1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a document data management system.
2. Description of the Related Art
In an environment in which a document management system is used, a data of a document which is received via facsimile, a document which is scanned and transmitted by a multifunction peripheral or the like can be managed by storing the data to a folder of the document management system. A user carries out various kinds of operations with regard to the stored document data by making an access to a document management server from a client PC to display the prescribed folder. In this case, if a user carries out an operation which is the same as that he/she carried out in the past with regard to, for example, a stored facsimile document data, the user needs to select the operation again and execute the operation. That is, a user needs to repeat the same operation.
Hence, there has been proposed a document management system which can record information of an operation with regard to a document data as related information of a document, and select and acquire the information when other document data is operated and execute the operation.
There is a case in which a user combines a document data which is stored in a device of a multifunction peripheral or the like, and other document data which is stored in a document management system to be a single document, and carries out a collective operation with regard thereto. As a collective operation, for example, plural document data (file) are combined and converted into PDF, plural document data are made to be a binder, plural document data are summarized and transmitted by facsimile or an electronic mail and so on. However, in a case in which document data which are stored in different folders are summarized and subjected to a collective operation, it is necessary to copy the respective document data temporarily in a work folder (temporary work area), which takes time and labor. Also, in a case of carrying out the collective operation as described above with regard to a document data stored by using a sort server, it is conceivable that a combination of document data which are subjected to the collective operation differs for respective individual document data. In this case, it is necessary to carry out the operation by collecting document data of an object of the collective operation in accordance with respective document data.
For example, according to a technology which is described in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2009-230221, although related information can be applied to a single document data, it is necessary to acquire and select the related information and execute the application at respective times thereof, and therefore, time and labor are taken.