JPH0378860A - Operating procedure form producing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To produce an operating procedure form an operating sequence by inputting an operating system of an interactive device having the conditional branch in addition to a tree structure of the input information and the output information and outputting successively the produced sentences to an input column, an output column, and a condition column if these sentences show the input information, the output information, and the branch conditions respectively. CONSTITUTION:A read means 1 inputs an operating system of an interactive device having the branch conditions in addition to a tree structure of the input information and the output information. Then the means 1 receives a function designation command and reads out successively the input information, the output information, and the branch conditions out of the operating system. A sentence production means 4 retrieves a sentence production dictionary 3 based on the type decided by a type deciding means 2 and extracts a sentence pattern. Then the means 4 puts the identification names of the input information, the output information, and the branch conditions into the sentence pattern for production of a sentence. An output means 5 outputs successively the produced sentence to an input column, and a branch column wih the input information, the output information, and the branch conditions respectively. Thus an operating sequence can be outputted as a document having a normal operating procedure form.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION (Field of Industrial Application) The present invention relates to an operating procedure manual creation device, and more particularly, to an operating procedure manual creation device that can be used to create operating procedure manuals from the operating procedures of an interactive device that has branching conditions in addition to a tree structure of input information and output information. The present invention relates to an operating procedure manual creation device that generates a procedure manual.

(Prior Art) As a conventional device for creating operating procedures for an interactive device, there is a device proposed by the inventor of the present invention in JP-A-63-136954 F, “Operating Procedure Manual Creation Apparatus”.

This device was prototyped by the inventor of this F/A, and includes Information Processing Society of Japan (Information Processing Society of Japan), 32-capacity national conference proceedings, pages 2115-2116 "Base Machine-Object/Siegens Editor for Man-Machine Dialogue CAD" and 33-capacity of Information Processing Society of Japan. National conference lecture collection p2177-p2178r Man-machine dialogue C
AD (INTERA) - INTERA/P prototype -
This is a device that rewrites the operation sequence (operation procedure) of INTERA/P, which was announced at

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram showing an example of the operation sequence of INTBRA/P.

As shown in FIG. 4, the operation sequence of INTBRA/P consists of operation nodes 4 representing operation information represented by triangles.
1 and a response node 42 representing response information expressed in a circle are connected by a line segment 43 to represent a diadarum.

The device first reads input information and output information and determines its type.

Next, a sentence generation dictionary is searched by type to find a sentence pattern, and a sentence is generated by embedding the identification name of input information and output information in the sentence pattern.

Finally, if the generated sentence is input information, it is sequentially output to the input field, and if it is output information, it is output to the output field, thereby creating a tabular operating procedure manual.

(Problem to be solved by the invention) However, the INTERA/
P's operation sequence could not express conditional branching.

In general, the operating procedure may diverge depending on the state of the interactive device. For example, the operating procedure may differ depending on whether a certain optional function is set or canceled. In other words, a portion of the tree structure made up of input information and output information becomes operable or inoperable depending on conditions that depend on the state of the interactive device.

In the modified version of INTBRA/P, a conditional switch was introduced to express this kind of structure. FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram showing an example of the operation sequence of the modified version INTERA/P. As shown in FIG. 5, the operation sequence branches depending on the condition switch 51.

However, an operation sequence having such a condition switch could not be handled by the operation procedure creation device disclosed in JP-A-63-136954. Therefore, to view the operation sequence you have created, be sure to use INTERA/
This was inconvenient compared to viewing paper documents.

Also, since the operation sequences are represented by unique diadems, you need to learn how to read them.

Therefore, when an operation specification designer writes an operation specification using an operation sequence and hands it over to a software or manual creator, it is necessary for the software or manual creator to learn how to read the operation sequence or for the operation specification designer to learn how to read the operation sequence. It was necessary to rewrite the operating sequence into a commonly used operating procedure manual.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, an object of the present invention is to provide an operating procedure manual creation device that generates an operating procedure manual from an operation sequence having conditional switches.

(Means for Solving the Problems) In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the operating procedure manual creation device of the present invention has an operation system for an interactive device that has conditional branching in addition to the tree #J structure of input information and output information. reading means for sequentially reading input information, output information, and branch conditions included in the operation sequence upon receiving a function designation command that specifies an operation sequence for executing a certain function in the operation system; a type determination means for determining the type of input, output, or condition by referring to the type item of the read input information, output information, or branch condition; and a sentence using the type of input, output, or condition as a search key. a sentence generation dictionary that stores patterns; searching the sentence generation dictionary according to the determined type to derive a sentence pattern; and generating a sentence by embedding the input information, output information, and identification name of the branch condition in the sentence pattern; A sentence generating means for generating a sentence; and an output means for sequentially outputting a sentence generated by the sentence generating means to an input column if it is input information, to an output shelf if it is output information, and to a condition column if it is a branching condition.

<Operation> FIG. 1 is a block diagram for explaining the present invention in detail.

Continuation means 1 inputs an operation system of an interactive device having conditional branching in addition to the main structure of input information and output information, and generates a function setting command for specifying an operation sequence for executing a certain function in the operation system. When received, input information, output information, and branch conditions included in the operation sequence are sequentially read out.

The type determination means 2 determines the type of input, output, or condition by referring to the read input information, output information, or branch condition type item.

The sentence generation dictionary 3 stores sentence patterns using input, output, and condition types as search keys.

The sentence generation means 4 searches the sentence generation dictionary 3 based on the determined type, retrieves a sentence pattern, and generates a sentence by embedding input information, output information, and the identification name of the branching condition in the sentence pattern.

The output means 5 sequentially outputs the sentence generated by the sentence generation means 4 to the input field if it is input information, to the output field if it is output information, and to the condition field if it is a branching condition.

(Example) Next, the present invention will be explained with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention realized using a microcomputer, etc. In FIG. , tablets, keyboards, and other input devices;
23 is an output device such as a printer, 24 is a processing circuit such as a microcomputer, and 25 is a storage circuit that stores programs and data tables for the processing circuit 24.

The storage circuit 21 stores an operation system for an interactive device having conditional branching in addition to the main structure of input information and output information. The storage device 21 also stores sentence patterns as a dictionary, using input, output, and condition types as search keys. This dictionary is called a sentence generation dictionary.For example, it stores types and corresponding sentence patterns as shown in Table 1. In Table 1, X indicates a part in which an input, output, or condition identification name is embedded.

FIG. 3 of Table 1 is a flowchart showing the flow of control in the embodiment shown in FIG.

The operation of the embodiment shown in FIG. 2 will be explained below along with the flowchart in FIG.

When starting in step P1, first, in step P2, a function designation command that designates an operation sequence for executing a certain function is inputted via the input device 22.

In step P3, the operation system specified by the function designation command is searched for in the operation system stored in the storage device 21,
The input information, output information, and branch conditions included in the operation sequence are sequentially read out.

In step P4, the types of inputs, outputs, and conditions are determined by referring to the read input information, output information, and branch condition type items.

In step P5, a sentence generation dictionary is searched based on the type determined in step P4, a sentence pattern is retrieved, and a sentence is generated by embedding input information, output information, and the identification name of a branching condition in the sentence pattern.

For example, in the case of input information whose identifier is call and type is button, the sentence pattern "Press the X button" is extracted from the sentence generation dictionary, and "Call" is embedded in A sentence is generated.

In addition, in the case of output information where the identification name is outgoing and the type is lamp, the sentence pattern ``Light up the X lamp'' is extracted from the sentence generation dictionary, the word ``Outgoing'' is embedded in The sentence "turn on the light" is generated.

In addition, in the case of a branching condition whose identification name is an optional function and the type is lamp lighting, the sentence pattern ``X lamp is lit'' is extracted from the sentence generation dictionary, the optional function is embedded in X, and the pattern ``optional function lamp The sentence "On" is generated.

In step P6, if the sentence generated in step P5 is input information, it is sequentially output to the input column, if it is output information, it is output to the output shelf, and if it is a branching condition, it is sequentially output to the condition column.

In the operation sequence shown in Figure 5, by the function specification command,
Input information (operation node) 52, whose identification name is call and type is button! When a series of buses consisting of a branch condition 53 whose alias is optional function and whose type is lamp, and output information (response node) 54 whose identifier is outgoing and whose type is lamp is specified, the output is as shown in Table 2. be done.

Table 2 Note that the output in step 6 is either directly output to the output device 23 or temporarily stored in the storage device 21 and then output to the output device 23. Next, return to step P3 and wait until all the specified operation series are read out.
3 to step P6 are repeated.

Note that the above processing is controlled by the processing circuit 24 that operates according to a program stored in the storage circuit 25.

(Effects of the Invention) As described above, the operating procedure manual creation device according to the present invention can create an operating sequence, which is an operating system for an interactive device that has conditional branching in addition to a tree structure of input information and output information.
It can be output as a document in the format of a commonly used operating procedure manual.

Therefore, general software creators and manual creators can easily understand the contents of the operating system.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram for explaining the present invention in detail, FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention realized using a microcomputer, etc., and FIG. 3 is a block diagram of the embodiment of FIG. 2. A flowchart showing the flow of control, FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of an example of a display of an operation sequence, and FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of an example of a display of a modified version of the operation sequence. 1... Reading means, 2... Type determining means, 3...
Sentence generation dictionary, 4... Sentence generation means, 5... Output means.

Claims (1)

[Claims] A function specification that inputs an operation system for an interactive device that has conditional branching in addition to a tree structure of input information and output information, and specifies an operation sequence for executing a certain function in the operation system. reading means for sequentially reading input information, output information, and branch conditions included in the operation sequence upon receiving a command; a type determination means for determining the type of the input, output, or condition; a sentence generation dictionary storing sentence patterns using the type of the input, output, or condition as a search key; searching the sentence generation dictionary based on the determined type; a sentence generation means that generates a sentence by drawing a sentence pattern using the sentence pattern and embedding the input information, output information, and the identification name of the branching condition in the sentence pattern; the sentence generated by the sentence segment generation means is the input information; An operating procedure manual creation device characterized by comprising an output means for sequentially outputting ``if'' to an input field, ``output information'' to an output field, and ``branching conditions'' to a condition field.