Triggers and Daemons

Scripting Perforce

This Knowledge Base section augments the Triggers and Daemons chapter of the Perforce System Administrator's Guide.

Articles

Debugging Triggers PROBLEM: How do you debug triggers? SOLUTION: This article provides a quick explanation of how triggers work, and outlines a few common usage pitfalls. The definitive reference for triggers is the...
Enforce Workspace Naming PROBLEM: A Perforce administrator would like to enforce a naming convention on user workspaces that makes them readily identifiable. SOLUTION: Using a "form-out" trigger to check the name of a wor...
Preventing Job Closure on Submit PROBLEM: A Perforce administrator would like to prevent jobs from being automatically closed when they're linked to  a changelist being submitted. SOLUTION: This shell script example finds an...
Setting Up External Authentication Triggers TASK: Enabling Perforce user authentication against external data SOLUTION: This technical note is for administrators who want to authenticate Perforce users against an external data source, for e...
Triggers and Passwords TASK: Can I pass a user's password to a trigger? How do I authenticate commands issued by that trigger? SOLUTION: You can not pass a specific user's password to a trigger as an argument. If your...

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Article #:
503
Created:
05/18/06
Modified:
01/09/08