Electronic document management device, electronic document management method, recording medium recording electronic document management program, and recording medium recording program for creating electronic document, the device having an electronic document storage unit that includes a plurality of boxes, wherein an access right having a different level is assigned to each of the plurality of boxes

An electronic document management method comprising:

• storing electronic documents in a plurality of boxes, each of which documents includes one or more constituent elements, each constituent element being attached with either disclosure-enabled information or disclosure-disabled information, each disclosure-enabled information or disclosure-disabled information designating whether each constituent element is to be disclosed or not, depending on the box in which the electronic document is to be stored, wherein an access right having a different level is assigned to each of the plurality of boxes;
• accepting a user selection of an electronic document stored in one of the plurality of boxes;
• judging if each of the constituent elements of the selected electronic document is attached with disclosure-disabled information for the box storing the selected electronic document;
• and
• modifying the constituent element of the selected electronic document that is judged to be attached with the disclosure-disabled information for the box storing the selected electronic documents, so as not to be disclosed.

A non-transitory recording medium recording therein a program which causes a computer to execute the steps of:

• storing electronic documents in a plurality of boxes each of which documents includes one or more constituent elements, each constituent element being attached with either disclosure-enabled information or disclosure-disabled information, each disclosure-enabled information or disclosure-disabled information designating whether each constituent element is to be disclosed or not depending on the box in which the electronic document is to be stored, wherein an access right having a different level is assigned to each of the plurality of boxes;
• accepting a user selection of an electronic document stored in one of the plurality of boxes;
• judging if each of the constituent elements of the selected electronic document is attached with disclosure-disabled information for the box storing the selected electronic document;
• and
• modifying the constituent element of the selected electronic document that is judged to be attached with the disclosure-disabled information for the box storing the selected electronic documents so as not to be disclosed.