Patent ID: 7650363

Claim:
A document management system for managing a document in a folder with which document property information is associated and wherein said folder is in a hierarchical structure, said system comprising: a first processing part for associating at least two templates of document property information with a subfolder or a document, wherein the associations are carried out by inheriting the templates of document property information associated with a folder to said subfolder or said document when said subfolder or said document is set in said folder, and for retaining said associations and said templates of document property information therein; a second processing part for associating at least two templates of document property information with a folder, wherein the associations are carried out by inheriting the templates of document property information associated with a subfolder or a document to said folder when said subfolder or said document is set in said folder, and for retaining said associations and said templates of document property information therein; a third processing part for associating at least two templates of document property information with a subfolder or a document and a folder, wherein the associations are carried out by inheriting the templates of document property information associated with said subfolder or said document and said folder to each other when one of a subfolder and a document is set in said folder, and for retaining said associations and said templates of document property information therein; and a fourth processing part for associating all templates of document property information corresponding to a data type of a document with a folder, wherein the associations are carried out by inheriting the templates of document property information associated with said data type to said folder when said document is set in said folder, and for retaining said associations and said all the templates of document property information therein, wherein said first processing part, said second processing part, said third processing part and said fourth processing part are selectively performed in accordance with an instruction of a user.