Enterprise-wide computerized document template management system
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1. A method for managing document templates within an enterprise having an enterprise hierarchy, characterized in that providing meta templates from which active templates are derived thus instantiating documents therefrom, wherein said meta templates and said active templates are arranged in accordance with said enterprise hierarchy.
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Disclosed are a method and system for an enterprise-wide management of document templates comprising an inheritance scheme that corresponds to the organizational structure of the enterprise. On top of the scheme, a master document class is defined. From the master document class a number of document classes are derived. From the document classes either document instances or further document classes can be derived, preferably depending on the underlying hierarchical enterprise or company organization, as described above. In the present embodiment, from the only one master document class a number of document classes doc_class1, doc_class2, . . . are derived. Exemplarily, from doc_class1 the further document class doc_class3 and the document instance doc_instance1 are created. Finally, from doc_class3 two document instances doc_instance2 and doc_instance3, are derived.
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- 1. A method for managing document templates within an enterprise having an enterprise hierarchy, characterized in that providing meta templates from which active templates are derived thus instantiating documents therefrom, wherein said meta templates and said active templates are arranged in accordance with said enterprise hierarchy.
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12. A document management system for managing document templates within an enterprise having an enterprise hierarchy, characterized in that providing meta templates from which active templates are derived thus instantiating documents therefrom, wherein said meta templates and said active templates are arranged in accordance with said enterprise hierarchy.
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