The contribution deals with the oldest systems of chronological documents series,
classification scheme introduction, Joseph's record creation reform, basic number
introduction into the register, introduction of a combined register (Kiclmansegg's
Reform), document creation in the time between the First and the Second World
War and in the time after the Second World War. It refers to the system
development in Austria and in Yugoslavia after 1918 - with special reference to the
administration of offices in the territory of Slovenia.