Fixing jobs

To fix a job, you link it to a changelist and submit the changelist. Helix Core Server automatically changes the value of a job’s status field to closed when the changelist is submitted.

Jobs can be linked to changelists in one of three ways:

• By setting the JobView field in the p4 user form to an expression that matches the job.
• With the p4 fix command.
• By editing the p4 submit form.

You can modify job status directly by editing the job, but if you close a job manually, there’s no association with the changelist that fixed the job. If you have altered your site’s job specification by deleting the Status field, jobs can still be linked to changelists, but status cannot be changed when the changelist is submitted. (In most cases, this is not a desired form of operation.) See the chapter on editing job specifications in the Helix Core Server Administrator Guide for more details.

To remove jobs from a changelist, issue the p4 fix -d command.