[cups.development] customize web gui for a high school

[Michael Sweet]

Probably the easiest thing to do would be to write a small PHP script  
that used the cups_get_jobs function from the php_cups extension to  
list the pending jobs and present them to the users.  You'll need to  
run the "lp -i jobid -U user -H nohold" command from the PHP script  
(via the system function...) since there is no PHP function for that  
(yet).

On May 20, 2009, at 9:42 AM, peter wrote:

> Hi, I'm using the cups web gui as a print-release-station in a high  
> school. I have thin clients next to each printer and the browser is  
> showing: localhost:631/jobs.
>
> It works really well, but students don't know which printer they  
> printed to and they repeatedly go to the wrong release-station and  
> release their jobs to the opposite printer.
>
> I wish I could customize the jobs.tmpl file (or some other file) so  
> that I could set the browser to only show the relevant print jobs.  
> My idea was to copy jobs.tmpl file to printer2jobs.tmpl and edit  
> that file to only show printer2 print jobs on Printer 2's release  
> station.
>
> This was further complicated by the <pre><meta http-equiv="refresh"  
> content="2 ;url=/jobs/?FIRST=0&ORDER=dec"></pre>
> line I put at the beginning of jobs.tmpl to refresh the list of  
> print jobs every 2 seconds and sort them in descending order.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Oh, and I can reconsider this, but I've been sending multiple  
> queue's to the same printer so I'll need to filter for multiple  
> queues.
>
> -thanks
> peter
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Michael R Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer

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