Working with teamwork client dialog box with Perforce

To perform teamwork operations such as to commit or update project, you can click the buttons in application menus or toolbars. Besides, you can perform via the Teamwork Client dialog box. Teamwork Client dialog box enables you to perform teamwork operations, manage teamwork projects, as well to review and checkout revisions of particular project.

Opening the teamwork client

Open the Teamwork Client by either of the ways below:
- Select Teamwork > Open Teamwork Client... from the main menu.
  
  Open teamwork client through main menu
- Select Team > Open Teamwork Client... on toolbar.
  
  Open teamwork client through toolbar

In the login dialog box, fill in the server and user information to login to server.

Login Perforce

Below is a description of fields in the Login dialog box:

Field	Description
Server	The type of server, which should be Perforce.
Server host	The server host, which can be host name or IP address.
Port number	The port of connecting to server.
User name	The user name for connecting to server.
Password	The password for given user.
Remember password	Check to memorize the password so that you don't need to enter again.
Use proxy	Check if proxy is needed for connecting to server. When checked, you will need to enter proxy host.

Description of Login dialog box

If this is the first time you connect to the Perforce server, you will be asked to select the projects to manage. By managing a project, you can check it out, open and edit it. In the Manage Project dialog box, select the projects to manage.

Select projects to manage
Click on the > button in the middle of the dialog box to add them into project selection.
Click OK to proceed. This end up showing the Teamwork Client dialog box.

The Teamwork Client dialog box

The interface

The overview of Teamwork Client dialog box

The Teamwork Client dialog box

Region	Description
	To logout from Perforce server.
	To login to Perforce server.
	To manage projects, which enables you to add or remove projects from the list of managed projects.
	To create a project in server by importing one into it. You may create a blank new project, or import an existing project file to start with.
	To update changes from server.
	To commit changes to server.
	To checkout a project from server.
	To open the project selected in Projects list. If the project is not checked out yet, it will be checked out automatically.
	To remove changes made in a revision.
	To check for changes
	To create a tag for a trunk/branch.
	To create a branch for a trunk/branch.
	To merge changes from trunk/branch.
	To switch to another trunk/branch/tag.
	To remove a branch. Note that removed branch will not delete the, but just make it not accessible.
Show all user	To show the projects manageable by all users.
Repository	To update the Projects list by showing only projects in certain repository.
Projects	The list of manageable project.
Project Details	Details of selected project, including the name, revision and status.
Revisions	Revisions of selected project.

Description of the Teamwork Client dialog box

Project details

The Project Details tab in Teamwork Client dialog box

Field	Description
Project name	Name of the selected project.
File path	The file path of the project in your system.
Checkout time	The time when you checkout the project.
Revision	The revision of your local copy.
Status	The status of local project.
Comment	The comment of project entered by the administrator when creating project.

Description of Project Details tab in Teamwork Client dialog box

Revisions

The Revisions tab in Teamwork Client dialog box

Region	Description
Show:	To list certain amount of revisions, such as all, last 10, last 20, etc.
Revision list	To display the revisions of chosen project.
[Revert]	By reverting a selected revision, this means to undone changes made in that revision.
[Export]	To export selected revision(s) as project files.
[Open]	To open selected revision.
[Compare]	To compare the differences between revisions.

Description of Revisions tab in Teamwork Client dialog box

Chapter 4. Team Collaboration with Perforce

Table of Contents

2. Importing projects to Perforce