P4Web Release 2002.1 User Guide
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Using The Path Browser

The Path Browser is the page P4Web shows you when you first connect. It's where you'll spend most of your time in P4Web. You can use it to navigate through path hierarchies and run commands that affect all the files in the current path at once. (Note that if you are using a P4Web Viewer instead of P4Web Helper, only a subset of Path Browser commands are available to you.)

Show Recent Activity
"Show Recent Activity"
The Path Browser's control panel offers menus and shortcut buttons, described below. The "Show Recent Activity" button can be used to turn on a display of the most recent changelists affecting the files in the current path.

The current path is shown just beneath the control panel. Each level in the current path heading is a link to a Path Browser page. Use these links to navigate back up the path hierarchy. Files and subdirectories in that appear beneath the heading are links to File Browser and Path Browser pages for those elements, respectively. Click on those links to navigate down the path hierarchy.

You can browse either depot or workspace paths in the Path Browser. See Depot Browsing vs. Workspace Browsing to find out what the difference is, why each is useful, and how to switch between them.

Note that even though the Path Browser page may display individual files, you can't run commands on individual files from the Path Browser. You must be in the File Browser to run commands on individual files.

Files shown in the Path Browser have state icons showing their current state in the depot and in your workspace; see below for a key to their meanings.

Menus

These drop-down menus are available in the Path Browser:

Shortcut Buttons

The Path Browser's shortcut buttons give you quick links to these common operations:

File state icons

File state details

Each file shown in the Path Browser is followed by state details that look like:

#[have]/[head] [filetype]
For example, the file state "#4/6 text+x" means that the revision you have in your workspace is #4, the head revision of the file is #6, and its filetype is "executable text".


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