INFORMATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELECTING AND REPRODUCING INFORMATION, IN PARTICULAR FOR USE IN THE WORKSHOP SECTOR

摘要

The invention relates to an information system, in particular for a motor vehicle workshop, comprising a user input unit (2), by way of which at least one feature can be input by a user; a database (4) having several data sets (20, 30, 40, 50) and at least one linking table (10) having several fields for linking the data sets (20, 30, 40, 50), wherein each data set (20, 30, 40, 50) has at least one feature and at least one first allocation map (21, 31, 41, 51) having at least one allocation map element (21a, 21b, 31a, 31b, 31c, 41a, 41b, 51a, 51b), which links the data set (20, 30, 40, 50) to at least one field in the at least one linking table (10). Said information system further comprises a selection unit (18) configured to select at least one data set (20, 30, 40, 50) that contains at least one of the features inputted by the user, as first data set (20, 30, 40, 50) from the data base (4); and an allocation unit (6) configured to evaluate the first allocation maps (21, 31, 41, 51) of the data sets (20, 30, 40, 50) in the data base (4), and to select said data sets (30, 40) as second data sets (30, 40), the first allocation map (31, 41) of which contains at least one allocation map element (31a, 41b), which links the respective data set (30, 40) to a field in the linking table (10), which via at least one allocation map element (21a, 21b) in the first allocation map (21) of the first data set (20) is also linked to the first data set (20).