JPH04152423A - Data assembly display method - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To easily comprehend the contents of a data assembly by calculating the data assembly numbers while referencing to the data of the data assembly and rearranging the icons showing the data assemblies in the order of the data assembly numbers. CONSTITUTION:The icons showing the conditions and the value of an estimated profit amount are inputted through a storage 18 for the estimation of the profit. These inputted icons are stored in a data assembly display method storage table. The estimated data on the sale, the stocking, and the cost contained in a profit estimation table are inputted through the storage 18 and the profit is calculated. Then the data assembly names are contained in a profit estimation table 01, etc. A fact whether the table 01 satisfies the icon display conditions or not by referencing to the data assembly display method storage table. Based on this deciding result, the icons corresponding to the display satisfying conditions are displayed on a display device 15. These processing operations are carried on until no data assembly is present thereon any more. Thus a user can simply compare the data assembly with each other based on the arranging order of icons showing the data assemblies.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a method for displaying the meaning of a data set in an easy-to-understand manner.

[Conventional technology]

Conventionally, there has been a method of displaying the contents of a data set in an easy-to-understand manner by displaying a table, graph, document, etc. and the type of the data set using an icon.

The closest example known before the filing of the present invention is as described in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 1-261723,
Sending an e-mail document by e-mail along with an icon representing the contents of the e-mail document, receiving the e-mail and displaying an icon representing the contents of the e-mail document, and allowing the user to select his or her own e-mail document from among a large number of e-mail documents. I started choosing what I wanted to read.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

The above-mentioned conventional technology does not take into account the display of the contents of the data set as a result of data processing on a data set such as a table, and performs processing on the data set.

There was a problem in that the data set was displayed and the user had to understand the contents of the data set, making it difficult to understand the data processing results.

In the above conventional technology, when comparing the contents of multiple data sets, the user has to display the multiple data sets, understand and compare the contents of the multiple data sets, and the comparison of the multiple data sets is simplified. The problem was that it could not be done.

An object of the present invention is to provide a method that allows the contents of a data set to be easily understood after processing is performed on the data set.

Another object of the present invention is to provide a method for easily comparing the contents of multiple data sets.

[Means to solve the problem]

In order to achieve the above purpose, a plurality of icons are stored for one data set, and an icon to be displayed is selected from among the plurality of icons by referring to the data of the data set.
The data set is displayed using the icon.

In order to achieve the above object, icon numbers indicating priorities of icons indicating data sets are stored, and icons indicating data sets are rearranged using the icon numbers as a reference.

[Effect]

Multiple icons are stored for one data set.

Perform processing on a dataset.

Since the data set changes due to data processing, the data set is referred to and an icon that meets the display conditions is selected from the plurality of icons, and the data set is displayed using the icon.

The user can easily know the contents of the data set by looking at the icon.

Similarly, multiple data sets are processed and icons representing the data sets are displayed.

Icon numbers indicating the priority order of icons indicating data sets are stored.

The icons are sorted in ascending order, descending order, etc. based on the icon number.

The user can easily compare data sets by looking at the order in which the icons representing the data sets are arranged.

〔Example〕

An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a flow chart of a data set display method.

FIG. 2 shows a data set display method storage table 11.

The data set display method storage table 11 is as follows.

It consists of each item: data set, icon display conditions, and icon.

FIG. 3 is a profit forecast 12 showing an example of a data set.

Profit forecast 12 is products, sales, and purchasing.

Consists of expenses and profit items.

FIG. 4 is a system configuration diagram showing the overall configuration. Fourth
In the figure, 15 is a display device that displays icons and data, 16 is an input device, 17 is a processing device that executes data processing, and 18 is a storage that stores the data set display method storage table 11 and the data set and data set processing program. It is a device.

In this embodiment, a plurality of drafts of parameter sets to be referred to when calculating future expected data are stored, a plurality of icons are stored for one parameter set, and future expected data is calculated by referring to the parameter set. The feature is that an icon to be displayed is selected from the plurality of icons by referring to the calculation result data, and differences in future expected data calculation results due to differences in parameter sets are displayed using icons.

A detailed explanation will be given below using the flowchart shown in FIG.

The conditions for the expected profit amount and the icons that display the size of the expected profit amount are input from the storage device 18 and stored in the data set display method storage table 11 (step 11o).
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The profit forecast table 12 in FIG. 3 is a table in which forecasts of sales, purchases, and expenses are entered to calculate the forecast amount of profit.

Forecast data on sales, purchases, and expenses for the profit forecasting unit 12 are input from the storage device 18, profits are calculated, and the data set name is set as "profit forecasting unit 01" or the like (step 120). Data set display method Refer to the memory table 11 to determine whether the data set "Profit Expected Clothes 014" satisfies the conditions for displaying icons, and display the icons that meet the conditions!
15 (step 130). If there is a data set that has not been processed in steps 120 and 130, the process moves to step 120 (step 140).

FIG. 5 shows the display device 1 according to the flowchart shown in FIG.
5 shows a data set type icon 21 indicating the data set type and a data set icon 22 indicating the contents of the data set.
This is a display screen showing a pair of images.

In this way, multiple data sets are stored, multiple icons are stored in one data set, future expected data is calculated by referring to the data set, and the calculated data is referred to and displayed from the plurality of icons. Since the icons are selected and displayed, the user can easily see the differences in the processing results of multiple data sets without displaying multiple data sets, reducing the time it takes for the user to learn the differences in the processing results of the data sets. be done.

Further, by displaying the data set type icon 21 and the data set icon 22 in pairs as shown in FIG. 5, the type of data set and the contents of the data set can be easily understood.

A second embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing a data set display method.

FIG. 7 shows a display screen where the data set display method storage table 11 is displayed on the display device [15] and the user inputs information into the table.

In this embodiment, a plurality of icons are stored for one data set, correction data of the data set is input, processing of the data set is executed, data of the data set is referenced, and icons are displayed from the plurality of icons. Select and display
The feature is that the impact of data set modification is displayed with icons.

A detailed explanation will be given below using the flowchart shown in FIG.

The user inputs the conditions that the data set should satisfy and the icon to be displayed when the conditions are satisfied, as shown in FIG. 7, and stores them in the data set display method storage table 11 (step 21).
0). The data set "profit forecast table 01" is displayed on the display device 15, and the user selects processing for the data set using the input device 16 (step 220), Step 2
It is determined in step 20 whether the selected process is data set modification, and if it is not data set modification, the process moves to step 270 (step 230). If the determination in step 230 is to modify the data set, the user inputs the estimated data modification values for sales, purchases, and expenses for the data set "Profit Forecast Table 01" from the input device 15, and modifies the data set (step 240). Profit is calculated by referring to the sales, purchases, and expenses in the data set [profit forecast tables 01 and 1 (step 25o).

FIG. 8 shows a display screen in which a data set icon 22 indicating the contents of the data set and a part of the data set are simultaneously displayed on the display device [15].

According to the data set display method storage table 11 in FIG.
It is determined whether "profit forecast table 01" satisfies the conditions to be satisfied, icons corresponding to the satisfied conditions are displayed as shown in FIG. 8, and the process moves to step 220 (step 260).

In this way, we modified a dataset, executed the process on the dataset, referred to the data in the dataset, and displayed the dataset as an icon.The effect of modifying the dataset can be seen by looking at the icon representing the dataset. This often reduces the amount of time it takes to scroll, print, etc. to see the effects of modifying a data set.

A third embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing the third embodiment.

FIG. 10 shows a display screen in which a data set display method storage table 11 is displayed on the display device 15, and the user can arbitrarily set information in the table.

Hereinafter, a detailed explanation will be given using the flowchart shown in FIG.

The user inputs an icon representing the thickness of an arbitrary page for a document data set and conditions for displaying the icon from the input device 16 as shown in FIG. 10, and stores them in the data set display method storage table 11 (step 310). ), the user creates a document data set. (Step 320).

The number of pages of the document data set is referred to according to the data set display method storage table 11 of FIG. 10, and icons corresponding to the conditions that the number of pages satisfies are displayed (step 330).

FIG. 11 shows a display screen in which a document data set is displayed on the display device [15] using icons indicating the thickness of the page according to the flowchart shown in FIG.

In this way, multiple icons indicating the thickness of pages for a document data set and the conditions for displaying the icons are stored, the number of pages in one document data set is referenced, and the icon corresponding to the number of pages is displayed. An overview of the page thickness of a document data set can be obtained without displaying the document data set.

A fourth embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 12 is a flowchart showing the fourth embodiment.

FIG. 13 shows a display screen in which a data set arrangement storage table 25 is displayed on the display device 15, and the user can arbitrarily set information in the table. The data set arrangement storage table 25 is as follows.

Data set, conditions for displaying icons, and icons.

Consists of each item of icon number.

The present embodiment is characterized in that icon numbers indicating priorities of icons indicating data sets are stored, and the icons are rearranged based on the icon numbers.

Hereinafter, a detailed explanation will be given using the flowchart of FIG. 12.

The user selects an icon representing the latest update date for a document data set, a condition for displaying the icon, and an icon number indicating the latest update date of the icon.
As shown in the figure, the information is inputted from the input device 16 and stored in the data set arrangement storage table 25 (step 410). The number of days after update is calculated from the update date of the document data set and today's date according to the data set arrangement storage table 25, and an icon corresponding to the condition that the number of days after update satisfies is selected and displayed (step 420). It is determined whether there is a document data set that has not been processed in step 420, and if so, the process moves to step 420 (step 430). Storage device how to arrange icons that represent document data sets! 18, and it is determined whether the icons are arranged in ascending order (step 440).

If the icons are arranged in ascending order, the data set arrangement storage table 25 is referred to, and the icon numbers of the icons displayed in step 420 are rearranged in ascending order, and the display of the icons is similarly rearranged (step 450). Step 44
If it is determined that the icons are not arranged in ascending order, the data set arrangement storage table 25 is referred to and the icon numbers of the icons displayed in step 420 are arranged in descending order, and the display of the icons is similarly arranged (step 460).
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FIG. 14 shows the display device according to the flowchart of FIG. 12!
This is a display screen in which icons representing the newness of the update period of the document data set are displayed at 15, and the icons are rearranged in descending order of the update period.

In this way, the nine document data sets are displayed with icons indicating the latest update period, the icon numbers indicating the latest update period of the icons are stored, the icons are rearranged in the order of the icon number, and the icons are displayed in the order of the latest update period. Since the icons are arranged at the top, it is easy to compare update periods and select the most recently updated document data set.

The embodiment of the present invention shown in FIG. 5 will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 15 is a flowchart showing a fifth embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 16 shows a display screen in which a data set number calculation formula storage table 26 is displayed on the display device [15], and the user can arbitrarily set information in the table. The data set number calculation formula storage table 26 consists of each item of data set and data set number Saro formula.

The present embodiment is characterized in that a data set number is calculated by referring to the data of the data set, and icons representing the data sets are rearranged in the order of the data set number.

A detailed explanation will be given below using the flowchart shown in FIG.

The user inputs a data set number calculation formula for calculating a data set number by referring to the data of the document data set from the input device 16 as shown in FIG. 16, and stores it in the data set number calculation formula storage table 26 (step 510). . Data sets, conditions for displaying icons, and information on each item of the icons in the data set arrangement storage table 25 shown in FIG. The icon to be represented and the conditions for displaying the icon are stored (step 520).

The number of days after update is calculated from the update date of the document data set and today's date, and the icon corresponding to the condition that the number of days after update satisfies is selected and displayed on the display device fi15 (step 530). The update date of the document data set is stored as the data set number of the document data set according to the data set number calculation formula storage table 26 (step 540), and it is determined whether there is a data set that has not been processed in steps 530 and 540. If it exists, the process moves to step 530 (step 550). The order of the icons representing the document data set is input from the storage device 18, and it is determined whether the icons are arranged in ascending order (step 56o).

If the icons are arranged in ascending order, the data set numbers are arranged in ascending order, and the icons representing the data sets are similarly arranged (step 570). If it is determined in step 560 that the icons are not arranged in ascending order, the data set numbers are arranged in descending order and the icons representing the data sets are similarly arranged (step 580).

FIG. 17 shows a display in which icons representing the newness of the update period of the document data set are displayed on the display device 15 according to the flowchart shown in FIG. 15, and the icons are sorted in descending order of update date of the document data set. It's a screen.

In this way, the data set number is calculated by referring to the data in the data set, and the icons representing the data set are sorted in the order of the data set number. It becomes possible to create a data set rank from the data of the data set and rearrange the icons according to the rank.

〔Effect of the invention〕

According to the present invention, the contents of the data set can be understood by looking at the icon after processing the data set, so the user does not have to spend time displaying, scrolling, printing, etc. the data set in order to understand the contents of the data set. This has the effect of speeding up the time it takes to understand the contents of a set.

In addition, after processing multiple data sets, the icons indicating the contents of the data sets can be rearranged in order of importance, allowing users to display, scroll, print, etc. multiple data sets in order to compare the contents of multiple data sets. This has the effect of eliminating the need for operation time and speeding up the time it takes to compare the contents of multiple data sets.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 is a flowchart showing a data set display method, Fig. 2 is a table storing the data set display method, Fig. 3 is a diagram showing a profit forecast table as an example of a data set, and Fig. 4 is a diagram showing the implementation of the present invention. Figure 5 is a diagram showing an example of displaying a data set, Figure 6 is a flowchart showing a method of displaying a data set when modifying a data set, and Figure 7 is a diagram showing a data set by size of profit rate. Figure 8 is a diagram showing an example of a data set correction screen, Figure 9 is a flowchart for displaying a document data set by page thickness, and Figure 10 is a diagram showing a document data set by page thickness. A table that stores the method of displaying by thickness. Figure 11 is an example of a display screen that displays a document data set by page thickness.
Fig. 12 is a flowchart showing how to arrange icons by icon number, Fig. 13 is a table for storing data set display method and icon numbers, Fig. 14 is an example of a display screen in which icons are arranged by icon number, Fig. 15 16 is a flowchart showing how to arrange icons according to data set numbers, FIG. 16 is a table that stores data set number calculation formulas, and FIG. 77 is an example of a display screen in which icons are arranged according to data set numbers. 11... Data set display method storage table, 12...
・Profit forecast table, 21...Data set type icon,
22...Data set, 25...Icon number memory te 1st division fig. fig. rod fig.

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. Icon storage means for storing icons indicating data sets; Data set storage means for storing data sets;
In a data processing device having a data input means for inputting data, a data processing means for executing data processing, and a display means for displaying data and icons, a plurality of icons are stored for one data set, and a plurality of icons are stored for one data set. A data set display method characterized by referring to data, selecting an icon to be displayed from among the plurality of icons, and displaying the data set using the icon. 2. In the data set display method according to claim 1, a condition to be satisfied by the data set and an icon to be displayed when the condition is satisfied are stored, and an icon corresponding to the condition satisfied by the data set is displayed. A data set display method characterized by: 3. In the data set display method according to claim 1, performing a process of referring to data of the data set,
A method for displaying a data set, comprising: referring to the data of the processing result, selecting an icon to be displayed from among a plurality of icons, and displaying the data set using the icon. 4. The data set display method according to claim 1, characterized by arbitrarily setting a plurality of icons for one data set and a data set condition for selecting an icon to be displayed from among the plurality of icons. Data set display method. 5. In the data set display method according to claim 1, a data set display in which, for one data set, an icon indicating the type of the data set and an icon indicating the content of the data set are displayed as a pair. Method. 6. A data set display method according to claim 1, characterized in that the data of the data set and an icon indicating the contents of the data set are displayed at the same time. 7. In the data set display method according to claim 1, an icon number indicating the priority order of the icons indicating the data set is stored, and the icons indicating the data set are rearranged based on the icon number. Characteristic data set display method. 8. A data set display method as claimed in claim 7, characterized in that icon numbers indicating priorities of icons representing data sets can be arbitrarily set. 9. In the data set display method according to claim 1, a data set number indicating the priority of the data set is calculated by referring to the data of the data set, and the data set is displayed based on the data set number. A data set display method characterized by rearranging icons. 10. The data set display method according to claim 9, characterized in that a calculation formula for a data set number indicating the priority of the data set can be arbitrarily set by referring to the data of the data set. Method.