The Poll Exclude User(s) feature prevents certain Perforce user IDs from triggering a build. I have a very large number (appx. 1000) P4 users doing check-ins, but only what to trigger builds from a small subset of them (maybe 15 individuals). Since HTTP GET fails if I try to list a huge number of users in this box, I need to use a regular expression with ! operations to specify the triggers, as the built in help claims you can do.

So if I want ONLY john.doe and jane.smith to trigger a build I should be able to type the following into the Poll Exclude User(s) box:

!(john\.doe||jane\.smith)

Unfortunately, this does not work. What I am finding is every change makes it through the filter. It would be nice to instead whitelist the users who will trigger builds, but that feature is not provided. I am setting up a CI server for a subgroup within the company, and while they would like to be able to pick up everybody's changes, they are only interested in triggering builds when a member of their group checks something in.

Is this a genuine bug, or is there a problem with my regular expression syntax? Unfortunately, there isn't any examples of how to use this feature that I can find. The online help or wiki should probably provide a bit more examples how to use regular expressions here.