Patent ID: 8533614

Claim:
A screen editing device for editing multiple operations screens, the screen editing device comprising: a central processing unit including an attribute information storing part configured to store one or more attributes for each of screen structural elements arranged on the operations screens, wherein the screen structural elements having the same attributes are arranged on two or more of the operations screens; a selection receiving part configured to select one of the screen structural elements that is to be edited; a display setting part configured to set whether to display the one of the screen structural elements selected by the selection receiving part on the corresponding operations screens; an attribute information receiving part configured to receive an input of the attribute; a first extraction part configured to extract the screen structural elements with the attribute received by the attribute information receiving part and display the extracted screen structural elements as candidate screen structural elements for display-setting in an extract list; a second extraction part configured to, by using the one of the screen structural elements selected to be edited from one of the operations screens and selecting a search tab, display and designate an initial value of an attribute corresponding to the selected screen structural element as an attribute search input, and configured to select screen structural elements corresponding to the initial value of the attribute and display the screen structural elements as the candidates of screen structural elements for display-setting in the extract list; and an editing contents display part configured to, in response to a selection of one of the candidate screen structural elements in the extract list, automatically switch from a currently displayed operations screen, that does not include the selected candidate screen structural element in the extract list, to display one of the operations screens that includes the selected candidate screen structural element in the extract list.