>I'm building an application and a module in the application needs to keep track of documents. This is the scenario.
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>There's going to be around 80 legal documents (in different languages) sometimes adding some, sometime deleting some. The legal department modifies these documents as legal issues come up.
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>There's a Printing department which will mail merge some of these documents with a list of clients. They can't modify the documents, just do the mail merge. I want to be able to keep track of the documents sent for history (audit trail).
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>Now as far as I've thought about it, there are 3 options.

I wrote the Automation portion of an application that manages documents, doing some similar things to what you're doing. You can set it up so that the legal department can create and edit the documents through your application, even including the mail merge fields.

Tamar