[p4] deleting and renaming jobs...

Robert Cowham robert at vaccaperna.co.uk
Sun Sep 10 07:21:22 PDT 2006


> > As for deleting jobs, you should be able to prevent that with a 
> > form-delete trigger.  What bothers me more, is that there 
> is no way to 
> > prevent a user from deleting a fix record... and there's no 
> > traceability to even know that the fix was deleted.
> 
> OK, I just read the help for p4 jobs and when a job is 
> deleted the associated fixes are deleted too (which is 
> reassuring). However you raise a point which is that deleting 
> a fix should also be prevented (in our job dependent bug 
> tracking scheme)...
> 
> If you have p4d logging at level 3 (and keep your logs), you 
> should be able to trace that a fix has been deleted. You 
> would have had to suspect it in the first place, though...
> 
> I'll look at the trigger option, but it would be so nice to 
> be able to specify access control for running commands (with 
> arguments) in the protect table !

Don't forget also that jobs are also stored in a spec depot if you have one
which is nice safety. However the delete trigger is good.

I too would like logging (traceability) for fix information. Put in a
request to Perforce support!

Regards
Robert


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