JPH0757024A - Document processing method - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To display and to output a final document by automatically retrieving a file where data to be referred to are present and automatically performing a necessary data process unless the reference data are set. CONSTITUTION:A processor 1 has a total control part 2, an input/output control part 3, a document input/output part 4, a document process execution part 5, and a document file 6, and each document stored in the document file 6 consists of document data 7 and document process definitions 8. Further, a process execution part 9 starts and executes other corresponding process routine 11 in a process routine library 10 together with various data files 12 when the routines need to be executed. Therefore, when the reference data are not set and other process routines need to be executed to set the data, the process routines are started to set the reference data. Consequently, the request driven type document processing method which performs the process execution in response to the specification of the document to be outputted finally is obtained.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a form processing method, and more particularly to a form suitable for developing and changing a business processing system that handles a plurality of forms such as slips, management tables, and ledgers used in general office work processing. Regarding processing method.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, as a form processing method for a plurality of forms, for example, the method disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2-280269 is known. In this method, by setting the logical item name and the form process definition in advance, when the data of a certain form is input or changed, the data process of the related form is automatically performed and the data The result of the input / change is reflected in all related forms.

[0003]

In the field of atypical information processing, there is a strong need to arbitrarily specify the form format to be finally obtained and the content of data to be displayed. However, in the above-mentioned conventional technique, for example, it is possible to perform simple data processing and display by using the item (field) name of the database, but in reality, the data to be referenced is in multiple files. In many cases, the data is scattered and the reference data itself is not set, and there is a problem that operation is difficult unless the data processing method between a plurality of files is well understood. The present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to solve the above-described problems in the conventional technique and to know the data processing method and the presence or absence of data setting for each of a plurality of files. However, by simply specifying the processing contents of the form to be finally obtained as described above, the file containing the data to be referred to is automatically searched, and if the reference data is not set, it is automatically searched. It is to provide a form processing method capable of displaying / outputting a final form by executing necessary data processing.

[0004]

The above objects of the present invention are as follows:
In the form creation process, logical item names are described in each form including the final output form, and the final output form is defined by describing the form process definition, and the data necessary for the final output form can be searched for. When the corresponding data does not exist, the form processing definition and data processing routines of other forms are executed to obtain the necessary data, and the final output form is obtained without paying attention to the data processing procedure between the forms. It is achieved by a form processing method characterized by.

[0005]

In the form processing method according to the present invention, as shown in FIGS.
As shown in FIG. 3, when the form definition defined in the final output form is input, the contents are decoded and executed, and the data of other forms are sequentially referenced. If the data of another form is not set, the data is set by decoding and executing the form process definition of the form. If the reference data is not set and it is necessary to execute another processing routine to set the reference data, the corresponding processing routine is activated and the reference data is set. As a result, the conventional form processing method is an event-driven (Event Driven) process in which data input / modification is used as a process execution trigger, whereas in the form processing method according to the present invention, This is a request-driven (Demand Driven) form processing method in which the specification of the form to be output to the process is triggered.

The details will be described below. In order to realize the form processing method according to the present invention, it is necessary to search the final output form for a logical item for which data is not set and input the data by some means. There are two triggers for setting data in the logical items for which the above-mentioned data has not been set: (1) human beings input data (2) the calculation result of the process definition formula in the form process definition is substituted. When the person (1) inputs the data, it can be easily realized by displaying the data input instruction through the console or the like and executing the data input through the console or the like by the person. Whether or not a human is a logical item to be input with data can be determined by not substituting the operation result in any process definition formula in the form process definition of the form.

On the other hand, in the case of (2), data setting is performed by substituting the operation result of the process definition formula in the form process definition into the relevant logical item. However, in general, the process definition formula refers to an arbitrary logical item of the self-form or another form, and therefore the calculation cannot be executed when the data of these logical items is not set. In this case as well, the solution method in which the data is not set is the above-mentioned (1) or (2), and (1) can be easily executed, but in the case of (2), the calculation of the new process definition formula is performed. Need to do. Similarly, when the data of the logical item referred to by the new process definition formula is not set, it is necessary to precede the calculation of another process definition formula. It was a technical problem of the form processing method according to the present invention to automatically perform chained arithmetic control of expressions.

In the present invention, in order to solve this problem,
A processing save table using the stack concept used in the microcomputer is provided in the system.
Then, when it is found that it is necessary to execute the operation of another process definition expression in the operation execution of a certain process definition expression by using this, the first process definition expression is set to the top of the above-mentioned process save table. Store it in a row and then execute another operation definition operation. Thereafter, when a new process definition formula needs to be executed by the same procedure, the process definition formula currently being executed is stored in the top row of the process save table.
Then, when the calculation execution of a certain process definition expression is completed,
The process definition formula stored in the top row of the process save table described above is read, and the operation is executed.

If the contents of the process save table are all empty, the execution of the arithmetic expression ends. If the above procedure is carried out for all the data-unset logical items on the final output form, the above-mentioned object of the present invention will be achieved. A feature of the form processing method according to the present invention is that no other control information is required in addition to the above-mentioned process save table in order to perform the operation execution control between process definition expressions. As a result, the form processing definition can be defined and changed at any time regardless of the processing contents of other forms, and the necessary output of the required form processing and data input instructions can be automatically issued to the final output form. Is what you can get.

[0010]

Embodiments of the present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the drawings. FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the form processing system according to the embodiment of the present invention. In the figure,
Reference numeral 1 is a processing device, which is an overall control unit 2, an input / output control unit 3,
It has a form input / output unit 4, a form processing execution unit 5, and a form file 6. Each form stored in the form file 6 is composed of form data 7 and form processing definition 8. Reference numeral 9 denotes a processing execution unit, which executes and starts a corresponding processing routine 11 from the processing routine library 10 together with various data files 12 when another routine needs to be executed.

The operation of this embodiment will be described below with reference to the specific example shown in FIG. In FIG. 5, the final output form 2
0 is a profit report for each district, and its output format is shown in FIG. 6 and the form processing definition 21 is shown in FIG. In FIG. 6, is a logical item name, and in the description of the form process definition 21 using this name, for example, the data setting of the logical item name of Tokyo sales is set in the sales form 30 shown in FIG. District product AA sales volume and product form 40
This means multiplying the sales unit price of the product AA above and the product BB and product CC in the same manner, and substituting the sum of these into Tokyo sales. In addition, the total sales amount of the district means that the sum total of the sales amount of Tokyo, the sales amount of Osaka, and the sales amount of Nagoya are substituted.

In the following description, the sales form 30 and its process definition 31 shown in FIG. 8, the product form 40 and its process definition 41 shown in FIG. 9, and the cost form 50 and its process definition 51 shown in FIG. It is assumed to be set in advance. The logical item names in the sales form 30, the product form 40, and the cost form 50 are the parts surrounded by a square frame, and can be referred to in the process definition of the own form and other forms. Further, in the sales report process definition 31, the process “Tokyo = process: TOKYO” is stored in the process routine library 10 as “TOK”.
By executing the processing routine "YO", it means that the sales quantity for each product in the Tokyo area is set. Hereinafter, a specific operation example will be described based on the flowcharts shown in FIGS. 4 to 10 and FIGS. 1 to 3 described above.

First, the processing definition 21 of the profit report 20 for each area as shown in FIGS. 6 and 7 is performed (step 61), and the execution is activated (step 62). With reference to the contents of the profit report 20 by district, a logical item for which no data is set is searched (step 63). If data has been set for all logical items, the process ends. If not, that is, if there is a logical item for which data has not been set, select any logical item for which no data has been set. select. Here, as an example, if "Tokyo profit" in the above-mentioned district profit report 20 is selected, then the selected "Tokyo profit" is defined as process definition 2
It is searched whether or not the operation result of a certain process definition expression in 1 is a logical item to be substituted (step 64).

In this case, the process definition formula in the process definition 21 is Tokyo profit = sales form [Tokyo AA] × ... (1), which corresponds to the process definition to be executed from now on. This is an execution definition expression that is an expression (step 65). Next, the overall control unit 2 checks whether or not data is set in all the reference logical items of the above-mentioned execution definition formula (step 6).
6). When there is a reference to another form, the overall control unit 2 reads the contents of the corresponding form through the form input / output unit 4 and checks whether or not the data of all the reference logical items have been set (step 67).

Here, as for the reference data on the sales form 30, Tokyo “AA”, Tokyo “BB”, and Tokyo “CC”, all the data have been set as shown in FIG. Profit "BB" and profit "CC", which are the reference logical items above
Data has not been set as shown in FIG. Moreover,
According to the content of the product form processing definition 41, the data setting is the substitution of the calculation result of (profit = sales unit price−production cost ... You can see steps 68 and 69).

Therefore, the above-mentioned execution definition formula (1) is stored in the uppermost row (= 1) of the processing save table 15 provided in the system (see FIG. 2) and the uppermost row = 2 (step 70). ). Next, the formula (2) in the process definition formula 41 is set as a new execution definition formula (step 71). And again, the steps of FIG.
By checking the reference data of the execution definition formula from 66, it is found that the logical item data of the manufacturing cost “BB” and the manufacturing cost “CC” in the product form 40 is not set,
This time, it becomes clear that the calculation of manufacturing cost = cost form [manufacturing cost] ... (3) in the process definition formula 41 needs to be performed first, so as shown in step 70, the execution definition formula (2 ) Is stored in the uppermost row (= 2) of the processing save table 15 (see FIG. 2), and the uppermost row =
Set to 3.

Next, a new execution definition expression (process definition expression 41
Manufacturing cost = cost form [manufacturing cost] ... (3) is processed again from step 66, and this time, the process definition formula manufacturing in the cost form process definition 51 shown in FIG. Cost = material cost + labor cost + indirect cost ... It becomes clear that it is necessary to calculate (4) first, so the above execution definition formula (3) is stored in the process save table 15 by the procedure as described above. Then, a new execution definition formula (4) is set.

After that, the processing of steps 66 to 69 is continued again. This time, since the personnel cost in the logical item of the cost report 50 has not been set, the processing routine personnel cost in the processing definition 51 = process. : Execute JINKENHI (step 72). As a result, all the reference data of the execution definition formula has been set, so the execution definition formula is calculated and the result is substituted (step 73).

The calculation result is the manufacturing cost "AA" of the cost report 50.
~ When assigned to "CC", next, the processing save table 15
It is checked whether or not the content of is empty (step 74). In addition,
At this point in time, the contents of the process save table 15 are as shown in FIG. 2 (not empty), so the new execution definition formula is: manufacturing cost in the top row of the table = cost form [manufacturing cost]. ... (3) is set and the top row of the table is cleared (step 7
5, 76).

Thereafter, the processing of steps 66 to 69 is continued again, and this time, since all the reference data have been set, the routine proceeds from step 67 to step 73, and at step 75,
Profit = sales unit price−production cost ... (2) is set as a new execution definition formula. Also in this execution definition formula, since all the reference data have been set, the calculation of step 73 is executed.

In the present embodiment, the product form 40
All of the selling unit prices “AA” to “CC” in the inside have already been set with data, but if some or all of the data have not been set, a data input instruction is given in step 68.
(Step 77 in FIG. 2) is displayed. According to this, the data can be input to perform the operation. Further, even when the data is set by substituting the calculation result of the process definition formula having the sales unit price in the product form 40, step 70
~ The process of step 71 is performed, and data setting is automatically performed.

By repeating the above-mentioned procedure, finally, the processing definition formula in the processing definition 21 of the profit report 20 by district Tokyo profit = sales form [Tokyo AA] × ... ) Is executed and the data of is set. At this point, the contents of the process save table 15 described above are empty (step 74), so the process proceeds to step 63. Hereinafter, by performing the same processing on the logical items for which no data is set in the district profit report 20, data is automatically set in all the logical items of the district profit report 20.

Therefore, if only the logical item names and processing routine names of other forms are known, any final output form can be obtained without paying attention to the processing contents of other forms, the data reference relationship between the forms, and the processing execution order. By simply defining, the data is automatically set in all logical items of the final output form, and any final output form can be obtained.

It is needless to say that the above embodiment shows an example of the present invention, and the present invention should not be limited to this. For example, the data format of each form, the definition language, the format, etc. can be arbitrarily selected and used according to the target system.

[0025]

As described above in detail, according to the present invention, it is possible to process the above-mentioned final desired sheet without knowing the data processing method or the presence / absence of data setting for each of a plurality of files. By simply specifying the content, the file that contains the data to be referenced is automatically searched, and if the reference data is not set, the necessary data processing is automatically executed to make the final This has a remarkable effect of realizing a form processing method capable of displaying and outputting a form.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a part of a flowchart showing an operation outline of a form processing system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is another part of the flowchart showing the operation outline of the form processing system according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is still another part of the flowchart showing the operation outline of the form processing system according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing a configuration of a form processing system according to an embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating a specific form processing operation.

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing a definition example of a final output form as a specific example.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a process definition example of the final output form shown in FIG.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a definition example of a sales form as a specific example and a process definition example thereof.

FIG. 9 is a diagram showing a definition example of a product form as a specific example and a processing definition example thereof.

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a definition example of a cost form as a specific example and a processing definition example thereof.

[Explanation of symbols]

1: processor, 2: overall controller, 3: input / output controller,
4: Form input / output unit, 5: Form process execution unit, 6: Form file, 7: Form data, 8: Form process definition, 9: Process execution unit, 10: Process routine library, 11: Process routine, 12: Various Data file, 20: Final output form
(Profit report by district), 21: Form processing definition of profit report by district 20, 30: Sales form, 31: Process definition of sales form 30, 40: Product form, 41: Process definition of product form 40, 50 : Cost report, 51: process definition of cost report 50.

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. In the form creating process, a logical item name is described in each form including the final output form, and the final process form is defined by describing the form process definition, which is required for the final output form. Data, and if the corresponding data does not exist, execute the form processing definition and data processing routine of other forms to obtain the necessary data, and output the final output form without being aware of the data processing procedure between forms. A form processing method characterized by being configured so as to obtain. 2. Each of the forms is stored in a file, which is composed of form data, which is a component of the form, and a pair of form processing definitions, and is stored in a file. By using a logical item name, the same logical item of another form can be obtained. The form processing method according to claim 1, wherein the name can be referred to. 3. A form control unit for controlling a form process definition of another form and an execution control of a data processing routine, wherein necessary data is taken into the form data according to an instruction from the general control unit. The form processing method according to claim 1.