[p4] Trigger wildcards

[Qazwart]

I looked at "p4 help undoc" at the "p4 spec" command, and it listed  
all of the various formtypes:

     branch, change, client, depot, group, job, label, spec, trigger,  
typemap, user

The problem with the wildcard form business is that you are thinking  
in terms of the forms and not the commands that you want to trigger  
on. For example, you might want a trigger on a client to make sure  
the user is prefixing the client name with their User ID, but would  
this apply to any of the other form types?

Besides, some of these form types are for the administrator only  
(depot, group, spec, typemap and user), and you normally wouldn't  
attach a trigger to them.

On May 10, 2007, at 4:56 PM, Looney, James B wrote:
> Is there such a thing as a wildcard for triggers?  At the moment, I'm
> experimenting with triggers, and there doesn't seem to be a list  
> for the
> names of all the forms used within Perforce.  So, I've done to make it
> work with branch is:
>
> formIn form-in branch "/home/jlooney/triggers.py <a bunch of the %
> variables>"
>
> What I'd like to do is:
>
> formIn form-in * "/home/jlooney/triggers.py <a bunch of the %
> variables>"
>
> just to see when my script gets fired off.  And while I'm just
> experimenting and poking around, I'd like to avoid explicitly  
> putting in
> a trigger line for each form I can think of, hoping that I've  
> thought of
> all of them.
>
> Thanks,
> -JB
>
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David Weintraub
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