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 ...
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...
SkinTemplateViewTemplate is a Skin Template So should not be viewed directly. Use to see the Template source. ** Skin Templates Set VIEW_TEMPLATE=SkinTemplateVie...
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 ...
A StaticMethod is a method in a package that can be called without reference to an object of the package type. For example, package Telecoms StaticMethod defaul...
System Requirements Low client and server base requirements are core features that keep Foswiki widely deployable, particularly across a range of browser platform...
#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...
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...
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...
What is TML? The special text format used in Foswiki topics to simplify topic text. Foswiki lets you work using a WYSIWYG editor, which for most people is the eas...
Topics What are Topics and Webs? #SystemWebFigure Figure: depiction of , ReferenceManual, ManagingTopics, ManagingWebs, MainFeatures topics contained in the web...
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...
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 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...
%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...
User's Guide Some documentation topics selected specially for users * Quick Start * User Registration: Sign up so you can edit pages and select options ...
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...
ADDTOHEAD deprecated, use ADDTOZONE instead This macro is deprecated. Please use VarADDTOZONE instead. It effecively is a shortcut for %ADDTOZONE{"head" ...}%
ALLVARIABLES list of currently defined macros Expands to a table showing all defined macros in the current context Deprecated 2009 04 29 in favour of SHOWPREF...
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...
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...
ENCODE encode characters in a string Encode character sequences in "string", by mapping characters (or sequences of characters) to an alternative character (or se...
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...
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 ...
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...