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P4 Visual Client (P4V) Documentation | 2026.1

# Get started with P4V

To start using P4V, you must:

- Connect to a P4 Server instance (see Connect to P4 Server)
- Configure your client workspace (see Create and manage workspaces)
- Get files from the depot (see Retrieve files from the depot)
- Add files to the depot (see Add files to the depot)

## View and add tabs

Two ways to add a tab that you want to display:

Click the + button | On the View menu, choose the tab:

## Open a terminal session

When you right-click a file, a context menu provides useful options. One such option is to open a terminal session that matches the environment in which P4V is running, including the settings for the user and the client workspace.

| On Windows, this is called Open Command Window Here On Mac, this is called Open Terminal Here On Linux, this is called Open Terminal Here and launches the first application it finds when looking in this order: gnome-terminal, konsole, dterm, uxterm, and xterm

## Videos

A quick overview of basic operations:

For additional videos, see the video library on the Perforce website.

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