Patent ID: 7720865

Claim:
A document management apparatus for managing a document, the document management apparatus containing a storage medium readable by a computer, the storage medium storing a program of instructions executable by the computer, the program comprising: an input unit that inputs lists of users associated with documents; an execution unit that executes predetermined operations relating to the documents using the lists; a setting selection unit that selects a first list of users associated in memory with a first document, the execution unit having executed a first predetermined operation on the first document using the first list; and an object selection unit that designates a second document, wherein the document management apparatus uses the first list to execute a second predetermined operation, for each user in the first list, on the second document, the first and second predetermined operations are of different types, the first list is a circulation destination e-mail account list and the second predetermined operation is an e-mail notification triggered by a document update, and the apparatus issues an inquiry to a user and determines to use the circulation destination e-mail account list to execute the e-mail notification triggered by the document update based on a user reply input.