Control apparatus and control method for controlling an image forming system, and storage medium

An information processing apparatus comprising:

• a control unit to control an image forming apparatus configured to form an image on a sheet based on an image forming job, wherein the information processing apparatus is configured to communicate with a plurality of sheet discharge apparatuses, and each sheet discharge apparatus is configured to receive a sheet from the image forming apparatus and discharge the sheet to a sheet discharge tray;
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• at least one processor and at least one memory coupled to each other and to perform operations including:
• obtaining 1) identification information of the plurality of sheet discharge apparatuses which is connected to the image forming apparatus and 2) an arrangement order of each sheet discharge apparatus from the image forming apparatus to generate a system configuration image for visually displaying an arrangement mode of the image forming apparatus and the plurality of sheet discharge apparatuses configuration of the image forming system,
• obtaining, from the image forming apparatus when the image forming job is executed, 3) discharge information of the sheet discharge tray to which the sheet related to the image forming job is discharged and 4) stacking information representing a sheet stacking amount of those sheets discharged, as to the image forming job, to the sheet discharge tray to generate a sheet bundle image for visually displaying the sheets stacked on the sheet discharge tray,
• displaying a sheet discharge status screen having an execution history of the image forming job displayed with the sheet bundle image, wherein the sheet bundle image is displayed in the system configuration image as combined at a position of the sheet discharge tray to which the sheet of the image forming job is discharged,
• changing, upon receiving a selection of a particular image forming job in the execution history, a display color of the sheet bundle image which corresponds to the selected particular image forming job to a display color which differs from a display color of a sheet bundle image corresponding to a second image forming job other than the selected particular image forming job, and
• updating, when the second image forming job is executed while the sheet discharge status screen is being displayed, the sheet discharge status screen being displayed to a second sheet discharge status screen in which a sheet bundle image generated for the second image forming job is combined at a position of the sheet discharge tray in the system configuration image.