I'm trying to set up Perforce integration in IntelliJ IDEA 10.5.2. There is a field named "Client" that doesn't make sense to me. I get the message "Connection problems: Client Unknown" whatever I type into the field. What should I enter into that field?
You need to enter the name of your Perforce workspace.
If you have set up the command line tool correctly you may run p4 set P4CLIENT on the command-line.
If you use the P4V GUI tool, the workspace name is easily found.
Open P4V and connect. On the top left, above everything, there are your:
[client], [port], [user] - Perforce P4V
They often look something like:
[client] ~ [your-name]_[random-letters-and-numbers]
[port] ~ [url]:[number]
[user] ~ [your-name]
Enter them in IntelliJ and press Apply.
Edit:
If you only see
[port], [user] - Perforce P4V
you need to go to Connection -> New workspace... and create a workspace.
http://www.perforce.com/perforce/doc.current/manuals/intro/index.html before you go any further. Always start by reading the docs, you'll be a lot happier.
You need to enter the local Workspace name into the dialog in Webstorm Options / Preferences to integrate it with Perforce.
In P4V, you can find this by looking at View > Workspace Tree, and then selecting the workspace you are trying to integrate.
Background: I'm setting up Perforce with Webstorm v2016.1 just now. I tried using the name of the workspace stream on the server at first, which kept giving me a "Client Unknown" error. This fixed the issue and allowed the connection to go through.
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8399936/what-to-enter-into-client-field-in-the-perforce-setup-dialog-in-intellij-idea