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...
Installation Guide This guide describes the steps for installing Foswiki, with specific steps for installations on Linux with the Apache web server. If you would ...
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 Sipapu Welcome to Sipapu! This site is a meeting place to work on common interests. Anyone can contribute using any web browser. Sipapu looks like a no...
Configure Plugin This plugin provides access to all Sipapu configuration data through the webserver, supports running server side checkers and wizards, and allows...
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...
JQueryPlugin Description "jQuery is a fast, concise, JavaScript Library that simplifies how you traverse HTML documents, handle events, perform animations, and a...
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...
AutoViewTemplatePlugin Description This plugin sets the VIEW_TEMPLATE and EDIT_TEMPLATE variables according to a corresponding form definition. So when you attac...
Comment Plugin Comment Plugin lets users quickly post comments to a page without an edit/preview/save cycle. Related topics: CommentPluginTemplates, .CommentPlugi...
EditRowPlugin @import url(/System/EditRowPlugin/erp.uncompressed.css); Features: 1 You can edit one row, or even one cell at a time, instead of having to edit ...
Interwiki Plugin The InterwikiPlugin links ExternalSite:Page text to external sites based on aliases defined in the .InterWikis topic. This plugin is inspired by ...
ModPerlEngineContrib Overview This is a runtime engine component from Foswiki Standalone architecture. mod_perl is the Perl API to the Apache web server. It perm...
Render List Plugin Syntax Rules RENDERLIST Macro * Place a %RENDERLIST{ parameters }% before any bullet list * The lists can be handcrafted, generate...
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...
Foswiki Spreadsheet Plugin This Plugin adds spreadsheet capabilities to Sipapu topics. Formulae like %CALC{"$INT(7/3)"}% are evaluated at page view time. They can...
TopicUserMappingContrib The User Mapping Manager interface provides services for mapping between a 'user identity' as used when talking to an external authenticat...
Wysiwyg Plugin Support for the integration of WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editors. On its own, the only thing this plugin gives you is a stand alone HT...
Pattern skin Select a theme to change the look, or tune the entire appearance with CSS or templates. Browse available themes You may quickly change the appearanc...
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...
Installation Guide Part 2 Post Installation Configuration and Tuning Once you have Foswiki installed and running, you can perform one or more of the following s...
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...
Data Forms Structured data, how to set up and work with data forms. Overview Next to freeform topic contents, each topic can store additional data in name/value ...
Sipapu Site Level Preferences This topic defines site level settings that apply to all users and webs on this site. * Note:* This topic should be regarded as read...
Developing Plugins The usual way Foswiki is extended is by writing a Plugin. Plugins extend Foswiki by providing functions that 'listen' to events in the Foswiki ...
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...
Foswiki is distributed under the Gnu General Public License, and sources are freely available. When you download an official Foswiki package from https://foswiki....
Foswiki is distributed under the GNU General Public License, see FAQDownloadSources. GPL is one of the free software licenses that protects the copyright holder, ...
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...
Include Topics and Web Pages Using %INCLUDE{...}% Macro Embed topics, or subsections of topics, or other web pages. The %INCLUDE{...}% macro embeds the content of...
Instant Site Enhancements These quick enhancements are aimed at improving and customising your Foswiki as quickly as possible. New site administrators are encoura...
Inter Wiki Link Rules (or Links to other Sites) This topic lists all aliases needed to map inter wiki links to external wikis/sites. Whenever you write ExternalSi...
What makes Foswiki .... the ideal collaboration tool? Foswiki is... Wiki Structured Data Programmable Pages * Share knowledge * Edit pages collaboratively ...
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...
RCSStoreContrib Foswiki 2.0 and later only This is the modern implementation of the classic Foswiki RCS based store. It has been moved into a contrib as other sto...
Access Control Restricting read and write access to topics and webs, by users and groups Access Control allows you restrict access to single topics and entire web...
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 ...
JQueryCodingStandards Follow Drupal #8217;s JavaScript coding standards See also Foswiki:Development/UsingJQueryWithFoswiki for more information, tips and tricks....
JQICON render an image Renders an icon image as found on an icon search path. The icon search path is configured Extensions tab, JQueryPlugin sub tab in {JQueryP...
JQICONPATH render the urlpath to an image This is a shortcut for Examples * %JQICONPATH{"tick"}% expands to == Related JQICON, ICONURL, JQueryPlugin...
JQREQUIRE enable a plugin on the current page This macro will load a list of plugins to be added to the current page. Use JQPLUGINS to display the list of av...
JQTHEME switch jQuery UI theme Foswiki's default UI theme is configured in $Foswiki::cfg{JQueryPlugin}{JQueryTheme} and defaults to foswiki. Use configure to cha...
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: ...
FamFamFamContrib Usage The icons are attached to the FamFamFamFlagIcons FamFamFamMiniIcons FamFamFamMintIcons FamFamFamSilkIcons FamFamFamSilkCompanion1Icons...
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...
Macros Special text strings expand on the fly to display information, or trigger a function. Macros are text strings in one of three basic forms: %MACRONAME{ pa...
Natural Edit Plugin Description The NatEdit is an wiki editor that helps in learning the TML Language by providing a GUI. By design, this is not a wysiwyg editor...
JQueryAjaxHelper This page contains a set of example JQueryPlugin helpers that can be used in wiki applications. The examples demonstrate how you can dynamically ...
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...
Frequently Asked Questions This is a real FAQ, and also a demo of an easily implemented knowledge base solution. You may view the code for the topic creator or ra...
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 ...
Foswiki Server Information This topic lists the detailed server execution environment. As this is sensitive information, it is only available to users with acces...
Installed Plugins This site is running Foswiki version * * "}%, Release , Foswiki API version * Here is a list of the plugins currently installed and enabled ...
CGI and Command Line Scripts Programs on the server performing actions such as rendering, saving and renaming topics. These scripts are located in the bin and too...
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...
Language selection dropdown To be included where a language selection is needed, for instance in the top bar or left bar. Note: this dropdown is only shown if loc...
PatternSkin horizontal navigation example Include main navigation with: Include sections %INCLUDE{ "PatternSkinNavigation" section="topbarbutton" ID=...
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...
Formatted Search Customize the display of search results. The default output format of a %SEARCH{...}% is a table consisting of topic names and topic summaries. U...
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...
Edit Table Plugin Simply add an Edit table button to an existing table by writing %EDITTABLE{}% directly above the table. This can be added to tables that are...
The 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 : ( . Th...
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...
.PatternSkin Customization Guidelines how to create and customize page templates. For styling your Foswiki using stylesheets, see PatternSkinCssCookbook. First R...
NatEditHelpText Help text for the NatEditPlugin editor About the editor This edit interface is available in two different modes: (1) WYSIWYG (what you see is what...
UpdatesPlugin Checks Foswiki.org for updates This plugin is used to keep administrators informed of updates to their installed extensions via a pop up message at ...
Description The CompareRevisionsAddOn compares two revisions of a document, like rdiff does. But in contrast to normal rdiff, the comparison is done with the rend...
Documentation Graphics and Filetype icons This is a Foswiki icon library. The graphics can be used in topics and by web applications. Usage Default notation: %I...
FamFamFamFlagIcons 'Flags' are 247 icons in GIF and PNG formats representing most countries in the world as small pixel icons. These flag icons are available ...
FamFamFamFoswikiExtras So far built by Foswiki:Main.SvenDowideit based on the Silk ones above, except for 1 the XML icon which comes from http://commons.wiki...
FamFamFamMiniIcons "Mini" is a set of 144 GIF icons available for free use for any purpose. Source These Icons come from http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/mini/...
FamFamFamMintIcons "Mint" icons are a small set of tiny PNG web icons, loosely based on Shaun Inman's Mint statistics software. Released on the same day as the p...
FamFamFamSilkCompanion1Icons Mark James created a great set of 1,022 silky smooth 16x16 true colour icons in PNG format, aptly named Silk Icons. Damien Guard's se...
FamFamFamSilkCompanion2Icons Mark James created a great set of 1,022 silky smooth 16x16 true colour icons in PNG format, aptly named Silk Icons. GeoSilk icon set...
FamFamFamSilkGeoSilkIcons Mark James created a great set of 1,022 silky smooth 16x16 true colour icons in PNG format, aptly named Silk Icons. GeoSilk icon set by...
FamFamFamSilkIcons Silk is a smooth, free icon set, containing over 700 16 by 16 pixel icons in strokably soft PNG format. Containing a large variety of icons, y...
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...
JSCalendarContrib Summary of Contents This module packages the Mishoo JSCalendar Javascript in a form suitable for use with Foswiki. Detailed Documentation Read...