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

STOPINCLUDE Alias for ENDINCLUDE Related INCLUDE, STARTINCLUDE

STOPSECTION Alias for ENDSECTION Related ENDSECTION, STARTSECTION

SUBSCRIBE{ attributes } subscribe the current user for notification of changes to the current topic Anywhere in a topic or template: * %SUBSCRIBE{...}% or si...

SYSTEMWEB name of documentation web The web containing all documentation and default preference settings Examples * %SYSTEMWEB% expands to == Related USERSW...

TAB tab inside a tabpane widget Defines a tab inside a TABPANE area; must be closed using ENDTAB. Parameters Parameter Description Default ...

TABLE control attributes of tables and sorting of table columns The %TABLE{}% macro is handled by the TablePlugin Attributes for tables Parameter ...

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: ...

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 ...

TOPIC name of current topic * %TOPIC% expands to the name of the topic. If you are looking at the text of an included topic, it is the name of the included top...

TOPICLIST topic index of a web List of all topics in a web. The "format" defines the format of one topic item. It may include formatting tokens: The $topic token ...

TWIKIWEB synonym for SYSTEMWEB Deprecated. Use %SYSTEMWEB% instead

TWISTY generate content block with interactive visibility controls This renders the button as well as the toggled content section contained within this and the cl...

TWISTYBUTTON Shorthand version for TWISTYSHOW TWISTYHIDE This is useful if both the show and the hide button take the same arguments. Parameters All parameters...

TWISTYHIDE Hide/close link Parameters Parameter Description Default id Used to link TWISTYSHOW, TWISTYHIDE and TWISTYTOGGLE required ...

TWISTYSHOW Show/open link Parameters Parameter Description Default id Used to link TWISTYSHOW, TWISTYHIDE and TWISTYTOGGLE required ...

TWISTYTOGGLE Twisty Toggle contents section Parameters Parameter Description Default id Used to link TWISTYSHOW, TWISTYHIDE and TWISTYT...

URLPARAM get URL or HTTP POST parameter value Returns the value of the named parameter in the URL or HTTP POST request. Parameters Parameter: Desc...

USERINFO retrieve details about a user Parameters Parameter Description Default "name" WikiName or login username. May be a group. current ...

USERNAME your login username Foswiki makes names available in three formats: USERNAME like jsmith, WIKINAME like JohnSmith and WIKIUSERNAME like .JohnSmith. Un au...

USERSWEB name of users web * The web containing individual user topics, .WikiGroups, and customised site wide preferences. Examples * %USERSWEB% expands to...

VAR get a preference value from another web Parameters Parameter Description "name" name of preference to retrieve web name of web to r...

WEB name of current web * %WEB% expands to the name of the web where the topic is located. If you are looking at the text of an included topic, it is the web w...

WEBLIST index of all webs Generate a list of webs. Obfuscated webs are excluded, e.g. webs with a NOSEARCHALL = on preference setting. The "format" defines the fo...

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...

Name SupportQuestion FrequentlyAskedQuestion SupplementalDoc AdminTopic

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...

TopicUserMappingContrib The User Mapping Manager interface provides services for mapping between a 'user identity' as used when talking to an external authenticat...

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...

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: ...

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 ...

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...

A List of User Documentation Documentation mainly useful to end users

User Form This is a maintenance topic, used by the Wiki administrator. Data form definition of user topics Name Type Size Values *Tooltip messag...

User Form Help %IF{"$ BASEWEB=''" then="%IF{"istopic '.UserFormHelp'" then="This is the default user form. You have also created a customized copy at .UserForm ...

%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 Settings preference settings customizable by users Some of the preference settings are explicitly intended to be customized by users, though a default is p...

A List of User Tools List of tools the user may need for setting and resetting passwords, changing email address etc.

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 Foswiki 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 ...

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...

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

ADDTOHEAD deprecated, use ADDTOZONE instead This macro is deprecated. Please use VarADDTOZONE instead. It effecively is a shortcut for %ADDTOZONE{"head" ...}%

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

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...

BUTTON renders a nice button Parameters Parameter Description Default "text" text to be put on this button value text t...

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

CALCULATE add spreadsheet formulae calls using standard Macro evaluation order. The %CALCULATE{"formula"}% macro is handled by the SpreadSheetPlugin. There are ar...

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...

#VarEDITTABLE EDITTABLE{ attributes } edit tables using edit fields and other input fields * The %EDITTABLE{}% macro is handled by the EditTablePlugin * ...

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...

ENDTAB ending marker for a tab of a tabpane This closes a previously opened TAB. Related TAB, TABPANE, ENDTAB, JQueryPlugin, JQueryTabpane

ENDTABPANE ending tag for tabpane widget This closes a previously opened TABPANE. Related TAB, ENDTAB, TABPANE, JQueryPlugin, JQueryTabpane

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 ...

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...

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 get HTTP headers * Called with the name of an HTTP header field, returns its value. Capitalization and the use of hyphens versus underscores are not signi...

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

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...

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...

INCLUDE include another topic, or subsection of a topic, or a URL, or Foswiki embedded documentation (Including a topic) Parameters Parameter: Des...

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 ...

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...

JQPLUGINS display a summary of available plugins Parameters Parameter Description Default "plugins" this is a regular expression that...

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...

LANG the language specified by the server locale This macro is used to generate the lang (and xml:lang) attribute in generated HTML pages. If {UseLocale} is enabl...

Render List Plugin Syntax Rules RENDERLIST Macro * Place a %RENDERLIST{ parameters }% before any bullet list * The lists can be handcrafted, generate...

%IF{ "{EnableEmail} AND context passwords_modifyable" then="$percentINCLUDE{\"ResetPassword\" section=\"resetPassword\"}$percent" else="" }% * * Ch...

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...

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