In a case where a plurality of operation buttons includes a first operation button for executing processing on one piece of page data included in document data, an information processing apparatus displays execution target page data of the first operation button in an identifiable manner.

A server apparatus provides a social networking service (SNS). The server apparatus stores a specific relation between a terminal apparatus and a printer that are allowed for communication using the SNS. The server apparatus stores relations between one or more icons and commands each corresponding to a respective one of the icons and including an image forming condition and an image forming instruction. Upon receiving a selected icon having been selected on the terminal apparatus, information indicating a selected printer having been selected on the terminal apparatus out of printers in specific relations with the terminal apparatus, and a piece of image data from the terminal apparatus, the server apparatus transmits a command corresponding to the selected icon and the piece of image data to the selected printer.

A server apparatus provides a social networking service (SNS). The server apparatus stores a specific relation between a terminal apparatus and a printer that are allowed for communication using the SNS. The server apparatus stores relations between one or more icons and commands each corresponding to a respective one of the icons and including an image forming condition and an image forming instruction. Upon receiving a selected icon having been selected on the terminal apparatus, information indicating a selected printer having been selected on the terminal apparatus out of printers in specific relations with the terminal apparatus, and a piece of image data from the terminal apparatus, the server apparatus transmits a command corresponding to the selected icon and the piece of image data to the selected printer.

Provided is a server that prevents incorrect setting or the like of a delegating group in an image forming system. A hierarchy classifying unit classifies groups in which users related to management of the image forming apparatuses are integrated in a tree structure. A group type setting unit sets the types of the groups classified by the hierarchy classifying unit to normal groups and delegating groups. A browsing managing unit, when the user logs in from the terminal, performs exclusive management that does not allow browsing of a group set as a delegating group by the group type setting unit, even by a user belonging to an upper group.

An information processing apparatus includes a display controller and an input section. The display controller displays an explanation screen for displaying information indicating an operation method of an image forming apparatus and an operation screen for receiving an input instructing an operation relating to an image forming processing of the image forming apparatus on a display section. The input section receives an input of an operation of selecting information displayed on the explanation screen. The display controller displays an operation screen according to the selected information on the display section.

An apparatus that is able to control a screen executes an area display step to display a tab display area and a content display area, a target display step that is able to display, in response to a display target tab being selected from one or more tabs, a display target content item associated with the display target tab in the content display area, and a tab adding step that is able to update, in response to a request to add an additional content item, the tab display area so as to display an additional tab associated with the additional content item, wherein the tab adding step is able to update the display of the tab display area such that the additional tab appears as a child node of the display target tab in the tree view.

A method, non-transitory computer readable medium and apparatus for navigating a file directory on a touch screen user interface (UI) of a multi-function device (MFD) are disclosed. For example, the method includes receiving an input via the touch screen UI of the MFD, wherein the touch screen UI displays a modified UI of a plurality of different cloud applications, wherein each one of the plurality of different cloud applications is associated a different function, determining a cloud application of the plurality of different cloud applications associated with a particular function is currently selected in the MFD, translating the input based upon the particular function of the cloud application that is selected and executing the input in accordance with the particular function of the cloud application.

A server apparatus provides a social networking service (SNS). The server apparatus stores a specific relation between a terminal apparatus and a printer that are allowed for communication using the SNS. The server apparatus stores relations between one or more icons and commands each corresponding to a respective one of the icons and including an image forming condition and an image forming instruction. Upon receiving a selected icon having been selected on the terminal apparatus, information indicating a selected printer having been selected on the terminal apparatus out of printers in specific relations with the terminal apparatus, and a piece of image data from the terminal apparatus, the server apparatus transmits a command corresponding to the selected icon and the piece of image data to the selected printer.

An image forming apparatus includes a display device that displays information and an image forming device that forms an image on a sheet. The image forming apparatus can cause the image forming device to form an image on the basis of a file acquired from an external system that manages files in a directory having a hierarchical structure. The image forming apparatus includes at least one controller that functions as a unit that acquires information which is information of a printable file of files managed by the external system and which includes at least storage directory information of the printable file, a unit that causes the display device to display a folder tree screen based on the storage directory information, and a unit that causes the image forming device to perform image formation based on a file selected on the folder tree screen.

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for providing interrelated icons in user interfaces, e.g., for industrial printers, include a method including causing a printing device to print on a substrate in accordance with information provided through a graphical user interface; presenting selectable icons representing functions, associated with the printing device, being in each of two or more levels of a navigable hierarchy; enabling the user to navigate the hierarchy to provide the information; and improving efficiency of the printing device and reducing errors by including two graphical elements simultaneously in at least one of the selectable icons at one of the levels of the hierarchy; where one of the two graphical elements indicates a level of the hierarchy to which the function represented by the icon belongs; and the other one of the two graphical elements simultaneously indicates the function represented by the icon.