4. The method of claim 1 further comprising: creating a document profile that includes fields of attributes of a document for each of the documents; generating a unique identifier for each of the documents, the unique identifier including at least a first portion including information descriptive of an attribute of the document and at least a second portion including an automatically generated number, the unique identifier being visible to users of the document management system and providing information about the corresponding document to the users so that each of the documents can be identified from the corresponding unique identifier among a group including unique identifiers corresponding to other documents; and storing the document profile for each of the documents.
4. The method of claim 1 further comprising: creating a document profile that includes fields of attributes of a document for each of the documents; generating a unique identifier for each of the documents, the unique identifier including at least a first portion including information descriptive of an attribute of the document and at least a second portion including an automatically generated number, the unique identifier being visible to users of the document management system and providing information about the corresponding document to the users so that each of the documents can be identified from the corresponding unique identifier among a group including unique identifiers corresponding to other documents; and storing the document profile for each of the documents. 8. The method of claim 4 , wherein the unique identifier is generated before the document content is entered.