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...

Comment Plugin Comment Plugin lets users quickly post comments to a page without an edit/preview/save cycle. Related topics: CommentPluginTemplates, .CommentPlugi...

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

DBCachePlugin Description This is a lightweight frontend to the DBCacheContrib. The provided macros DBQUERY and DBCALL can be used as a replacement for SEARCH an...

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 ...

DAMASK 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 ...

Both users and groups can be hidden from common view and made visible only to the admin or to selected users and groups. You do this the same way as you access co...

Under normal circumstances, there should be no need to rebuild your . topic. Sometimes, the . topic maintained by .TopicUserMappingContrib may not reflect the tru...

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...

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 ...

LatexModePlugin This LaTeX Mode Plugin allows you to include LaTeX mark up commands within a Foswiki page. It uses external programs (specifically latex, dvipng ...

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 ...

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 ...

MetaCommentPlugin This is YACS (yet another comment system) which tries to * (a) be easy to use, * (b) scale up to lots of comments * (c) provide differe...

#SettingPrefs #PreferencesMacros Preference Settings A preference setting lets you define a simple macro that will be expanded in your output. A preference setti...

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

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

History of Foswiki Appendix A: Foswiki Development Time line Foswiki Release 2.1.0 02 Feb 2016 Foswiki 2.1.0 was built on 02 Feb 2016. It is a release that co...

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...

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

Site Tools Utilities for searching, navigation, and monitoring site activity Site Tools include utilities for navigating, searching and keeping up with site activ...

Skin Templates The framework used to render output. Overview Skin Templates are plain text with embedded template directives, macros and tokens that are expanded...

Solr Plugin About Solr Solr is an open source enterprise search server based on the Lucene Java search library, with XML/HTTP and JSON APIs, hit highlighting, fa...

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

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...

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's Guide Some documentation topics selected specially for users * Quick Start * User Registration: Sign up so you can edit pages and select options ...

List of DAMASK users Below is a list of users with accounts. If you want to edit topics or see protected areas of the site then you can get added to the list by r...

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...

SEARCH search content Inline search, shows a search result embedded in a topic Parameters Parameter Description Default: "text" search...

System Web Preferences Appearance * Set WEBBGCOLOR = #B9DAFF * Set SITEMAPLIST = on * Set WEBSUMMARY = * Set NOAUTOLINK = off TOC settings * ...

Tools " hidelink="$percntICON{help}$percnt "}% Related Topics * . , site level preferences * list of user topics. User topics can have option...

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...

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...

WorkflowPlugin /Flow.gif Foswiki provides a flexible system of Access Control Lists that can be used to control who can modify a topic. Sometimes this isn't quite...

XSendFileContrib Introduction This package implements a more efficient way to send static files using a web application like Foswiki. A standard configuration of...