Workflow Error Symbol Linking for Screen Navigation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing workflow systems face difficulties in displaying a process with errors alongside its setting field on the same screen without requiring users to switch between screens, making it cumbersome to identify and correct errors.
Innovation Solution
An information processing apparatus and method that displays a workflow and its setting contents on the same screen, using error symbols to indicate errors in the workflow, allowing users to select these symbols to reveal the corresponding setting fields for error correction without screen switching.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If error identification requires switching between workflow screen and setting screen, then error detection capability is improved, but user operation complexity increases and time efficiency decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the workflow display screen and setting content display screen into a single integrated screen. The workflow management terminal displays both the workflow diagram showing process nodes and the corresponding setting content input fields on the same screen, allowing users to view error identifiers next to process nodes and access the associated setting fields without switching screens. This merging eliminates the need to switch between separate screens while maintaining comprehensive error detection capability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an error identifier as an intermediary element that visually connects the workflow process node with its corresponding setting content field. When an error is detected in setting content, an error identifier is displayed next to the corresponding process node in the workflow diagram, serving as a visual mediator that guides users directly to the problematic setting field on the same screen without requiring screen switching.
2Loss of information
If detailed setting fields are displayed for all processes, then completeness of information is improved, but screen space utilization deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by displaying detailed setting fields and error identifiers only in the local areas where errors exist, rather than uniformly displaying all setting fields for all processes. The system selectively renders setting content input fields and error identifiers based on whether errors are present in corresponding processes, concentrating visual information where needed and leaving other areas concise, thus optimizing screen space utilization while maintaining information completeness for error-related content.
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AI summary
An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: display on the same screen a first region displaying a workflow of processes and a second region displaying setting contents in each process forming the workflow; if an error is included in the setting contents of one of the processes, display specific information on the process displayed in the first region and having the setting contents including the error, in a manner such that the specific information is associated with an error symbol indicating an inclusion of the error; and if the error symbol is selected by a user, display at a specific location of the second region a setting field of the setting contents including the error in the process corresponding to the selected error symbol.