1. A method, comprising: providing a file plan including a plurality of containers, wherein each container is capable of providing management information for documents in the file plan; defining an access control list rule indicating one of a plurality of access control list rules, wherein the access control list rules provide different ways to form file plan document access control lists using at least one of an access control list defined for a container and a pre-file plan document access control list indicating users enabled to access the document before the document is added to the file plan; receiving a request to add a document to the file plan; generating a file plan document access control list according to the defined access control list rule; and associating the file plan document access control list with the document in the file plan.