JPH0612452A - Group information access system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To develop an information request program which does not depend on a utilization field, and also, is not aware of an information request means by expanding corresponding group information and its component information, and procedure information 5 to a directory tree structure in accordance with the procedure information, based on utilization field information, and executing a directory search. CONSTITUTION:A computer system 11 reads in group information and its component information, and defining information of procedure information from a defining information text file device 13, before reading in an information request program 14, expands them to a directory from directory tree structure expanding device 15, and manages the expanded directory by a directory file management system 17. In the case an information request is generated at the time of executing the information request program 14, a utilization field corresponding to the request information is analyzed by a request condition analyzing device 16. A directory searching device 18 generates a retrieval condition which can be analyzed through the directory file management system 17 and a retrieval condition generating device 19.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

[Industrial field of use] In the development of an information request program, the present invention relates to a system capable of describing information request conditions independently of the field of use.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art The prior art is disclosed in JP-A-61-243531.
As described in Japanese Patent Publication, a search request is given as a simple small set of keyword words, and a word list is generated by the word recognition means. Based on the word list, the keyword generation means and the keyword storage means generate a keyword set. Based on the set, the integrated management data of the storage means is referred to reduce the error search by the user's keyword specification and enable the high speed search.

[0003]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In the above prior art,
Since the computer system does not manage the information in consideration of the field of use, it is necessary to specify the keyword in consideration of the field of use in the user's keyword specification. Moreover, since the retrieved result information is acquired in the order depending on the storage means, it is not possible to deal with the information acquisition according to the procedure according to the field of use requested by the user.

[0004]

To solve the above problems, the following means are adopted.

Means 1 Means for logically describing the definition of the relation between group information and its constituent elements in units of fields of use.

Means 2 Means for logically describing the procedure information definition for each field of use.

Means 3 Means for expanding the information described in Means 1 and 2 into a directory tree structure.

Means 4 Means for performing directory search based on the directory tree structure.

Means 5: means for sequentially obtaining directory names from directory searches.

Means 6 Means for generating search conditions from the sequentially acquired names.

[0011]

The group information, its constituent element information, and the procedure information are registered by the file device, and the storage means is changed according to the field of use.

Based on the usage field information, the corresponding group information, its constituent element information, and procedure information are expanded into a directory tree structure according to the procedure information and managed by the directory file system device.

When an information request is made, a directory file management system is used to perform a directory search based on the directory tree structure.

Based on the trajectory information when the directory is searched, the condition for obtaining the necessary detailed information from the file device in which the detailed information is stored in advance is generated.

The generated condition is issued to the file device and necessary information is acquired.

[0016]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to FIG.

FIG. 1 shows the basic configuration of the present invention.

The user registers the group information corresponding to the field of use, its constituent element information, and the procedure information in advance from the display device (12) to the definition information text file device (13).

Before reading the information request program (14), the computer system (11) reads the group information, its constituent element information, and the definition information of the procedure information from the definition information text file device (13) to determine the directory tree structure. The expansion device (15) expands the directory, and the directory file management system (17) manages the expanded directory.

When an information request is made during the execution of the information request program (14), the request condition analysis device (16) analyzes the field of use corresponding to the requested information.

Based on the analyzed request information and the field of use, the directory search device (18) acquires group information for the request information and its component information according to the procedure information via the directory file management system (17), The file management system device (2
0) generates search conditions that can be analyzed.

The file management system device (20) searches the information file (21) on the basis of the generated search condition, acquires detailed information corresponding to the search condition, and acquires the information request program (1
Pass the acquired detailed information to 4).

When the information request in a plurality of fields of use is required, the group information corresponding to the plurality of fields of use required for the definition information text file device (13), its component information and procedure information are displayed in the display device (12). Group information corresponding to the field of use to be accessed, its constituent element information and procedure information from the definition information text file device (13) before registering via the It is expanded by the device (15) and the information request program (14) is executed.

FIG. 2 shows a directory tree structure expanding device (1
This is an example of the flow of processing in 5).

In the information name acquisition process (101), the information name is acquired from the definition information text file device (13), and the following process is repeated until it becomes the END keyword (102).

When the acquired information is the field of use (103), the directory generation process (108) corresponding to the information of the field of use
After doing, locate the current directory in the directory created in (108) (109) and get the information name (101)
The subsequent processing is repeated. If the acquired information name is not information on the field of use (103), a directory corresponding to that information name is created (104), and the existence of information subordinate to that information name is checked (105). If not,
The process after the information name acquisition process (101) is repeated, and if it exists, the current directory is positioned in the directory created in (104) (106), and the processes after the information name acquisition process (101) are repeated.

When the END keyword is acquired in the information name acquisition process (101) (102), the process ends.

FIG. 3 shows the definition information text file device (13).
Group information for each field of use registered in, an example of its configuration information and procedure information, and an example of the directory tree structure expanded by the directory tree structure expanding device (18) are shown.

FIG. 4 shows an example of using the present invention.

The information acquisition program (37) of the program A can be positioned as a common program of the development support program (31) and the process control program (42) in different fields of use.

The process flow of the development support system program (31) will be described below.

In order to obtain the information of the program A, only the usage field information (product development) is passed (32) to the information acquisition program (37) of the program A. The information acquisition program (37) of the program A passes the control to the group-based search mechanism (39) as request information based on two types of information of the field of use and program A (38), and the group-based search mechanism (39) requests the request information. The directory file management system (40) searches the directory corresponding to the request information based on the above, and the information storage file (41) is searched based on the directory to obtain the result information corresponding to the request information. The development support system program (31)
Obtain the corresponding source file (36) based on the result information (33) returned from the information acquisition program (37) of program A,
Display (34) on display device (35).

The process control program (42) will be described below.

In order to obtain the information of the program A, only the field information (process control) is passed to the information acquisition program (37) of the program A. The information acquisition program (37) of the program A passes control to the group-by-group search mechanism (39) as two types of information, the usage field and the program A
(38), the group-specific search mechanism (39) searches the directory corresponding to the request information from the directory file management system (40) based on the request information, and searches the information storage file (41) based on that directory. Then, the result information corresponding to the request information is acquired. The process control program (42) displays the result information (44) returned from the information acquisition program of the program A on a display or a list through the information output process (45).

As described above, it is possible to create a common program between programs in different fields of use, and the requirement condition information is also simplified information.

FIG. 5 shows an example of the main processing flow of the directory search device (18).

Information on a directory location information obtained from the directory search program (201) (details are shown in FIG. 6) is received, and the information is received by the search condition generating device (1
According to 9), the conditional expression that allows the file management system (20) to analyze is generated (203), and the processing ends.

FIG. 6 shows an example of the directory search program in the directory search device (18). Input the directory to be searched and the request information (301), initialize the search number counter i (302), end the search process (303) of the lower directory of the specified directory location information (304), or request information Array of searched information I (i) until a directory of the same information as is found (305)
It is repeated while performing the storing process to (306) and the count-up process (307) of the search number counter i.

When the same directory as the request information is found, the directory location information is stored in the message area (309). If not found, a positioning process (308) to the lower directory of the current directory is performed. Upon completion of the above process, the message stored in the caller of the directory search program is transmitted (310), and the process ends.

[0040]

According to the present invention, since the configuration definition of information resources and the procedure information corresponding to the field of use can be registered in advance, an information requesting program that does not depend on the field of use and is not aware of the information requesting procedure can be provided. Can be developed. In addition, it is possible to simplify the condition description of the information corresponding to the requested field of use.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram of a group-based search mechanism according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flow chart of processing of an embodiment of a directory tree structure expanding device.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of group information for each field of use registered in a definition information text file device, its configuration information and procedure information, and a directory tree structure when the example is expanded by a directory tree structure expanding device.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a usage example of a group-based access mechanism of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart of main processing of an embodiment of the directory search device.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart of the processing of an embodiment of the directory search program in the main processing of the directory search device.

[Explanation of symbols]

 Reference numeral 12 ... Display device, 13 ... Definition information text file, 14 ... Information request program, 15 ... Directory expansion device, 16 ... Request condition analysis device, 17 ... Directory file management system, 18 ... Directory search device, 19 ... Search condition generation device , 20 ... File management system device.

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. When managing group information composed of a plurality of elements in an information resource management system, by requesting the same group information by defining a group information structure and a procedure for each field of use in advance. A group information access method characterized by guiding different information and information according to different procedures according to the field being accessed. 2. The group information access method according to claim 1, wherein the definition of the group configuration information is logically described for each field of use. 3. The group information access method according to claim 1, wherein the definition of the procedure information is logically described for each field of use. 4. The group information access method according to claim 1, wherein the expanded information is maintained by expanding the group information and the procedure information for each usage field into a directory tree structure. 5. The directory search according to claim 1, wherein a directory search is performed based on the directory tree structure,
A group information access method characterized in that it can handle different specifications of information files by generating required conditions.