What is an ACRONYM? An acronym is an abbreviation that is typically made up of the first letter or letters of a phrase. A very familiar example would be WWW standing ...

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 webs ...

Access Keys What are access keys? Access keys are keyboard shortcuts which allow the user to navigate around a website or a piece of computer software without having ...

A List of Wiki Administrator Documentation $ AccessControl : Restricting read and write access to topics and webs, by users and groups $ TopicUserMappingContrib ...

Admin tools * Documentation: Reference Manual * Site Tools : Configure, , InterWikis, Macros, Doc Graphics, Installed Plugins report * Manage Users ...

BookView is an option available for the SEARCH macro. It allows you to display the result in "book view", that is, the whole content of topics is shown instead of ...

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Reference Manual () This page contains all documentation topics as one long, complete reference sheet. Related Topics: UserDocumentationCategory, AdminDocumentationCategory ...

Data Forms Data forms allow you to add structured data to topics. The data stored in the form fields can be used to search and filter topics. The combination of structured ...

Developer Documentation Application Developer Topics Topics for normal users that want to develop Foswiki applications. Reference $ ReferenceManual : Documentation ...

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: %ICON ...

Use the "Minor changes, don't notify" checkbox in preview in case you only make a minor change to a topic and you do not want to inform everybody who is on the WebNotify ...

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 context ...

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

The same topic revision will be used when you save a topic again within a certain time frame (one hour by default, configurable with configure item {ReplaceIfEditedAgainWithin ...

Foswiki is distributed under the GNU General Public License, see FAQDownloadSources. GPL is one of the free software licenses that protects the copyright holder, and ...

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

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. Attachments ...

Each FileAttachment in a Topic can have additional attributes. At present only the H (hidden) attribute is supported. If this attribute is set then the attachment ...

Force new revision option Normally, if you make subsequent edits within a one hour period (configuration item ReplaceIfEditedAgainWithin), Foswiki will fold together ...

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. Use ...

Glossary of Terms Term Definition Attachment Any type of file that is uploaded via browser and attached to a topic, where it can be viewed and downloaded ...

Go Box The box at the top or sidebar of each page, also called Jump box. Enter a topic name to quickly jump to the topic, for example: * WebNotify to jump to WebNotify ...

Collaboration Tips Following you will find a short list of hints and recommendations that are considered basic knowledge when starting to edit existing topics. ...

Hide/Unhide Attachments You can hide/unhide file attachments in normal topic view. * In the FileAttachment table, click on an action link, * enable the Hide ...

Include Topics and Web Pages Using %INCLUDE{...}% Macro The %INCLUDE{...}% macro embeds the content of the specified topic at the place where the INCLUDE is used. ...

Inter Wiki Link Rules (or Links to other Sites) This topic lists all aliases needed to map Inter Site links to external wikis/sites. Whenever you write ExternalSite ...

The name you log in with A login name is a sequence of alphanumeric characters and underscores. You cannot alter your LoginName: you have to get the administrator ...

Macros Special text strings expand on the fly to display user data or system info Macros are text strings in one of two forms: These usually expand into content when ...

What makes Foswiki the ideal collaboration tool? Foswiki is... Wiki Structured Data Programmable Pages * Share knowledge * Edit pages collaboratively * If ...

Managing Topics Browser based rename, move, copy, and delete for individual topics Overview You can use browser based controls to change a name of a topic, move it ...

Logos The official Foswiki logo is attached to this page. Logo Artwork Logo Customization The logo can be changed by redefining the WIKILOGOIMG preference setting ...

Like Save but does not e mail people on the WebNotify notification list same effect as checking "Minor changes, don't notify". Related Topics: UserDocumentationCategory ...

Reference Manual Documentation for webmasters, system administrators, project managers, team leaders, and all other users of Foswiki the Free and Open Source Wiki ...

Regular Expressions Introduction Regular expressions (REs), unlike simple queries, allow you to search for text which matches a particular pattern. REs are similar ...

Search Pattern Cookbook The Search function is very powerful. Searches using a RegularExpression play an important part of tapping Foswiki's full potential. Unfortunately ...

SiteMenu Definition of site wide horizontal menu Implementation %IF{"'' ingroup 'AdminGroup'" then="$percntINCLUDE{\".SiteMenu\" section=\"adminmenu ...

Permissions settings of the webs on this Foswiki site Web Sitemap VIEW CHANGE RENAME * * Listed DENY ALLOW DENY ALLOW DENY ALLOW ...

Skin Browser You can try out the Skins currently installed on this system: %SEARCH{ "1" topic="*Skin" scope="topic" web=",TWiki" type="query ...

The 216 Standard Colors This table can be used to choose a color in of each web. #000000 #000033 #000066 #000099 #0000CC #0000FF #003300 #003333 #003366 ...

Text Editor A text editor, or text processor, handles plain text only, different from a word processor because it doesn't do display formatting like bold type, or ...

Time Specifications Foswiki recognises the following formats for date/time strings. For all strings the time is optional. * 31 Dec 2001 23:59 * 2001/12/31 ...

Topics #SystemWebFigure Figure: depiction of WebHome, ReferenceManual, ManagingTopics, ManagingWebs, MainFeatures topics contained in the System web #TopicDefinition ...

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 ...

A List of User Tools $ ChangeEmailAddress : Change your email address $ ChangePassword : Change your password $ UserRegistration : Register as ...

Using HTML You can use most HTML tags in topics without a problem. This is useful where you want to add some content that is formatted in a way that is not supported ...

Since wabi sabi represents a comprehensive Japanese world view or aesthetic system, it is difficult to explain precisely in western terms. According to Leonard Koren ...

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Wiki links topics automatically when you use WikiWord notation.

Foswiki is a Wiki Wiki clone and has its root in JOS Wiki via TWiki . * Foswiki's home is at http://foswiki.org/ * Foswiki takes a lot of ideas from Ward Cunningham ...

What is a WikiWord? A WikiWord consists of two or more words with initial capitals, run together. WikiWords are topic names. A Foswiki topic name always has a fixed ...

* You are currently in the web. The color code for this web is this background, so you know where you are. * If you are not familiar with the Foswiki collaboration ...