Comment Plugin Comment Plugin lets users quickly post comments to a page without an edit/preview/save cycle. Related topics: CommentPluginTemplates, .CommentPlugi...
Foswiki Spreadsheet Plugin This Plugin adds spreadsheet capabilities to Foswiki topics. Formulae like %CALC{"$INT(7/3)"}% are evaluated at page view time. They ca...
Manage Users Register users on your Foswiki site; change/reset/install passwords; remove user accounts Some of the features below may be disabled, depending on ...
NotificationPlugin Send fine grained notifications of topics you are interested in Allows you to specify to kinds of notifications immediate and regular. Immedi...
PerlPlugin This plugin allows you to embed scripts within topics, using a tightly controlled subset of Perl. The scripts will be executed on the server, and the r...
#VarPERL %PERL{"perl expression"}% * Expands to the result of the perl expression, evaluated in a Safe container. %PERL{topic="topic name"}% * Expands to t...
System.PatternSkinCssCookbook Recipe: Left Sidebar Toggle The Sidebar is hidden for screens with width This line loads the extra style definition: * Set USERS...
.PatternSkin CSS Cookbook Questions and answers on how to customize the default look of Foswiki for your own needs, using style sheets. For configuring page eleme...
Slide Show Plugin Introduction There is already a de facto standard for presentations, so why this plugin? This plugin makes sense for organizations that already...
.PatternSkin Customization Guidelines how to create and customize page templates. For styling your Foswiki using stylesheets, see PatternSkinCssCookbook. First R...
History of Foswiki Appendix A: Foswiki Development Time line Foswiki Release 2.1.2 2 May 2016 Foswiki 2.1.2 was built on 2 May 2016. It is a release that cont...
Foswiki Release 2.1.1 Foswiki The Free and Open Source Wiki Foswiki is an enterprise collaboration and information sharing tool targeted for professional use i...
TwistyPlugin A "twisty" is an interface toggle control to show and hide content. TwistyPlugin gives you several options to control the appearance of a twisty: ...
Bulk Registration Administrators can use this topic to register (i.e. create logins and user topics) for a group of people in one batch. Unlike normal registratio...
What is Topic Markup Language (TML)? The special text format used in Foswiki topics to simplify topic text. Foswiki lets you work using a WYSIWYG editor, which fo...
Welcome to Foswiki Welcome to Foswiki! This site is a meeting place to work on common interests. Anyone can contribute using any web browser. Foswiki looks like a...
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...
Perl dependencies for Foswiki and Extensions This topic lists the dependencies required by the Foswiki core and installed extensions. It is designed to help admin...
System Requirements Low client and server base requirements are core features that keep Foswiki widely deployable, particularly across a range of browser platform...
Render List Plugin Syntax Rules RENDERLIST Macro * Place a %RENDERLIST{ parameters }% before any bullet list * The lists can be handcrafted, generate...
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...
Parent list Generated list of (potential) parent topics. select To use this list in Foswiki applications, use: %INCLUDE{ ".ParentList" section="select" }...
JsonRpcContrib Summary This package implements a JSON RPC 2.0 protocol to interface with Foswiki and its plugins. In contrast to the normal REST interface of Fo...
Empty Plugin Learn how to create your own plugin in .DevelopingPlugins. Documentation for Plugin API is in PerlDoc for EmptyPlugin.pm. Note that EmptyPlugin is d...
Project Contributor Foswiki is a development of the Foswiki community. Foswiki is based on TWiki , which was originally written by Peter Thoeny, who based his wor...
Foswiki brand material The official Foswiki logo and derivatives are attached to this page. Logo artwork Logo customization The logo can be changed by redefinin...
Foswiki Release 1.0.10 08 Sep 2010 Foswiki The Free and Open Source Wiki Foswiki is an enterprise collaboration and information sharing tool targeted for pro...
Foswiki Release 1.1.10 Foswiki The Free and Open Source Wiki Foswiki is an enterprise collaboration and information sharing tool targeted for professional use ...
Foswiki Release 2.0.3 Foswiki The Free and Open Source Wiki Foswiki is an enterprise collaboration and information sharing tool targeted for professional use i...
Search Help Search basics By default a search looks into topic titles, topic texts and form fields in the current web. Extend your search to "all public webs" to...
Foswiki Skins Skins overlay regular templates to give different looks and feels to Foswiki screens. Overview Foswiki uses skin templates as the basis of all ...
Foswiki Upgrade Guide This guide covers upgrading from a previous version of Foswiki to Foswiki 2.0 Overview Foswiki is a fork from TWiki 4.2.3. (TWiki is a tra...
User's Guide Some documentation topics selected specially for users * Quick Start * User Registration: Sign up so you can edit pages and select options ...
NONCE generate a nonce (developers only) DEVELOPERS ONLY This macro is used to generate a 'nonce', a unique key that identifies the source of a request in order t...
This is where Foswiki keeps system documentation, including documentation that is included with optional extensions. For most people, the web is read only; even ...
Wiki culture, concepts and principles General concept and idea of wikis. General concept and idea of wikis What is a wiki? "A wiki is a page or collection of We...
PlainFileStoreContrib This is a full implementation of a Foswiki store that uses nothing more sophisticated than plain files and directories In the Foswiki spirit...
Table Plugin Gives extra control of table display: * Sorting * Setting visual table properties like border width, cell spacing and cell padding * Setting...
%IF{"context isadmin AND NOT istopic '.UserRegistration'" then=' Tailoring instructions: You are currently viewing the default registration page without local tai...
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...
WebCreateNewTopicComponents This topic is meant for developers. It contains INCLUDE sections to build a "create new topic" form. Usage Including the form (simpl...
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 ...
This topic is included from the WebLeftBarExample and other WebLeftBar topics, to provide a dynamic list of webs accessible to the current user. Webs meeting the ...
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...
QuerySearch Pattern Cookbook This topic provides tips on the usage of QuerySearch. Pattern 1: Show recent changes without user pages We have everything in the Ma...
ATOM 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 We...
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...
%IF{ "$'URLPARAM{tab}'='search' OR $'URLPARAM{tab}'='' AND NOT $TAB='advanced'" then="$percentINCLUDE{$quotWebSearch$quot section=$quotsearch$quot}$percent" }%...
HTTP get HTTP headers * Called with the name of an HTTP request header field, returns its value. Capitalization and the use of hyphens versus underscores are n...
HTTPS get HTTPS headers The same as %HTTP% but operates on the HTTPS environment variables present when the SSL protocol is in effect. Can be used to determine wh...
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...
Subscribe Plugin Example (only works if plugin is installed, and you are logged in you are: and you are not .WikiGuest): This version is designed for use w...
Query Search Query searches help you search the contents of forms attached to your topics, as well as the values of other meta data attached to the topic. Using q...
Skin Templates The framework used to render output. Overview Skin Templates are plain text with embedded template directives, macros and tokens that are expanded...
#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...
ENCODE encode characters in a string Encode character sequences in "string", by mapping characters (or sequences of characters) to an alternative character (or se...
Tips Tips are tips and hints contributed by users. Use this form to search for tips. You can contribute new tips here. Search (perl regular expression): " decode...
PatternSkin theme: Foswiki "Fat Willy" Site Skin Test this theme Choose column ' selected='selected' "}% Column right No column Hide theme Store theme...
Pub Link Fixup Plugin This plugin performs pub link fixup of the generated HTML page. If Foswiki is configured with a non utf 8 {Store}{Encoding}, then links to ...
History Plugin Shows a complete history of a topic. The output can arbitrarily be formatted. An example for a Wikipedia like history is included. When using Patte...
JSCalendarContrib Summary of Contents This module packages the Mishoo JSCalendar Javascript in a form suitable for use with Foswiki. Detailed Documentation Read...
Documentation Graphics and Filetype icons This is the Foswiki icon library. The graphics can be used in topics and by web applications. Usage Default notation: ...
CSS elements in PatternSkin This page is a reference for all CSS classes used in PatternSkin. PatternSkin uses 4 stylesheets: * layout.css: positioning of bloc...
PatternSkinCssCookbook Recipe: Center the page This recipe shows how center the page horizontally and vertically. This line loads the extra style definition: *...
PatternSkinCssCookbook Recipe: Center the page with a border This recipe shows how to put a border around the page, while centering the page horizontally. The exa...
PatternSkinCssCookbook Recipe: EditTable style Cookbook example to illustrate control over EditTable edit styles. 1 EditTable uses a monospace font in edit mod...
PatternSkinCssCookbook Recipe: Font variation Cookbook example with other fonts and font colors. This line loads the extra style definition: * Set USERSTYLEURL...
PatternSkinCssCookbook Recipe: Hide action buttons This recipe shows how to hide the action buttons for unauthorised and/or guest users: (Edit, Attach ...) Note t...
PatternSkinCssCookbook Recipe: Hide the left bar This line loads the extra style definition: * Set USERSTYLEURL = //PatternSkinCssCookbookNoLeftBar/hideleftbar...
PatternSkinCssCookbook Recipe: Hide the top bar This recipe shows how to hide the top bar. This line loads the extra style definition: * Set USERSTYLEURL=/noto...
PatternSkinCssCookbook Recipe: Sidebar background color To see if the background color really extends beyond the body, we make the body contents longer than the s...
PatternSkin theme: Foswiki release 1.1.5 Use this theme if you have created a theme or sub skin that relies on the styling of PatternSkin around release 1.1.5 or ...
PatternSkin theme: 2009 Test this theme Choose column ' selected='selected' "}% Column left (default) Column right No column Small left column Choose v...
Plain Skin The plain skin is used to get the rendered topic text without any page decoration such as side, top or bottom bars. The text is shown without any marku...
#SettingPrefs #PreferencesMacros Preference Settings A preference setting lets you define a simple macro that will be expanded in your output. A preference setti...
Background Image for Preview Preview looks like the real page, but the links lead to an oops dialog warning users of not yet saved topics. In addition, a backgrou...
Print Skin The print skin, used for printable pages with a small footer. Other skins, such as PatternSkin, may introduce their own print skin. This skin is part o...
Topics What are Topics and Webs? #SystemWebFigure Figure: depiction of , ReferenceManual, ManagingTopics, ManagingWebs, MainFeatures topics contained in the web...