Text Editor A text editor is different from a WYSIWYG editor because it doesn't do display formatting like bold type, or mixed font styles, sizes and colors. ...
Time Specifications Date/time formats recognised and generated by Foswiki. For all strings the time is optional. * 31 Dec 2001 23:59 * 2001/12/31 23:59:59...
20 Minute Tutorial This step by step, hands on tutorial gets you up to speed with all the Foswiki basics... 1. Get set... Open two browser windows, so that you...
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...
List of Foswiki users Below is a list of users with accounts. If you want to edit topics or see protected areas of the site then you can get added to the list by ...
Using HTML When, and how, to use HTML in topics. You can use most HTML tags in topics without a problem. This is useful where you want to add some content that is...
What is WYSIWYG? WYSIWYG is an acronym for for "What You See Is What You Get". Foswiki allows you to edit content using a WYSIWYG editor. This editor lets you edi...
Online help for new users of Foswiki when editing a page. If there's some formatting that your contributors use often, you can customize this for your site's part...
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...
PreferencesPlugin Allows editing of preferences using fields predefined in a .DataForms. However, the edit fields are inlined in the text, similar to how tables a...
%MAKETEXT{"Your username is a sequence of alphanumeric characters and underscores that uniquely identifies you to the system. The exact format of the username dep...
Skin Template Tokens Placeholders expanded by Foswiki scripts when generating output Overview Template Tokens are written exactly like Foswiki macros, but they a...
MailerContribPlugin This is a 'mini' plugin that provides a rest handler for invoking the mail notification process via an HTTP request (e.g. from the browser). I...
Group Member Toggle This topic implements a button that will turn Admin status on or off for the current user (!), by adding or removing the user from the AdminGr...
IF statements The %IF% macro gives you the ability to test for macro values, URL parameters, access permissions, topic existence and more. Syntax In the example ...
BookView is an option available for the SEARCH macro. It allows you to display the result in "book view", that is, the whole content of topics is shown instead of...
HomePagePlugin Usage This plugin makes the Default frontpage configurable 1 any time a user goes to they will be shown the topic configured by the Foswiki...
SkinTemplateViewTemplate is a Skin Template So should not be viewed directly. Use to see the Template source. ** Skin Templates Set VIEW_TEMPLATE=SkinTemplateVie...
TWikiCompatibilityPlugin Usage Automatically maps requests for legacy TWiki web topics to Foswiki free topics as per TopicNameMappingTable. Map TWIKIWEB to SYSTE...
" hidelink=" #9660; " linkclass="foswikiButton" remember="on"}% About the Web changes notification service Each Foswiki web has an automatic e mail notification ...
Under normal circumstances, there should be no need to rebuild your . topic. Sometimes, the . topic maintained by .TopicUserMappingContrib may not reflect the tru...
. %MAKETEXT{"Your name is also a potentially valid _1 .WikiWord WikiWord when used within a topic. However the home pages of registered users on this site ...
Raw Text link At the bottom of each page among the action links (assuming use of the default PatternSkin), there is a View wiki text link which shows how a topic ...
WebLeftBar Cookbook Instructions and tips how to use WebLeftBarPersonalTemplate. WebLeftBarPersonalTemplate is a topic template to create a personal left bar bloc...
Settings for WysiwygPlugin that are common to most editor integrations WYSIWYG_EXCLUDE Prevent WYSIWYG editing The global preference setting WYSIWYG_EXCLUDE c...
Control table attributes with TablePlugin The TablePlugin gives extra control of table display: * Allows sorting * Changing table properties like border wid...
RSS news feed of topic changes You can use an RSS news reader to find out what is new in a Foswiki web. This complements WebChanges that shows recent changes in a...
Statistics documentation The following section namely the help text and the statistics table headings is included into each topic. If you want to tailor the...
Site Statistics Introduction Statistics of visits to pages in a web can be generated manually or automatically, on a per web basis. Statistics are compiled as a ...
Foswiki Sitemap This table is updated automatically based on WebPreferences settings of the individual webs. %SEARCH{ "1" topic="" web="all" type="query" not...
User Form Help %IF{"$ BASEWEB=''" then="%IF{"istopic '.UserFormHelp'" then="This is the default user form. You have also created a customized copy at .UserForm ...
Formatting Tokens Foswiki defines some standard special tokens that can be used to replace characters in some parameters notably those to FormattedSearch and If...
See PublishedAPI for packages intended to be used by Plugin and Contrib authors, or browse all packages. See also Developing plugins, Developer's Bible, Tec...
Template Web Purpose Template webs were created to act as templates in creating webs. It is now possible to create webs via the .ManagingWebs topic. In the not...
** Wiki admins Please replace all web's WebTopicCreator topic contents with this text: All WebTopicCreator topics on this site: %SEARCH{ "WebTopicCreator" ...