IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SAME

摘要

Personal settings for each user and each application are stored in personal setting holding units 311 and 310. When a personal setting is to be exported, synchronous control information indicating whether or not synchronization is to be performed for each personal setting is exported. In the case where the firmware version of an apparatus that is to import the information indicates synchronization of the personal setting, the personal setting is rewritten in accordance with the synchronous control information.

主权项

1. An image forming apparatus configured to be connected to an external apparatus, comprising:
a storing unit configured to store a personal setting of each program in association with synchronous control information; a synchronization management unit configured to synchronize the personal setting stored in the storing unit and a corresponding personal setting held in the external apparatus, in accordance with the synchronous control information associated with the personal setting; and an export unit configured to export the synchronous control information in association with the personal setting, when the personal setting is exported to a distribution destination.