Edit user preferences

Edit your user preferences to manage your profile information, associate jobs with changelists, and configure email notifications for files and folders that you want to monitor.

Edit your user preferences

On the Connection menu, select Edit Current User.
On the Form tab, update the settings that you want to change:
- Full Name: Enter the name that you want other users to see.
- Email: Enter the email address that you want to use to receive P4V notifications.
- Job view: Specify the jobs that you want to appear automatically on new changelists.
- Reviews: Specify the files and folders that you want to monitor for changes.
Click OK.

Configure job view filters

Configure a job view filter to automatically add matching jobs to new changelists that you create.

On the Connection menu, select Edit Current User.
On the Form tab, locate the Job View field.
Enter a valid P4 Server job filter expression.
Click OK.

When you create a changelist, jobs that match the filter are automatically added to the changelist form. Jobs fixed by the changelist should remain on the form when you submit the changelist. Remove any jobs that do not apply to the changelist.

Example job view filter

If your site uses an Owned-By field, you can use a filter such as:

Owned-By=yourname status=open

This filter automatically adds all open jobs assigned to the specified user to newly created changelists.

Configure review paths

Configure review paths to receive email notifications when files or folders that you want to monitor are added or modified.

On the Connection menu, select Edit Current User.
On the Reviews tab, specify the files or folders that you want to monitor.
To select depot paths interactively, expand the depot tree and navigate to the required folder.
Configure the review path:

Select Include Tree to monitor all files in the selected folder and its subfolders.
Select Include Files to monitor files in the selected folder only.
Select Exclude Tree to exclude all files in the selected folder and its subfolders.
Select Exclude Files to exclude files in the selected folder only.

If you need to create a custom path specification, select Include Special or Exclude Special.
Click OK.

Example review paths

The following review paths generate email notifications when matching files change:

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

With these review paths, you receive notifications when: