MANAGING PRINTING DEVICES BY DISPLAYING MODEL GROUPS BASED ON MODEL TYPES

摘要

Example systems and methods are disclosed for organizing and displaying printing devices based on model types. An example method may include determining, from a data source, accessible printing devices and their corresponding identifiers, model types, and display names. The method may also include determining, from a different data source, model group identifiers for the model types of the accessible printing devices. The method may further include grouping the accessible printing devices based on their model types into model groups having unique model group identifiers. The method may even further include generating, for display, the display names of the accessible printing devices organized by the model groups. The method may also include generating configuration parameters for one or more of the accessible printing devices based on a selected model group.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
determining, from a first data source, a plurality of accessible printing devices and corresponding printing device identifiers, corresponding model types, and corresponding display names for the plurality of accessible printing devices; determining, from a second data source, one or more model group identifiers for the corresponding model types of the plurality of accessible printing devices, wherein the second data source is different from the first data source and comprises model group identifiers, wherein one or more of the corresponding model types are assigned to each of the one or more model group identifiers; grouping the plurality of accessible printing devices based on their corresponding model types into one or more model groups, wherein each of the one or more model groups corresponds to a unique model group identifier; and generating, for display, the corresponding printing device display names of the plurality of accessible printing devices, wherein the printing device display names are displayed in the one or more model groups, wherein, determining the plurality of accessible printing devices and corresponding printing device identifiers comprises:
fetching accessible groups for a user by determining a list of groups the user is assigned to;receiving a list of accessible groups indicating the accessible groups for the user;requesting a list of devices corresponding to the user accessible groups for the user;receiving a list of device identifiers corresponding to the devices that are part of the accessible groups;requesting a list of the devices grouped by model from the first data source;receiving a dictionary object containing the list of the devices grouped by model, wherein the dictionary object has model type as a key and a value of a list of device identifiers;looping through the first dictionary object;generating a second dictionary object with a model group identifier as a key and a corresponding list of the device identifiers as values; andretrieving the model group identifier for the model group that corresponds to a selected model from the first dictionary object.