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 Vault Professional 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 Vault Professional 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 Vault Professional 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.

When the Vault Professional 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 Vault Professional 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.

Check this setting to display check boxes next to items in the Vault Professional Pending Changeset.

If this option is checked, when you minimize the Vault Professional GUI Client, it will be minimized to the System Tray.

Check Make Vault Professional your default SCC provider if you want Vault Professional 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 2005, 2008, 2010, Visual Studio C++ 6.0 or Visual Basic 6.0 without using the Vault Professional GUI client. This integration uses the Vault Professional Visual Studio Classic Client integration. Please see Visual Studio Integration for more information.

The default is set during installation of the Client.

In the Visual Studio Classic Client IDE, the Get pre-command dialog does not come up by default, due to the way Visual Studio calls into Vault Professional, which asks to display the dialog far more often than seems necessary. By default, Vault Professional 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 Vault Professional to. Sometimes this is valuable, for example, when you want to apply different Get options to different files as part of the Get.

When the Vault Professional Classic Client plugin is used, this setting is in Visual Studio under Tools->Options->Source Control->Plugin Settings->Advanced->General.

In the Visual Studio Classic Client 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 Vault Professional 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 Vault Professional Classic Client plugin is used, this setting is in Visual Studio under Tools->Options->Source Control->Plugin Settings->Advanced->General.