JPH11296507A - Information perusing system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To allow a person who is not used to preparation to easily prepare an HTML document by displaying an editing picture with an input section and plural templates and editing a desired HTML document reflecting contents inputted to the input section corresponding to each item of a selected template. SOLUTION: The plural templates being the format model of the HTML document are displayed (a) on an editing picture 100 displayed on the screen of a client terminal. In each template, plural items are arranged by respectively different layout (b) and the preparing person selects a proper template. In addition, on the picture 100, an input item for inputting the contents of the item to be used by the template is provided by each item to relate with the item of each template. Consequently, by inputting the contents to a necessary input item, the HTML document reflecting the contents to each item of the selected template can be prepared.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

The present invention relates to an information browsing system, and more particularly to an information browsing system for browsing various information using an Internet browser.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, a computer network system called the Internet or an intranet, which has rapidly spread, is a WWW (World Wide W).
An information browsing technique called eb) is used. WW
W is HTML (HyperText Mark-up)
Data described in a language called “Language” is converted to HTTP (HyperText Transfer).
(Protocol).

In this type of network system, a Web server program is installed in a computer, that is, a Web server terminal connected to this network at various places, and a data file to be viewed is placed under the management of the Web server program. The user activates a browser (browsing program) mounted on his or her personal computer connected to the network, that is, a client terminal or the like, and obtains a URL (U.S.
niform ResourceLocator).

[0004] In response, the browser sends the specified W
The web server terminal is connected to the web server terminal by a communication protocol called TCP / IP, and data received from the web server terminal is displayed on a screen. After the data reception is completed, the connection with the Web server terminal is disconnected, and the connection is made again in response to a request for new data by the user, and the desired data is received and displayed.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory view showing a general information browsing system, and particularly shows an example of a system operated in an office building. In this case, tenants A to C are occupied on the fifth and third floors, respectively, and a dining room is occupied on the second floor.
On the first floor, a building management room for maintaining and operating building facilities is provided.

A communication line such as a LAN line or a telephone line, here a LAN line 10, is provided on each floor of the building, and is provided on a Web server terminal (server terminal) 11 provided in the building management room and on each floor. The client terminals 21 to 29 are connected to each other via the LAN line 10. The Web server terminal 11 stores information to be notified to residents of the building, for example, HTML documents indicating floor cleaning notices, cafeteria menus, etc., and is browsed from each of the client terminals 21 to 29 using a browser. it can.

FIG. 5 shows an example of a screen output of the client terminal, and shows a display example of a “notification menu” as a menu for selecting and browsing various notices. Here, “1. information from the building management room” and “2. information from the dining room” are prepared. here,
When “1. Notification from building management room” is selected, an HTML document indicating the content of each notification as shown in FIG. 6 can be viewed.

FIG. 6 is a screen output example of the contents of the notice, and shows a display example of an HTML document of the notice concerning the floor cleaning. In particular, in this document, 51 is a title indicating the title of the notice, 52 is text 1 indicating the specific contents of the notice, 53 is a table for supplementary explanation of the contents of the notice, and 54 is a text 2 indicating precautions of the notice.
The predetermined content is input for each item.

[0009]

However, in such a conventional information browsing system, an HT indicating a notice is provided.
When creating an ML document, it is necessary to create it using a description language called HTML. For a building management room or a cafeteria staff who are unfamiliar with computers, a great deal of labor and time are required, and the HTML document cannot be easily created. There was a problem. HTML is a special description language for displaying a document on a browser, and generates a document using keywords and symbols that can be described only by a skilled technician.

Therefore, there is a problem that a user who does not have special knowledge in this field cannot easily create an HTML document. The present invention is intended to solve such a problem, and even an inexperienced creator can easily use HTM.
It is an object of the present invention to provide an information browsing system capable of creating an L document.

[0011]

In order to achieve the above object, according to the present invention, in an information browsing system, a client terminal is used to input contents of each item constituting a desired HTML document. And an editing screen having a plurality of templates showing the layouts of these items, and displaying the contents input in the corresponding input fields on each item of any selected template. Browser means for editing the HTML document. Therefore, in the client terminal, using the editing screen displayed by the browser means, the content input in each input field is reflected as the content of each item of the selected template, and the desired HTML
The document is edited.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the information browsing system according to the first aspect, an HTML document indicating the editing screen is generated as a server terminal in response to a desired HTML document editing request from a client terminal. An editing screen generation processing means for distributing to a terminal; and a data updating processing means for receiving contents edited using the editing screen by a browser means of a client terminal and generating a desired HTML document based on the received editing content. It is. Therefore, in the server terminal, an editing screen is generated and returned in response to an editing request from the client terminal, and a desired HTML document is generated based on the contents.

[0013]

Next, the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of creating an HTML document by the information browsing system according to the first embodiment of the present invention. FIG.
(B) shows an HTML document template (format sample). Hereinafter, a case where an HTML document is created by an arbitrary client terminal will be described as an example. The system configuration is the same as that of FIG. 4 described above.

When an HTML document is created, a predetermined HTML document is opened by the browser of the client terminal, and an editing screen 100 as shown in FIG. 1A is displayed on the screen of the client terminal. On the editing screen 100, a plurality of templates serving as format samples of the HTML document are displayed. As shown in FIG. 1B, a plurality of items are arranged in different layouts in each template, and the creator selects any appropriate template.

On the editing screen 100, input items for inputting the contents are provided for each item used in the template, and are associated with the items of each template. Therefore, by inputting the contents into the necessary input items, the contents are reflected on each item of the selected template, and an HTML document is created.

For example, when creating the above-described HTML document shown in FIG. Subsequently, the respective contents are input to the respective input items on the editing screen 100. In this case, enter “Notice of floor cleaning” in the input item “Title” field, and enter the input item “Text 1”.
In the column and the input item "text 2" column, the specific contents and notes of the notice are input.

In the input item "table", a cleaning time is input for each floor as a supplementary explanation of the notice. In this case, the first column of the input item “table” includes “1” from the top.
Floor ”,“ Second floor ”to“ Fifth floor ”, and in the second column of the input item“ Table ”, input each floor cleaning time corresponding to each floor displayed in the first column from the top. I do.

As a result, the content of the input item "title" column of the edit screen 100 is reflected on the item "title" of the template 103, and similarly, the input items "text 1", "text 2", "table" Are fields of the template 103, “text 1”, “text 2”,
An HTML document is created by being reflected in the “table”. After the creation, the HTML document is registered in the Web server terminal 11 by a predetermined operation such as pressing a “registration” button, so that it can be browsed from each client terminal.

As described above, according to the present invention, when an HTML document is created, a plurality of templates and input items for editing items used in the templates are displayed, any one of the templates is selected, and an arbitrary input item is selected. In this case, an HTML document is created by inputting the contents of the HTML document. Therefore, an inexperienced creator can easily create an HTML document. In the above description, the HTML document for the editing screen is a communication line such as a LAN line or a telephone line, here, a LAN line 10.
May be installed in the Web server terminal 11 connected via the.

Next, a second embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing a processing operation in each terminal according to the second embodiment. In the present embodiment, the WWW is used to support the HTML document creation processing at the client terminal 21 from the Web server terminal 11. Hereinafter, a case will be described as an example where the client terminal 21 edits the "document i" which is the HTML document of the notification content shown in FIG.

In this case, the Web server terminal 11
An edit screen generation processing unit 12 for generating an edit screen 100 for editing a desired HTML document in the client terminal 21, and a data update processing unit for reflecting the content of the target item updated using the edit screen in the HTML document 1
3 are provided. Also, the Web server terminal 11
The information storage unit 14 stores and holds a data file for storing input data of each item of each HTML document, an HTML file for storing an HTML document to be edited, and a template file for storing information about a template. .

First, in response to an editing request for “document i” from the client terminal 21 (step 31), the editing screen generation processing unit 12 of the web server terminal 11 first sends the corresponding “document i” from the information storage unit 14. Is read (step 121), an HTML document showing an edit screen of "document i" is generated based on the contents (step 122), and distributed to the client terminal 21 via the LAN line 10 (step 32). ).

In response, the browser 210 of the client terminal 21 opens an HTML document indicating the distributed editing screen (step 211). As a result, an editing screen for "document i" is displayed on the screen of the client terminal 21, and the creator selects a template used for "document i", and displays "document i" for each item used in the template. Is entered.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing a configuration example of a data file. In this case, if “document i” has not been edited in the past, the data file stored and held in the Web server terminal 11 is in an initial state (default) as shown in FIG. Each item on the editing screen of the terminal 21 is blank. On the other hand, when the “document i” has been edited in the past, the data file stores the input data as shown in FIG. 3B, and the contents are stored in each item on the editing screen of the client terminal 21. And past edits are available.

As described above, the editing screen of the "document i" is displayed on the client terminal 21, and after the input is completed, the browser 21 is operated in response to a predetermined operation such as pressing a "register" button.
The template type selected from 0 and the input contents of each item are transmitted to the Web server terminal 11 as input data (step 33). The data update processing unit 13 of the Web server terminal 11 stores the content of each item in the data file in the information storage unit 14 corresponding to “Document i” in response to the reception of the input data from the client terminal 21. (Step 131).

In FIG. 3B, the template (TEMP
As “LATE),“ Template 3 ”is selected. Also, “notice of floor cleaning” is input as the title (TITLE :), and similarly, text 1 (TEXT 1 :), text 2 (TEXT
2 :) and a table (TABLE :) are input. In addition,
No file name is described in the image (IMAGE :), indicating that no input has been made.

Subsequently, the data update processing unit 13 reads a template selected by the browser 210 of the client terminal 21, for example, a template file j corresponding to the template j from the information storage unit 14, and stores the template and the previous input data. Information storage unit 1 based on
4 generates and updates an HTML file corresponding to "document i" (step 132).

The editing result of "document i", for example, H
An HTML document for displaying the success / failure of the TML file generation / update is generated (step 133), and distributed to the client terminal 21 (step 34). In response, the browser 210 of the client terminal 21 opens the distributed editing result display HTML document (step 212). As a result, the editing result of “document i” is displayed on the screen of the client terminal 21.

As described above, the HTML document indicating the editing screen of the document requested to be edited by the client terminal 21 is transmitted from the Web server terminal 11 to the client terminal 21.
Delivered to Then, the template type and the input data of each item input at the client terminal 21 are transmitted to the Web server terminal 11, the HTML file stored and held in the Web server terminal 11 is updated, and a new HTML document is automatically generated. Created.

Therefore, it is not necessary to provide a processing unit (program) for creating and editing an HTML document and information necessary for creation and editing, such as a template, for each client terminal in advance. It can manage and effectively use the information storage capacity of the entire network system. In addition, an HTML document can be created and edited relatively easily on a Web server terminal using a browser mounted on each client terminal.

In the above description, the case of creating a notice document from the building management room has been described as an example. However, the present invention is not limited to this, and the present invention can be applied to the creation of various documents. The same operation and effect as described above can be obtained. For example, in a browsing information system arranged in an office building as shown in FIG. 4, an HTML document indicating a menu of a cafeteria can be easily created.

In particular, in the menu of the cafeteria, the cooked image can be arranged in the document. In this case, the file name of the image data captured by an electronic camera or the like is separately displayed on the editing screen 100 in FIG. By specifying
It can be placed in an ML document.

Also, the editing screen 100 displays H during creation / editing.
Input items for setting browsing management information such as a display start date and time and a display end date and time of a TML document are provided. When a browsing request is made from an arbitrary client terminal, the Web server terminal 11 refers to the browsing management information. Then, it may be determined whether browsing is possible. As a result, it is possible to easily specify the expiration date of the created and edited HTML document.

[0034]

As described above, according to the present invention, the input section for inputting the contents of each item constituting the desired HTML document by the browser means of the client terminal, and the plurality of layouts showing the layout of these items are provided. Since the editing screen having the template is displayed and the content input in the corresponding input field is reflected on each item of the selected template, the desired HTML document is edited, so that the browsing information is displayed. When creating a document, it is not necessary to create a document directly using a special description language called HTML, and even an unskilled creator who is unfamiliar with a computer can easily create an HTML document.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of creating an HTML document by an information browsing system according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing a processing operation in each terminal according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing a configuration example of a data file.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing a general information browsing system.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of screen output of a client terminal.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a screen output of a notification content.

[Explanation of symbols]

10 ... LAN line, 11 ... Web server terminal, 12 ...
Edit screen generation processing unit, 13 ... data update processing unit, 14 ...
Information storage units, 21 to 29 ... client terminals, 100 ...
Edit screen, 210 ... Browser.

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. An information browsing system comprising a server terminal for distributing various HTML documents via a communication line such as a LAN line and a telephone line, and a client terminal for browsing various information distributed via the communication line. The client terminal displays an edit screen having an input field for inputting the contents of each item constituting the desired HTML document and a plurality of templates indicating the layout of each item. The desired HTML is reflected in each item by reflecting the content entered in the corresponding input field.
An information browsing system comprising a browser means for editing a document. 2. The information browsing system according to claim 1, wherein the server terminal generates an HTML document indicating the editing screen in response to a desired HTML document editing request from the client terminal, and edits the HTML document for distribution to the client terminal. Information characterized by comprising a screen generation processing means, and data update processing means for receiving contents edited by the browser means of a client terminal using the editing screen and generating a desired HTML document based on the contents. Browsing system.