This option allows you to specify whether commands should operate recursively on folders instead of simply on the folder itself and the files directly within it. Several dialog boxes contain a checkbox labeled Recursive. This global option establishes the default setting for all such checkboxes. If you change the recursive checkbox in one of the dialog boxes, it does not change the global option.

The default is Checked.

This option allows you to establish a default for the Request Exclusive Lock checkbox in the Check Out dialog box. An exclusive lock on a file means that no one else can check the file in or out while the current user has it checked out.

The default is Checked.

This option allows you to specify which operation will be activated on a file that has been double-clicked. The possible values are:

The default is View.

This option allows you to specify whether the Fortress client should automatically perform the Refresh command and, if so, at what interval.

The default is Checked with the interval set at 10 minutes.

This option allows you to specify whether snapshots will appear in the tree control. This setting is for all snapshot folders – there is no option to display some but not others.

The default is Checked.

Check the Show non-version-controlled files ghosted in file list option if you want non-version-controlled files that exist in your local working folders to appear ghosted in the Fortress file list.

Check the Show non-version-controlled folders ghosted in folder tree option if you want non-version-controlled folders that exist in your local working folders to appear ghosted in the Fortress folder tree.  

Enabling this option may slow down the load of the folder tree depending on the number of non-version controlled folders that exist in your working folders.

Check Make Fortress your default SCC provider if you want Fortress to be your default source control provider in Visual Studio (or other compliant IDE). Checking this allows you to check in / check out files from within Visual Studio .NET, Visual Studio C++ 6.0 or Visual Basic 6.0 without using the Fortress GUI client. Please see Visual Studio Integration for more information.

The default is set during installation of the Client.

In the IDE, the Get pre-command dialog does not come up by default, due to the way Visual Studio calls into Fortress, which asks to display the dialog far more often than seems necessary. By default, Fortress ignores these requests, so that the Get dialog does not get in the way of retrieving files. However, the Always display command dialog on Get Latest Version option, when checked, will dutifully display the dialog every time Visual Studio asks Fortress to. Sometimes this is valuable, for example, when you want to apply different Get options to different files as part of the Get.

In the IDE, you can switch projects while the IDE is still up. However, if you select or open a project that is stored on a different Fortress server, the login dialog does not come up by default to allow you to choose a different server. Checking the Always disconnect from server on Add/Open To/From Source Control will bring up the dialog on operations where it is possible you might want to choose a different server.

When the Fortress GUI client is started, it does a few checks to verify the version numbers of the product you are running. One of these checks contacts the SourceGear website to see if you are running the most recent Fortress release. No information from your computer or repository is transmitted to SourceGear. Nonetheless, if you prefer to disable this Version Check, you can do so by changing this setting.