Patent ID: 7574673

Claim:
A data management method comprising: displaying on a display an icon corresponding to a data management unit; selecting data and registering the selected data with the data management unit by dragging-and-dropping the selected data onto the icon; carrying out a simple output of the data registered with the data management unit to the display by opening the icon, wherein said simple output indicates a content of an order for the data registered with the data management unit; and the data are image data and the simple output is displaying a thumbnail image or thumbnail images of the image data that have been registered with the data management unit; displaying input fields for inputting print quantities corresponding to the thumbnail image or the thumbnail images; displaying on the display, in the case where a plurality of sets of the image data have been registered with the data management unit, an order screen for all the image data sets together with the thumbnail images thereof; receiving an input of the content of a print order for the image data sets; and generating order information representing the content of the print order for the image data sets.