Information management system and option management apparatus

Abstract

[PROBLEM] To eliminate the need of master information maintenance and perform control for narrowing down options by associating option-type menu items with each other. [SOLVING MEANS] An information management system according to an embodiment assigns option IDs to combinations of item name and item values of fields constituting a record, the option IDs being different for each of the fields, and producing option master data pieces. The information management system produces, for each one of the fields, related option master data pieces by setting the option ID of each of the other fields as a related option ID. The number of the produced related option master data pieces corresponds to the number of the other fields. The information management system outputs the item values as options of the search items, and when an option is specified in a first search item, extracts at least one of the related option master data pieces that includes the option ID of the specified option as the related option ID, and outputs, as an option of a second search item, the item value of the option ID linked to the extracted at least one related option master data piece.