Feature-related P4V properties

You can set a value of On or Off for properties that can disable or enable certain P4V features. P4V reads the property values from the first Server to which P4V connects.

Off overrides On

If you deactivate a feature by setting its property to Off on the server, that feature becomes unavailable in P4V. Even if that feature property might be visible in the P4V Preferences dialog and shown as enabled, the P4V user cannot use that feature.

The server Admin and the local P4V each have a mechanism to disable certain features.

For example:

  • If the P4V user enables the Markdown option in the local preference, the Admin can override that choice and disable the feature with
    p4 property -a -n P4V.Features.Markdown -v Off

  • If the P4V user disables the Markdown option in the local preference, although the Admin can enable the feature in a general sense with
    p4 property -a -n P4V.Features.Markdown -v On
    a local P4V user's choice to disable the feature remains in force locally.

Server properties

The following Server properties can change the value of a P4V feature that is On by default to Off.

Property

P4V > Edit > Preferences

Default Value

 Description

P4V Version Introduced

P4V.Features.Administration

Administration Tool

On

If Off, the Administration menu option is not displayed.

2013.1
P4V.Features.AllowDirectStreamEdit N/A On

If Off, the user must first check out the stream in the active workspace before proceeding with edits. See Private editing of streams in the p4 stream topic of Helix Core Command-Line (P4) Reference.

 2022.1
P4V.Features.CheckForUpdates

Automatically check for Helix P4V updates.

On

If Off, disables the Check for Updates menu option on the Help menu. See also P4V.Features.MaxAllowedVersion.

2013.2

P4V.Features.ConnectionWizard

Set Up Connection Wizard

On

If Off, P4V does not attempt to use the New Connection Wizard.

2013.1

P4V.Features.CustomTools

Custom Tools

On

If Off, the Manage Custom Tools dialog is disabled.

2013.1

P4V.Features.DashBoard

N/A

On

If Off, the Dashboard is not displayed.

2013.1

P4V.Features.DashBoard.Limit

N/A

 not set

If set, specifies the file limit for the Dashboard's Workspace Folder view. This setting overrides the the user-specified data preference on the server side.

2017.2

P4V.Features.Dvcs

DVCS - Distributed Version Control

On

On by default, but governed by the server.allowpush and server.allowfetch configurables on the shared server. Admins can disable the DVCS fature with this property. See also Enable distributed versioning.

2017.1

P4V.Features.FullUserNames

N/A

Off

If On, P4V displays full user names in the Pending, Submitted, and History tabs.

2018.4

P4V.Features.HTMLTools

HTML Tools

On

If Off, the HTML Tool editors are not enabled and HTML windows and tabs are not shown for this connection.

2019.2

P4V.Features.Integration

Merge, Copy and Branch Dialogs

On

If Off, users cannot integrate.

2013.1

P4V.Features.Jobs

Jobs

On

If Off, jobs support is disabled. Jobs do not appear in changelists, etc.

2013.1

P4V.Features.Labeling

Labels

On

If Off, the labels tab does not appear.

2013.1

P4V.Features.Markdown

Description fields

On

If Off, the Markdown feature does not appear.

2021.3
P4V.Features.MaxAllowedVersion

N/A

  

<int value> that determines the maximum version hint when checking for updates. Setting the version does not restrict the user from using a newer version of P4V against the server, but the checking for an update will not report a newer version than the one set in the hint.

The value should be a changelist number equal to the maximum allowed version. If that value is set to 60000 and the latest current version is 65000, the user will get the message that there is no available update if the user is already at version 60000. If the user is at 60000 and the current live version is 70000, but the admin has set the max value to 65000, then the user will get a message that there is a newer version available, but an administrator has set a different maximum, and they should contact their administrator for the proper version.

2013.2

P4V.Features.PromptWorkspaceName

Prompt for name when creating new workspace

Off

If On, P4V prompts the user for the workspace name when creating a new workspace. P4V runs the p4 client -o command, allowing a form-out trigger to modify the default form.

P4V supports overwrite of the following attributes: Client:, Root:, View:, Owner:, Description:, Host:, AltRoots:, ChangeView:, Options:, SubmitOptions:, LineEnd:, and Type:.

2018.3
P4V.Features.Repos Repos On If Off, repo-related icons and menus do not appear. 2020.2

P4V.Features.RevisionGraph

Revision Graph

On

If Off, the Revision Graph is disabled.

2013.1

P4V.Features.Streams

Streams

On

If Off, streams-related icons, menus, and the Stream Graph do not appear.

2013.1

P4V.Features.Timelapse

Time-lapse

On

If Off, Time-Lapse View is disabled.

2013.1

P4V.Features.UnloadReload

Unload/Reload

 On

If Off, users cannot unload/reload a workspace, label, or task stream.

2013.2
P4V.Features.UnshelveSideways N/A On

If On, allows users to unshelve files into a different branch or stream than they were shelved from. Shelved files can be unshelved directly from their parent stream, a non-parent stream, or a different depot using branch mapping.

 2013.1

P4V.Features.Workspaces

N/A

On

If Off, users cannot edit or display their own (or other users') workspaces.

2013.1

For example, the administrator of a site that does not want to use the Helix Core Server built-in defect tracking system called "jobs" can disable access to jobs from within P4V by running:

$ p4 property -a -n P4V.Features.Jobs -v Off

A new property is added/updated (-a), it is named (-n) P4V.Features.Jobs, and it is assigned the value (-v) of Off.