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 the New button 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 the New button and fill in
the required information.
- Click OK.
P4V connects to the specified Perforce server and displays a new instance of its
main window.
Unicode mode servers
To configure a default encoding for Unicode servers, choose Tools>Preferences...
and click the Connection tab. If you are connecting to a Unicode 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.