This page provides a "road map" to P4Web documentation. If you're already a Perforce user, this page will tell you how to use P4Web to do familiar Perforce tasks. Users new to Perforce should read Getting Started with Perforce and P4Web first, then return to this page for pointers to more detailed information about a particular task.
Complete Index
At the bottom of this page, you'll find a complete index of P4Web Help pages.
The P4Web process you point your browser to is either a Helper or a Viewer:
P4Web provides two "Browser" pages to show you Perforce information at a glance:
Both the Path Browser and the File Browser pages can optionally show recent depot activity in the control panel at the top of the page. These are the most recent changes that have affected the path or file you are currently browsing. You always know at a glance what's going on with the files you are working on. See Using the Control Panel to find out how to turn recent activity display on and off.
If you are storing web site files in your Perforce depot, you may be able to use Back-in-Time Browsing® to view your entire web site as it appeared at any previous point in time.
Your current client determines which workspace you are using. You'll see your current client name displayed at the top of every P4Web page in the control panel. You can use the Client Workspaces page to show you the list of existing (already defined) clients. You can switch clients using either the Client Detail page or the Settings page.
The files and paths in your workspace are determined by your client spec. To create or modify a client spec, use the Edit Client Spec page.
To find out how to submit changed files from your workspace into the depot, see Submitting Files in a Pending Changelist.
Perforce keeps a permanent record of file changes submitted by users. Submitted Changelists describes how to list changes that have occured in an entire path as well as in a single file.
You can organize your opened files into more than one pending changelist in your workspace. Edit A Pending Changelist describes how to create, modify, or delete pending changelists.
The Path Browser page shows you your opened files (files you are working on) in the current path at a glance. It also shows you which files at each path level are in sync with the depot and which are not. See Using the Path Browser for links to help on the commands you can run on all files in a path. For help on per-file operations, see the links in Using the File Browser.
The File Browser lets you peruse File History and view file content at any revision.
For information about merging changes between files and resolving conflicts, see Resolving Files.
Perforce lets you branch single files and/or entire directory hierarchies of files from each other, as described in Integrating Files. P4Web allows you to create and edit branch specs. Browse existing branch views with the Branches page.
The Users page shows all users known to the Perforce system.
If you're using a P4Web Helper you'll see your own Perforce user name at the top of each page, in the control panel. You can edit your user spec with the Edit User Spec page. New users should edit their user spec immediately to set a Perforce password so that no one else can use their Perforce username in P4Web Helper to modify files in their workspace. For more information, see Passwords and Authentication.