11. The method of claim 1 further comprising creating an email message via a messaging system external to the document management system including a copy of the document using a selector within the document management system so that a recipient of the message can access the copy of the document.
1. A method for managing documents in a computer implemented document management system, comprising: creating a document profile that is associated with a document within the document management system and includes fields of attributes of the document; and associating one or more documents external to the document management system with the document profile by creating a URL in the document profile containing an address to a file that does not have an associated profile in the document management system and is of a file type that is not created within the document management system.