JPH10326257A - Document bulletining method of electronic bulletin board system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable a person other than a document creator to correct a bulletin document on condition that the document creator allows the person by referring to identification information related to the document and allowing the created document to be corrected from a terminal when the identification information shows that the document is a common document. SOLUTION: A host computer 10 and terminals 30 are connected through a LAN 20. The host computer 10 has a storage device 11 for storing documents that can be bulletined (buttletin document). A user when accessing the host computer 10 from a terminal 30 inputs a user ID given to the user from the terminal 30 and then the host computer 10 checks the user ID and allows the access. When the creator of a bulletin document specifies the bulletin document as a common document, a user who is allowed to only browse it is enabled to write to the bulletin document.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a document posting method of an electronic bulletin board system capable of displaying a posted document stored in a host computer on a plurality of terminals.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in this type of system, a document to be posted by a user of a terminal is created, and the document is given a document name and registered in a host computer. The host computer accumulates a list including the documents to be posted and the document names in a storage device such as a hard disk storage device.

[0003] A user who wants to view a posted document accesses the host computer from the terminal, displays the posted document name list on the terminal, and designates the posted document to be viewed. The host computer reads out the instructed bulletin document from the storage device and transmits it to the instructed terminal. The transmitted bulletin document is displayed on the display device of the terminal.

[0004]

A bulletin document that can be viewed on a terminal can be modified only by the creator of the bulletin document, and other users cannot add to the bulletin document. For this reason, for example, when posting guidance for recruitment of participants, a participant applicant must contact the organizer by a separate communication means such as telephone or facsimile.

[0005] However, for all posted documents,
If a modification other than the document creator is permitted, the posted document may be illegally modified contrary to the intention of the document creator.

In view of the above, an object of the present invention is to provide a document posting method for an electronic bulletin board system in which a person other than the document creator can modify a posted document when the document creator permits. Is to do.

[0007]

In order to achieve the above object, according to the first aspect of the present invention, a created bulletin document is stored in a host computer and an electronic document capable of displaying the bulletin document on a plurality of terminals. In the document posting method of the bulletin board system, the terminal that created the posted document gives the host computer identification information as to whether the posted document is a shared document, and the host computer creates the given identification information. The document is stored in association with the created document, and when a request for modification to the created document is issued from the terminal, the identification information associated with the document is referred to, indicating that the identification information is the shared document. In the case of, if the correction of the created document from the terminal is permitted, and if the identification information indicates that the document is not the shared document,
User I other than the user ID registered as the document creator
It is characterized in that document modification from a terminal accessed in D is prohibited.

[0008]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows a system configuration of an electronic bulletin board system to which the present invention is applied. In FIG. 1, a host computer 10 and a plurality of terminals 30 are connected via a LAN (wide area network) 20. The hardware configuration itself can be the same as the conventional one. Host computer 10
Has a storage device 11 for storing a document that can be posted (hereinafter, a posted document). When the user accesses the host computer 10 from the terminal 30, when the user inputs the user ID assigned to the user from the terminal 30, the host computer 10 checks the user ID and permits the access. Thereafter, the user causes the display device of the terminal 30 to display the bulletin document to be viewed. A feature of the present embodiment is that when a creator of a posted document specifies that the posted document is a shared document, a conventional user who only views the document can write to the posted document. .

FIG. 2 shows the structure of the database stored in the storage device 11 of the computer 10. The database includes a posted document list 101 used as a management table and a document database 102. The posted document list contains the name, creator (user ID), registration date, document type, and the like of the posted document stored in the document database 102 as one.
The above record is described in the form of a table as one record. The document database 102 stores documents to be posted and is retrieved by the document name.

The document posting process executed in such a system configuration will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. The processing procedure shown in FIG. 4 is stored in a ROM or a hard disk storage device in the host computer 10 in a program language executable by an information processing processor such as a CPU, and is read and executed by the CPU or the like. In the following description, processing executed by a CPU or the like
The processing will be described as 0.

(A) Registration of Posted Document The document creator creates a document for posting on the terminal 30 (see FIG. 3, but the name 202 of the applicant is not entered) on the terminal 30 in the same manner as in the prior art. 10 is instructed to register. At this time, from the terminal 30, the type information of the document name and the type of the document to be described in the posted document list of FIG. Enter 10

Upon receiving the document registration instruction, the host computer 10 newly registers the registered document in the document database 102, and writes the management information such as the above-mentioned document name in the posted document list 101 (step S10 → S11).

(B) Writing to a Posted Document of a Viewer A user who wishes to view a posted document accesses the host computer 10 from the terminal 30 and then instructs the host computer 10 to display a list of posted documents by a menu instruction or command. I do. In response to this instruction, the host computer 10 reads information to be displayed in the posted document list 101 from the storage device 11 and transfers it to the terminal device 30. This information includes the document name. As a result, a list of posted documents that can be displayed on the terminal 30 is displayed (step S20 → S21).

[0015] The user who desires to browse designates a desired posted document name to the host computer 10, and the host computer 10 retrieves the posted document with the designated posted document name from the document database 102 and transmits it to the terminal 30. . Thereby, the posted document 200 as shown in FIG. 3 is displayed on the display screen of the terminal 30 (step S22 → S
23).

At this point, the user instructs the host computer 10 to edit the document,
For example, an instruction of a character string insertion position, an input of a character string to be inserted, and the like are performed.

The host computer 10 that has received such an instruction related to document editing checks the type information of the transmitted posted document, and when the type information indicates a shared document,
Executes the instruction related to the received document editing. In the example of FIG. 3, the name 202 of the candidate who wants to participate
Is added to the posted document 200 and the document database 1
02 is updated (steps S24 → S25)
→ S27). Thereafter, when displaying the posted document, the posted document including the write information is displayed in response to requests from an unspecified number of terminals.

If the posted document transmitted to the user who wants to view the document is not a shared document, the host computer 10 checks the user ID at the time of accessing the terminal 30 and determines whether or not the user ID matches the user ID of the creator of the posted document. (Step S2
6). If it is a document editing instruction from the document creator,
Since an affirmative (YES) determination is obtained in the determination processing of step S26, a document editing instruction is executed in this case (step S27). On the other hand, if a negative (NO) determination is obtained in the determination process of step S26, the posted document is not a shared document, and the user who is viewing the posted document is not the creator of the posted document. No. 10 does not execute the document editing instruction, that is, the document editing is prohibited.

By performing such processing, a user other than the creator writes information for a document designated as a shared document, and thereafter, the written document can be viewed. Therefore, the document creator can know the participant to the event by looking at the posted document created by himself / herself after a certain period of time. In addition, since a candidate who wants to participate in an event can view the posted document and apply on the spot, there is no need to notify the document creator of the participation request by another communication method.

In addition to this embodiment, the following embodiment can be implemented.

1) In this embodiment, the host computer 10 has a document editing function, and the terminal 30 issues a document editing instruction. However, the document can be edited on the terminal 30 side. In this case, the terminal 30 sends the corrected document to the host computer 10 and
The host computer 10 rewrites the posted document stored in the document database to the newly received corrected document.

2) In the present embodiment, the posted document specified as a shared document can be modified at any location, but the posted document creator performs an area that can be modified and an area that cannot be modified. Is also good. In addition, in connection with these areas, only the insertion, or depending on the form of the document, only the deletion can be permitted, or the content of the document editing can be set by the posted document creator. In this case,
The permitted document editing contents and the condition information indicating the editable document area are stored in the storage device 11 in association with the posted document. When receiving a document editing instruction from the viewer, the host computer 10 refers to the condition information stored in the storage device 11 and determines permission / prohibition of editing.

3) Since the ID of the user who wrote the browsed document can be obtained from the user ID at the time of access, when the posted document specified as the shared document is corrected, the user ID of the corrector, The record of the access time and the corrected document name (called a log) is stored in the storage device 11. As a result, even if it is not possible to prevent mischief on the posted document, the offender can be identified.

[0024]

As described above, according to the present invention,
Since information can be written even by a person other than the posted document creator, information can be exchanged which could not be performed conventionally.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a system configuration according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram illustrating a configuration of a database that stores posted documents.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a posted document.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a processing procedure of the host computer 10 relating to posting a document.

[Explanation of symbols]

 10 Host computer 20 LAN 30 Terminal

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A document posting method of an electronic bulletin board system capable of storing a created bulletin document in a host computer and displaying the bulletin document on a plurality of terminals. Giving the host computer identification information as to whether or not the document is a shared document, the host computer stores the given identification information in association with the created document, and receives a request for modification of the created document from the terminal. If there is, refer to the identification information associated with the document, and if the identification information indicates that the document is a shared document, allow the terminal to modify the created document; If the information indicates that the document is not a shared document, a sentence from a terminal accessed with a user ID other than the user ID registered as the document creator Document Posted method of an electronic bulletin board system, characterized in that to prohibit the correction.