Order of the list of works

[MarcoGomesRS]

Hello,
When listing completed jobs for a specific printer, CUPS displays them in ascending order—that is, from oldest to newest.
This causes some inconvenience because, if there are many jobs for that printer, one has to click the "next page" button multiple times to reach the last one.
The problem is compounded by the fact that the "Show Last" button doesn't work correctly either; instead, it simply advances to the next page.
How can I change the display order of the list?
Thanks.

[icortesb]

As far as I know the web interface can't change the order, it shows jobs as cupsd returns them.

The "Show Last" issue is probably the 500 job limit. For completed jobs cupsd caps the Get-Jobs response to 500 (you'll see "Limiting Get-Jobs response to 500 jobs" in error_log), so the CGI thinks the list ends 500 jobs after the current page and "last" just moves you forward a bit.

You can jump directly with the url, e.g. http://localhost:631/printers/YOUR_PRINTER?which_jobs=completed&FIRST=1200, or use the cli:

lpstat -W completed -o YOUR_PRINTER | tail -20

Also lowering MaxJobs / PreserveJobHistory in cupsd.conf helps if you don't need that much history.

(disclaimer: I wrote a small terminal UI for CUPS that lists completed jobs newest first, https://github.com/icortesb/cupstui, might be useful)