JPH07210597A - Information process for enabling arbitrary procedure registration - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To enable and execute flexible procedure registration by inputting a setting value to be set at the time of procedure registration, item to be commonly designated to any arbitrary processing, item among procedure processing items at the time of procedure execution and item to be individually designated in any arbitrary order in the case of procedure registration. CONSTITUTION:This device is composed of a non-set display generating device for editing the desired item to be commonly designated to processing items at the time of procedure registration execution and preparing display data without performing any setting at the time of procedure registration, procedure registration generating device for setting items to be individually set and inputted at the time of execution and common setting item display device to perform display for input based on the data prepared by the non-set display generating device in addition to a procedure registration generating device 5 for executing the procedure registration and storage of processing items for processing data and a procedure execution controller 9 for executing the processing items to which the procedure registration is performed.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus, such as a data processing apparatus for accounting, which can interactively input data and perform arbitrary procedure registration for outputting a book.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In an information processing apparatus such as a conventional accounting data processing apparatus capable of performing arbitrary procedure registration, a device for inputting data, a device for aggregating data, and processing and printing of data according to various set values. There are several devices such as devices. In processing by any device,
The operator selects each device independently every day or every month, and performs the same operation of processing the data according to various set values each time, and in the routine work, it is necessary from a certain amount of processing menu. Input operations are performed many times before performing any processing. Therefore,
Conventionally, a mechanism such as procedure registration in which a certain batch process is performed and a plurality of processes are collectively processed is also considered.

[0003]

However, in routine work, there are setting items that make the same settings each time and setting items that make different settings each time, such as the date. However, there was no display / input method that allows you to specify different setting items each time you work. In addition, there is no way to set a common setting item, such as the processing period, once when a plurality of processes are combined,
Therefore, the operator has to perform unnecessary input work many times in order to perform a series of setting processing including an uncertain factor at the time of executing the procedure. The present invention has been made to solve such a problem, and an object of the present invention is to facilitate an operator's operation at the time of procedure registration and procedure execution, and eliminate work mistakes.

[0004]

An information processing apparatus capable of performing an arbitrary procedure registration according to the present invention includes an input section having numerical keys for inputting data, character keys, a pointing device for selection, and the like; A storage unit that stores the procedure registration data input by the user; a table that stores the contents related to the procedure registration; a registration unit that registers the table based on the procedure registration data; and an unset item of the registration data A display creation unit for creating a display / input portion; inputting an unset portion from the registered data,
It is characterized by having an execution unit that executes processing.

Further, means for separately designating a portion for presetting a procedure for performing processing and a portion for setting at the time of execution; a display for designating a registered processing common designation portion at a time by common display contents is created. It has a means to specify.

[0006]

1 is a block diagram of an apparatus showing an embodiment of the present invention, in which a keyboard apparatus 1 has numeric keys and character keys for inputting and selecting procedure registration data, and pointing. The device input device 2 can be selected similarly to the procedure registration in the keyboard device. The display device 3 displays the input procedure registration, and the storage device 4 is a device that stores the input procedure registration. The procedure registration table 6, the set value storage table 7, and the unset display table 8 are the procedure registration generation device 5
Created by. The procedure execution control device 9 executes the procedure according to the set values of the procedure registration table 6, the set value storage table 7, and the unset display table 8. When the process item registered in the procedure execution control device 9 is a process involving printing, the printing device 10 executes printing.

FIG. 2 is a control diagram of the procedure registration generation control device 5 which is a characteristic part of the present invention. The procedure registration generation device 11 creates the procedure registration table 6 and the procedure registration setting device 12 stores the set values. The table 7 is created, and the unset display generation device 13 creates the unset display table 8.

FIG. 3 is a control diagram of the procedure execution control device 9 for executing procedure registration. The procedure execution device 14 refers to the procedure registration table 6 and the set value storage table 7, and processes registered in the procedure. The items are executed, the setting input display device 15 refers to the unset display table 8, performs the setting input display, and inputs the data by the setting input device 16. The monitor display device 17 can always monitor the execution state of the procedure execution device 14 even if other processes are being executed at the same time.

Such an apparatus can be realized by an information processing apparatus in which a multitasking and window system operates in a workstation already on the market.

Next, the operation of the apparatus thus constructed will be described with reference to the flow charts shown in FIGS.
6, 7, and 8 are display examples of this system.

First, the procedure registration of FIG. 4 will be described.
Keyboard device 1 or pointing device input device 2
Then, the procedure registration start is selected (S22). By this selection, in the normal process item selection, the selected process has been executed, but the process is not executed, and all are registered in the procedure registration table 6 as a series of information (S2).
3 to S29). When processing item selection (S23) is performed,
The display of the set value as in the example of FIG. 6 is displayed on the display device 3 (S24). Therefore, the setting value is input by the keyboard device 1 or the pointing device input device 2 (S25). Here, the setting value is selected from common non-setting items, individual non-setting items, and setting items (S26 and S2).
7).

[0012] For example, FIG. 6 is a screen for designating a book output program for the trial balance of total balance. The items for specifying a month for designating a processing period are common to a plurality of processes, and each time a routine work is performed. Since it is an item set to, it is "common". The items in the creation format are “settings” because they can be set once when registering the procedure, and the items in the supplementary subjects are the setting items unique to this book output program.
It is "individual" because it is an item that is set when the procedure is executed. All the setting values are input by the keyboard device 1 or the pointing device input device 2, and the setting values are stored in the setting value storage table 7 in the storage device 4 by the procedure registration setting device 12 (S28). In addition, the selected processing item is stored in the procedure registration table in the storage device 4,
It is stored by the procedure registration generating device 11 (S29).

Next, if there is an item to be registered, the same operation (S24 to S29) is repeated (S3).
0). If there is no item to be registered next, the registration process ends. The setting items commonly set as unset at the time of registration are written in the unset display table in the storage device 4 by the unset display generation device 13 (S31). This completes the procedure registration (S32).

By this registration processing, the setting items for which the same setting is performed each time during the routine work can be set during the registration operation, and the setting items for which different settings are performed each time are
It is saved as an unset item in the unset display table. The decision items common to a plurality of processes are also stored in the unset display table.

Next, a procedure registration executing device for executing this procedure registration will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. 5, FIG. 6, FIG. 7, and FIG. When the procedure registration is started, a selection display as to which procedure is to be executed is displayed on the display device 3 as shown in FIG. 7 (S42). The procedure to be executed is selected by inputting from the keyboard device 1 and the pointing device input device 2. Next, a common designated item display as shown in FIG. 8 for setting an unset item common to a plurality of processes registered in the procedure, that is, a month designated item in the above example, is displayed on the display device 3, and the set item is displayed. Input from the keyboard device 1 and the pointing device input device 2 (S4
3). Next, a display as shown in FIG. 6 is displayed on the display device 3 in order to input items to be individually set to the procedure-registered processing items, for example, sub-items, and the setting items are input by the keyboard device 1 and the pointing device input device 2. (S44). In this case, it is not possible to input the setting value already specified at the time of procedure registration, for example, the item of the creation format. When the input of the input items is completed, the input set values are collected as data and the process items are executed one after another (S45). The process item being executed is the monitor display device 17
By this, it is always displayed on the display device 3 and can be confirmed (S4
6). By these processes, it is not necessary to set the items already set at the time of procedure registration at the time of execution, and the operator's operation becomes easy. Further, common setting items that have not been set at the time of registration may be set once at the beginning of the procedure execution, and individual unset items may be set once, respectively, so that the operation of the operator can be greatly reduced.

Further, in the present embodiment, the data processing device for accounting work is taken as an example, but the present invention is not limited to this, and can be applied to all data processing devices having procedure registration and procedure execution functions. It is possible.

[0017]

According to the present invention, a set value desired to be set at the time of procedure registration and a set value desired to be processed while changing data at the time of procedure execution can be arbitrarily selected and set. For the specified setting value, you can select whether it is a common item for the process items registered in the procedure or an individual item, so you can reduce the number of setting items to input the setting value from the keyboard device at the time of execution, and the operator's Easy to operate,
It has a great effect of reducing work mistakes.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an apparatus showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a detailed block diagram of the procedure registration generation control device in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a detailed block diagram of the procedure execution control device of FIG.

FIG. 4 is a (S21) flowchart in the procedure registration generation device of FIG.

5 is a flowchart (S41) in the procedure registration executing device of FIG.

FIG. 6 is an example of a setting value input screen displayed from the apparatus of this embodiment.

FIG. 7 is an example of a procedure registration selection screen displayed from the device of this embodiment.

FIG. 8 is an example of a screen for inputting a common designation item displayed from the device of this embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 ... Keyboard device 2 ... Mouse input device 3 ... Display device 4 ... Storage device 5 ... Procedure registration generation control device 6 ... Procedure registration table 7 ... Setting value storage table 8・ ・ ・ Unset display table 9 ・ ・ ・ Procedure execution control device 10 ・ ・ ・ Printing device 11 ・ ・ ・ Procedure registration generating device 12 ・ ・ ・ Procedure registration setting device 13 ・ ・ ・ Unsetting display generating device 14 ・ ・ ・Procedure execution device 15 ... Setting input display device 16 ... Setting input device 17 ... Monitoring display device

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. An input unit having numeric keys for inputting data, character keys, a pointing device for selection, a storage unit for storing procedure registration data input from the input unit, and contents relating to procedure registration. Table, a registration unit that registers the table based on the procedure registration data, a display creation unit that creates a display / input portion based on unset items of the registration data, and a setting unit that is not set from the registration data. An information processing apparatus capable of performing arbitrary procedure registration, comprising: an execution unit for inputting a portion and executing a process. 2. A display for designating a procedure for performing a process and a part for designating at the time of execution separately, and a display for designating a registered process common designation part at a time by common display contents. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the information processing apparatus can perform any procedure registration.