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P4 Visual Client (P4V) Documentation | 2025.4

# Edit user preferences

To get an email notification when changes occur to a file or folder you want to "watch", see Reviews below.

To configure user preferences:

1. Go to Connection > Edit Current User​. The User form opens.

   1. On the Form tab, configure the following:

      - Full Name: Enter your full name as you want it to appear to other users.
      - Email: Enter the email address that you want to use to receive P4V notifications.

      - Job view: Enter the jobs that you want to appear automatically on all new changelists that you submit.

        Use standard P4 Server filter expressions to specify the jobs. If you set the Job view field to any valid filter expression, jobs matching the Job view appear on any changelist you create. Jobs that are fixed by the changelist should be left in the changelist when you submit it. Other jobs should be deleted from the changelist form before submission.

        For example, suppose the jobs at your site have a field called Owned-By. If you set the Job view field to `Owned-By=yourname status=open`, all open jobs owned by you appear on all changelists you create.

        For more information about how to use P4 Server filter expressions to retrieve jobs, see Search for jobs.

      - Reviews: To watch for a changes to a file or folder, enter the depot path. You will receive an email notification whenever any file you have subscribed to in the Reviews field has changed. For example, if you enter the following in the Reviews field:

            //depot/main/...
            //depot/.../README

        you will receive an email notification whenever:

        - any `README` file has been submitted or altered
        - any file under `//depot/main` has been submitted or altered

        You can type depot paths directly in this field or use the Reviews tab to select depot paths interactively.

      If you prefer to select depot paths instead of typing them, on the Reviews tab:

      Expand the tree to navigate to a folder and do one of the following:

      - Right-click the folder name to view a menu of inclusion choices:

        - Include or Exclude Tree: Select to include or exclude all files in all subfolders within the selected folder.
        - Includeor Exclude Files: Select to include or exclude all files in the folder but none within subfolders.

        - Include or Exclude Special…​: Select to open the Special Edit of View Map dialog box, where you can specify filenames, extensions, or expressions written in standard P4 Server filter expression syntax.

        - Clear: Clear your current review options for the selected depot folder. This option appears only if you have already used the Reviews tab to select depot paths for review.
      - Double-click the folder name to open the Special Edit of View Map dialog box, where you can specify filenames, extensions, or expressions written in standard P4 Server filter expression syntax.

      Click OK.

   To change your password, see the Change your password topic because the Password field on the Edit Current User form should remain blank.

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