# Perforce: How to update a submitted changelist?
**URL:** https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/perforce-how-to-update-a-submitted-changelist/1147
**Category:** Discussion
**Created:** [March 18, 2009, 12:33pm UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/perforce-how-to-update-a-submitted-changelist/1147 "2009-03-18T12:33:10Z")
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### Author:  [@rafael](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/rafael)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2009, 12:33pm UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/perforce-how-to-update-a-submitted-changelist/1147/1 "2009-03-18T12:33:10Z")
Greetings!
The new Perforce actions in FB are smokin hot (thanks!).
My flow is:
1. Create changelist
2. Submit changelist
3. Sync to changelist
4. Build
Now my list piece is....
1. Update changelist to note if build was successful or not...
But I do not see how to do that. (I can do it by hand...)
Pointers?
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@rafael](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/rafael)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2009, 1:53am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/perforce-how-to-update-a-submitted-changelist/1147/2 "2009-03-18T01:53:27Z")
OK, Perforce has this feature, but it is not surfaced as an out of box FB action...
Here is how to do it:
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In 2007.2 and later releases, the user who owns the submitted changelist can
use the -u flag with p4 change to modify the description field.
http://www.perforce.com/perforce/doc.082/user/relnotes.txt
#118826 \*\*
'p4 change' has a new '-u' option to allow the owner of a
submitted change to update its description and/or jobs fields.
(Bug #1159).
but because of this bug, which has been fixed in 2008.1 and later releases,
#149573 \*\*
'p4 change -u' no longer requires both the username and
workspace of the user to match those of the owner of the
submitted change. Now only the username needs to match.
(Bug #25380, #28412)
you might also need to use the -c and -H flags as a workaround in 2007.2.
p4 -c client\_name -H host\_name change -u changelist#
I hope this solution will serve you well so you do not need to resort to other
approaches. Please give it a try and let me know if it does not work.
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### Author:  [@paulsamways](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/paulsamways)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2009, 1:56am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/perforce-how-to-update-a-submitted-changelist/1147/3 "2009-03-18T01:56:11Z")
Hi Sam,
There’s not built-in action for the Perforce ‘change’ command, you’ll need to use the Perforce generic action to update the change list. I don’t have a copy of Perforce installed on this machine but the action parameters should be something like:
Perforce Command: change
Command Line Arguments: -u Description:[NEW DESCRIPTION] [CHANGELIST #]
You can find more information on the ‘change’ command from [http://www.perforce.com/perforce/doc.082/manuals/cmdref/change.html](http://www.perforce.com/perforce/doc.082/manuals/cmdref/change.html)
Regards,
Paul.
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### Author:  [@rafael](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/rafael)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2009, 1:21am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/perforce-how-to-update-a-submitted-changelist/1147/4 "2009-03-20T01:21:16Z")
Thanks!
The p4 Generic works great. I got this working both with P4 2007.2 and 2008.2
Very slick!!!