Patent ID: 8913277

Claim:
A document management system having a server for storing and managing document data, and a device for making the server store the document data, wherein the device comprises a displaying unit configured to display a user interface for making a user operate the document data, wherein the user interface includes a temporary work area for making the user carry out a collective operation with regard to a plurality of the document data, and wherein the server comprises: a receiving unit configured to receive first document data from the device; a document data storing unit configured to store the received first document data based on a predetermined setting in accordance with an attribute of the received first document data; a document data information storing unit configured to store a piece of information of second document data, where the second document data is made to be an object of the collective operation in a case in which the collective operation is carried out in the temporary work area with regard to the first document data which is stored by the document data storing unit; a first copying unit configured to copy third document data to the temporary work area in a case where the third document data, which is different from the first document data but having the same attribute as the first document data, is received by the receiving unit and stored by the document data storing unit; and a second copying unit configured to copy second document data to the temporary work area to carry out the collective operation by using the third document data, based on the piece of information of the second document data stored in the document data information storing unit.