Information processing apparatus with template control of process flow in a print device
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTetsuya Sato
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Abstract
An information processing apparatus that reflects edited content in a process flow when the process flow has been created based on a template and the template forming the basis of the process flow has been edited. To accomplish this, the information processing apparatus, which executes processes in accordance with process flows, creates a process flow that describes the process content of tasks, based on a process flow template. At this time, the information processing apparatus edits the template used by the process flow when editing of the template is instructed, and changes a portion corresponding to the template of the created process flow into the changed content of the edited template.
Claims12
An information processing apparatus comprising:
- a creation unit configured to create a process flow that describes process content of a task, based on a process flow template;
- an execution unit configured to execute a process in accordance with content of the process flow created by the creation unit;
- an editing unit configured to edit the process flow template;
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- a changing unit configured to change, in a case where the process flow template used for creating the process flow by the creation unit is edited by the editing unit after creating the process flow, the content of the process flow by editing the created process flow with content resulting from the editing unit editing the process flow template.
A control method of an information processing apparatus, comprising the steps of:
- creating a process flow that describes process content of a task, based on a process flow template;
- executing a process in accordance with content of the process flow created in the creation step;
- editing the process flow template;
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- changing, in a case where the process flow template used for creating the process flow in the creation step is edited in the editing step after creating the process flow, the content of the process flow by editing the created process flow with content resulting from the editing step editing the process flow template,
- wherein at least one processor performs at least one of the steps of the method.
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