Workflow Processing Interface Embedded in Document Context
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Solution Overview
Problem
In collaborative scenarios, processing workflow items such as approvals often requires users to repeatedly switch between documents and processing interfaces, leading to user inconvenience and reduced efficiency.
Innovation Solution
A method and apparatus for information processing that allows creating a workflow item within a document and displaying a workflow processing interface directly within the document, enabling processing personnel to manage workflow items without leaving the document context.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If users process workflow items by switching between documents and processing interfaces, then they can access both document content and workflow functions, but user convenience deteriorates and processing efficiency decreases due to repeated interface jumping
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the workflow processing interface with the document viewing interface by embedding the workflow processing interface within the document interface. This allows users to process workflow items (such as approvals) directly within the document context without switching between separate applications or windows, thereby eliminating repeated interface jumping and improving both user convenience and processing efficiency
2Ease of operation
If workflow processing interface is embedded within the document interface, then user convenience improves and processing efficiency increases, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies segmentation by dividing the integrated interface into distinct functional regions: a document display region for showing document content and a workflow processing region for displaying and interacting with workflow items. This modular segmentation allows the complex functionality to be organized into manageable, independent components that can be developed and maintained separately while presenting a unified user experience
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AI summary
The disclosure provides a method, apparatus, electronic device and storage medium for information processing. The disclosure employs the following technical solutions. In some embodiments, the disclosure provides a method for information processing: creating a first document, displaying a workflow creation interface in response to receiving a first operation event in the first document; creating a workflow item associated with the first document in response to a second operation event for the workflow creation interface, wherein the workflow item has an associated processing personnel; displaying a workflow processing interface of the workflow item in the first document; wherein the workflow processing interface has a processing control for processing the workflow item. The embodiments of the disclosure improve the processing efficiency of the workflow item.