Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Ikuo Inouchi

Akiko Bamba

Taijirou Sueishi

Atsushi Onoda

Tomohiko Sasaki

Joan Stagaman Goddard

Hiroshi Morikawa

Kumar Venkata Kadiyala

Patrick Smyth

Sachiko Takata

Systems and methods are provided for generating workflows for printing systems. The system includes a memory that stores requirements for sequencing each of multiple activities available at a print shop into workflows. The system also includes a Graphical User Interface (GUI) able to graphically present a workflow. The workflow includes an ordered subset of the activities to perform for processing a print job. The GUI is further able to graphically present the available activities, and to enable a user to drag the available activities onto the workflow to alter the workflow. The system also includes a processing system able to detect an activity being dragged by a user, to determine locations in the workflow where requirements for the activity are met, and to operate the GUI to highlight the determined locations.

Smart drag and drop user interfaces for print workflow system

An information processing apparatus for generating a workflow including one or more steps each indicating a process to be executed, includes a workflow display unit configured to display, on a display, one or more graphical representations corresponding to one or more steps of the workflow; a step management unit configured to obtain attribute data associated with a step to be added in response to an instruction for adding the step to the workflow; and an auxiliary indication control unit configured to cause the display to display a graphical representation corresponding to the step to be added and a graphical representation that reflects the attribute data.

Information processing apparatus, workflow generating system, and workflow generating method

Display screen with graphical user interface

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Kanagawa, Japan

Ikuo Inouchi