Add P4 Code Review to your subscription

You can add P4 Code Review to your P4 Cloud subscription. P4 Code Review is a web-based application for P4 that streamlines the peer code review process and unites your team to do more effective code reviews. Contributors share files, comment, suggest tasks, vote up or down, and submit final work within P4 Code Review. To learn more about P4 Code Review, see the Perforce website.

To add P4 Code Review to your P4 Cloud subscription, you must have least three users in your subscription. To learn about adding more users to your subscription, see View and update your P4 Cloud subscription.

After adding P4 Code Review to your subscription, it is free for at least one year. Keep in mind that Swarm usage affects your monthly network egress. You can review egress on the Metrics page in the P4 Cloud portal. To learn more, see View usage metrics for P4 Cloud.

To add P4 Code Review to your subscription:

  1. In the P4 Cloud portal, click Subscription in the left navigation bar.

  2. In the Options section, under Additional features, turn on the P4 Code Review toggle.

  3. Click Update subscription.

    P4 Code Review is added to your subscription. You can check the server status on the Server Details page. To learn more, see View server details for P4 Cloud.

To learn about removing P4 Code Review from your subscription, see Remove P4 Code Review from your subscription.

Onboarding your team to P4 Code Review

To get your team up and running with P4 Code Review, provide them with the following information:

  • Swarm URL: You can find the URL on the Server Details page in the P4 Cloud portal. See View server details for P4 Cloud.

  • Credentials: Team members use the same credentials to log in to P4 Code Review as they do other P4 clients, such as P4V.

  • Documentation: The P4 Code Review documentation provides detailed information about using P4 Code Review.

Limitations

When using P4 Code Review with P4 Cloud, you cannot:

  • Extend P4 Code Review. To learn more about what extending P4 Code Review means, see Extending P4 Code Review in the P4 Code Review documentation.

  • Perform P4 Code Review administration tasks that update the P4 Code Review configuration file. To learn more about the excluded administration tasks, see Administration in the P4 Code Review documentation.