Patent ID: 6182273
Filing Date: 2001-01-30
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
A groupware development assisting system for assisting effective execution of a series of works by giving or receiving electronic mail among a plurality of nodes, comprising:a format definition means for dynamically visually defining a format of said electronic mail given or received among said nodes and outputting the defined format as format definition information, wherein said format definition information includes label fields, text fields, and selection fields, and a layout of the respective fields;an object definition means for defining operation condition information of a software object forming one of said nodes inputting or outputting said electronic mail and outputting as object definition information;a transferring order definition means for visually designating a transferring order showing an order in which said electronic mail is to be delivered and received in succession among said plurality of nodes and a format of said electronic mail given or received by said transferring order and outputting as transferring order definition information; anda generation means for generating first electronic mail utilization environment definition information A indicating a transferring operation of said electronic mail and an editing operation of said electronic mail in said transferring order relating to at node corresponding to a worker who is a component unit of said nodes based on said format definition information, said object definition information and said transferring order definition information, and generating a processing program code required to execute individual operation of said software object and second electronic mail utilization environment definition information indicating the transferring operation of said electronic mail in said transferring order relating to said software object based on said format definition information, said object definition information and said transferring order definition information.