Editing User Preferences

To configure your user preferences, go to Connection > Edit Current User...

Use the Form tab to configure the following:

  • Full Name: enter your full name as you want it to appear to other users.

  • Email: enter the email address where you want to receive Perforce notifications.

  • Job view: enter the jobs that you want to appear automatically on all new changelists that you submit.

    Use standard Perforce filter expressions to specify the jobs. If you set the Job view field to any valid filter expression, jobs matching the Job view appear on any changelists you create. Jobs that are fixed by the changelist should be left in the changelist when you submit it; other jobs should be deleted from the changelist form before submission. For example, suppose the jobs at your site have a field called Owned-By. If you set the Job view field to Owned-By=yourname status=open, all open jobs owned by you appear on all changelists you create. For more information about how to use Perforce filter expressions to retrieve jobs, see Managing jobs.

  • Reviews: enter the files whose changes you want to review.

    If your Perforce administrator has activated the Perforce change review daemon, the daemon will send you email notifications whenever files you have subscribed to in the Reviews field have changed. List files using depot syntax. For example, let's say you enter the following in the Reviews field: 

    //depot/main/...
//depot/.../README

    The change review daemon sends you an email whenever any README file has been submitted and whenever any file under //depot/main has been submitted.

    You can type depot paths directly in this field or use the Reviews tab to select depot paths interactively.

Use the Reviews tab to select depot paths for review:

  • Expand the tree to select a folder.

  • Context-click the folder name to view a menu of inclusion choices:

    • Include or Exclude Tree: include or exclude all files in all subfolders within the selected folder

    • Include or Exclude Files: include or exclude all files in the folder but none within subfolders

    • Include or Exclude Special...: open the Special Edit of View Map dialog, where you can specify filenames, extensions, or expressions written in standard Perforce filter expression syntax.

    • Clear: clear your current review options for the selected depot folder. This option appears only if you have already used the Reviews tab to select depot paths for review.

  • Alternatively, you can double-click the folder name to go directly to the Special Edit of View Map dialog, where you can specify filenames, extensions, or expressions written in standard Perforce filter expression syntax.

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