Patent ID: 7089488

Claim:
An electric form handling system in which an applicant is allowed to write an electric form having an application part where an application item to be approved is input and an address part where one or more approval officers to approve said application item are specified, and in which application filing of said electric form by said applicant and approval for said electric form by said approval officers specified by said applicant are practiced via a computer network, comprising: template creation supporting means for creating an electric form template and storing the created electric form template by request, the electric form template comprising an application part having a plurality of item fields to which the application item can be input and an address part having an approval officer field which is blank and in which the approval officers can be specified, wherein said template creation supporting means includes: application part creation supporting means and address part creation supporting means; said application part creation supporting means allows a draftsman of the electric form template to separately define the plurality of item fields to which the application item can be input, thereby creating the application part; said address part creation supporting means includes: a plurality of approval patterns which are different from each other, stored in advance in storing means and used when requesting confirmation whether to approve the application item from the approval officers; approval pattern selecting means which reads and displays from the storing means the plurality of approval patterns and which allows the draftsman of the form template to select a specific approval pattern from the displayed approval patterns; and address part creating means which, in accordance with the approval pattern selected by the approval pattern selecting means, creates the approval officer field where the approval officers are specified and a program requesting approval for the electric form from the approval officers specified in the approval officer field via the computer network; and by the applicant, the template is invoked on a terminal of the applicant to create the electric form; the application item is input in the item fields of the application part; and the approval officers are specified in the approval officer field so that the electric form template will become the electric form: and application filing for approval of the application item is practiced via the computer network.