Connecting to the Perforce server
To connect to a Perforce server:
- Choose Connection>Open Connection... The Open Connection
dialog is displayed. If you have previously used the connection, select it
from the Recent connections pulldown menu.
Otherwise:
- In the Connect to fields, enter the server name and port number
for this connection. For details about specifying the Perforce server port,
consult your Perforce administrator.
- In the Connect as fields, enter your user name and password (if a
password is configured for the user).
- To browse for a particular user, click the Browse button and select
the user from that list.
- To create a user, click
and fill in the appropriate
information.
- (Optional) In the Open Workspace fields, specify the name of your
client workspace.
- To browse for a particular client workspace, click the Browse button
and select the workspace from that list.
- To create a client workspace, click
and fill in
the required information.
- Click OK.
P4V connects to the specified Perforce server and displays a new instance of its
main window.
Favorite Connections
You can maintain a list of favorite connections and assign descriptive names to the entries, to free you from having to remember port numbers and server host names.
- To add a favorite connection, choose Connection>Favorite Connections>Add Favorite Connection....
- To maintain existing entries, choose Connection>Favorite Connections>Manage Favorites....
- To connect to a favorite connection, choose Connection>Favorite Connections and scroll down to the desired entry.
Unicode mode servers
To configure a default encoding for Unicode mode servers, choose Tools>Preferences...
and click the Connection tab. If you are connecting to a Unicode mode
server for the first time, P4V displays the Choose Character Encoding
dialog after you dismiss the Open Connection dialog. Specify the desired
encoding and click OK. The encoding that you specify overrides any default that
is configured, and the specified encoding is used when you subsequently connect
to the same server.