DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT SERVER, DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM

• US 20130326324A1
• Filed: 05/28/2013
• Published: 12/05/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 05/31/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Kamata, Tamaki
• Application Number:
  US13/903,796
• Publication Number:
  US 20130326324A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/229
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/197 Version control for software G06F8/71

Abstract

A document management server, in a case where a document of the same name as that of a document being requested to be registered from a client has been registered, determines whether the document of the same name has a plurality of versions. If the document management server determines that the document of the same name has a plurality of versions, after the document name of the document of the same name has been changed, the document management server registers the document being requested to be registered. Meanwhile, if the document management server determines that the document of the same name has only one version, the document management server overwrites the document being requested to be registered with the document of the same name, and registers the overwritten document.

Claims

1. A document management server having a document version management function, the document management server comprising:

a reception unit configured to receive a registration request of a document from a client;

a first determination unit configured to, in a case where a document of the same name as that of the document being requested to be registered has been registered, determine whether the document of the same name has a plurality of versions;

a renaming unit configured to, in a case where the first determination unit determines that the document of the same name has a plurality of versions, change a document name of the document of the same name;

a first registration unit configured to, in the case where the first determination unit determines that the document of the same name has a plurality of versions, after the document name of the document of the same name has been changed by the renaming unit, register the document being requested to be registered; and

a second registration unit configured to, in a case where the first determination unit determines that the document of the same name has only one version, overwrite the document being requested to be registered with the document of the same name and register the overwritten document.

2. The document management server according to claim 1, wherein, with respect to a document managed by the document management server, the client is incapable of specifying a version to operate the document.

3. The document management server according to claim 2, wherein the client is a WebDAV client.

4. The document management server according to claim 1, further comprising:

a second determination unit configured to determine whether a document of the same name as that of the document being requested to be registered has been registered; and

a third registration unit configured to, in a case where the second determination unit determines that a document of the same name as that of the document being requested to be registered has not registered, newly register the document being requested to be registered,

wherein, the first determination unit, in a case where the second determination unit determines that a document of the same name as that of the document being requested to be registered has been registered, determines whether the document of the same name has a plurality of versions.

5. The document management server according to claim 1, wherein the renaming unit, to the document name of the same name, adds a predetermined prefix or a predetermined postfix to change the document name of the document of the same name.

6. The document management server according to claim 1, further comprising:

a relevant information registration unit configured to register information for associating the document renamed by the renaming unit with the document registered by the first registration unit in a case where the first determination unit determines that the document of the same name has a plurality of versions.

7. A document management method to be executed by a document management server having a document version management function, the document management method comprising:

receiving a registration request of a document from a client;

in a case where a document of the same name as that of the document being requested to be registered has been registered, determining whether the document of the same name has a plurality of versions;

in a case where it is determined that the document of the same name has a plurality of versions, renaming a document name of the document of the same name;

in the case where it is determined that the document of the same name has a plurality of versions, after the document name of the document of the same name has been changed, registering the document being requested to be registered; and

in a case where it is determined that the document of the same name has only one version, overwriting the document being requested to be registered with the document of the same name, and registering the overwritten document.

8. The document management method according to claim 7, wherein the renaming is performed by, to the document name of the same name, adding a predetermined prefix or a predetermined postfix to change the document name of the document of the same name.

9. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute the method according to claim 7.