Patent ID: 7873918

Claim:
A display method for execution by a document processing apparatus having a storage unit that stores a plurality of discrete Boxes associated with a document process for an input document, and that stores a compound Box associated with a document process for the input document by defining a sequence of the discrete Boxes in a link relation, the display method comprising: a sequence setting step of setting the discrete Boxes and selecting the link relation between the discrete Boxes; a box-execution control step of causing the document process associated with the discrete Boxes to be executed when a first document is processed by the discrete Boxes, and causing the document process associated with the discrete Boxes in the sequence and the link relation to be executed when a second document is processed by the compound Box; a first display step of displaying a box state screen representing whether at least one discrete Box or the compound Box is being processed or is in a standby state; a first receiving step of receiving a selection of the at least one discrete Box in the box state screen; and a second display step of displaying a job state screen simultaneously representing an execution state which shows a progress of the document process of the first document corresponding to the selected discrete Box and an execution state which shows a progress of the document process of the second document corresponding to the compound Box.