Printer job history
9.2.5 Printer job history
From a printer “MANAGE” screen, see Figure 9.9, clicking the “HISTORY” tab shows the history of what print jobs the printer has performed; see Figure 9.28. Unlike account activity, where only recent activity is retained, the Polar Cloud retains printer history indefinitely.
Figure 9.28: Polar Cloud printer HISTORY screen
The “SEARCH” button (towards the upper right of the “HISTORY” screen, below the “SETTINGS” tab), allows searching for print jobs via criteria such as Job Name or member Display Name.
Figure 9.29: Printer HISTORY job tile
Each individual print job tile on the printer “HISTORY” screen, see Figure 9.29, displays several pieces of information including:
- a rendered image of the object (unless the print job was created using solely G-code),
- the Job Name for the print job (which if not otherwise specified, defaults to the file name of the first object file in the print job, minus its file extension),
- the profile icon, Display Name, and Email of the Polar Cloud member who submitted the print job,
- three vertical dots (which may be clicked to access a menu of job options),
- the time and date when the job was submitted,
- the time and date when the job was started printing will be present only if the job was started,
- a blue “speech balloon” icon is present only when a print job has any “COMMENTS”,
- whether (and when) the job was Completed (blue check icon) vs Canceled (red x icon).
Clicking on the three vertical dots at the upper right of a print job tile will bring up a menu (Figure 9.30) at which a printer manager or a print job’s owner may download the object’s .stl files or its slicing profile, download the print job G-code, or “Requeue Job” to reprint the object; such print queue operations will be discussed further in Section 10.5.
Figure 9.30: Polar Cloud printer HISTORY print job menu
Clicking generally (other than on the three vertical dots) on the tile of a particular object in the printer history will bring up a screen with more detailed information regarding that print job; see Figure 9.31. Besides “DETAILS” (the objects in that job, when it was queued and by whom, and when completed), other information about a print job includes “COMMENTS” showing any comments left by the printer manager or job owner – see Figure 9.32, a “SNAPSHOT” showing the completed object(s) of the job – see Figure 9.33, and (with printers that support keeping a time-lapse video, such as Polar3D printers and OctoPrint controlled printers) a “TIME LAPSE” video of the completed print job – see Figure 9.34.
Figure 9.31: Printer history of a print job: DETAILS
Figure 9.32: Printer history of a print job: COMMENTS
Figure 9.33: Printer history of a print job: SNAPSHOT
Figure 9.34: Printer history of a print job: TIME LAPSE video
Note that IFTTT applets are available to automatically post a completed print job’s SNAPSHOT photo or TIME LAPSE video to Facebook.
Note: When viewing printer “HISTORY”, the display shows only your own print jobs and print jobs performed during times you were a manager (or a member of a group with “Control Printers” shared access to) a printer. Even if you are a manager of the printer now, any print jobs submitted before you became a manager will not be displayed to you. Or if you used to be a manager of the printer but are not a manager now, you will see all print jobs submitted by other members during that time you were manager, but not more recently submitted print jobs by other users. This is intended for cases such as a printer traded-off between teachers from semester to semester, where a teacher may wish to continue to see the history of the print jobs performed by the teacher’s own students when the teacher was previously managing the printer, but does not need to see print jobs of students now using the printer under a different teacher’s supervision.
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