Abstract text

A document management apparatus capable of processing a request from a user logged in from an information processing apparatus via a network, includes a user management unit configured to manage attribute information for specifying document information to be used by a user logging in from the information processing apparatus, a document management unit configured to associate document information having different document attributes obtained from the information processing apparatus with one another to manage the document information as integrated document information, a determination unit configured to determine whether the document information requested by the log-in user is an integrated document, a specifying unit configured to specify, when the determination unit determines that the document information requested by the log-in user is an integrated document, document information to be referred to by the user from the integrated document information based on the attribute information by the log-in user, a processing unit configured to process a request from the user for the document information specified by the specifying unit.