Installing and configuring the P4 Plan P4 integration

The following information is only for administrative users. If you only need to use the integration from P4V to do your work, you do not need to install anything. See Working with P4 changelists and P4 Plan items to get started. Ask your administrator if you need help accessing the integration.

Before team members can use the P4 Plan P4 integration, an administrative user must install and configure the required components.

Requirements

  • P4 Plan Web
  • P4 Plan Server
  • Helix Visual Client (P4V) 2021.1 or later

Settings

By default, the nginx.conf file automatically detects the domain and port that the integration file should use. These default settings might not work if you access the P4 Plan Web server through a proxy or a load balancer listening to a different domain and/or port.

In a case like this, you should update the nginx.conf file to replace the default Domain and Port values to the ones of the proxy server.

Default:

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sub_filter '{Domain}' '$host';
sub_filter '{Port}' '$server_port';

Custom:

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set $custom_port 443; 
sub_filter '{Port}' '$custom_port';

set $custom_domain 'example.com';
sub_filter '{Domain}' '$custom_domain';

Installation and configuration tasks

To encrypt all data stored on the P4 Plan Server, use an encrypted disk. If you do not use an encrypted disk, some data related to P4 Plan on the server will remain unencrypted. Only the user running the server should have access to the database, installation, and backup folders.

Perform the following tasks to install and configure the integration.

1. If P4 Plan Web is not installed, download, install, and configure it.

2. Configure and deploy the shortcut menu item to add changelists to P4 Plan items in P4V.

3. Test the integration.

4. Provide team members with the information they need to use the integration.