Creating Stream Workspaces

To work in a stream, you must have a workspace for it. Perforce generates the view (mapping of depot locations to client locations) for any stream workspace, but you must initiate the creation of the workspace. You can do so in the following ways:

  • When you create a new stream using the Stream dialog, select the Create a workspace for use with this stream option.

  • The first time that you select a stream to work in, you'll be prompted to create a new workspace.

    See Selecting Streams.

The Workspace dialog opens, with all necessary fields pre-populated to work with the current stream.

You can update any of the fields in the Workspace dialog, except Stream name and Workspace mappings (which can only be changed by updating the stream's path configuration). If you want a "back-in-time" view of your stream, you can use the Stream At Change option to sync the stream using the stream's view as of a specific changelist. When you use the Stream At Change option, you cannot submit changes to the files in the stream, since your workspace files are not at the head revision.