TW200407728A - Dynamic document generation system and the method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention is a dynamic document generation system and the method thereof, which is to provide in the system with different content-format templates, the plug-in components, and standard data access components, so that the user can conduct the real-time configuration for the contents of the required document according to the actual requirement, abstracting the data contents in other database through the real-time document parsing in the system, and dynamically generating the final user requirement document.

Description

200407728 V. Description of the invention (1) [Field of the invention] The present invention relates to an electronic file generation system and method, and particularly to a content format template (content-f orma t template) that can be set and adjusted in the system in real time. ) ^ A system and method for plug-in components and standard data access components that can dynamically manipulate database data and generate electronic documents in real time. [Background of the Invention] With the continuous vigorous development of enterprise organizations, the demand for electronicization of enterprises is accompanied by increasing enthusiasm. Among them, "electronic documents" is one of the most basic development work items. Due to the frequent exchange of documents in the enterprise, including various types: fixed-format reports (report), general free-format reports and spreadsheets (spreadsheet), etc., plus departments and projects that face various needs within the enterprise And personnel, and even different business documents between the enterprise and the enterprise, the types of file formats required by the enterprise are very diverse. In the era of non-electronics, companies often had to spend a lot of manpower and time on the production of documents. In addition, the produced documents not only waste a lot of paper and costs, but also may have to be produced separately because the company's demand for documents is constantly changing, which makes it impossible to use them. This makes the generation of documents a huge burden on the enterprise. In the current process of enterprises gradually becoming electronic, many enterprises have begun to use electronic documents to replace traditional paper documents in the past. In order to save the process of document generation, most of the current methods are

Page 4 200407728 V. Description of the invention (2) The fixed document template (t e m p 1 a ΐ e) allows users to choose and use, but this method still has its shortcomings. First of all, for external customers, it is impossible to actually participate in the formulation of the content of the document, so it is impossible to obtain the document within a graspable time, and even after the client obtains the document, it is impossible to grasp whether the content in it can truly meet and meet the needs. Therefore, it is often necessary to spend a lot of time actually searching for the content of the file to be able to understand the content; for internal users, the method, format and content of the file generation is very difficult to be consistent, leading to internal information transfer and centralized management of the file A lot of troubles and problems occur. In the long run, the document exchange and information communication between users and customers will have a negative impact. Coupled with the loss of flexibility in document generation, the fixed content format will not be able to meet the actual different needs of all users, especially in the dynamic retrieval of external data. In terms of requirements, this type of document template cannot be completed at all. In order to really meet the needs of different users, a large number of file templates are made. In addition to wasting a lot of storage space and causing system burdens, when the requirements are constantly changing, updating and maintaining file templates is also quite frequent and inefficient. Therefore, in order to completely and efficiently solve the above-mentioned problems in the generation and processing of electronic files, it is really necessary to have a system and method that can collect user needs in real time and dynamically generate demand files. [Objective and Summary of the Invention] In view of this, the present invention proposes a dynamic file generation system and method in order to solve the above problems. The main purpose is to provide a content-format template that can be adjusted immediately.

200407728 Fifth, the description of the invention (3) temp late) and components, fetch the dynamic # pages of the data in the database, and instantly generate the required electronic files. Therefore, in order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the dynamic document generation system provided by the present invention includes a component template database, a requirement setting module, a data analysis module, and a document generation module. In addition, the dynamic document generation method provided by the present invention includes the following steps: first, the user executes the requirement setting, and then the system analyzes the requirement setting to retrieve the corresponding output content, then integrates and generates the user's required document, and The final output shows the requirements file. The detailed content and technology of the present invention are described below with reference to the drawings: [Detailed description of the embodiment of the invention] The present invention is a dynamic file generation system and method. Users can use the dynamic file generation system of the present invention. The user interface provided by 0 1 5 0 sets the requirements for each file generation, and immediately dynamically generates the file content required by the user. The part of "Figure 1" explains the system architecture of the present invention. The main dynamic file generation system 100 includes the following parts: (1) Component template database Π 0, which is mainly related to storing components and requirements documents. , Including: the set file configuration file, the finally generated requirements document, content format template (contain-format template), plug-in components (plug-in components) and standard data access components (data access component) ... f ^ 〇 Among them, the file configuration file contains a dynamic file generation system 100

Page 6 200407728 V. Description of the invention (4) Setting parameters related to the requirements file, such as the requirements file group, the structure, the location of the requirements file storage location, and the source location of the content format template ... etc. = two requirements file structure The part can be divided into two types. When the requirement file contains multiple types of requirement files (that is, corresponding to multiple content format templates), the user can freely select and set the type of capture generation. Generate classes for stand-alone, that is, according to the settings of each content format chapter, generate separate final requirements files, and generate multiple requirements file files; the other is the embedded generation type, which is based on a requirement The document type page type is used as the main document (document container). The other requirement file types are treated as embedded documents, which are scattered in the main document to generate the final requirement document. At this time, a single requirement document file is generated. The content format template mainly provides users to set the appearance layout of the requirements document in content and format, such as "text, color, etc."; and the plug-in component is provided as an extension of the existing function of the content format template , Can provide special function enhancements beyond standard functions. In addition, standard materials and materials access components can be used to dynamically retrieve the dynamics of the present invention according to the needs of the user while the requirements document is being developed. The external data library 10 data other than the data generation system 100 is added. It shows that the external database 1 〇 is mainly to provide data content of various frequent changes', such as internal financial statements of the enterprise, product quotations outside the enterprise, etc. — (2) demand setting module 1 2 0, Mainly provide users can wait. The user interface 1 50 is used to set various requirements. In addition, when the user uses the ironing invention system, the user will select the file type according to the user's selection result. 200407728 V. Description of the invention (5) Component template database 110 Take out the corresponding content format template and provide users with operations for setting various requirements. Among them, the requirement setting part includes: setting of content format type, setting of display item arrangement, setting of accessing data item. Among them, the content format type setting is mainly to adjust the content format template; the display item layout part is to perform the display and layout settings of the items in each content format template; as for the access data item setting, it is performed in the external database 10 Item settings for each object, including: plug-in component settings and standard data access component settings. (3) The data analysis module 130, analyzes the content set according to the needs of the user, and then generates and outputs the content of the final requirements file. These include: initialization and processing of external components, arrangement and adjustment of display items for content format templates, and retrieval of external database 10 data ... etc. (4) The file generation module 140 is responsible for the final output and display of the content of the requirements file that has been parsed by the data analysis module 130. Next, the following figure 2 is used to explain the main operation flow of the present invention, which is roughly divided into the following steps: First, the user sets the requirements for the requirements document through the user interface 150, of which more detailed The steps will be explained through the part of "Figure 3" (step 2 0 0); after the setting is completed, the data analysis module 1 3 0 of the present invention will start the analysis of the demand setting and extract the corresponding output content. More detailed The steps will be explained through the part of "Figure 4" (step 3 0 0); then the file generation module 1 4 0 of the present invention is set according to the user's setting

200407728 Fifth, the requirement setting of invention description (6) executes the integration operation to generate the requirements file required by the user (step 4 0 0). When there are multiple content format templates in the requirements file at the same time, the process will continue. From 300 to step 400, until the analysis of all content format templates is completed; finally, the output of the requirements document is displayed in the user interface 150 for user use (step 500). "Figure 3" is a detailed flow chart of the requirements setting of the dynamic file generation system and method provided by the present invention. When a user enters the system of the present invention, he must first select the required type of the required file. At this time, the dynamic file of the present invention The generation system 1 0 0 will collect the demand setting collection from the user in an interactive and dynamic manner according to the selection result (step 2 1 0); then the dynamic file generation system 1 0 0 of the present invention will read the file setting file (step 2 2 0); and extract the corresponding content format template according to the setting data in the file configuration file (step 2 30); then set the content according to the requirements set by the user, and dynamically perform the content format type in the content format template. Adjust the job (step 2 4 0). As for the analysis of the requirements setting of the system of the present invention, a more detailed description can be made through the "Figure 4". First, the system of the present invention will first read the content format template of the requirements file (step 3 1 0); then according to Initialize the settings of the plug-in components (step 3 2 0); then, according to the content of the requirement settings, perform the adjustment operation of the display item layout of the content format template (step 3 3 0), and reserve the required display items, Delete unnecessary display items; and then further analyze the data setting content (step 3 4 0); retrieve the corresponding output content by accessing the data item setting (step 3 5 0), this output content It is dynamically extracted from the external database 10; finally, it is judged whether there is a plug-in element in the demand setting

200407728 — One ^ -—— One Five, the requirements of the invention description (7)? (Small step 3 60) If there is, add the plug-in component to the requirements file and execute the processing (step 3 7 0), otherwise continue to return to step 3 4 0 to continue the other data setting analysis operations, when completed After all the analysis, we will make the East Benli cake. [Effectiveness] The honour file generation system and method of the present invention provide a content format template (content-format 7611 ^ 131: 6) and components ((: 01111) 01 ^ 111 for users to make setting adjustments in real time) :), not only reduce the time and procedure for generating the requirements file, but also increase the flexibility in the production of the requirements file, so that the generated files can better meet the real needs of users. In addition, through the plug-in component (p 1 Ug-i η component) and standard data access component provided by the present invention, users can dynamically retrieve real-time Data, making the content of the document more time-sensitive and reference value. Although the present invention is disclosed above with the foregoing preferred embodiments, it is not intended to limit the present invention. Therefore, anyone skilled in the art can make some modifications and retouches without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention. The protection scope of the present invention shall be determined by the scope of the attached patent application.

200407728 Schematic diagram · Description Figure 1 is a system architecture diagram of the dynamic file generation system and method provided by the present invention; Figure 2 is a method flowchart of the dynamic file generation system and method provided by the present invention; FIG. 3 is a detailed flow chart of the requirements setting of the dynamic file generation system and method provided by the present invention; and FIG. 4 is a detailed flow chart of the analysis file of the dynamic file generation system and method provided by the present invention. [Illustration of graphical symbols] 10 External database 100 Dynamic document generation system 110 Component template database 120 Requirement setting module 130 Data analysis module 14 0 Document generation module 15 0 User interface step 2 0 0 Perform a requirement setting step 210 Select the requirement file type and start to dynamically collect the requirement setting step 2 2 0 Read a file configuration step 2 3 0 Retrieve a corresponding content format template Step 2 4 0 Dynamically perform the content format template according to the requirement setting A content format type adjustment step 3 0 0 Analyze the requirement setting and retrieve a corresponding output content

Page 11 200407728 Schematic description Step 310 Read the content format ArAr library 巳 This step 320 Initialize according to the plug-in component 5 Step 330 According to the / Ά The requirements set to execute one of the content format template Display item g Arrange Adjustment • Step 340 Parse the data setting content Step 350 Use the standard data access component θ to retrieve the corresponding output content Step 360 Require the plug-in component Step 370 Substitute the plug-in component and execute the processing step 400 Integrate generation — Requirement file step 500 fm output shows the beg file

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Claims (1)

200407728 6. Scope of patent application 1. A dynamic document generation system, which performs real-time settings according to the document items and content required by the user, and retrieves the content in the database through real-time parse to dynamically To generate the final document, the system includes: a component template database for storing a document configuration file, a requirements document, a content-format template, a plug-in component, and a Standard data access component (data access component); a requirement setting module for providing a user interface for a requirement setting; a data analysis module for analyzing the content of the data setting according to the requirement setting, and Retrieve a corresponding output content; and a file generation module for outputting and displaying the demand file. 2. The dynamic document generation system described in item 1 of the scope of the patent application, wherein the document configuration file stores the requirements document composition structure, storage location, and source location of the content format template. 3. The dynamic document generation system described in item 1 of the scope of patent application, wherein the requirement setting includes at least a content format type, a display item arrangement, and a data access item setting. 4. The dynamic document generation system as described in item 3 of the scope of patent application, wherein the setting of the access data item includes at least the setting of the external component and the setting of the standard data access component. 5. The dynamic file generation system as described in item 1 of the scope of patent application, wherein the tributary analysis module can be set according to the access tributary item ’ Page 13 200407728 The content of the output and output should be taken to get the state of action. The analysis of the document needs to be used by those who have combined the evidence to determine the 'successfulness' of the ready-made documents into the content state and the production mode of the project. The materials in the warehouse are retrieved step by step ΗΊ ΗΊ 含 and the package is included; the legal party sets the request, and the document is the most acceptable after the execution-the response and acquisition; The student analyzes and rectifies the narrative of the literary form of the French adult student. The item is required to be free of charge. The model must be demonstrated and the output must be lost. Please apply for the item. , Start and step-like set of components to set the requirements of the requirements of the ancient 0 = oral line to select the selected; to read a file configuration file; to retrieve a corresponding content-format template; And according to the demand setting, the content format type adjustment of one of the content format templates is adjusted. 8. 9. The dynamic document generation method as described in item 7 of the scope of patent application, wherein the requirement setting includes at least a content format type, a display item arrangement, and a data access item setting. The dynamic file generating method described in item 8 of the scope of patent application, wherein the setting of accessing the data item month includes at least the setting of the external component and the setting of the standard data access component. Page 14 200407728, scope of patent application). The dynamic file generation method described in item 7 of the scope of patent application, wherein the file is set as the composition structure of the requirements file, the storage location, and the source location of the content format template. 1 1. The method for generating a dynamic file as described in item 7 of the scope of patent application, wherein the steps of analyzing the requirement setting and retrieving the corresponding output content further include the following steps: reading the content format template; according to the plug-in The initial settings of the plug-in component settings are performed; one of the content format template display item layout adjustments is performed according to the requirements settings; the contents of the tributary settings are analyzed; and the settings are retrieved through the standard data access component settings Get the corresponding output content; and substitute the plug-in component and execute processing. 1 2. The method for generating a dynamic document as described in item 11 of the scope of patent application, wherein the step of setting the corresponding output content through the standard data access component setting further includes dynamically extracting the corresponding output from an external database Content steps. Page 15