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P4V API for JavaScript Documentation | 2026.1

# HTML Windows

An HTML Window displays an HTML page in a floating window. The user can resize and close the window.

If you add an HTML Window to P4V or P4 Admin, it becomes available in two ways:

- as a menu item in the Tools menu
- as a context-menu item when you right-click (Microsoft Windows) or context-click (macOS) the relevant item in the graphical user interface.

## Argument types

Depending on the argument type configured, P4V launches the HTML page with an additional argument.

The following argument types are supported:

Argument type | Parameter | Meaning
--- | --- | ---
%a | label | Selected label
%b | branch | Selected branch
%C | changes | Selected changelists
%c | change | Selected changelist
%D | files | Selected files or folders (depot syntax)
%d | file | Selected file or folder (depot syntax)
%F | files | Selected files (workspace syntax)
%f | file | Selected file (workspace syntax)
%i | workspace | Selected workspace
%J | jobs | Selected jobs
%j | job | Selected job
%P | changes | Selected pending changelists
%p | change | Selected pending changelist
%S | changes | Selected submitted changelists
%s | change | Selected submitted changelist
%t | stream | Selected stream
%u | user | Selected user

In P4 Admin, each connection has four tabs (Home, Users, Permissions, and Depots ). These tabs are not closeable, and you cannot float them. All connections are managed in one window. If the user switches the connection, the set of tabs switch.

P4 Admin accepts only the following arguments for HTML Windows:

Argument type | Parameter | Meaning
--- | --- | ---
%g | group | Selected group
%u | user | Selected user
%d | depot | Selected depot
%F | files | Selected files
%f | file | Selected file
%r | directory | Selected directory

To retrieve the value of an argument in the HTML page, specify the argument. For example:

    branchName = p4vjs.getParameter("branch");

Your HTML Windows can include buttons with labels such as OK, Yes, No, Cancel, Submit, or Save. When clicked, these buttons are expected to close the window. To achieve this in the HTML page, call the following function:

    p4vjs.closeWindow();

This only works from HTML Windows. You cannot close an HTML Tab from the HTML code. This is consistent with the behavior of existing tabs and windows in P4V.

To add a custom window:

1. Go to Tools > Manage Tools > HTML Windows.
2. In the Manage HTML Windows dialog, click New and select Window.

3. In the Add HTML Window dialog, provide the following information:

   - Name: The name of the menu item.
   - Placement: The placement of the new page in the Tools menu. By default, the highest level (HTML Windows) is selected. You can select a subfolder, if available, or create a new folder. For new folders, you can also specify if you want them to appear as an additional level in context menus.
   - URL: The location of the HTML file.
   - Argument Type: The type of the selected object. See the list of arguments here.
   - Width and Height: The dimension of the window, in pixels
4. Under HTML page context menus, select any options you want to appear when you right-click (Windows) or context-click (Mac) the page.
5. Click OK.

## Next step

Continue with Deploy custom HTML pages.

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