[p4] Introduction slides

[Jay Glanville]

Steven, one thing that our documentation team has found useful is the
"when you double-click a file" setting in P4Win.  It's under Settings ->
Options -> Files -> Double Click.  This allows our doc team to use P4Win
as a file explorer for their perforce files, instead of Explorer.

Just a suggestion.

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Jay Dickon Glanville


> -----Original Message-----
> From: perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com 
> [mailto:perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com] On Behalf Of Steven Bougon
> Sent: October 19, 2006 2:48 PM
> To: Perforce Users
> Subject: [p4] Introduction slides
> 
> 
> Hi there,
>  
> I was asked to hold a brown bag on "Perforce for Dummies" for
> non-technical
> folks are our company. (read: Marketing folks are going to 
> check in some
> .xls files)
>  
> They need to know how to:
>   - set up p4win
>   - what and why SCMS
>   - how to checkin/checkout
>   - go through the revision history.
>  
> So, it's really a introduction on SCMS, with hands on P4Win
>  
> And yes, I already pointed them to the very good
> http://www.perforce.com/perforce/doc.061/manuals/intro/intro.pdf
> but I still need to produce some slides
>  
> So, before writing my own perforce4dummies.ppt, I wanted to ask if one
> of you is aware
> of such material available somewhere in the public area of the
> perforce.com site ?
>  
> I searched and could not find it. Let me know if you know about
> something similar
>  
> thanks a lot,
> Steven
> PS: I'm thinking about the following
> 1) What's wrong with Windows Explorer ?
> 2) Perforce allows you to:   
>    * keep an history of a file change
>    * retrieve a specific file revision
>    * lock a file 
>    * knows who is editing the file at the same time
>    * have permissions set on some directories
>    * receive an email everytime somebody modifies a certain file
> 3) How does it work (Perforce server, Metadata in a DB)
> 4) How to set up Perforce
>    * request a user id/passwd
>    * crtl+o to enter the good setting
> 5) Get started:
>    * sync some files
>    * edit one (description)
>    * submit
> 6) advanced:
>   * receive email notification
>   * command line :-)
>   * (internal) http://devweb and //xxx/yyy/... ????
>   * windord and excel p4 plugin
> 7) DO and DON't
>   * never delete a file, or change a file permission via Windows
> Explorer
>   * always use p4win to delete, edit a file
>   * don't sync //xxx/yyy/... (couple if Gig) :-)
>  
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