Fixing jobs

To fix a job, you link it to a changelist and submit the changelist. Helix Server automatically changes the value of a job’s status field to closed when the changelist is submitted.

Jobs can be linked to changelists in one of three ways:

• By setting the JobView: field in the p4 user form to an expression that matches the job.
• With the p4 fix command.
• By editing the p4 submit form.

You can modify job status directly by editing the job, but if you close a job manually, there’s no association with the changelist that fixed the job. If you have altered your site’s job specification by deleting the Status: field, jobs can still be linked to changelists, but status cannot be changed when the changelist is submitted. (In most cases, this is not a desired form of operation.) See the chapter on editing job specifications in the Helix Core Server Administrator Guide for more details.

To remove jobs from a changelist, issue the p4 fix -d command.