A Stream Favorite is a way to limit the
stream hierarchy shown in the StreamBrowser to the
stream path of a specific stream and all its children. If your organization has depots containing thousands of streams, Stream Favorites is a powerful tool to improve system performance and focus attention on just the streams you're interested in.
Note: Although you create and apply Stream Favorites in the StreamBrowser, their use affects the display of streams throughout the AccuRev GUI. Any list of streams available in the GUI will contain
only the subset of streams shown in the StreamBrowser.
Prior to AccuRev Version 5.5, Stream Favorites were called stream filters. The idea behind them -- to provide a handy way to create different views of the streams in your depot -- is the same, but there are a few important differences:
When AccuRev displays streams in the StreamBrowser, it applies Stream Favorites first. Any display controls in the StreamBrowser are then applied to the filtered set of streams. Occasionally, the interaction between Stream Favorites and display controls might produce an unexpected result. For example, if you have selected the
Only stream paths to workspaces checkbox at the bottom of the StreamBrowser, only those paths that lead to workspaces will be displayed, even if the current Stream Favorite includes streams that do not lead to workspaces. If your Stream Filter does not produce the expected display in the StreamBrowser, remember to check the display controls to verify that these local settings are not affecting the outcome.
Note: By default, AccuRev searches the depot for any streams that contain the string you enter, but you can change that to matches, starts with, or ends with. The search field is case-sensitive -- searching on, say,
AccuRev and
accurev will yield different results.
Tip: Private Stream Favorites are displayed with a simple star icon (

). Public Stream Favorites are displayed with the star icon against a blue background (

).
To clear a Stream Favorite, click the Show All Streams button at the bottom of the Stream Favorites panel.
Depending on the size and complexity of your stream hierarchy, showing all streams can take a long time. AccuRev displays an informational message, which gives you the chance to cancel the operation.
Tip: If you check the
Do not show this again check box, you can restore this dialog box by clearing the
Skip "Show All Streams" checkbox on the General tab of the AccuRev Preferences dialog box (
Tools >
Preferences).
When you delete a Stream Favorite that you created as a public Stream Favorite, it will no longer be available to any users who might have added it to their Stream Favorites panel.
In addition to creating your own Stream Favorites, you can add Stream Favorites created by other users to your Stream Favorites panel. To be accessible to you, they must have been created as public, and not private, Stream Favorites. If the author of a public favorite you have added to your Stream Favorites panel later deletes that favorite, it will no longer appear on your Stream Favorites panel.
Note: When you add a user, you get all of that user’s public favorites.