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...
System.PatternSkinCssCookbook Recipe: Left Sidebar Toggle The Sidebar is hidden for screens with width This line loads the extra style definition: * Set USERS...
.PatternSkin Customization Guidelines how to create and customize page templates. For styling your Foswiki using stylesheets, see PatternSkinCssCookbook. First R...
Foswiki Plugins Extensions that use a simple API to talk to Foswiki Overview You can add plugins to extend Foswiki functionality without altering the core code. ...
#SettingPrefs #PreferencesMacros Preference Settings A preference setting lets you define a simple macro that will be expanded in your output. In addition: *...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
Site Tools Utilities for searching, navigation, and monitoring site activity Site Tools include utilities for navigating, searching and keeping up with site activ...
Skin Template Tokens Placeholders expanded by Foswiki scripts when generating output Overview Template Tokens are written exactly like Foswiki macros, but they a...
Skin Templates The framework used to render output. Overview Skin Templates are plain text with embedded template directives, macros and tokens that are expanded...
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 ...
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...
Smilies Plugin : ) Smilies are common in e mail messages and bulletin board posts. They are used to convey an emotion, such as a smile : ) or a frown : ( . This p...
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...
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() * $...
Tips Contrib Package Displays a rotating "Tip of the Day" to help familiarize new users with Foswiki features. Includes an application for creating custom tips fo...
User Authentication Controlling who can access your site Overview Authentication, or "login", is the process by which a user lets Foswiki know who they are. Know...
User Settings preference settings customizable by users Some of the preference settings are explicitly intended to be customized by users, though a default is p...
#VarEDITTABLE EDITTABLE{ attributes } edit tables using edit fields and other input fields * The %EDITTABLE{}% macro is handled by the EditTablePlugin * ...
ENCODE encode characters in a string Encode character sequences in "string", by mapping characters (or sequences of characters) to an alternative character (or se...
EXPAND expand macros in a string as if they were used in another topic The viewer must have VIEW access to topictoexpandin for this to work. All the standard form...
IF simple conditionals Evaluate a condition and show one text or another based on the result. See details in IfStatements . Parameter Description Defa...
JQICONPATH render the url path to an image icon This is a shortcut for: Note that this macro only makes sense for image icons, those that refer to a single image ...
MAKETEXT creates text using Foswiki's I18N infrastructure Strings captured in the MAKETEXT macro are automatically mapped to the current user's selected language ...
METASEARCH special search of meta data METASEARCH is deprecated in favour of the new and much more powerful query type search. See SEARCH and QuerySearch. Param...
QUERY get the value of meta data Uses the query syntax described in QuerySearch to get information about meta data from one specified topic. * supports formatt...
REVINFO revision information of current topic %REVINFO% is equivalent to %REVINFO{format="r1.$rev $date $wikiusername"}% Examples * %REVINFO% expands to =...
SHOWPREFERENCE show where preferences are defined. Preference values are shown in a bulleted list, together with where they were defined. Parameters ...
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 ...
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...
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...
JQueryAjaxHelper This page contains a set of example JQueryPlugin helpers that can be used in wiki applications. The examples demonstrate how you can dynamically ...
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 ...
JSCalendarContribInline Inline include of JSCalendarContrib HTML for use in forms. Initializes the library (called only once) %ADDTOZONE{ "head" id="JSCa...
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...
Reference Manual Documentation for webmasters, system administrators, project managers, team leaders, and all other users of Foswiki the Free and Open Source Wi...
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...
USERNAME your login username Foswiki makes names available in three formats: USERNAME like jsmith, WIKINAME like JohnSmith and WIKIUSERNAME like .JohnSmith. Un au...
WIKINAME your Wiki username The WikiName is the same as %USERNAME% if not defined in the . topic. This macro is an alias for the USERINFO macro with a fixed forma...
WIKIUSERNAME your Wiki username with web prefix Your %WIKINAME% with web prefix, useful to point to your Foswiki home page This macro is an alias for the USERINF...
Pattern Skin Elements Some intro text. Text. Heading 1 text Heading 2 text Heading 3 text Heading 4 text Heading 5 text Heading 6 text A very very very ver...
JEditableContrib This add on packages up the jQuery "JEditable" plugin from Miko Tuupala. This excellent little plugin gives you edit in place capability with man...