JP2012216035A - Information processor, control method thereof, and program - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To make a notification indicating that a posting instruction to a bulletin board has been given, prior to the actual posting, and thereby making the posting to the bulletin board known in advance.SOLUTION: A posting instruction to an electronic bulletin board, a notification destination to which a notification is made that the posting instruction has been given, and posting instruction notification setting information indicating whether to make a notification that the posting instruction has been given are inputted. When the posting instruction to the electronic bulletin board is inputted and it is determined that the inputted posting instruction notification setting information indicates to make a notification that the posting instruction has been given, the notification that the posting instruction has been given is made to the inputted notification destination.

Description

  The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus, a control method therefor, and a program, and more particularly to a technique for performing notification related to posting on an electronic bulletin board.

Conventionally, various information has been posted on, for example, an electronic bulletin board posted on an intra-company intranet.
Therefore, even if new information is posted on the electronic bulletin board, employees may not be aware that the information is posted.

  Therefore, Patent Document 1 proposes to notify by e-mail when information that a user wants to know is posted on a bulletin board. Specifically, in Patent Document 1, information on a bulletin board that satisfies a condition such that a posting time is within a certain time from the current time, a predetermined keyword is included, and a predetermined poster is posting is notified by e-mail. It has been proposed to do.

JP 2010-20518 A

  However, in Patent Document 1, conditions for searching for information on a bulletin board that the user is interested in are registered, and when a bulletin board satisfying the conditions is posted, the bulletin board is notified. The publisher who posted on the site cannot notify the user who wants to browse at the time of posting. For this reason, it has been difficult to make the posted content sufficiently known in a timely manner to users who want to view it.

  Furthermore, for example, when posting on a bulletin board as a department, it may be necessary to notify other persons of the department to which the publisher belongs in advance that the posting instruction has been issued on the bulletin board. Conventionally, when notifying other parties in advance that a posting instruction has been given, the publisher has to create a mail to contact the user, and has been required to perform complicated operations.

  Therefore, an object of the present invention is to make it possible to grasp in advance that an electronic bulletin board will be posted by giving a notification indicating that the posting instruction has been made on the electronic bulletin board before being posted.

  The present invention is an information processing apparatus that performs notification related to posting on an electronic bulletin board, wherein the posting instruction on the electronic bulletin board, the notification destination that notifies that the posting instruction has been performed, and the posting instruction are performed. An input means for inputting posting instruction notification setting information indicating whether or not to notify that a posting instruction has been made, a posting instruction on the electronic bulletin board being input by the input means, and a posting instruction notification setting information input by the input means Determines whether or not to indicate that a posting instruction has been made, and the determination means inputs a posting instruction to the electronic bulletin board by the input means, and the input When it is determined that the posting instruction notification setting information input by the means indicates that a notification indicating that the posting instruction has been performed is made, a posting instruction is issued to the notification destination input by the input means A notification means for notifying Characterized in that it obtain.

  In addition, the present invention is a method for controlling an information processing apparatus that performs a notification relating to posting on an electronic bulletin board, wherein the input unit notifies the posting instruction on the electronic bulletin board and that the posting instruction has been performed. An input step of inputting a posting instruction notification setting information indicating whether to notify that a notification destination and a posting instruction have been performed; and a determination means, wherein the posting instruction to the electronic bulletin board is input in the input step; and A determination step for determining whether or not the posting instruction notification setting information input in the input step indicates that a notification that a posting instruction has been performed is performed; and a notification means includes the input in the determination step When a posting instruction on the electronic bulletin board is input in the process, and it is determined that the posting instruction notification setting information input in the input process indicates that a notification that the posting instruction has been performed is performed, Notification entered in the input process In, characterized in that it comprises a notifying step of notifying to the effect that published instruction is made, the.

  In addition, the present invention is a program that can be read and executed by an information processing apparatus that performs a notification related to posting on an electronic bulletin board, and the information processing apparatus is placed on the electronic bulletin board and the posting instruction is issued A notification destination for notifying that, and an input means for inputting posting instruction notification setting information indicating whether to notify that a posting instruction has been performed; and a posting instruction on the electronic bulletin board is input by the input means; and A determination instruction for determining whether or not the posting instruction notification setting information input by the input means indicates that a notification that a posting instruction has been made is performed, and the determination means includes: When the posting instruction on the bulletin board is input and it is determined that the posting instruction notification setting information input by the input unit indicates that the posting instruction has been performed, the input unit Entered Above, characterized in that to function as a notification means for performing notification that published instruction is made.

  According to the present invention, the notification indicating that the posting instruction to the electronic bulletin board has been performed can be performed before the posting, thereby making it possible to grasp that the posting is posted on the bulletin board in advance.

1 is a block diagram schematically showing a system configuration according to an embodiment of the present invention. 2 is a block diagram schematically showing hardware configurations of an administrator terminal 101, a server 102, and client terminals 103 and 104 in FIG. It is a block diagram which shows roughly the structure of the function with which the server 102 in FIG. 1 is provided. It is a figure which shows an example of the list screen of a bulletin board. It is a figure which shows an example of the new registration screen of a bulletin board. 6 is a diagram illustrating an example of a posting start mail 601 and a posting instruction mail 602. FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating an example of a group table 700. FIG. 5 is a diagram showing an example of a bulletin board information table 800. FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a first control processing procedure executed by a CPU 201 of the client terminal 103 and the server 102 in FIG. 1. 6 is a flowchart illustrating a second control processing procedure executed by a CPU 201 of the client terminal 103 and the server 102 in FIG. 1. It is a flowchart which shows the detailed process sequence of step S1006. It is a flowchart which shows the process sequence which the server 102 performs always.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in detail according to preferred embodiments with reference to the accompanying drawings.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram schematically showing a system configuration according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, an administrator terminal 101, a server 102, a client terminal 103, and a client terminal 104 are connected to be communicable with each other via a network 100 such as an Internet line. Here, the client terminals 103 and 104 are information processing apparatuses such as personal computers and smartphones.

  The server 102 functions as a database server and manages the WEB service of the bulletin board.

  The server 102 also functions as a WEB server, and has a function of transmitting display information described in a markup language such as HTML to the client terminals 103 and 104.

  Specifically, it has a function of generating display information from data in the bulletin board information table 800 (FIG. 8) stored in the database and transmitting it to the client terminals 103 and 104.

  The server 102 also has an authentication function for performing authentication processing of the users of the client terminals 103 and 104.

  In the client terminals 103 and 104, WEB browser software (hereinafter also referred to as WEB browser) is installed.

  The client terminals 103 and 104 have a function of interpreting display information acquired from the server 102 for displaying a WEB page and displaying the information on a display unit. Here, the display information is a data file described in a markup language for displaying a WEB page, and is a file that can be interpreted by a WEB browser such as an HTML file or an XML file.

  When the administrator terminal 101 receives an instruction related to management of the server 102 from the server administrator, the administrator terminal 101 transmits the instruction to the server 102. The server 102 that has received the instruction performs management related to various services to be executed in accordance with the instruction.

  As described above, this system configuration is a mechanism in which a user uses services of various application software running on the server 102 using a Web browser installed on a mobile terminal.

  Hereinafter, the hardware configuration of the administrator terminal 101, the server 102, and the client terminals 103 and 104 illustrated in FIG. 1 will be described with reference to FIG.

  FIG. 2 is a block diagram schematically showing the hardware configuration of the administrator terminal 101, server 102, and client terminals 103 and 104 in FIG.

  The server 102 is an application example of the information processing apparatus of the present invention.

In FIG. 2, reference numeral 201 denotes a CPU that comprehensively controls devices and controllers connected to the system bus 204. Further, the ROM 202 or the external memory 211 has a BIOS (Basic Input / Output System) or an operating system program (hereinafter referred to as OS), which is a control program of the CPU 201, and functions executed by each server or each PC (information processing apparatus). Various programs and the like to be described later necessary for the realization are stored.

A RAM 203 functions as a main memory, work area, and the like for the CPU 201. The CPU 201 implements various operations by loading a program or the like necessary for execution of processing from the ROM 202 or the external memory 211 into the RAM 203 and executing the loaded program.

An input controller 205 controls input from a keyboard (KB) 209 or a pointing device such as a mouse (not shown). A video controller 206 controls display on a display (display unit) such as a CRT display (CRT) 210. In FIG. 2, although described as CRT 210, the display device is not limited to the CRT, but may be another display device such as a liquid crystal display. These are used by the administrator as needed.

A memory controller 207 is provided in an external storage device (hard disk (HD)), flexible disk (FD), or PCMCIA card slot for storing a boot program, various applications, font data, user files, editing files, various data, and the like. Controls access to an external memory 211 such as a compact flash (registered trademark) memory connected via an adapter.

A communication I / F controller 208 connects and communicates with an external device via the network 100, and executes communication control processing in the network. For example, communication using TCP / IP is possible.

Note that the CPU 201 enables display on the CRT 210 by executing outline font rasterization processing on a display information area in the RAM 203, for example. In addition, the CPU 201 enables a user instruction with a mouse cursor (not shown) on the CRT 210.

Various programs to be described later for realizing the present invention are recorded in the external memory 211 and executed by the CPU 201 by being loaded into the RAM 203 as necessary. Further, files and various tables used when executing the program are also stored in the external memory 211.

  FIG. 3 is a block diagram schematically showing a functional configuration of the server 102 in FIG.

  As shown in FIG. 3, the server 102 includes a WEB service 301 and various DBs (databases) 302.

  Here, the WEB service 301 indicates, for example, a WEB service provided to a client terminal. For example, data in such a format that the bulletin board information (FIG. 8) stored in various DBs 302 can be displayed on the WEB browser of the client terminal. Are generated and stored, and in accordance with a request from the client terminal, a service (bulletin board service) that transmits the generated data to be displayed on the client terminal, an authentication service for authenticating a user who operates the client terminal, etc. have.

  Various DBs 302 have an authentication table (not shown) in which a user ID and a password are stored in association with each other.

  The various DBs 302 store a group table 700 shown in FIG.

  Next, the present embodiment will be described with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG.

  FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing a first control processing procedure executed by the CPU 201 of the client terminal 103 and the server 102 in FIG.

  The processing shown in step S901, step S907 to step S913, step S917 to step S920, step S923, and step S924 is executed and implemented by the CPU 201 of the client terminal 103.

  Further, the processes shown in steps S902 to S906, steps S914 to S916, steps S921, and S922 are executed and implemented by the CPU 201 of the server 102.

  First, in order to access the WEB service 301 of the server 102, the client terminal 103 receives an input from a user of a URL that provides the WEB service. When the client terminal 103 receives the URL input from the user, the client terminal 103 transmits a display information transmission request for displaying the login screen of the WEB service 301 to the received URL.

  Upon receiving the display information transmission request from the client terminal 103, the server 102 transmits display information (HTML or the like) for displaying the login screen to the client terminal 103.

  Upon receiving the display information from the server 102, the client terminal 103 displays a login screen (not shown) according to the display information.

  Then, the client terminal 103 receives an input of a user ID and a password by a user operation via a login screen. When the user presses the login button, the client terminal 103 transmits the input user ID and password to the server 102 (S901).

  Upon receiving the user ID and password from the client terminal 103 (S902), the server 102 determines whether or not the received user ID and password are registered in an authentication table stored in various DBs 302. User authentication processing is performed (step S903). If it is determined that the server 102 is not registered (S904: NO), the server 102 displays display information for displaying a failure screen indicating that the user has not been authenticated (authentication failed). 103 is transmitted (S906).

  If it is determined that the server 102 is registered (S904: YES), the server 102 transmits display information for displaying a portal screen (not shown) to the client terminal 103 (S905).

  When the client terminal 103 receives the display information from the server 102 (S907), if the display information is display information for displaying a failure screen (S908: YES), the client terminal 103 displays the failure screen according to the display information. The information is displayed on the display unit of the terminal 103 (S909), and the process returns to step S901.

  On the other hand, when the display information received from the server 102 is display information for displaying the portal screen (S908: NO), the client terminal 103 displays the portal screen on the display unit of the client terminal 103 according to the display information. (S910).

  Here, on the displayed portal screen, buttons for selecting various services such as a bulletin board service and a schedule service are displayed.

  When the user presses the bulletin board list screen button, which is a bulletin board service, via the portal screen (S911: YES), the client terminal 103 obtains a display information acquisition request for displaying the bulletin board list screen. Is transmitted to the server 102 (S912).

  On the other hand, when a button other than the bulletin board list screen button is pressed by the user (S911: NO), the client terminal 103 executes processing corresponding to the pressed button (S913). For example, when a schedule service button that enables the use of a schedule service is pressed, the server 102 requests the server 102 to acquire authenticated user schedule information and displays the schedule information acquired from the server 102. Execute the process displayed on the screen. And if the instruction | indication which returns to a user's previous screen is received, a process will transfer to step S910 and a portal screen will be displayed.

  When the server 102 receives a display information acquisition request for displaying the bulletin board list screen from the client terminal 103 (S914), the bulletin board information (included in the bulletin board information table 800) that can be browsed by the authenticated user. (Part or all of the information) is acquired from the bulletin board information table 800, and based on this, display information for displaying the bulletin board list screen shown in FIG. 8 is generated (S915).

Specifically, for example, if the authenticated user is “Ogata”, it is determined from the group table 700 shown in FIG. 7 that the group to which “Ogata” belongs is “A”. Then, a record in which the group A or “Ogata” is included in the “public range” of the bulletin board information table 800 (FIG. 8), and the “public flag” of the bulletin board information table 800 (FIG. 8) is being disclosed. Regarding the record, “Ogata” is determined to be a bulletin board that can be browsed.
The “publication flag” in the bulletin board information table 800 (FIG. 8) determines whether or not the current date and time is within the “publication period” of the bulletin board information table 800, and is determined to be within the “publication period”. Only “Public flag” is set as “Public”.

  The bulletin board information of the bulletin board that can be browsed by the user is acquired from the bulletin board information table 800, and display information for displaying the bulletin board list screen is generated.

  Then, the server 102 transmits the display information generated in step S915 to the client terminal 103 (S917).

  The client terminal 103 receives the display information from the server 102 (S917), and displays a bulletin board list screen (FIG. 4) on the display unit according to the display information (S918).

  FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating an example of a bulletin board list screen.

  As shown in FIG. 4, a list of bulletin boards that can be browsed by the authenticated user is displayed. When the user presses the title shown on the bulletin board list screen shown in FIG. 4, the bulletin board with the pressed title is displayed. For example, when the user selects the bulletin board with the title “A” 402, the content of the bulletin board with the title “A” 402 is displayed, and the user can check the content of the bulletin board.

  If the user wants to create a new bulletin board, the user can create a new bulletin board by pressing a “New” button 401.

  The client terminal 103 determines whether or not the “new creation” button 401 is pressed by the user (S919). If it is determined that the “new creation” button 401 is pressed by the user (S919: YES), the server A display information acquisition request for displaying a screen for newly registering a bulletin board (FIG. 5) is transmitted to 102 (S920).

  When the server 102 receives the display information acquisition request from the client terminal 103 (S921), the server 102 transmits display information for displaying a screen for newly registering a bulletin board shown in FIG. S923).

  Upon receiving the display information from the server 102, the client terminal 103 displays a bulletin board new registration screen (FIG. 5) on the display unit according to the display information (S924).

  The processing after step S924 will be described with reference to FIG.

  FIG. 10 is a flowchart showing a second control processing procedure executed by the CPU 201 of the client terminal 103 and the server 102 in FIG.

  The processing shown in steps S1001 to S1003 is executed and implemented by the CPU 201 of the client terminal 103.

  Further, the processing shown in steps S1004 to S1006 is executed and implemented by the CPU 201 of the server 102.

  When the client terminal 103 displays the new bulletin board registration screen (FIG. 5) in step S924, the client terminal 103 accepts input of new bulletin board information by the user (S1001).

  FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating an example of a new registration screen for a bulletin board.

  Reference numeral 501 denotes a radio button for selecting the disclosure range of the bulletin board. Here, “all” and “designated group” can be selected. In the example of FIG. 5, it is shown that “specified group” is selected.

  In 502, a designated group permitted to publish a bulletin board can be selected.

  Specifically, among “Group A”, “Group B”, and “Group C” displayed as “Group”, a group that is permitted to be opened is selected, and when the add button 503 is pressed, “Open” is displayed. It is added as a group that permits disclosure to “destination”.

  Reference numeral 504 denotes a text box for inputting the title of the bulletin board.

  Reference numeral 505 denotes a text box for inputting a category.

  Reference numeral 506 denotes a text box for inputting the contents of a bulletin board to be newly registered.

  In addition, a publication start date and time 507 and a publication end date and time 508 can be input as the publication period.

  The posting start date and time is the start date and time when the bulletin board created on the new registration screen in FIG. Further, the posting end date / time is the date / time when the publication of the bulletin board created on the new registration screen in FIG. 5 ends.

  Further, the new registration screen of the bulletin board shown in FIG. 5 is set so that, when the posting of the bulletin board created on the new registration screen of FIG. When the check box 509 and a bulletin board posting instruction (pressing the registration button 513) created on the new registration screen of FIG. 5 are displayed, a posting instruction mail indicating that is displayed on the bulletin board publication destination or a posting instruction mail described later. A check box 510 for performing transmission to the transmission range is provided.

  The new registration screen of the bulletin board shown in FIG. 5 is provided with an object for setting the transmission range of the posting instruction mail.

  Specifically, among “Group A”, “Group B”, and “Group C” displayed as “Group”, the group that is the transmission range of the posting instruction mail is selected, and the add button 511 is pressed. Then, the selected group is added as a transmission range of the posting instruction mail. That is, a notification destination for notifying the posting instruction mail 602 that the posting instruction has been made is set.

  In addition, the new registration screen of the bulletin board shown in FIG. 5 is provided with an object 512 for setting the date and time for sending the posting instruction mail.

  By the user through the screen shown in FIG. 5, the bulletin board disclosure range (group), title, category, content, posting period (posting start mail, posting instruction mail), posting mail, posting instruction mail transmission range, posting instruction mail When date and time input settings are made and the registration button 513 is pressed (S1002: YES), a registration request for the entered content data is transmitted to the server 102 together with the entered content data (S1003).

  When the server 102 receives the content data input via the screen shown in FIG. 5 and the registration request for the content data from the client terminal 103 (S1004), the server 102 stores the received content data in the bulletin board information table 800. Registration is performed (S1005).

  More specifically, the title input in 504 of the new bulletin board registration screen (FIG. 5) is registered in the “title” field of the bulletin board information table 800.

  In the “category” item of the bulletin board information table 800, the category input in 505 of the new bulletin board registration screen (FIG. 5) is registered.

  Also, in the “posting period” item of the bulletin board information table 800, the posting end date and time input in 508 from the posting start date and time input in 507 on the new registration screen (FIG. 5) of the bulletin board is registered. Here, the publication start date and time represents a publication start notification time indicating a time to start publication.

  In addition, in the item “publication range” of the bulletin board information table 800, the group name of the public range selected on the bulletin board new registration screen (FIG. 5) 501 and 502 is registered.

  In addition, in the “content” item of the bulletin board information table 800, the posted contents input in the new bulletin board registration screen (FIG. 5) 506 are registered.

  In addition, in the item “posted mail” of the bulletin board information table 800, “posting start mail” is registered when the check box 509 of the new bulletin board registration screen (FIG. 5) is checked, and the new bulletin board registration screen ( If the check box 510 in FIG. 5) is checked, a “posting instruction mail” is registered. In other words, the posting instruction notification setting information indicating whether or not the posting instruction has been performed and the posting start notification setting information indicating whether or not the posting start is to be registered are registered in the “Posting email” item. Is done.

  Further, in the item “posting instruction mail transmission range” of the bulletin board information table 800, a group name set by being pressed in 511 on the new registration screen (FIG. 5) of the bulletin board is registered.

  In addition, the posting instruction mail date and time set in 512 on the new registration screen (FIG. 5) of the bulletin board is registered in the item “posting mail date and time” of the bulletin board information table 800. That is, the posting instruction notification time indicating the time for performing the notification that the posting instruction has been performed is registered.

  If the date / time is not registered in the “posting instruction mail date / time” in the bulletin board information table 800 (that is, if the date / time is not set in 512), nothing is registered in this item.

  Here, if the check box of the posting instruction mail is checked in 510 and the date and time is not set in 512, it indicates that the posting instruction mail is transmitted when the registration button 513 is pressed.

  In addition, the user name set on the bulletin board new registration screen (FIG. 5) is registered in the item “creator” of the bulletin board information table 800.

  Also, in the “reply number” item of the bulletin board information table 800, the number of replies that have been replied to the contents published on the bulletin board is registered.

  The server 102 sets the data (bulletin board information) registered in the bulletin board information table 800 in step S1005 as a processing target, and executes a process of sending a posting start mail or a posting instruction mail to the client terminal according to the data (S1006). The process is terminated. Detailed processing in step S1006 is shown in FIG.

  FIG. 11 is a flowchart showing the detailed processing procedure of step S1006.

  The processes shown in step S1106, step S1107, step S1112, and step S1113 are executed and implemented by the CPU 201 of the client terminal 103.

  In addition, the processes shown in steps S1101 to S1105 and steps S1108 to S1111 are executed and implemented by the CPU 201 of the server 102.

  The process shown in FIG. 11 is repeatedly executed for each record of the bulletin board information table 800. However, when the process of FIG. 11 is executed after the process of step S1006, the record registered in step S1005 is executed.

  First, the server 102 determines whether or not “posting start mail” is registered in the “posting mail” item of the bulletin board information table 800 (step S1101).

  In the “Posted Mail” item of the bulletin board information table 800, if the check box 509 of the posting start mail on the new registration screen (FIG. 5) of the bulletin board is checked and the registration button 513 is pressed, “Post” is displayed in S1005. When “start mail” is registered, and the check button 510 of the posting instruction mail is checked and the registration button 513 is pressed, “posting instruction mail” is registered in S1005.

  Therefore, in step S1101, by determining whether or not “posting start mail” is registered in the “posting mail” item of the bulletin board information table 800, the posting start mail on the new registration screen of the bulletin board (FIG. 5). It can be determined whether or not the check box 509 is checked.

  If the server 102 determines in step S1101 that “posting start mail” is registered in the “posting mail” item of the bulletin board information table 800 (YES), the current date and time is stored in the bulletin board information table 800. It is determined whether or not it is the posting start date and time registered in the item “posting period” (S1102) (starting time determination means).

If the server 102 determines that the current date and time is the posting start date and time registered in the “publishing period” item of the bulletin board information table 800 (S1102: YES), the bulletin board of the record currently being processed. Using the information, a publication start mail (for example, 601 in FIG. 6) including the content is generated (S1103).
FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating an example of the posting start mail 601 and the posting instruction mail 602.

  Next, the server 102 transmits the posting start mail created in step S1103 to the users belonging to the group indicated in the “public range” of the record of the bulletin board information table 800 that is currently processed (S1104). That is, a posting start mail 601 indicating the start of posting is notified (start notification means).

  Here, a method for specifying the destination will be described.

  Since the users belonging to the group indicated in the “public range” of the record of the bulletin board information table 800 to be processed and the mail address of the user are stored in the group table 700 (FIG. 7), the group table 700 (FIG. With reference to 7), the mail address of the user to which the group belongs is specified as the destination. In S1104, the posting start mail created in step S1103 is transmitted to the identified destination.

  Then, the server 102 performs a process for posting the “content” of the record of the bulletin board information table 800 that is currently processed as a bulletin board. Specifically, a flag indicating that the information is being released is set in the “public flag” of the bulletin board information table 800.

  When the client terminal receives the posting start mail from the server 102 (S1106), the client terminal displays the posting start mail on the display unit (S1107).

  The server 102 determines in step S1101 that “posting start mail” is not registered in the “posting mail” item of the bulletin board information table 800 (NO), or in step S1102, the current date and time is If it is determined that it is not the posting start date / time registered in the “posting period” item of the bulletin board information table 800 (NO), the process proceeds to step S1108.

  In step S1108, the server 102 determines whether or not “posting instruction mail” is registered in the “posting mail” item of the bulletin board information table 800 (posting notification determination unit). If it is determined that “Posting mail” is registered in the “Posting mail” item (NO), the current date and time is registered in “Posting mail” on the bulletin board information table 800. It is determined whether or not the date and time (S1109) (instruction notification time determination means). That is, it is determined whether it is the posting instruction notification time.

  Also, it is determined whether or not the date / time is registered in the “posting instruction mail date / time” of the bulletin board information table 800 (that is, it is determined whether or not the posting instruction mail date / time is set in 512). If it is determined that the date / time is not registered in “Mail Date / Time”, it is determined that the current date / time is the date / time registered in “Posting Instruction Mail Date / Time” in the bulletin board information table 800 (S1109: YES). The process moves to step S1110. The process described in this paragraph is executed only in the case of the mail notification process executed in S1006. That is, in S1203, the process described in this paragraph is not executed.

  If the server 102 determines that the current date / time is the date / time registered in the “posting instruction mail date / time” in the bulletin board information table 800 (S1109: YES), the server 102 displays the bulletin board information of the record currently being processed. Then, a posting instruction mail (for example, 602 in FIG. 6) including the content is generated (S1110).

  Then, the posting instruction mail generated in step S1110 is transmitted to the users belonging to the group indicated in the “posting instruction mail transmission range” of the bulletin board information table 800 (S1111).

  Here, a method for specifying the destination will be described.

  The group table 700 (FIG. 7) stores the users belonging to the group indicated in the “posting instruction mail transmission range” of the record of the bulletin board information table 800 to be processed, and the mail address of the user. Referring to 700 (FIG. 7), the mail address of the user to which the group belongs is specified as the destination. In S1111, the posting instruction mail created in Step S1110 is transmitted to the specified destination.

  When the client terminal receives the posting instruction mail from the server 102 (S1112), the client terminal displays the posting instruction mail on the display unit.

  The server 102 determines in step S1108 that “posting instruction mail” is not registered in the “posting mail” item of the bulletin board information table 800 (NO), or in step S1109, the current date and time is If it is determined that the date / time is not registered in the “posting instruction mail date / time” in the bulletin board information table 800 (NO), the processing is returned without performing the processing of steps S1109, S1110, and S1111.

  Next, a processing procedure that the server 102 always executes will be described with reference to FIG.

FIG. 12 is a flowchart illustrating a processing procedure that the server 102 always executes.
The processing shown in steps S1201 to S1204 is executed and implemented by the CPU 201 of the server 102.

  First, the server 102 reads and acquires the bulletin board information table 800 stored in the memory (S1201).

  Then, the process of step S1203 is repeatedly executed for each record of the acquired bulletin board information table 800. Detailed processing of the processing shown in step S1203 is the same as the flowchart shown in FIG.

  When the processing shown in step S1203 is executed for all the records in the bulletin board information table 800 acquired in step S1201, the process returns to step S1201 again to read and acquire the newly updated bulletin board information table 800.

  As described above, according to the present embodiment, the notification indicating that the posting instruction on the electronic bulletin board has been performed is performed before the posting, thereby making it possible to grasp that the posting will be posted on the bulletin board in advance. be able to.

Although one embodiment of the present invention has been described in detail above, the present invention can take an embodiment as a system, apparatus, method, program (computer program) or storage medium that can be read and executed by the apparatus, for example. Specifically, the present invention may be applied to a system composed of a plurality of devices, or may be applied to an apparatus composed of a single device.

Another object of the present invention is to supply a storage medium storing software program codes for realizing the functions of the above-described embodiments to a system or apparatus, and the computer (or CPU or MPU) of the system or apparatus stores the storage medium. Needless to say, this can also be achieved by reading and executing the program code stored in.

In this case, the program code itself read from the storage medium realizes the functions of the above-described embodiments, and the program code itself and the storage medium storing the program code constitute the present invention.

As a storage medium for supplying the program code, for example, a flexible disk, a hard disk, an optical disk, a magneto-optical disk, a CD-ROM, a CD-R, a magnetic tape, a nonvolatile memory card, a ROM, or the like can be used.

Further, by executing the program code read by the computer, not only the functions of the above-described embodiments are realized, but also an OS (basic system or operating system) running on the computer based on the instruction of the program code. Needless to say, a case where the function of the above-described embodiment is realized by performing part or all of the actual processing and the processing is included.

Further, after the program code read from the storage medium is written in a memory provided in a function expansion board inserted into the computer or a function expansion unit connected to the computer, the function is determined based on the instruction of the program code. It goes without saying that the CPU or the like provided in the expansion board or function expansion unit performs part or all of the actual processing and the functions of the above-described embodiments are realized by the processing.

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Claims (5)

An information processing apparatus for performing notification related to posting on an electronic bulletin board,
An input means for inputting a posting instruction on the electronic bulletin board, a notification destination for notifying that the posting instruction has been performed, and posting instruction notification setting information indicating whether to notify that the posting instruction has been performed;
It is determined whether or not a posting instruction on the electronic bulletin board is input by the input unit, and the posting instruction notification setting information input by the input unit indicates that a notification that the posting instruction has been performed is performed. Determination means to perform,
The determination means indicates that a posting instruction on the electronic bulletin board is input by the input means, and the posting instruction notification setting information input by the input means indicates that a posting instruction has been performed. A notification means for notifying that the posting instruction has been made to the notification destination input by the input means,
An information processing apparatus comprising: The input means further inputs a posting instruction notification time indicating a time for notifying that a posting instruction has been performed,
Further comprising instruction notification time determination means for determining whether the current date and time is a posting instruction notification time input by the input means;
The notification means is a notice that the posting instruction is input to the electronic bulletin board by the input means and the posting instruction notification setting information input by the input means is the determination means by the input means. The notification input by the input means when the instruction notification time determination means determines that the current date and time is the posting instruction notification time input by the input means. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a notification that a posting instruction has been made is performed first. The input means further inputs a publication destination for publishing the publication content, a publication start notification setting information indicating whether a notification indicating the publication start is performed, and a publication start notification time indicating a start time of the publication,
Start time determination means for determining whether the current date and time is the posting start notification time input by the input means;
Posting notification determining means for determining whether or not the posting start notification setting information input by the input means indicates performing notification indicating the start of posting;
The start time determining means determines that the current date is the posting start notification time input by the input means, and the posting start notification setting information input by the input means by the posting notification determination means. , When it is determined to indicate that a notification indicating the start of posting is to be performed, a start notification means for notifying that the posting start is indicated to the publication destination input by the input means,
The information processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising: A method of controlling an information processing apparatus that performs notification related to posting on an electronic bulletin board,
The input means inputs the posting instruction on the electronic bulletin board, the notification destination for notifying that the posting instruction has been performed, and the posting instruction notification setting information indicating whether to notify that the posting instruction has been performed. Input process;
Whether the determination means indicates that a posting instruction on the electronic bulletin board is input in the input step, and the posting instruction notification setting information input in the input step indicates that a posting instruction has been performed A determination step of determining whether or not,
In the determination step, the notification means inputs a posting instruction on the electronic bulletin board in the input step, and the posting instruction notification setting information input in the input step notifies that the posting instruction has been performed. A notification step of notifying that the posting instruction has been made to the notification destination input in the input step when it is determined to indicate that to perform;
A control method comprising: There is a program that can be read and executed by an information processing device that performs notification related to posting on an electronic bulletin board,
The information processing apparatus;
An input means for inputting a posting instruction on the electronic bulletin board, a notification destination for notifying that the posting instruction has been performed, and posting instruction notification setting information indicating whether to notify that the posting instruction has been performed;
It is determined whether or not a posting instruction on the electronic bulletin board is input by the input unit, and the posting instruction notification setting information input by the input unit indicates that a notification that the posting instruction has been performed is performed. Determination means to perform,
The determination means indicates that a posting instruction on the electronic bulletin board is input by the input means, and the posting instruction notification setting information input by the input means indicates that a posting instruction has been performed. A program that causes the notification destination input by the input means to function as a notification means for notifying that a posting instruction has been made.

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