Patent ID: 8610919

Claim:
An image forming apparatus that is connectable to and is capable of transferring a job to a plurality of other image forming apparatuses, comprising: a receiving unit configured to receive a job for which functions have been set; a display unit configured to display the functions which have been set for the job received by the receiving unit; a retrieving unit configured to, if a part of the functions displayed on the display unit is cancelled from the job by a user, retrieve as a transfer destination candidate of the job, from among the plurality of other image forming apparatuses, an image forming apparatus that supports a remaining part of the functions which is not cancelled from the job; an alternative function presenting unit configured to present an alternative function for the cancelled part of the functions, the alternative function being included in the image forming apparatus retrieved by the retrieving unit; and a generation unit configured to generate, based on the remaining part of the functions and the alternative function, a job to be transferred to the image forming apparatus retrieved by the retrieving unit.