What's New in Helix VCS Fall Releases 2017

Don’t Let a Single Feature Slip Through the Cracks

Find out what’s inside the latest versions of Helix Core, Helix Swarm, Helix Visual Client (P4V), and some of our top integrations.

You’ll discover:

-Shortcuts to save time and get growing teams organized.
-Enhancements that keep you in your team’s favorite tools.
-Other ways to boost server performance with third-party WAN accelerators.

1. What’s New in Helix VCS: Fall Releases 2017

2. Agenda 1 Helix Core 2 Helix Swarm 3 Helix P4V 4 P4Eclipse 5 P4VS 6 P4GT

3. Helix Core 2017.2

4. Parallel shelving operations Third-party f ast f ile transfers Helix Core

5. Parallel sync, submit, and the new shelving feature. Parallel Shelving Operations

6. Pull-archive t rigger and edge-content triggers. Allow integration with external tools for moving file content: Aspera FileCatalyst Transmit large files up to 13 times faster. Third - Party Fast File Transfers

7. Helix Swarm 2017.3

8. Groups can now be added as moderators and/or @mentions. Better user experience for reviews list. Customize email notifications. Swarm can now run on security-enhanced Linux( SELinux ). Helix Swarm

9. Group Options Ability to add groups as moderators, reviewers, & @mentions in Swarm. Ability to expand a group membership by adding a subgroup.

10. Group Options Create mailing list for group reviews. Notifications will now go to the mailing list instead of the individual user .

11. Group Options When using group mailing lists, admins can set up notification preferences for the group, the same way users do for their individual notification preferences.

12. Group Options Groups can now be added as moderators and/or in an @mention. Ability to filter your group reviews or your individual reviews.

13. Group Options Choose one or many reviewers for approval.

14. Sort reviews by recent activity or creation date. Update the roles filter to enable users to select from ”Reviews I've A uthored ", ”Reviews I’m Participating In”, and ”Reviews I’ve Authored O r Are Participating In”. Better User E xperience for Reviews L ist

15. Customize Email N otifications Additional options for email notifications. Enable email clients to filter and chain Swarm email notifications by author and review ID.

16. P4V 2017.3

17. P4Clean: Restores workspace files to match the state of corresponding depot files. New shelved-files i con indicator: Pending c hangelist tab now shows shelved-file icon. Unshelve from source s tream to current stream. New, clickable web links in job forms. Features

18. Restores workspace files to match the state of corresponding depot files: Files modified in workspace restored to last depot version. Files in depot/not in workspace are added to workspace. Files in workspace/not in depot are deleted from workspace. P4Clean – Now Available in P4V

19. Pending c hangelist tab now shows shelved-file icon: Empty Empty + shelf Contains files Contains files + shelf Shelved-File Indicator on Changelists

20. Unshelve from Source Stream to Current S tream Files can now be unshelved across streams. Pending changelist with shelves from source stream can be right-clicked in the pending changelist tab, and the current client will act as the target stream.

21. Clickable Web Links in Job Forms Job form descriptions now support clickable web links. Edit the form description field with an <a href > construct. When the form is saved, this will appear as a clickable link.

22. P4Eclipse 2017.1

23. P4Eclipse 2017.1 Support for Eclipse 4.6 (Neon) Update to the latest P4Java Integration with Helix Swarm

24. P4Eclipse Integration with Helix Swarm Create a new Helix Swarm review or update an existing review.

25. Choose pending or submitted changelist and s elect a new Swarm r eview. P4Eclipse - Create a Review

26. P4Eclipse – Update a Review Update a Swarm review: S elect pending files to update, update review description.

27. Helix Plugin for Visual Studio (P4VS) 2017.2

28. Choose “Helix Server" as a source c ontrol provider under the  ”Add to Source Control” button in the Visual Studio status bar. P4VS now integrates with the Visual Studio 2017 start p age .  ”Helix Server” is available under “Open->Checkout”. Shelved files in the pending changelist tool window are now displayed in a shelved-file folder underneath the changelist item to better differentiate from unshelved files. The OK button is now a changelist dropdown menu when opening the changelist prompt on edit of a file. P ressing enter or s pace keys will not trigger file checkout to the default pending changelist as long as the user continues typing. “< n> Pending Changes" will now be available in the Visual Studio status bar. When clicked, it will bring up the pending changelist tool window. Option to reconcile offline work. Visual Studio Plugin: P4VS

29. Helix Core is now an option under the  ”Add to Source Control” button in the status bar .

30. P4VS now integrates with the Visual Studio 2017 start page. “Helix Server” is available under “Open->Checkout”. Helix Server Helix Server

31. Shelved files in the pending changelist tool window are now displayed in a shelved-file folder underneath the changelist item to better differentiate from unshelved files.

32. The OK button is now a changelist dropdown menu when opening the changelist prompt on edit of a file. Pressing enter or space keys will not trigger file checkout to the default pending changelist as long as the the user continues typing.

33. “<n> Pending Changes" will now be available in the Visual Studio status bar. When clicked, it will bring up the pending changelist tool window

34. Option to reconcile offline work available from the file menu.

35. P4GT 2017.1

36. Support 3DS Max 2017 Support Photoshop 2017 Key benefits with P4GT Perforce Graphical Plugin : P4GT

37. When you open a file in 3DS Max, P4GT will ask if you wish to check the file out. It will even ask if you wish to lock the file . Working With Files

38. Perforce Menu File History Status Lock Unlock Etc.

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