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Abstract
A user interface comprising a display (12) and a controller configured for displaying a sorted list (14) of data records, wherein each record comprises at least two data fields (18-24) and the controller has an editing function enabling a user to specify at least one of the data fields as a sorting field by which the list (14) of records shall be sorted, wherein the controller is configurable for displaying at least one complete data record in the form of a tile (16), wherein a position of a data field (18-24) in the tile (16) determines whether or not the field is a sorting field, and the editing function is configured to enable the user to change the positions of the fields (18-24) by moving a data field in any tile (16) shown on the display (12).
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P4172NL00 1 A User Interface for Displaying a Sorted List of Data Records The invention relates to a user interface comprising a display and a controller configured for displaying a sorted list of data records, wherein each record comprises at least two data fields and the controller has an editing function enabling a user to specify at least one of the data fields as a sorting field by which the list of records shall be sorted. More particularly, the invention relates to a user interface for a printing system hosting a database in which each record represents a print job that has been submitted for printing. The data fields of each record contain attributes that specify the related print job. The display of a conventional user interface may for example be mounted on a body of a printer and may have a relatively large display area suitable for displaying a larger number of data records at a time. The layout of the database may take the form of a sorted list or table in which the data fields are arranged in columns and each line contains the data for a single print job. The columns may have headers that specify the attributes to be entered into the data fields. Each of these headers may have a button that may be clicked on in order to designate the column and the corresponding data field as a sorting field, which causes the controller to sort the data records on the basis of the entries in this data field. The button may also be used for switching between a rising and a descending sort order. Today, a user interface of a printing system or any other equipment is frequently implemented as an application (App) on a smartphone or tablet computer which has a touch screen display with only a relatively small display area. In that case, the width of the table containing the data records may be so large that it does not fit into the display area. Consequently, if the user wants to see the entire contents of a record, she is compelled to scroll the table in width direction, and it is not possible to view all the data fields of a record at the same time. It is an object of the invention to provide a user interface that is more convenient for a user, in particular when the display of the user interface has only a limited display area.
Inthe user interface according to the invention, in order to achieve this object, the
P4172NL00 2 controller is configurable for displaying at least one complete data record in the form of a tile, wherein a position of a data field in the tile determines whether or not the field is a sorting field, and the editing function is configured to enable the user to change the positions of the fields by moving a data field in any tile shown on the display.
In order to designate a certain data field as a sorting field, the user may move that data field over the area of the tile and bring it into a position that is reserved for a sorting field. This will cause the controller to automatically perform the same operation also for all the tiles that contain the other data records and to re-arrange the tiles such that the order of the tiles is determined by the alphabetical or numerical order of the entries in the designated sorting field. Since at least one entire tile is visible in the display area, the user can see all data fields at a time and can browse the database by scrolling the display list.
More specific optional features of the invention are indicated in the depending claims. The database may comprise a plurality of sorting fields to which different priorities are assigned. Then, a sorting field with a lower priority will affect the arrangement of the tiles only if there are several records which have the same entry in the sorting field with the next higher priority. In that case, the priorities of the sorting fields will be determined by the positions of the fields in the tile.
Embodiment examples will now be described in conjunction with the drawings, wherein: Fig. 1 is a view of a user interface implemented on a smartphone; Fig. 2 illustrates an editing operation for the user interface shown in Fig. 1; Fig. 3 illustrates the result of the editing operation shown in Fig. 2; Fig. 4 shows a layout of a user interface according to another embodiment example; Fig. 5 shows a state of the user interface of Fig. 4 after several editing operations have been performed,
P4172NL00 3 Fig. 6 shows the user interface of Fig. 5 in a state in which the orientation of the smartphone has been changed; and Fig. 7 is a block diagram showing essential components of a user interface according to the invention. As is shown in Fig. 1, a user interface has been implemented on a smartphone 10 which has a display 12 that is constituted by a touch screen and displays a sorted list 14 of data records. Each data record takes the form of a tile 16 in which data fields 18, 20, 22, 24 are arranged in a uniform layout. In the example shown, three tiles 16 are fully visible on the display 12 and a part of another tile is visible at the bottom edge of the display area. In order to view other data records, the user may scroll the list on the display. In the example shown, the user interface is designed for controlling a printing system, and the data records on the tiles 16 represent print jobs that have been submitted for printing. Each of the data fields 18 - 24 serves for storing a certain attribute of the print job. In the example shown, the data field 18 on each tile contains a thumbnail of an image to be printed on a cover page of the print job. The field 20 stores a name of the print job, the field 22 specifies a media type to be used for the print job, and the field 24 stores a length of the print job, e.g. a length of a media web on which the job is printed (assuming for example that the job is printed on a roll-to-roll-printer).
In the given example, each of the fields 20, 22 and 24 may be designated as a sorting field the contents of which determine the order in which the tiles 18 are arranged. The fields 20, 22 and 24 are arranged in a column on each tile, and, by convention, the field at the top of the column (the field 20 in the state shown in Fig. 1) is designated as the sorting field. Consequently, the tiles 16 in Fig. 1 are arranged in alphabetical order based on the names of the print jobs as specified in the field 20. An arrow on the left margin of the field 20 in each tile 16 indicates that the field is the sorting field, and the fact that the arrow points upwards indicates that the tiles are arranged in rising alphabetical order.
P4172NL00 4 It shall now be assumed that the user wants to designate the field 22 as the sorting field. A reason may be for example that the print jobs are printed in the order in which the list 14 is sorted, and it will be most efficient if the print jobs that utilize the same media type are grouped together.
To that end, the list 14 is edited in a manner that has been illustrated in Fig. 2. The user presses with her finger 26 on the field 22 in any of the tiles 16. This has the effect that the field is selected for being manipulated, as has been symbolized in Fig. 2 by a dark frame around the field. Then the user moves her finger 26 over the display 12 in order to move the selected field to a different position. In this example, the field 22 (specifying the media type “Self Adhesive”) has been moved upwards, and this has caused a controller of the user interface to automatically shift the position of the field 20 (“Street”) in that tile to the position that has been left empty by the field 22. When, now, the user lifts her finger from the screen, the controller will move the field 22 to the former position of the field 20, so that the positions of the fields 20 and 22 have been swapped. Thus, the field 22 is now in a position that designates the sort field. Then, the controller performs the same editing operation for all the tiles in the list 14 and re-arranges the tiles such that the order of the print jobs from top to bottom in the list 14 corresponds to the (rising) alphabetical order of the media type attributes in the field 22. The result has been shown in Fig. 3. It can be seen in Fig. 3 that the tile that originally contained the print job “House” (see Fig. 1) has been moved to a lower position and is no longer visible on the display 12, whereas a new tile containing a print job with the name “ZZZ” now assumes the third position from the top in the linear array of the tiles 16. The reason is that the print job “ZZZ” has also the media type attribute “Self Adhesive” in field 22 and has therefore been grouped together with the print jobs “Street” and “Tree”. It can further be seen in Fig. 3 that the three print jobs which have the same media attribute “Self Adhesive” in the field 22 have “inherited” the former sort order that was based on the job name, i.e. the tiles are still arranged from top to bottom in alphabetical order by their job names “Street”, “Tree” and “ZZZ”. The user could also have chosen to designate the field 24 as the sorting field, in order to sort the print jobs by rising job lengths. If the user would then perform another editing
P4172NL00 step in which the field 22 (specifying the media type) is designated as the sorting field, the three print jobs with the media type attribute “Self Adhesive” would again be found in the three topmost positions on the list, but now in the order of increasing job lengths, i.e. “777°, “Street”, “Tree”. 5
Fig. 4 illustrates another embodiment example wherein a sorted list 14’ of print jobs has been displayed on the display 12 of the smartphone 10 which is now held in the "landscape" orientation.
The controller has automatically zoomed-in, so that at least one tile 16’ is completely visible on the display 12 and almost fills the entire display area, so that the entries in data fields 18’ are readable.
In this example, the tile 16’ includes eight data fields 18' which have been distinguished here by the names of their attributes, i.e. “Job Name”, “Author” (author of the print job}, “Destination” (to which the printed jobs shall be delivered), “Length”, “Media”, “Time”
(requested time for completion of the print job), “Number of Copies” and “Finish”. The fields 18’ have been arranged in three lines and three columns.
Each of the fields has an arrow on the left margin, which means that each of the fields is designated as a sorting field.
Of course, in order to avoid conflict, the sorting fields must be arranged in a hierarchy.
The field “Job Name” in the leftmost position in the first line has the highest priority, the field “Author” in the first line and the second column has the second highest priority, the field “Destination” has the third highest priority, the first field “Length” in the second line has the fourth highest priority, and so on.
Thus, for example, the field “Destination” with the third highest priority will only have an effect on the arrangement of the tiles if there are two or more jobs which have the same entry in the field “Author”
with the second highest priority.
In Fig. 5, the priorities of the sorting fields have been changed by a number of editing operations of the type that has been explained in conjunction with Fig. 2. Now, the field “Time” has the highest priority, followed by the fields “Destination” and “Length”. In case of the field “Length” the orientation on the arrow has been flipped, indicating that the tiles 16’ are sorted by length in descending order.
A command for flipping the sort order may be entered for example by shortly pressing with the finger onto the arrow symbol.
The user also has the option to designate one or more of the fields as “non-sorting fields”, e.g. by double-pressing onto the arrow symbol.
This has the effect that the arrow
P4172NL00 6 disappears and the field is no longer considered in the sorting process, as is the case for example for the field “Author” in Fig. 5. Then, in case there are several print jobs which have identical entries in the first three sorting fields, the user may manually change the order of the tiles showing these print jobs, regardless of the alphabetical order of the entries in the field “Author”. The procedure for manually re-arranging the sequence of the tiles (from top to bottom in the list 14") is basically the same as the procedure for moving the data fields within a tile. Thus, the user may activate a tile 16’ by pressing into an area of the tile outside of a data field 18' and may then move the tile upwards or downwards, which causes the controller to swap the places of the tiles. By repeating this operation, any tile can be moved to any position in the list 14’.
In Fig. 6, the tiles 18° still contain the same print jobs in the same order as in Fig. 5, but the smartphone 10 has been rotated into the "portrait" orientation. As a consequence, the controller has automatically modified the shape of the tiles 16 so as to make at least one complete tile 18’ visible on the display 12 and to make optimal use of the available display area. The fields 18’ within each tile 16 have been re-arranged into four lines and two columns, but with conservation of the hierarchy of the sorting fields and, consequently, without changing the order of the print jobs.
Inthe examples described above, the tiles 16, 16’ have always been arranged in a linear array that extends in vertical direction. Of course, it would also be possible to arrange the tiles in a horizontal linear array or in a two-dimensional array.
Fig. 7 is a block diagram showing essential elements of a user interface according to the invention. The user interface comprises a controller 28 (implemented in the smartphone 10) and the display 12. The display 12 comprises a display section 30 configured for rendering the visual information on the display, and a sensor section 32 configured for performing the touch-screen function of a display.
The controller 28 is configured for performing the usual functions of scrolling, zooming and rotating the image in accordance with gestures of the user that have been detected by the sensor section 32. Further, the controller 28 includes an edit function 34 which is configured to enable the user to perform the editing operations that have been described in conjunction with Figs. 1 to 8.
P4172NL00 7 In operation, the user interface app on the smartphone will receive information from one or more printing systems, the information including the list of print jobs and their current status, and the user may send instructions to the printing systems via the smartphone.
Although not shown in the drawings, the tiles that represent the print jobs may include soft keys and/or pull-down menus permitting the user to enter commands and/or edit settings for the respective print jobs.
P4172NL00 8 Embodiments
1. A user interface comprising a display (12) and a controller (28) configured for displaying a sorted list (14; 14’) of data records, wherein each record comprises at least two data fields (18-24; 18’) and the controller (28) has an editing function (34) enabling a user to specify at least one of the data fields as a sorting field by which the list (14; 14’) of records shall be sorted, characterized in that the controller (28) is configurable for displaying at least one complete data record in the form of a tile (16; 16’), wherein a position of a data field (18-24; 18’) in the tile (16, 16’) determines whether or not the field is a sorting field, and the editing function (34) is configured to enable the user to change the positions of the fields (18-24; 18’) by moving a data field in any tile (16; 16’) shown on the display (12).
2. The user interface according to claim 1, wherein the data fields {18') comprise a plurality of sorting fields with different priority levels, and the priority level of each sorting field is determined by the position of the field on the tile (16°).
3. The user interface according to claim 2, wherein the sorting fields are arranged on the tile (16; 16") in one of: - a column; - a line; and - a two-dimensional array of lines and columns.
4. The user interface according to any of the preceding claims, wherein the editing function (34) is configured to enable the user to switch between a rising and a descending sort order of a sorting field.
5. The user interface according to any of the preceding claims, wherein the editing function (34) is configured to enable the user to turn a sorting field into a non-sorting field.
6. A software product comprising program code which, when loaded into one of a smartphone (10) and a tablet computer, turns the smartphone and the tablet computer, respectively, into a user interface according to any of the claims 1 to 5.
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7. A printing system comprising a user interface according to any of the claims 1 to 5.
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