WO1992018942A1 - Hypertext control method and apparatus for displaying help information in an interactive data processing system - Google Patents
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- the invention relates generally to interactive data pro ⁇ cessing systems, and more particularly to a hypertext control method and apparatus for manipulation of help information displayed in an interactive data processing system.
- Computers often include on-line interactive learning func ⁇ tions to facilitate ease of learning for users of one or many computer programs or applications.
- Many computer systems have adopted a hypertext network or a help/dialog approach which gives the user display screens of help/dialog information for specific applications selected by the user.
- the hypertext network is a non-sequential approach for on-line presentation of help information or text to describe a selected term or concept.
- a choice of several options of information or text associated with particular hypertext reference phrases is provided to the user.
- the user controls the particular hypertext screen to . be displayed by selecting a hypertext reference phrase from a curren . hypertext screen.
- the . next hypertext screen displays text associated with the selected hypertext reference phrase and additional reference phrases from which a next selection can be made.
- the hypertext screens are connected by directed links.
- a difficulty for the user with the conventional hypertext arrangement is that hypertext reference phrases are dis ⁇ played as options when the target hypertext screens .have not been installed on the system. As a result the user is allowed to select useless links to empty or nonexistent target modules. Also the conventional hypertext arrangement does not pro ⁇ vide an effective way to display different hypertext in ⁇ formation or different target modules based upon class or authority of the user. A programmer may need to see more detailed information than a system operator or other user; however, in the conventional hypertext arrangement the same help information associated with particular hypertext reference phrases is displayed for all users.
- U.S. patent 4,964,077 discloses a technique for automati ⁇ cally adjusting help information displayed in an on-line interactive data entry data processing system.
- the dis ⁇ closed system tracks the number of times a user has in ⁇ voked a help/dialog function, compares that number with a threshold value and then displays less help/dialog infor ⁇ mation to the user.
- the disclosed system builds a data base of help/dialogs which are uniquely addressed by the functional area and skill level of the individual user as tracked by the number of times the user has been through the help/dialog for a particular functional area. While the disclosed technique provides improvements, the above- described disadvantages of the conventional hypertext arrangement remain.
- Important objects of the present invention are to provide a hypertext control method and apparatus for displaying help information in an interactive data processing system overcoming disadvantages of hypertext networks and help/dialog arrangements used in the past; to provide a hypertext control method and apparatus in which a hypertext link reference phrase is selectively activated and deactivated to enable the user to effectively and efficiently access help information; to provide a hypertext control method and apparatus in which different hypertext information or different target modules are displayed based upon a user class or authority; and to provide an improved user interface for a hypertext network to facilitate ease of learning for different classes of users and to avoid useless links to empty or nonexistent target modules.
- the hypertext network includes a plurality of user selectable information modules. At least some of the modules include a link reference phrase to an other user selectable target module. Responsive to a user selection input, a link reference phrase to an other user selectable target module is identified in a selected information module. The availability of the other user selectable * target module corresponding to the identified link refer ⁇ ence phrase is determined and the identified link refer ⁇ ence phrase is selectively activated or deactivated re ⁇ sponsive to the determined availability of other user selectable target module. The identified link reference phrase can be selectively activated or deactivated based upon user class or user authority. A corresponding target module can be selected responsive to an identified user class.
- FIG. 1 is a block diagram representation of a computer or data processing system embodying the present invention
- FIG. 2 is a truncated block diagram illustrating a hypertext network of FIG. 1;
- FIG. 3 is a logic flow diagram illustrating the hypertext control method and conditional apparatus of the present invention.
- FIGS. 4, 5 and 6 are illustrations of hypertext screens together illustrating the operation of the present inven ⁇ tion.
- FIG. 1 shows a block diagram of computer system 10- of the invention.
- Computer system 10 consists of host computer 5 and terminal 7.
- Host computer 5 contains processor 12 connected to memory 14, hypertext network 28, hypertext process controller 26, disk file 16, and display buffer 24.
- Display buffer 24 is connected via line 6 to display 22 of terminal 7.
- User input device 20 is connected to display 22.
- host computer 5 is an IBM Application System/400 Midra ge computer
- termi ⁇ nal 7 is an IBM 5250 non-prograrumable display terminal
- display buffer 24 is an IBM Workstation I/O Processor
- Type 6040
- hypertext process controller 26 is the user interface management (UIM) support facility of the AS/400.
- UIM user interface management
- computer system 10 is an IBM PS/2 computer.
- both host computer 5 and terminal 7 may be contained in the same physical package.
- Other alternate embodiments are possi ⁇ ble and fall within the spirit and scope of the invention.
- FIG. 2 there is shown a truncated block diagram illus ⁇ trating the hypertext network 28 including a plurality of help modules A-G designated as 3C stored on a data storage medium.
- Each help module 30 serves as a node in the hypertext network 28.
- a plurality of arrows 32 represent predefined user selectable hypertext links to other target modules or nodes 30 selected by a user to access a partic ⁇ ular MODULE A-G of the help modules 30 of the hypertext network 28.
- predefined static hypertext links 32 exist from MODULE A to MODULE B to MODULE E to MODULE D to MODULE F to MODULE E.
- predefined user selectable hypertext links 32 are deactivated when the target module 30 is not installed on the system or the user is not authorized to use the target module.
- a plu ⁇ rality of stored target modules are associated with the predefined user selectable hypertext links 32 which are selectively displayed to an individual user based on user class, user authority to target modules or the existence of a target module on the system.
- User classes include various skill levels, such as, beginner, intermediate, expert, and other classes, for example, such as, security officer (SECOFR), security administrator (SECADM), pro ⁇ grammer (PGMR) , system operator (SYSOPR) , or a user (US ⁇ ER) .
- SECOFR security officer
- SECADM security administrator
- PGMR pro ⁇ grammer
- system operator system operator
- US ⁇ ER US ⁇ ER
- :ELINK identifies the text reference phrase and indi ⁇ cates the operation to be performed as a static hypertext link when the reference phrase text is selected by the user.
- PERFORM 'action-text' specifies the action that is to occur when the reference phrase is selected and all of the condition-expressions for the UNLESSn attributes have evaluated to false. For example, a valid form of action- text is :
- THENDOn 'action-text' specifies the action that is to occur when the reference phrase is selected and the conditional-expression for the corresponding UNLESSn at ⁇ tribute is evaluated to true and all the conditional ex ⁇ pressions for the lower numbered UNLESSn attributes have evaluated to false.
- the UNLESSn and THENDOn attributes are structured or coded as pairs.
- the expressions for the UNLESSn attributes are evaluated in numerical order and if one evaluates to true the corre ⁇ sponding THENDOn action is performed and all higher num ⁇ bered UNLESSn and THENDOn attributes as well as the PER ⁇ FORM attribute are ignored.
- the set of conditions that can be formed with the LINKWHEN attribute can be identical to the set of conditions that can be formed with the UNLESSn attributes; however, the significance of those conditions is different.
- the LINKWHEN attribute is used to activate or deactivate the LINK tag while the UNLESSn attributes are used to select the action to be performed when an active LINK tag is selected.
- FIG. 3 illustrates a logic flow diagram of the hypertext control method and conditional logic apparatus of the present invention.
- the sequential logic operations begin as indicated at a block 300 with accessing the hypertext network 28.
- a user selected hypertext module is read.
- a reference phrase is identi ⁇ fied in the user selected hypertext module as indicated at a decision block 304.
- the target module 30 associated with the selected reference phrase is displayed as indi ⁇ cated at a block 306.
- the control procedure is exit ⁇ ed as indicated at a block 308.
- a link reference phrase for the selected module 30 is identified, as indi ⁇ cated at a decision block 310, then (LINKWHEN) conditional functions are evaluated.
- conditionn are evalu- ated in numerical order as indicated at blocks 316, 318 and 320.
- allowed values for n are 1 through 4.
- (PERFORM) is selected as indicated at a block 322.
- a condition evaluates to true then a corresponding (THENDOn) action is selected as indicated at a block 324. Then the sequential operations return to block 302 for reading and processing all static links within the selected module.
- a check object CHKOBJ(object-name,object- type[,authorities]) built-in function evaluates true if the object is found on the system and the user possesses at least the level of * authorization to the object speci ⁇ fied on the function.
- a level of authorization is not specified, then the check object function provides only the object existence check.
- a check user class CHKUSRCLS(user-class) built-in function evaluates true if the user has at least the level of user class specified on the function.
- hypertext screens for help modules 30 are shown to illustrate the hypertext dynamic display control procedure of the invention.
- Each help module 30 is a variable length information record including a prede ⁇ fined descriptive header or title 34, such as Objects shown in FIGS. 4 -and 5.
- Each hypertext link reference phrase is displayed as highlighted text that is under ⁇ scored on a monochrome display or displayed as yellow text that is underscored on a color display. The user presses the TAB key to move the cursor to a particular displayed link reference phrase and then presses the ENTER key to display the hypertext associated with the selected refer ⁇ ence phrase.
- FIG. 5 a highlighted user selectable hypertext link or activated link reference phrase 36 of work with objects is shown. As illustrated in FIG. 4, the work with objects text is not highlighted and the hypertext link is not activated and is not available for user selection, for example, because the target module is not installed on the system or because the target module is not available to the user class.
- FIG. 6 illustrates a displayed screen having a descriptive header 34 of Work with Object Command that can be selected by the user, for example, using the TAB key to move the cursor to the Work with Object link in the Objects module screen display of FIG. 5, then the ENTER key is pressed.
- One of a plurality of stored target screens can be dis ⁇ played to provide different text information based on user class, user authority to target modules or the existence of a target module on the system.
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