Printing process management apparatus and non-transitory computer readable medium storing printing process management program for displaying status of printing process

1. A printing process management apparatus, comprising:

a processor, configured to:

control a display to display, in association with printing information, a plurality of graphical objects, wherein each of the graphical objects comprises a plurality of step-representing graphical objects corresponding to a plurality of processing steps for the printing information arrayed in a sequence identical to a sequence of the processing steps;

acquire status information indicating a processing status of the printing information in each of the processing steps and controls the display to display a first step-representing graphical object corresponding to a first processing step whose status information indicates that processing is in progress while changing a format of the first step-representing graphical object to a format different from formats of other step-representing graphical objects; and

control the display to display information indicating details of the processing performed in the first processing step while juxtaposing the information with a first graphical object of the plurality of graphical objects.

2. The printing process management apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the processor controls the display to display the first graphical object on a display screen in which a plurality of pieces of printing information are displayed while being categorized by orders.

3. The printing process management apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the processor controls the display to display the first graphical object on a display screen in which a plurality of pieces of printing information categorized as one processing step are displayed.

4. The printing process management apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the processor controls the display to display a second step-representing graphical object corresponding to a second processing step whose status information indicates that processing has been completed and a third step-representing graphical object corresponding to a third processing step whose status information indicates that processing is pending while distinguishing a color of the second step-representing graphical object from a color of the third step-representing graphical object.

5. The printing process management apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the processor changes a display format when the information indicating details of the processing is related to an error.

6. The printing process management apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the processor changes a display format when the information indicating details of the processing is related to an alert.

7. The printing process management apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the processor controls the display to further display information related to the printing information associated with the first graphical object.

8. The printing process management apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the processor is further configured to:

control the display to display a second graphical object having different formats depending on the status information of the first processing step while superposing the second graphical object on the first step-representing graphical object.

9. The printing process management apparatus according to claim 8 , wherein the second graphical object is a graphical object having different formats at least corresponding to processing statuses indicating that the processing is normally in progress, an error has occurred, and an alert has been issued.

10. The printing process management apparatus according to claim 1 ,

wherein each of the plurality of graphical objects corresponds to a workflow, and

wherein each of the plurality of workflows comprises the plurality of processing steps.

11. The printing process management apparatus according to claim 1 ,

wherein the processor controls the display to display a second step-representing graphical object corresponding to a second processing step whose status information indicates that processing has been completed and a third step-representing graphical object corresponding to a third processing step whose status information indicates that processing is pending.

12. The printing process management apparatus according to claim 1 ,

wherein the processor controls the display to display a second step-representing graphical object corresponding to a second processing step whose status information indicates that processing being different from that of the status information of the first processing step.

13. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a printing process management program causing a computer to execute a process comprising:

controlling a display to display, in association with printing information, a plurality of graphical objects, wherein each of the graphical objects comprises a plurality of step-representing graphical objects corresponding to a plurality of processing steps for the printing information arrayed in a sequence identical to a sequence of the processing steps;

acquiring status information indicating a processing status of the printing information in each of the processing steps and controlling the display to display a first step-representing graphical object corresponding to a first processing step whose status information indicates that processing is in progress while changing a format of the first step-representing graphical object to a format different from formats of other step-representing graphical objects; and

controlling the display to display information indicating details of the processing performed in the first processing step while juxtaposing the information with a first graphical object of the plurality of graphical objects.

14. A printing process management apparatus, comprising:

first display control means for controlling display means to display, in association with printing information, a plurality of graphical objects, wherein each of the graphical objects comprises a plurality of step-representing graphical objects corresponding to a plurality of processing steps for the printing information arrayed in a sequence identical to a sequence of the processing steps;

second display control means for acquiring status information indicating a processing status of the printing information in each of the processing steps and controlling the display means to display a first step-representing graphical object corresponding to a first processing step whose status information indicates that processing is in progress while changing a format of the first step-representing graphical object to a format different from formats of other step-representing graphical objects; and

third display control means for controlling the display means to display information indicating details of the processing performed in the first processing step while juxtaposing the information with a first graphical object of the plurality of graphical objects.