[cups.general] Feature request: mandatory "Job-Billing" entry

[Jerome Alet]

On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 07:26:42AM -0400, Alexey Lobanov wrote:
> Hello all.
> 
> Can anyone help me to implement mandatory manual entry of 
> "Job-Billing" value at every print job in Windows CUPS driver? The 
> aim is simple enough: server-side job accounting (with Pykota or 
> Jasmine) should count pages per "project", not per user. A regular 
> user works for several projects, and only he|she knows what project 
> should be charged for every individual print job. 
>  
> In the present driver version the "Job-Billing" is stored in 
> registry and cannot be even changed without administrative rights. 

PyKota now includes a facility to ask for any data, for example
a billing code, to an end user. It can also check user credentials
if asked to do so. 

bye

Jerome Alet