Disabling individual WikiWords Prevent a WikiWord from being linked by prefixing it with an exclamation point. Example: To escape SunOs write SunOs to get SunOs. ...
WikiWords for linking WikiWords are capitalized words, run together, such as WebPreferences and CollaborationPlatform. Using a lot of WikiWords creates a good bro...
Inline search To embed a search in a topic, use the %SEARCH{ parameters }% macro. The search macro is used by many Foswiki based applications. More Information....
SmiliesPlugin emoticons Smilies are common in e mail messages and bulletin board posts. They are used to convey an emotion, such as a smile #058; ) : ) or a frow...
Comment box with CommentPlugin The CommentPlugin allows users to quickly post comments to a page without an edit/preview/save cycle. Write %COMMENT{ attributes ...
Keyword search Interactive search is a keyword search by default. For example, to search for all topics that contain "SOAP", "WSDL", a literal "web service", but ...
Action Tracker Plugin This plugin provides support for tracking actions embedded in topics. Actions captured this way can then be searched from any topic in the w...
Footnote Plugin Support for footnotes in foswiki topics. Syntax Rules Write {{ note text }} anywhere in a topic. This will be replaced with a link to the note at...
* 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 GSICS Wiki colla...
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 Cu...
#EncodeURLsUTF8 Appendix B: Encode URLs With UTF8 Use internationalised characters within WikiWords and attachment names Current Status To simplify use of inte...
Force new revision option Normally, if you make subsequent edits within a one hour period (configuration item ReplaceIfEditedAgainWithin), GSICS Wiki will fold to...
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 We...
Like Save but does not e mail people on the WebNotify notification list same effect as checking "Minor changes, don't notify". Related Topics: UserDocumentation...
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 ha...
Since wabi sabi represents a comprehensive Japanese world view or aesthetic system, it is difficult to explain precisely in western terms. According to Leonard Ko...
Installation Guide Part 1 This guide describes the steps for manually installing Foswiki, with specific steps for installations on Linux with the Apache web serve...
\usepackage{amsfonts} \definecolor{Lightmaroon}{rgb}{0.6667,0,0} \definecolor{Cornflowerblue}{rgb}{0,0.4,0.8} Introduction to \Large\LaTeX \LaTeX is a complete...
LatexModePlugin This LaTeX Mode Plugin allows you to include LaTeX mark up commands within a Foswiki page. It uses external programs (specifically latex, dvipng ...
UploadPlugin This plugin provides a more flexible interface to upload one or more files to a topic. Using standard means, only one file can be uploaded at the sam...
Attachment List Plugin Displays a formattable list of topic attachments from any topic anywhere in a topic. View permissions are honored: if the user is not a...
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...
Shortcuts Easy ways to save some typing Some macros are just shortcuts for longer sequences of characters, to either save typing or to easily allow line breaks in...
Text Formatting Working in Foswiki is as easy as typing in text. You don't need to know HTML, though you can use it if you prefer. Links to topics are created aut...
#VarBB BB bullet with line break * Line break and bullet without indentation. * Current value: BB = * Related: BR, BULLET, BB2, BB3, BB4, CARET, VBAR...
#VarTOPICURL TOPICURL shortcut to viewing the current topic * This macro always expands to an url pointing to the current base topic. * Current value: TO...
#VarVBAR VBAR vertical bar * The vertical bar macro can be used in TML tables. * Current value: VBAR = * Related: BR, BULLET, BB, BB2, BB3, BB4, CARE...
References on Wiki and Collaboration Some useful articles and books around collaboration and the Wiki technology in particular. Wiki Technology * Book: The W...
Shorthand Basics If you can enter text, you're ready for Foswiki. With a few simple rules, you'll be able to use plain text to create well styled postings, instan...
AttachLinkPlugin Standard links to attachments Syntax Rules NOP This apparently trivial plugin turns out to be quite useful. Besides syntactic sugar, it actuall...
#VarEDITACTION EDITACTION Selects an edit template * The EDITACTION preference setting lets you define the use of an editaction template instead of the stan...
Redirect Plugin I typically use this to make easy to type shortforms/acronyms of topic names. For example: * Actual content appears under Main.LightweightDirect...
DpSyntaxHighlighterPlugin This plugin provides client side syntax highlighting using the dp.SyntaxHighlighter by Alex Gorbatchev. JavaScript needs to be enabled o...
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...
External Link Plugin This plugin adds a visual indicator to external links, so users can distinguish outgoing links from site links. This will only work for force...