100 recent changes in System Web retrieved at 23:11 (GMT)

System Requirements Low client and server base requirements are core features that keep Foswiki widely deployable, particularly across a range of browser platform...

TWikiCompatibilityPlugin Usage Automatically maps requests for legacy TWiki web topics to Foswiki free topics as per TopicNameMappingTable. Map TWIKIWEB to SYSTE...

#TemplateTopics Template topics Foswiki uses several types of templates. Template topics are topics that define the default text for new topics. (If you are look...

TinyMCEPlugin This is an integration of the fast and highly functional TinyMCE WYSIWYG editor. It supports a wide range of browsers, including Firefox, IE, Safari...

Linking to a file attachment A link to a file attachment may be created in a few different ways: 1 If using the WYSIWYG editor (TinyMCEPlugin), use the attach ...

Escaping Foswiki rendering Use the verbatim tag to surround code excerpts and other formatted text with = verbatim = and = /verbatim = tags. For Example: verbati...

Server side include To include the contents of a web page or Foswiki topic, use %INCLUDE{"page"}%. Examples: This example requires {INCLUDE}{AllowURLs} enabled in...

Commenting with hidden text To hide sections of a Foswiki topic, use HTML comments. Example comment within a sentence: Visible ! and hidden text Example spa...

SpreadSheetPlugin for dynamic content Over 80 formulae are available through the SpreadSheetPlugin. For Example: * $AVERAGE() * $IF() * $REPLACE() * $...

Tips Contrib Package Displays a rotating "Tip of the Day" to help familiarize new users with Foswiki features. Includes an application for creating custom tips fo...

TopicUserMappingContrib The User Mapping Manager interface provides services for mapping between a 'user identity' as used when talking to an external authenticat...

Topics What are Topics and Webs? #SystemWebFigure Figure: depiction of , ReferenceManual, ManagingTopics, ManagingWebs, MainFeatures topics contained in the web...

Foswiki Upgrade Guide This guide covers upgrading from a previous version of Foswiki to Foswiki 2.x. This upgrade procedure is used to upgrade a to a new major v...

User Authentication Controlling who can access your site Overview Authentication, or "login", is the process by which a user lets Foswiki know who they are. Know...

User Registration components This topic contains the pieces that are assembled into the UserRegistration page. There is no need to modify this topic. If a sectio...

User Settings preference settings customizable by users Some of the preference settings are explicitly intended to be customized by users, though a default is p...

ADDTOZONE add content to a named zone on the page Parameters Parameter Description Default "zone" comma separated list of the names of zones th...

#VarEDITTABLE EDITTABLE{ attributes } edit tables using edit fields and other input fields * The %EDITTABLE{}% macro is handled by the EditTablePlugin * ...

ENCODE encode characters in a string Encode character sequences in "string", by mapping characters (or sequences of characters) to an alternative character (or se...

EXPAND expand macros in a string as if they were used in another topic The viewer must have VIEW access to topictoexpandin for this to work. All the standard form...

FORMAT format a list of objects Parameters Parameter Description Default "one, two, three" The list to be expanded into the format. R...

FORMFIELD renders a field in the form attached to some topic Parameters Parameter Description Default "name" The name of a Data form ...

GMTIME formatted Greenwich Mean Time (UTC) Parameters Parameter Description Default "format" format $day $month $year $hour:$min %GMTI...

IF simple conditionals Evaluate a condition and show one text or another based on the result. See details in IfStatements . Parameter Description Defa...

JQICON render an image Renders an icon made availabe by the IconService. Parameters Parameter Description Default "name" name of the icon to displa...

JQICONPATH render the url path to an image icon This is a shortcut for: Note that this macro only makes sense for image icons, those that refer to a single image ...

JQPLUGINS display a summary of available plugins Parameters Parameter Description Default "plugins" this is a regular expression that...

MAKETEXT creates text using Foswiki's I18N infrastructure Strings captured in the MAKETEXT macro are automatically mapped to the current user's selected language ...

METASEARCH special search of meta data METASEARCH is deprecated in favour of the new and much more powerful query type search. See SEARCH and QuerySearch. Param...

POPUPWINDOW opens a topic or url in a new window Parameters Parameter Description Default "topic" topic="topic" topic="web.topic" T...

QUERY get the value of meta data Uses the query syntax described in QuerySearch to get information about meta data from one specified topic. * supports formatt...

QUERYPARAMS show parameters to the query Expands the parameters to the query that was used to display the page. Parameters Parameter: Description:...

RENDERLIST render bullet lists in a variety of formats The %RENDERLIST% macro is handled by the RenderListPlugin Examples * Engineering * Tech Pub...

RENDERZONE render the content of a zone Rendersa zone. See ADDTOZONE for an explanation of zones. Parameters Parameter Description Default ...

REVINFO revision information of current topic %REVINFO% is equivalent to %REVINFO{format="r1.$rev $date $wikiusername"}% Examples * %REVINFO% expands to =...

SEARCH search content Inline search, shows a search result embedded in a topic Parameters Parameter Description Default: "text" search...

SHOWPREFERENCE show where preferences are defined. Preference values are shown in a bulleted list, together with where they were defined. Parameters ...

SLIDESHOWSTART convert a topic with headings into a slideshow Handled by the SlideShowPlugin Parameters Parameter Description template optional n...

TABPANE tabpane widget This macro starts the tabpane, containing a series of TAB...ENDTABs and ends with ENDTABPANE. A complete tabpane normally looks like this: ...

TOC table of contents Shows a Table of Contents that is generated automatically based on headings of a topic. Headings in TopicMarkupLanguage (" text") and HTML ...

TOPICLIST topic index of a web List of all topics in a web. The "format" defines the format of one topic item. It may include formatting tokens: The $topic token ...

TWISTYHIDE Hide/close link Parameters Parameter Description Default id Used to link TWISTYSHOW, TWISTYHIDE and TWISTYTOGGLE required ...

TWISTYSHOW Show/open link Parameters Parameter Description Default id Used to link TWISTYSHOW, TWISTYHIDE and TWISTYTOGGLE required ...

TWISTYTOGGLE Twisty Toggle contents section Parameters Parameter Description Default id Used to link TWISTYSHOW, TWISTYHIDE and TWISTYT...

USERINFO retrieve details about a user Parameters Parameter Description Default "name" WikiName or login username. May be a group. current us...

WEBLIST index of all webs Generate a list of webs. Obfuscated webs are excluded, e.g. webs with a NOSEARCHALL = on preference setting. The "format" defines the fo...

RSS News Feeds Find out What's New There are several ways to find out what's new in each web: 1. Visit WebChanges to see recent changes 1. Subscribe in...

What is a WikiWord? A WikiWord consists of two or more words with initial capitals, run together. WikiWords are used to refer to topics. WikiWords refer to topics...

Settings for WysiwygPlugin that are common to most editor integrations WYSIWYG_EXCLUDE Prevent WYSIWYG editing The global preference setting WYSIWYG_EXCLUDE c...

Page Caching How to get the best from HTML Caching. By default, Foswiki pages are delivered to the browser using HTML, which is regenerated from the data stored i...

BeginnersStartHere This is a short introduction to Foswiki. A short introduction to Foswiki Use the slideshow navigation buttons on the bottom right of the page...

Managing Webs Browser based rename, move, copy, and delete for individual webs %ADDTOZONE{"head" text=" #createWeb .col1 {float:left; width:30%; margin:0 3% 0...

SitePermissions Permissions settings of the webs on this Foswiki site Web Sitemap VIEW CHANGE RENAME * * Listed DENY ALLOW DENY ALLOW ...

ENDTWISTY complements an opening TWISTY tag to close a twisty Closes an open twisty Related

ENDTWISTYTOGGLE Twisty closure Will end the most inner unclosed Twisty Toggle section, using the proper tag Examples %ENDTWISTYTOGGLE% Related

TWISTY generate content block with interactive visibility controls This renders the button as well as the toggled content section contained within this and the cl...

TWISTYBUTTON Shorthand version for TWISTYSHOW TWISTYHIDE This is useful if both the show and the hide button take the same arguments. Parameters All parameters...

JQueryLoader %JQPLUGINS{"loader" format=" Homepage: $homepage Author(s): $author Version: $version " }% This plugin allows to reload parts of a p...

JQueryAjaxHelper This page contains a set of example JQueryPlugin helpers that can be used in wiki applications. The examples demonstrate how you can dynamically ...

JQueryUI %JQPLUGINS{"ui" format=" Homepage: $homepage Author(s): $author Version: $version " }% Widget collection for jQuery. This is the officia...

JQueryI18N %JQPLUGINS{"i18n" format=" Homepage: $homepage Author(s): $author Version: $version " }% Summary This plugin tries to be the simplest...

FastCGI Engine Contrib Permits Foswiki to be executed with FastCGI Overview FastCGI is a technology to deliver dynamic web content. It differs from CGI cause it ...

Administrator Skills Assumptions Several skills (i.e. knowing how to do something) are needed to set up and maintain a Foswiki installation. Remember that several...

JQueryTabpane Plugin Info %JQPLUGINS{"tabpane" format=" Homepage: $homepage Author(s): $author Version: $version " }% Summary This implements ...

* *

File Attachments Each topic can have one or more files of any type attached to it by using the Attach screen to upload (or download) files from your local PC. Att...

JSCalendarContribInline Inline include of JSCalendarContrib HTML for use in forms. Initializes the library (called only once) %ADDTOZONE{ "head" id="JSCa...

INCLUDE include another topic, or subsection of a topic, or a URL, or Foswiki embedded documentation (Including a topic) Parameters Parameter: Des...

BUTTON renders a nice button Parameters Parameter Description Default "text" text to be put on this button value text t...

JQueryStars %JQPLUGINS{"stars" format=" Homepage: $homepage Author(s): $author Version: $version " }% Flexible and non obstructive star rating. T...

JQAjaxFormContrib Description This packages is a simple jQuery library to help ajaxifying forms. Any form with a class jqAjaxForm will be ajaxified using its HTM...

TinyMCE Editor Help Summary * Normal Normal text style * Heading 1 6 Headings; 1 is largest * On save, content in this HTML editor is automatical...

MimeIconPlugin This plugin tries to map known mime types commonly found on the internet to an icon set. There are not many icon sets that have a got coverage of m...

JQueryAnimate Summary %JQPLUGINS{"animate" format=" Homepage: $homepage Author(s): $author Version: $version " }% A cross browser library of CS...

JQueryCorner %JQPLUGINS{"corner" format=" Homepage: $homepage Author(s): $author Version: $version " }% This plugin adds cross browser support fo...

JQueryCycle %JQPLUGINS{"cycle" format=" Homepage: $homepage Author(s): $author Version: $version " }% The jQuery Cycle Plugin is a lightweight sl...

JQueryFluidFont %JQPLUGINS{"fluidfont" format=" Homepage: $homepage Author(s): $author Version: $version " }% Recompute the font size of an eleme...

JQueryFocus %JQPLUGINS{"focus" format=" Homepage: $homepage Author(s): $author Version: $version " }% This plugin sets the focus on a form input ...

JQueryFontAwesome %JQPLUGINS{"fontawesome" format=" Homepage: $homepage Author(s): $author Version: $version " }% This plugin adds support for th...

JQueryInnerFade %JQPLUGINS{"innerfade" format=" Homepage: $homepage Author(s): $author Version: $version " }% InnerFade is a small plugin for the...

JQueryMasonry %JQPLUGINS{"masonry" format=" Homepage: $homepage Author(s): $author Version: $version " }% Masonry is a JavaScript grid layout lib...

JQueryPNotify %JQPLUGINS{"pnotify" format=" Homepage: $homepage Author(s): $author Version: $version " }% Full featured plugin to show temporary...

JQuerySerialScroll %JQPLUGINS{"serialscroll" format=" Homepage: $homepage Author(s): $author Version: $version " }% This plugin allows you to eas...

JQuerySuperfish %JQPLUGINS{"superfish" format=" Homepage: $homepage Author(s): $author Version: $version " }% Superfish is an enhanced Suckerfish...

JQueryUIAutocomplete %JQPLUGINS{"ui::autocomplete" format=" Homepage: $homepage Author(s): $author Version: $version " }% Autocomplete, when adde...

JQueryUITooltip Summary %JQPLUGINS{"ui::tooltip" format=" Homepage: $homepage Author(s): $author Version: $version " }% Usage To load the libr...

JQueryView %JQPLUGINS{"view" format=" Homepage: $homepage Author(s): $author Version: $version " }% This plugin adds JsViews functionality to the...

FlexFormPlugin Description This plugin leverages the internal capabilities to render an interface for .DataForms and adds insights to the acutal DataForm defin...

RenderPlugin Description This plugin implements a couple of REST handlers to feetch content from a Foswiki backend. This can either be returned as plain content ...

IconService The IconService functions as a central definition and delivery method for all sorts of icons: image icons as well as font icons. Different kinds of i...

#VarMIMEICON MIMEICON{"filename"} return a meaningful icon for this filename * Syntax: %MIMEICON{"filename"}% * Supported parameters: Parameter ...

TopicInteractionPlugin Description This plugin redesigns the way how users interact with topics and attachments in various ways: * improved attachment handlin...

FilterPlugin Description This plugin allows to substitute and extract information from content by using regular expressions. There are three different types of n...

JQueryUIDialog Summary %JQPLUGINS{"ui::dialog" format=" Homepage: $homepage Author(s): $author Version: $version " }% A dialog is a floating wi...

FlexWebListExamples These are some simple examples to show how to use the basic features of the FlexWebListPlugin. Please create some subwebs in the Sandbox web ...

FlexWebListPlugin Description This is a replacement for Foswiki's standard WEBLIST variable. It is extended to improve the display of hierarchical web structures...

TopicTitlePlugin Description This plugin implements a way to freely specify the title of a topic. The title is then used when rendering the link to the topic ins...

SET set a preference setting during runtime A preference setting created via %SET{}% will only be usable in the topic where it has been found by the parser, simil...

Templates for CommentPlugin See CommentPlugin: Customisation for help. While this topic can be viewed as a topic, it is used by the CommentPlugin as a template fi...