Editing Your User Spec

Each Perforce username has a specification, or user spec, associated with it. The Edit User page allows you to update the spec for your username. Use the Go To->Edit User menu selection in the control panel to get to the Edit User page. You can enter new values in the fields that appear and click Save to update your user spec.

The Edit User page shows the following fields:

• User: Your Perforce username.

• Email: Your email address. This can be used by a review daemon to send you email when files you're interested in have changed. (See the Reviews field, below.)

• Update: The date and time at which your user spec was last updated.

• Access: The date and time at which you last accessed the Perforce server.

• FullName: Your full name.

• JobView: A search expression that specifies which open jobs automatically appear in a changelist form when you create or submit changelists. (You can close jobs and permanently associate them with a changelist number by listing those jobs in the changelist form when you submit it.)

  For instance, "project=titan type=bug" in the JobView field will cause all open jobs with those parameters to appear in the Jobs field of your changelist forms.

• Password: Your Perforce password (masked). If this field is empty, you do not have a Perforce password set.

  You can create a Perforce password for yourself, or change your current Perforce password, by entering a value in this field and clicking "Save". However, once you do this, the P4Web Helper that is currently running won't be able to connect to the Perforce server anymore. You'll need to stop your P4Web Helper and restart it to get it to authenticate your browser with your new password. See Passwords and Authentication for more information.

• Reviews: A list of file patterns that indicate the depot files whose changes you'd like to review. For example, a Reviews field containing:

  	//depot/projects/titan/...
     	//depot/projects/.../*.h

  indicates that you'd like to review changes to any of the files in the //depot/projects/titan path, and to the *.h files in any //depot/projects path. If your Perforce installation has a review daemon running, you will be notified by email when changelists affecting any of these files are submitted.