the development project. This is a screen image showing the group and progress. Further, the display screen will be described. On the screen, an actual work item list area 301 in which each actual work item included in one project is displayed in a hierarchical structure, a user name belonging to the selected actual work item, and an actual work item. A progress status of the work item and an electronic bulletin board area 302 for transmitting a message between users belonging to the selected actual work item are displayed. An attached file 303 existing in the electronic bulletin board area 302 is displayed when there is a file attached to the message. The two areas described here are merely examples of screen display performed in project management, and the management server 150 retrieves and extracts other necessary information from various DBs according to desired conditions, and displays the screen. Can do.

  In this way, by subdividing one project into actual work items and displaying information related to the actual work item on the screen in units of actual work items, the user is a member who belongs to the actual work item. It is possible to immediately grasp the state of progress, etc. in units of actual work items. Further, by communicating with each other using the electronic bulletin board in units of actual work items, information closely related to the members belonging to each actual work item can be efficiently shared.

  However, the messages exchanged on the electronic bulletin board of each actual work item in the project may be a message including information on a common topic related to a plurality of actual work items. In addition, users who belong to multiple actual work items and project managers that supervise projects need to grasp messages of multiple actual work items at once, rather than grasping messages in units of actual work items. In some cases. In such a case, if a group of messages including multiple messages on the bulletin board and attached files is displayed on the screen for each actual work item, it is necessary to switch the screen display each time the actual work item to be referenced is changed. The screen operation becomes complicated.

  Furthermore, if a group of messages posted on one electronic bulletin board is sorted in order of registration date, the temporal relationship between the messages can be easily grasped. However, as described above, in the method of referring to a plurality of electronic bulletin board message groups including a common topic while switching the screen display, grasping the temporal relationship between the message groups of each electronic bulletin board is as follows. Compared to the group of messages posted on one electronic bulletin board, it is difficult.

  Therefore, in this embodiment, a group of messages posted on the electronic bulletin board of a plurality of actual work items included in the project is reconfigured as a virtual message group of one virtual work item according to a predetermined condition, and displayed on the display It is characterized by doing. This eliminates the need for the user to display a group of messages on the electronic bulletin board of a plurality of actual work items on the screen and perform complicated screen switching.

  Here, the creation of a virtual message group of virtual work items in the present embodiment will be described in more detail using the block diagram of the management server 150 shown in FIG.

  In FIG. 5, each database is described as a separate device, but each database may be constructed by dividing a partition by software using one hard disk. A database may be constructed for each actual work item or for each project.

  The actual work item management apparatus 10 extracts data from each DB according to a predetermined condition, and controls the screen display of the extracted data. The actual work item DB 20 is a storage device that holds actual work item names and progress of actual work items existing in the system. FIG. 6 shows an example of the schema of the actual work item DB. In FIG. 6, an actual work item ID 21 indicates an identifier for identifying each actual work item. The actual work item name 22 indicates the name of each actual work item displayed on the screen. The actual work item state 23 indicates an implementation status of each actual work item, and indicates execution, standby, end, or the like depending on the state. The scheduled start date 24, scheduled end date 25, start date 26, and end date 27 indicate the scheduled start date, scheduled end date, and actual start date and end date of the actual work item, respectively. The progress rate 28 indicates the progress rate of the work content of the actual work item.

  The progress rate may be determined as follows, for example. That is, deliverables necessary to achieve the purpose of each actual work item, for example, document data attached to a message are determined according to the progress rate (for example, document data A: 10%, document data B: 50%, document Data C: 80%) When the determined product is registered in the electronic bulletin board, the progress rate 28 of the actual work item DB is updated with the progress rate determined for the product as the progress rate of the actual work item. Thereby, the current progress rate of the actual work item can be grasped. Furthermore, the user list 29 shows the user IDs of the members registered in each actual work item. In this way, by extracting and referring to data from the actual work item DB 20 holding various data according to desired conditions, the type and number of actual work items included in the project, the progress of each actual work item, and the like Can be grasped.

  Next, the message DB 30 is a storage device that stores a message registered by the user in a storage area determined for each work item on an electronic bulletin board provided for each actual work item. FIG. 7 shows an example of the schema of the message DB. In FIG. 7, an actual work item ID 31 indicates an identifier of an actual work item corresponding to the electronic bulletin board in which the message is registered. The message ID 32 indicates an identifier unique to the registered message. The reply source message ID 33 is an identifier of the reply source message that is shown when the newly registered message is a reply to a message already posted on the electronic bulletin board. The subject line 34 indicates the title of each message. The user ID 35 indicates an identifier unique to the user who registered the message. The registration date 36 indicates the date when the message was registered.

  The document DB 40 is a storage device that stores a file such as document data attached to a message in a storage area defined for each work item in association with a message ID.

  Furthermore, there is a virtual work item DB 50 as one of the characteristic configurations in the present embodiment. The virtual work item DB 50 is a storage device that holds the extraction conditions of the actual work items that constitute the virtual work items. Here, the actual work item extraction condition refers to a search key that defines under what conditions the actual work item is searched and extracted from a plurality of actual work items stored in the actual work item DB 20. Is. If a plurality of actual work items to be extracted are specified according to a predetermined condition, an electronic bulletin board is also specified correspondingly. Therefore, it can be said that the extraction conditions for actual work items are equivalent to the extraction conditions for the electronic bulletin board shown in the first embodiment. Then, each message group on the electronic bulletin board of the plurality of extracted actual work items is acquired from the message DB, and in the same manner as in the first embodiment, they are aggregated to create a virtual message group. As a result, a group of messages including multiple messages and attachments on the electronic bulletin board is displayed on the screen for each actual work item, and it is not necessary to switch the screen display every time the actual work item to be referenced is changed. The complexity of operation can be reduced.

  Here, some specific examples of actual work item extraction will be described. First, when the actual work item has a hierarchical structure, if all the actual work items existing below the designated actual work item are extracted, the actual work item ID of the designated actual work item is used as a search key. The full text search device 80 may extract all the actual work items existing in the lower hierarchy of the actual work item from the actual work item DB 20. In this way, when performing a search using the actual work item ID as a search key, when the actual work item is registered, the method of assigning the actual work item ID is defined in advance, so that the search can be easily performed. is there. That is, when the upper real work item ID is “10000”, the real work item IDs immediately below are assigned “10100”, “10200”... “1 ** 00”. Furthermore, when registering actual work items under the actual work item ID “10100”, the actual work item IDs of these actual work items are given as “10101”, “10102”... “101 **”. To do. As a result, when an actual work item having the actual work item ID “10000” is specified, the actual work item ID “1 ####” (#: arbitrary) is used as a search key to perform a search. The actual work item existing below the actual work item having “10000” can be searched.

  Further, if an actual work item to be completed by the designated due date is extracted from the actual work items, the full-text search device 80 similarly uses the scheduled completion date of the actual work item as a search key until the designated due date. The actual work item to be completed may be extracted from the actual work item DB 20. Furthermore, if a specific actual work item is extracted from the actual work item DB 20 in accordance with the progress rate of the actual work item, the full text search device 80 uses the specified progress rate as a search key to perform an actual result below the specified progress rate. What is necessary is just to extract a work item.

  In addition, similar actual work items may be extracted based on the work contents of the actual work items and the contents of messages exchanged on the electronic bulletin board of the actual work items. As a method for extracting similar actual work items, for example, the following may be performed. That is, the similarity search device 81 extracts words included in messages exchanged on the electronic bulletin board of actual work items specified by the user and words included in messages exchanged on the electronic bulletin board of other actual work items. To do. Then, the similarity search device 81 calculates the number of words extracted from the message of the designated actual work item and the word extracted from the message of the other actual work item. If the total number of matching words is greater than or equal to the reference value, it is determined that the actual work item has a high degree of similarity with the designated actual work item, and is used as an extraction target. A plurality of similarity reference values may be determined in stages, and the similarity may be determined in stages according to the total number of matching words. Thereby, the actual work item to be extracted can be changed according to the desired degree of similarity.

  Also, the work content of each actual work item is registered in advance in the actual work item DB, and the actual work item including the work content that matches the work content of the designated actual work item is extracted, and the extracted actual work An item may be subject to extraction on the assumption that the degree of similarity with the designated actual work item is high.

  Furthermore, all the actual work items included in the project may be classified in advance by similar actual work items, and the actual work items may be extracted by specifying the classification. The actual work items may be classified as follows, for example. That is, the actual work item classification device 82 first extracts words included in messages exchanged on the electronic bulletin board of each actual work item included in the project. Subsequently, the appearance frequency of each extracted word is calculated. Then, the actual work item classification device 82 extracts words that are equal to or higher than a predetermined frequency reference value, and sets the extracted words as one classification. Subsequently, an actual work item having a message including the word is extracted using a word determined as one category as a search key. Thereby, it can classify | categorize for every similar actual work item.

  In addition, actual work items can be extracted based on various attributes defined for each actual work item. For example, an importance level may be determined in advance for each actual work item, and an actual work item having the importance level may be extracted using the importance level to be displayed on the screen as one virtual work item as a search condition. Furthermore, a customer name related to the work content may be registered in each actual work item, and the actual work item may be extracted using the designated customer as a search condition.

  Further, instead of extracting actual work items according to a predetermined extraction condition, the user may manually select an electronic bulletin board of actual work items to be displayed as a virtual message group of one virtual electronic bulletin board.

  FIG. 8 shows an example of the schema of the virtual work item DB 50. In FIG. 8, a virtual work item ID 61 indicates an identifier unique to each virtual work item. The virtual work item name 62 indicates a name defined for each virtual work item. The virtual work item type 63 indicates the extraction condition selected when extracting the actual work items constituting the virtual work item. Parameters 64 and 65 indicate parameters used when extracting actual work items under the selected extraction conditions. For example, if each actual work item constituting the virtual work item is extracted based on the similarity of the actual work item, the parameter is a similarity value. If each actual work item constituting the virtual work item is extracted based on the progress of the actual work item, the parameter is a value of the progress. Furthermore, if each actual work item constituting the virtual work item is a specified actual work item and an actual work item similar to the specified actual work item, one parameter is the actual work item of the specified actual work item. It is a work item ID, and another parameter is a similarity value. The memo 66 is a comment that briefly explains the actual work item extraction condition. By using this comment when the virtual work item is displayed on the screen, the displayed virtual work item extraction condition is The user can be visually recognized.

  Subsequently, the virtual work item management plug-in 70 extracts the message groups extracted as described above or posted on the electronic bulletin board of the designated actual work item from the message DB 30. Then, the virtual work item management plug-in 70 aggregates the plurality of extracted message groups, and sorts the message groups again according to a specified sort condition (for example, date order, source order, title order, etc.). The sorted messages are displayed on the display of the client terminal via the actual work item management device 10.

  FIG. 9 shows a screen displayed on the display of the client terminal when the message group posted on the electronic bulletin board of a plurality of actual work items included in the project is reconfigured as a virtual message group of one virtual work item. Show the image. As shown in FIG. 9, since a plurality of message groups are displayed as one virtual message group, the temporal relationship between the message groups posted on the electronic bulletin board of a plurality of actual work items can be easily grasped. can do. For example, conventionally, the message group of the electronic bulletin board of the actual work item “module A” and the message group of the electronic bulletin board of the actual work item “module B” could not be displayed as one message group. The temporal relationship between the two message groups could not be grasped, and it was difficult to grasp the causal relationship between “module A” and “module B”. However, according to this embodiment, as shown in FIG. 9, the message group of the electronic bulletin board of the actual work item “module A” and the message group of the electronic work board of the actual work item “module B” are virtually one. Since it can be displayed on the screen as one message group, the temporal relationship between the two message groups can be easily grasped, and the causal relationship between “module A” and “module B” can be easily grasped. it can.

  With the above configuration, according to the present embodiment, the message group posted on the electronic bulletin board of the plurality of actual work items extracted according to the extraction condition specified by the user is converted into the message group of the virtual electronic bulletin board of one virtual work item. Can be displayed on the screen. This eliminates the need for the user to display a group of messages on the electronic bulletin board of a plurality of actual work items on the screen and perform complicated screen switching.

  Also, in the conventional system, in order to grasp the contents of a plurality of actual work items at once, if a plurality of actual work items are configured as one large actual work item from the beginning, the following problems was there. In other words, if information about all actual work items is shared or progress management is performed on an electronic bulletin board of one large actual work item, if the work content is originally configured as one actual work item, the work content is already stored. Unless there is an actual work item that has been completed and is no longer needed, the large actual work item does not complete, but exists in the project, unless all the work contained in the large actual work item is complete . Therefore, there arises a problem that the original project management cannot be performed, in which work items are created according to the contents of work and completed at an appropriate timing. On the other hand, according to the present embodiment, a virtual work item composed of a plurality of actual work items is a virtual actual work item. Therefore, since the original actual work items are completed at an appropriate timing when the work is completed, the actual work items that are not completed indefinitely can be reduced.

  In this way, by displaying the message group of the electronic bulletin board of a plurality of actual work items virtually on the screen as one message group, the user can efficiently collect the message groups of the plurality of actual work items desired. , Can browse and grasp efficiently. However, when virtually displaying the message group of the electronic bulletin board of a plurality of actual work items as a virtual electronic bulletin board message group of one virtual work item, it does not occur on the electronic bulletin board of the actual work item. Problems arise. That is, in the case of an electronic work bulletin board of actual work items, a message newly registered in the electronic bulletin board and an attached file of the message may be stored in a storage area of the message DB or document DB corresponding to the actual work item. On the other hand, in the case of a virtual electronic bulletin board for virtual work items, the virtual work item is composed of a plurality of actual work items, and the storage areas of the message DB and document DB corresponding to the virtual work items are configured. There are as many work items as there are work items. Therefore, when a new message or attached file is registered on the virtual electronic bulletin board of the virtual work item, there is a problem that it is necessary to specify which actual work item is stored in the storage area of the message DB or document DB. .

  Therefore, in the present embodiment, when a new message or an attached file of the message is registered on the virtual electronic bulletin board of the virtual work item, a storage area for storing the new message or the like is specified as follows. That is, if the message newly registered on the virtual electronic bulletin board is a reply message to the message already posted on the virtual electronic bulletin board, the already posted message is stored as the target message, and the actual work item of the target message is stored. The new message is stored in the corresponding storage area. By storing the reply message in the same area as the area where the reply source target message is stored in this way, closely related messages can be stored in the same area. Whether or not it is a reply message may be determined by adding an identifier indicating whether or not it is a reply message to a predetermined position such as a header of registered message data.

  In addition, when the message to be newly registered on the virtual electronic bulletin board is not a reply message to the message posted on the virtual electronic bulletin board, but is a new message, one of a plurality of actual work items constituting the virtual work item is previously set. The new message is stored in the key actual work item storage area. The actual work item determined as the key actual work item may be specified by the user from a plurality of actual work items constituting the virtual work item when the virtual work item is created. In addition, if the actual work item group constituting the virtual work item is the specified actual work item and the actual work item existing below the actual work item, the hierarchy among the actual work item group constituting the virtual work item An actual work item positioned at the top of the structure may be used as a key actual work item. Furthermore, when creating a virtual work item, if the key actual work item is not defined, the user may be allowed to specify the key actual work item when registering a new message on the electronic bulletin board of the virtual work item. .

  Here, the execution flow when registering a message on the virtual electronic bulletin board of the virtual work item will be described based on the flowchart shown in FIG.

  When a new message is registered on the virtual electronic bulletin board of the virtual work item, the virtual work item management plug-in 70 first determines whether the message is a reply message to the message posted on the electronic bulletin board (S101). As a result of the determination, in the case of a reply message to the posted message, the actual work item ID of the actual work item for the target message is designated with the posted reply source message as the target message (S102). Then, the registration target message is stored in the storage area of the actual work DB corresponding to the designated actual work item ID (S103), and the message registration notification is sent to the user who registered the message. (S104). The registration notification may be notified to the user by e-mail.

  On the other hand, if the determination result indicates that the message is not a reply message to the posted message, the virtual work item management plug-in 70 subsequently determines whether or not a key actual work item is defined for the virtual work item (S105). If the key actual work item is determined as a result of the determination, the actual work item ID of the key actual work item is designated (S106), and the actual work work DB storage area corresponding to the designated actual work item ID is designated. The message to be registered is stored in and the message registration notification is performed. If the key actual work item is not defined in the virtual work item, a list of actual work items constituting the virtual work item is displayed on the user's display, and one actual work item is selected from the list (see FIG. S107). Then, the actual work item ID of the actual work item selected by the user is designated (S108), the registration target message is stored in the storage area of the actual work item DB corresponding to the designated actual work item ID, Perform message registration notification. In the above, the registration target is only a message, but even when an attached file exists in the message, as in the case described above, in the storage area of the document DB corresponding to the designated actual work item ID. The attached file may be stored.

  Further, when a message or its attached file is registered on the virtual electronic bulletin board of the virtual work item, the following problem occurs. That is, the virtual work item is configured by combining a plurality of appropriate actual work items according to the user's request. The message registered on the virtual electronic bulletin board of the virtual work item is viewed by members belonging to the actual work item corresponding to the area in which the message is stored. Usually, when a user views a message, the user understands the content of the message after understanding the content of the message described before the message.

  However, the message group described on the virtual electronic bulletin board of the virtual work item is displayed on the screen as a group of messages of a plurality of actual work items extracted based on the extraction conditions specified by the user. It ’s just that. Therefore, a message group displayed when a member other than the user who registered the message browses the message does not necessarily match the message group displayed on the screen of the user who registered the message. In other words, it is not always possible to view the content of the message described before the message, which is necessary to understand the content of the message. Inability to understand the content of the message.

  Therefore, in the present embodiment, as a characteristic configuration, a configuration information DB 60 that holds configuration information of the virtual work item displayed on the screen when a message is registered on the virtual electronic bulletin board of the virtual work item is provided. As a result, the virtual electronic bulletin board message group of the virtual work item can be reconstructed as necessary based on the configuration information at the time of registration, and the contents of the message described before the registered message can be viewed. . Here, the configuration information includes actual work item IDs of actual work items constituting the virtual work items, sorting conditions of message groups posted on the virtual electronic bulletin board of the virtual work items, and the like. In other words, the configuration information includes the actual work items extracted under what kind of extraction conditions the virtual work items displayed on the screen, and the message group posted on the electronic bulletin board of the extracted actual work items. This is information indicating whether sorting is performed under such sort conditions. This configuration information is stored in association with a newly registered message, and if necessary, a virtual electronic bulletin board message group of virtual work items is created based on the configuration information associated with the specified message. Display on the screen. As a result, the user understands the content of the message described before the message necessary for the other member to understand the content of the message registered on the virtual electronic bulletin board of the virtual work item, and then receives the message. Can understand the contents of

  FIG. 11 shows an example of the schema of the configuration information DB 60. In FIG. 11, a message ID 71 indicates a message ID of a message registered on the virtual electronic bulletin board of the virtual work item. The displayed actual work item list 72 indicates the actual work item IDs of the actual work items constituting the virtual work item at the time of message registration. The sort condition 73 indicates a sort condition when a message group of actual work items constituting the virtual work item is reconfigured. Based on the configuration information stored in the configuration information DB, a virtual message group is created and displayed on the screen.

  Next, a flow for displaying a new message group including the message group of the virtual electronic bulletin board of the virtual work item at the time of message registration will be described with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG.

  The virtual work item management plug-in 70 acquires the message ID of the message designated by the user via the actual work item management device 10 (S201). Here, the message specified by the user is a message specified from a group of messages posted on the electronic bulletin board or virtual electronic bulletin board displayed on the display by the user, and the screen status at the time of registration is displayed. This is a message that you want to know, that is, a message that you want to know the contents of other message groups posted on the bulletin board at the time of registration. Subsequently, it is determined whether or not the acquired message ID exists in the configuration information DB 60 (S202). If the acquired message ID exists in the configuration information DB 60 as a result of the determination, the actual work item ID and the sort condition corresponding to the message ID are acquired from the configuration information DB 60 (S203). The virtual work item management plug-in 70 collects a message group of actual work items corresponding to the acquired actual work item ID from the message DB (S204). The collected message group is sorted according to the sorting condition acquired earlier to create a virtual electronic bulletin board message group of virtual work items (S205). Then, the message group is displayed on the display of the user who requested the screen display (S206). Thereby, the user can browse the contents of the message after grasping the contents of the message group described before the message registered by the other member on the virtual electronic bulletin board of the virtual work item. Therefore, it is possible to easily grasp under what circumstances the message is registered.

  On the other hand, if the acquired message ID does not exist in the configuration information DB 60 as a result of the determination, the actual work item ID corresponding to the message ID acquired as the screen display target is specified, and the actual work item ID corresponding to the actual work item ID is specified. A message group is acquired from the message DB (S207). Then, the acquired message group is displayed on the display of the user who requested the screen display (S207). In other words, in this case, the message that requested the screen display at the time of registration is not a message registered on the virtual electronic bulletin board but a message registered on the normal electronic bulletin board. Display on the screen.

  In addition, when the created message group is displayed on the screen, if the message newly registered on the virtual electronic bulletin board of the virtual work item is a reply message to the message included in the message group posted on the bulletin board Of the message group at the time of registration, the reply source message may be displayed on the screen in a different display format so that it can be visually distinguished from other messages. As a result, the user can view the contents of the message after grasping the registered message based on which message the other member has registered on the virtual electronic bulletin board of the virtual work item.

  Here, the flow of screen display in different display formats will be described using the flowchart shown in FIG. 13 so that the reply source messages can be visually distinguished.

  First, the virtual work item management plug-in 70 acquires the message ID of the message to be displayed on the screen designated by the user via the actual work item management apparatus 10 (S211). Subsequently, it is determined whether or not the acquired message ID exists in the configuration information DB 60 (S212). If the acquired message ID exists in the configuration information DB 60 as a result of the determination, the actual work item ID and the sort condition corresponding to the message ID are acquired from the configuration information DB 60 (S213). Subsequently, the virtual work item management plug-in 70 collects a message group of actual work items corresponding to the acquired actual work item ID from the message DB (S214). The collected message group is sorted according to the sorting condition acquired earlier to create a virtual electronic bulletin board message group of virtual work items (S215). Further, it is determined whether or not a reply source message ID corresponding to the message ID exists in the message DB 30 (S216). If the reply message ID exists as a result of the determination, the message corresponding to the reply source message ID in the created message group is displayed on the display of the user who has requested the screen display in a display format different from other messages ( S217).

  On the other hand, if there is no reply message ID as a result of the determination, the created message group is displayed as it is on the display of the user who has requested the screen display (S218).

  Furthermore, in S212, if the acquired message ID does not exist in the configuration information DB 60 as a result of the determination, the actual work item ID corresponding to the message ID acquired as the screen display target is specified as in the flow of FIG. Then, a message group of actual work items corresponding to the actual work item ID is acquired from the message DB (S219). Then, the acquired message group is displayed on the display of the user who requested the screen display (S220).

  Specific examples of screen display in different display formats include, for example, displaying a message corresponding to the reply source message in a different color from other messages, or displaying the reply source message in a larger character size than other messages. Or a blinking display of only the reply source message. In addition, in order for the user to more easily identify the reply source message on the screen, the reply source message may be displayed at a predetermined position on the display screen, for example, at the center. Thereby, the user can browse the contents of the message after easily grasping the registered message based on which message the other member has registered on the virtual electronic bulletin board of the virtual work item.

1 is a system configuration diagram of an electronic bulletin board system according to a first embodiment. It is a block block diagram of the electronic bulletin board management apparatus of Embodiment 1. It is a system configuration figure in the project management system of Embodiment 2. In Embodiment 2, it is an example of the screen image displayed on the display of a client terminal. It is a block block diagram of the management server of Embodiment 2. It is an example of the schema of actual work item DB of Embodiment 2. FIG. It is an example of the schema of message DB of Embodiment 2. FIG. It is an example of the schema of virtual work item DB of Embodiment 2. In Embodiment 2, it is an example of the screen image of the message group of a virtual electronic bulletin board displayed on the display of a client terminal. FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing an implementation flow when a message is registered on the virtual electronic bulletin board according to the second embodiment. It is an example of the schema of configuration information DB of Embodiment 2. FIG. 10 is a flowchart showing an implementation flow for displaying a message group of a virtual electronic bulletin board of virtual work items at the time of message registration according to the second embodiment. FIG. 10 is a flowchart showing another implementation flow for displaying a virtual electronic bulletin board message group of virtual work items at the time of message registration in the second embodiment.

Explanation of symbols

  10 actual work item management device, 20 actual work item DB, 30 message DB, 40 document DB, 50 virtual work item DB, 60 configuration information DB, 70 virtual work item management plug-in, 80 full-text search device, 81 similar search device, 82 actual work item classification device, 100 electronic bulletin board management device, 110 bulletin board control unit, 111 storage unit, 112 virtual electronic bulletin board control unit, 120 database, 150 management server, 200 client terminal.

Claims (6)

An electronic bulletin board management apparatus for managing multiple electronic bulletin boards,
Storage means provided for each electronic bulletin board for storing messages posted on the electronic bulletin board;
Storage means for storing association information between message groups posted on the electronic bulletin board and storage means for storing the message groups;
Extraction means for extracting several electronic bulletin boards from the plurality of electronic bulletin boards based on the specified extraction conditions;
The storage means for storing the message group posted on the extracted several electronic bulletin boards is specified based on the association information, and the acquisition means for acquiring each message group from the specified storage means,
A virtual message group generating means for generating a virtual message group of one virtual electronic bulletin board by aggregating the acquired plurality of message groups and sorting the aggregated message groups according to a specified sorting condition;
A reply message input means for accepting input of a reply message to a target message designated from the virtual message group;
Based on the association information, the storage means for storing the target message is specified, and the writing means for writing the input reply message to the specified storage means;
An electronic bulletin board management apparatus comprising: An electronic bulletin board management apparatus for managing multiple electronic bulletin boards,
Storage means provided for each electronic bulletin board for storing messages posted on the electronic bulletin board;
Storage means for storing association information between message groups posted on the electronic bulletin board and storage means for storing the message groups;
Extraction means for extracting several electronic bulletin boards from the plurality of electronic bulletin boards based on the specified extraction conditions;
The storage means for storing the message group posted on the extracted several electronic bulletin boards is specified based on the association information, and the acquisition means for acquiring each message group from the specified storage means,
A virtual message group generating means for generating a virtual message group of one virtual electronic bulletin board by aggregating the acquired plurality of message groups and sorting the aggregated message groups according to a specified sorting condition;
Related message input means for receiving input of related messages related to the virtual message group;
Configuration information storage means for storing the configuration information including the list information of the electronic bulletin board constituting the virtual electronic bulletin board at the time of the related message input and the sort condition of the virtual message group in association with the input related message;
Configuration information acquisition means for acquiring, from the configuration information storage means, configuration information corresponding to a related message designated from a message group of an electronic bulletin board or a virtual message group of a virtual electronic bulletin board;
A specifying means for specifying a plurality of electronic bulletin boards constituting a virtual electronic bulletin board at the time of inputting a designated related message based on the acquired configuration information;
Screen display control means for controlling screen display of the electronic bulletin board;
With
The acquisition means is
Accumulating means for storing message groups posted on the specified plurality of electronic bulletin boards are specified based on the association information, and each message group is acquired from the specified accumulating means,
The virtual message group generation means includes
Aggregating a plurality of acquired message groups and sorting according to the sorting conditions included in the configuration information, to generate a new virtual electronic bulletin board virtual message group,
The screen display control means is
An electronic bulletin board management apparatus for controlling screen display of a virtual message group of a generated new virtual electronic bulletin board. In the electronic bulletin board management apparatus according to claim 2 ,
The related message is a reply message to the target message specified from the virtual message group,
The configuration information storage means stores the configuration information in association with the input related message and a target message for the related message,
The screen display control means includes
An electronic bulletin board management apparatus, wherein control is performed so that a target message associated with the configuration information in a generated virtual message group is displayed on a screen in a display format different from other messages. A program for managing multiple electronic bulletin boards,
An extraction step of extracting several electronic bulletin boards from the plurality of electronic bulletin boards based on specified extraction conditions;
From the storage means provided for each electronic bulletin board for storing the message group posted on the electronic bulletin board, the storage means for storing the message group posted on the several extracted electronic bulletin boards is specified and specified. An acquisition step of acquiring a message group from each of those storage means,
A virtual message group generation step of generating a virtual message group of one virtual electronic bulletin board by aggregating the acquired plurality of message groups and sorting the aggregated message groups according to a specified sorting condition;
A reply message input step for accepting input of a reply message for a target message specified from the virtual message group;
Based on the association information, the storage means of the storage destination of the target message is specified, and the writing step of writing the input reply message to the specified storage means;
A program that causes a computer to execute.   A program for managing multiple electronic bulletin boards,
  An extraction step of extracting several electronic bulletin boards from the plurality of electronic bulletin boards based on specified extraction conditions;
  From the storage means provided for each electronic bulletin board for storing the message group posted on the electronic bulletin board, the storage means for storing the message group posted on the several extracted electronic bulletin boards is specified and specified. An acquisition step of acquiring a message group from each of those storage means,
  A virtual message group generation step of generating a virtual message group of one virtual electronic bulletin board by aggregating the acquired plurality of message groups and sorting the aggregated message groups according to a specified sorting condition;
  A related message input step for receiving an input of a related message related to the virtual message group;
  Configuration information for storing configuration information including list information of the electronic bulletin board constituting the virtual electronic bulletin board at the time of inputting the related message and sorting conditions of the virtual message group in the configuration information storage means in association with the input related message A memory step;
  A configuration information acquisition step of acquiring configuration information corresponding to a related message designated from a message group of an electronic bulletin board or a virtual message group of a virtual electronic bulletin board from the configuration information storage unit;
  A specific step of identifying a plurality of electronic bulletin boards constituting the virtual electronic bulletin board at the time of inputting the designated related message based on the acquired configuration information;
  A screen display control step for controlling the screen display of the electronic bulletin board;
  A program for causing a computer to execute
  In the acquisition step,
  Accumulating means for storing message groups posted on the specified plurality of electronic bulletin boards are specified based on the association information, and each message group is acquired from the specified accumulating means,
  In the virtual message group generation step,
  Aggregating a plurality of acquired message groups and sorting according to the sorting conditions included in the configuration information, to generate a new virtual electronic bulletin board virtual message group,
  In the screen display control step,
  A program for controlling a screen display of a virtual message group of a generated new virtual electronic bulletin board.   The program according to claim 5, wherein
  The related message is a reply message to the target message specified from the virtual message group,
  In the configuration information storing step, the configuration information is stored in the configuration information storage means in association with the input related message and the target message for the related message,
  In the screen display control step,
  A program for controlling a target message associated with the configuration information in the generated virtual message group to be displayed on a screen in a display format different from other messages.