14. The method according to claim 13 , wherein: each of the templates has a template head and template body rows; names for sort columns for documents of a particular type of document having a specified template ID are determined from the template head and the template body rows for the template having said specified template ID, and one of said sets of security conditions includes one of the template heads and one of the template IDs.
13. The method according to claim 1 , wherein: each of the users is associated with a specified summary column; the summary column associated with each user contains all of the templates said each user can access; said summary column is used to set up a list of the document types available to said each user; and the maintaining a summary of the templates generating the documents of the document type to which said each user has access includes: when one of the users initiates an application session, creating a user row in the summary column associated with said one of the users that includes summary data for template IDs available to said one of the users; and using said summary data to build a list of default selection strings which are used to select documents of a particular type.