Users

Swarm's users are based on the users configured in the Helix server. Display your own user profile when you are logged in by clicking on your userid at the top-right of the main toolbar and selecting Profile.

The user profile page displays your avatar, your full name, your email address, the list of users following your activity, the users or projects that you are following, and the list of projects of which you are an owner or member, including an eye icon () beside any private projects you belong to. An activity stream for events you have created is also presented.

Click the Shelves tab to display a list of the user's shelved changelists.

A shelved changelist is a pending changelist that has a copy of one or more files from within the changelist stored on the server. Shelved files are not versioned: if you update the shelved files, the update replaces any existing files on the changelist's shelf.

Note

Swarm can use multiple shelved changes to record the history of reviews. See Internal representation for details.

Swarm uses shelved changelists as the basis of its code review feature. However, not all shelved changelists are reviews. Users may shelve files for other reasons, including ensuring that the Helix server has a copy of work in progress, or as a way to move temporary work from one workspace to another.

Click Request Review to start a Swarm review for any shelved changelist that is not already involved in a review.

Click View Review to view the Swarm review associated with shelved changelists when a review has already started.

Settings

The Settings tab allows you to configure which notifications you receive when events occur within Swarm. This allows you to limit the number of emails you receive to just those you are interested in. The settings apply across all projects.

Note

Defaults for these options are configured by the Swarm administrator, and they may force some of these options to on or off. See Global settings for how this is configured.

Toggle notifications for each event on or off to control whether you receive an email when that event occurs.

Clicking the Save button saves these settings. Clicking Reset to default resets the options back to system defaults.

Viewing users

View the profile pages of other users displayed anywhere by Swarm by clicking on their avatar or userid, or by visiting the URL: https://myswarm.url/users/userid

Note

Currently, Swarm does not provide an overall list of users.