P4Web User Guide - Editing your User Spec

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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.

To edit your user spec:

Click on the Users tab.
Select the Edit current user link at the top of that page.
Enter new values in the fields on that page.
Click Save to update your user spec.

The Edit User page shows the following fields:

Field Description

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 causes 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. You can create or change your Perforce password by entering a value in this field and clicking "Save". (After you do this, you must re-authenticate your browser with the new password. To re-authenticate your browser, just click the link that appears in the first password error message you see.)
Warning: If you clear the password field in this form, and click "Save", you remove your Perforce password. Using a P4Web Helper without having a Perforce password set is not advised. See Passwords and P4Web for more information.

Reviews A list of file patterns that indicate the depot files with changes you want to review. For example, a Reviews field containing:
//depot/projects/titan/...
indicates that you'd like to review changes to any of the files in the //depot/projects/titanpath. If your Perforce installation has a review daemon running, you are notified by email when changelists affecting any of these files are submitted.

Field	Description
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 causes 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. You can create or change your Perforce password by entering a value in this field and clicking "Save". (After you do this, you must re-authenticate your browser with the new password. To re-authenticate your browser, just click the link that appears in the first password error message you see.) Warning: If you clear the password field in this form, and click "Save", you remove your Perforce password. Using a P4Web Helper without having a Perforce password set is not advised. See Passwords and P4Web for more information.
Reviews	A list of file patterns that indicate the depot files with changes you want to review. For example, a Reviews field containing: //depot/projects/titan/... indicates that you'd like to review changes to any of the files in the `//depot/projects/titan`path. If your Perforce installation has a review daemon running, you are notified by email when changelists affecting any of these files are submitted.