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Javascript Foswiki will work without Javascript enabled in the browser: * When performing read only actions, Eg. view, rdiff * If {Validation}{Method} is se...

Mailer Contrib Allows users to "subscribe" to regularly scheduled emails containing either: * A report on changes to all topics that have changed within a part...

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 Default pattern skin theme. Test this theme Choose column ' selected='selected' "}% Column left (default) Column left, flexible width Column r...

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...

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...

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

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

Appendix C: CSS Listing of CSS class names emitted from Foswiki core code and standard extensions. With Foswiki 2.0 a number of classes have been deprecated. Thes...

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 =...

Re parenting a topic The breadcrumbs ( Contribs TipsContrib TipsOfTheDay , for example) of any topic is constructed automatically in Foswiki by foll...

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...

Preference settings Foswiki has several levels of preferences settings. See PreferenceSettings for a full list and more information: 1 Default settings: (nev...

Edit tables with EditRowPlugin EditRowPlugin allows you to edit tables using edit fields and drop down boxes. Tables have an button if preceeded by an %EDITTAB...

Tips Of The Day These are all tips of the day. They are located in the web (official distribution tips) and web (custom tips). Custom (local) tips Total: Cus...

Add New Tip Of The Day There are Custom Tips maintained on your local Sipapu installation, Official Tips distributed with the Tips Contrib, and Plugin Tips mainta...

What is an ACRONYM? Linking topics using acronyms. An acronym is an abbreviation that is typically made up of the first letter or letters of a phrase. An acronym ...

Admin tools List of tools available to the Foswiki administrator * Documentation: Reference Manual * Site Tools : , InterWikis, Macros, Doc Graphics ...

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...

PUBURL generate an URL for an attachment Generate an absolute URL for an attachment, or for a web or topic within the attachment database. Parameters ...

PUBURLPATH generate a relative URL for an attachment Generate a relative URL for an attachment, or for a web or topic within the attachment database. Parameters ...

Country list List of countries used in the UserForm . To use this list in Foswiki applications, see the country SEARCH example in SearchPatternCookbook . ...

You can move and delete attachments directly from your browser. Moving lets you transfer an attachment from one topic to another. Delete moves an attachment to th...

Developer Documentation List of documents for application developers as well as developers of skins and extensions. Application Developer Topics Topics for norm...

Name First Foswiki Version Comment Foswiki::Func 1.1.5 Main API. Foswiki::Attrs 1.1.5 Parameter passing for custom macros Foswiki::Request ...

%{ ========================================= Create new topic template This template uses parts from .WebCreateNewTopicComponents. =====================...

This answer assumes you have basic knowledge about Data Forms. Using the steps below, you will create: 1 A form definition 1 A topic creation (HTML) form to...

These two questions are answered together because often when you think you want to delete a page, more often it makes sense to rename the page to contain more con...

The same topic revision will be used when you save a topic again within a certain time frame (one hour by default, configurable with the configuration setting {Re...

That is often an indication that Foswiki can't find the egrep and fgrep commands on your system. Check the {Store}{EgrepCmd} and {Store}{FgrepCmd} settings in con...

Foswiki allows multiple simultaneous edits of the same topic, and then merges the different changes automatically. You probably won't even notice this happening u...

A set of pages of information that are open and free for anyone to edit as they wish. They are stored in a server and managed using some software. The system crea...

GROUPS a formatted list of groups Deprecated do not use. Use VarGROUPINFO instead * Expands to a formatted list of user groups. * The macro is intended to...

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

ACTIVATEDPLUGINS list of currently activated plugins Examples * %ACTIVATEDPLUGINS% expands to Related PLUGINDESCRIPTIONS, FAILEDPLUGINS, PLUGINVERSION

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

ATTACHURL full URL for attachments in the current topic Shorthand for PUBURL, with path set to the current topic. Otherwise supports all the same parameters as PU...

ATTACHURLPATH path of the attachment URL of the current topic Shorthand for PUBURLPATH with path set to the current topic. Otherwise supports all the same paramet...

AUTHREALM authentication realm String defined as the {AuthRealm} expert option in configure Security And Authentication tab, =Login sub tab.. This is used in cert...

BASETOPIC base topic where an INCLUDE started The name of the topic where a single or nested INCLUDE started same as %TOPIC% if there is no INCLUDE. This is the...

BASEWEB base web where an INCLUDE started The web name where the includes started, e.g. the web of the first topic of nested includes. Same as %WEB% in case there...

CALC add spreadsheet calculations to tables and outside tables The %CALC{"formula"}% macro is handled by the SpreadSheetPlugin. There are around 90 formulae, such...

COMMENT insert an edit box into the topic to easily add comments. Parameters * The following standard attributes are recognized Name Descriptio...

COVER current skin cover Extends the skin search path. For instance, if SKIN is set to catskin, bearskin, and COVER is set to ruskin, the skin search path becomes...

DATE signature format date Examples * %DATE% expands to == * Date format defined as {DefaultDateFormat} in configure When used in a template topic, thi...

DISPLAYTIME display formatted time Formatted time either GMT or Local server time, depending on {DisplayTimeValues} setting in configure. Same format qualifiers...

ENDCOLOR end colored text ENDCOLOR is one of the shortcut macros predefined in . It is used to terminate a colour change (revert back to the default colour). The ...

ENDINCLUDE end position of topic text if included If present in included topic, stop to include text at this location and ignore the remaining text. A normal view...

ENDSECTION marks the end of a named section within a topic If the STARTSECTION is named, the corresponding ENDSECTION must also be named with the same name. If th...

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

ENV inspect the value of an environment variable Returns the current value of the environment variable in the CGI (Common Gateway Interface) environment. This is ...

EXAMPLETAG example macro tag The %EXAMPLETAG% variable is handled by the ExamplePlugin Parameters Parameter Description Default "..." Unnamed p...

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...

FAILEDPLUGINS debugging for plugins that failed to load Also generates a list of handlers defined by plugins Examples * %FAILEDPLUGINS% Related PLUGINDESCRI...

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...

GROUPINFO retrieve details about a group Parameters Parameter Description Default "groupname" Optional name of group format ...

HISTORY control attributes of tables and sorting of table columns The %HISTORY{}% macro is handled by the HistoryPlugin Parameters Parameter ...

HOMETOPIC home topic in each web Examples * %HOMETOPIC% expands to ==, renders as Related NOTIFYTOPIC, STATISTICSTOPIC, TOPIC

HTTP_HOST environment variable Examples * %HTTP_HOST% expands to == Related ENV, REMOTE_ADDR, REMOTE_PORT, REMOTE_USER

ICON small documentation graphic or icon of common attachment types Generates a small graphic image from the set attached to . Images typically have a 16x16...

ICONURL URL of small documentation graphic or icon Generates the full URL of a image, which Foswiki renders as an image. The related %ICON{"name"}% generat...

ICONURLPATH URL path of small documentation graphic or icon Generates the relative URL path of a image, typically used in an HTML img tag. Specify image na...

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

INCLUDINGTOPIC name of topic that includes current topic The name of the topic that includes the current topic same as %TOPIC% in case there is no include. If a...

INCLUDINGWEB web that includes current topic The web name of the topic that includes the current topic same as %WEB% if there is no INCLUDE. If a topic is used ...

LANGUAGE language code for the current user Returns the language code for the current user. This is the language used by Foswiki to generate the user interface. T...

LANGUAGES list available languages List the languages available (as PO files). These are the languages in which the user interface is available. Parameters ...

LOGIN present a full login link %IF{"context authenticated" then="$percentT$percent You are already authenticated, so %LOGIN% expands to an empty string "}%...

LOGOUT present a full logout link %IF{"context authenticated" else="$percentT$percent You are already logged out, so %LOGOUT expands to an empty string" }% ...

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

META displays meta data Provided mainly for use in templates, this macro generates the parts of the topic view that relate to meta data (attachments, forms etc.)....

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...

NOP template text not to be expanded in instantiated topics * %NOP% * In normal topic text, expands to nop , which prevents expansion of adjacent macros...

NOTIFYTOPIC name of the notify topic Examples * %NOTIFYTOPIC% expands to ==, renders as Related HOMETOPIC, STATISTICSTOPIC, TOPIC

PERLDEPENDENCYREPORT report perl module dependencies Intended for use by installers / administrators, reports on the status of Perl dependencies in the Foswiki co...

PLUGINDESCRIPTIONS list of plugin descriptions Examples * %PLUGINDESCRIPTIONS% expands to Related ACTIVATEDPLUGINS, FAILEDPLUGINS, PLUGINVERSION

PLUGINVERSION the version of a Foswiki Plugin, or the Foswiki Plugins API Use %PLUGINVERSION{"name"}% to get the version of a specific plugin Examples * %PLUG...

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

QUERYSTRING full, unprocessed string of parameters to this URL * String of all the URL parameters that were on the URL used to get to the current page. For exa...

REMOTE_ADDR environment variable Examples * %REMOTE_ADDR% expands to == Related ENV, HTTP_HOST, REMOTE_PORT, REMOTE_USER

REMOTE_PORT environment variable Examples * %REMOTE_PORT% expands to Related ENV, HTTP_HOST, REMOTE_ADDR, REMOTE_USER