3. Changing your User Profile

You can change FishEye settings such as password, notifications and display settings.

To view your own user profile, log into FishEye, choose a repository and click the 'Profile' link at the top right-hand corner of the page.

Always click 'Save' after making any changes.

Below is a description of each tab and its contents.

Display Settings Tab

The options in this tab allow you to amend the display settings.

Screenshot: FishEye User Profile Display Settings

General

Length of tag list	Default is 'Medium'. The option to show the list of tags for a file. This can be changed to show none ('Hide') or all ('Long').
Show Linecount History Graph	Default is 'Yes'. This is the graph that appears on the left hand side of the Browse and Changelog screen.
Show hidden directories	Default is 'No'. Do not show the hidden directories within any folder lists.
Show empty directories	Default is 'Yes'. The option to see any empty directories within any folder lists.
File History View Mode	Default is 'Logical'. In Subversion repositories, FishEye is able to show all operations on a single logical file spread across a number of physical paths - i.e. operations in different branches. When this is set to 'Logical', FishEye will show all the operations across all branches. In 'Physical' mode, only the operations related to the physical path whose history is being viewed are shown.
Timezone	Default is the timezone of the FishEye server.

Changelog

Changesets per page	The default is 30 per page.
Maximum files shown in a changeset	Default is 5.

Diff View

Truncate long diffs	Default is 'Yes'. Only show part of the diff, if the diff contains many lines of code.
Diff mode	Default is 'Unified'. Can be changed to 'Side-by-side' diffs.
Line wrapping	Default is 'None' i.e. long lines will never word-wrap. 'Soft' is when long lines will word-wrap.
Highlighting Colours	The default colour scheme uses bright colours for highlighting diffs in the code. If you prefer more muted colours, select 'Classic (muted)'.

Source View

Default annotation mode	Default is 'Age'. It can be changed to 'Author' or 'None'.
Tab width	Default is 8. Can be changed to a number between 1 and 10.

Email Tab

The settings in this tab allow you to change your email address and your display name.

Display Name	Name displayed for the user currently logged in.
Email address	The address all email notifications will be sent to.
Email Format	Default is text. Can be changed to be sent as HTML.

Change Password Tab

Option to be able to change your password if required.

The passwords are case sensitive.

Author Mapping Tab

This functionality is used by Crucible. Refer to the Crucible documentation.

Watches Tab

Add a 'watch' on the Browse, File History or Changelog page

By adding a 'watch', you can ask to receive emails about changes made to the repository. To add a watch, click on the icon at the top right of any Browse, File History or Changelog page.

The 'Watches' tab in your Profile allows you to change the frequency at which the 'watch' emails are sent.

'Immediately' - the email is sent every time a change is made.
'Daily' - you will receive a daily email detailing these changes.

The default is 'Immediately'.

The option to add a watch may only be available if the administrator has enabled watches for the repository.

Reviews tab