BarcodePlugin This plugin is used to create embedded barcodes in topics. Currently only Code128 codes are supported. Support for other standard codes could easily...
BeginnersStartHere This is a short introduction to Foswiki. A short introduction to Foswiki Use the slideshow navigation buttons on the bottom right of the page...
BookmakerPlugin The Bookmaker plugin provides support for interactive capture and sorting of ordered lists of topics. The lists are held in topics, and may be man...
Calendar Plugin The CalendarPlugin handles the macro %CALENDAR% that inserts a monthly calendar in the page. Multiple topics can be specified as the source of the...
CaptchaPlugin Description This plugin tries to prevent automated scripts from creating users and spam your wiki. It does so by requiring a simple test to ensure ...
ClassificationPlugin Description ClassificationPlugin is a taxonomy and folksonomy extension for Foswiki that allows you to manage knowledge assets stored in yo...
CompareRevisionsAddOn Description The CompareRevisionsAddOn compares two revisions of a document, like rdiff does. But in contrast to normal rdiff, the compariso...
Reference Manual () This page contains all documentation topics as one long, complete reference sheet. Related Topics: UserDocumentationCategory, AdminDocumentati...
ControlWikiWordPlugin Usage This plugin provides 4 functions: * Rules based blocking of WikiWord linking backwards compatible to the StopWikiWordPlugin ...
DiffPlugin Description This plugin implements a way to display the difference between revisions of the same topic or between two distinct topics. This adds YADT...
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: %I...
Easy Timeline Plugin As the saying goes: a picture is worth a thousand words. This is certainly true for graphical timelines. A detailed listing of events and dat...
Edit Table Plugin Simply add an Edit table button to an existing table by writing %EDITTABLE{}% directly above the table. This can be added to tables that are...
You can move and delete attachments directly from your browser. Moving lets you transfer an attachment from one topic to another. Delete moves an attachment to th...
FamFamFamContrib Usage The icons are attached to the FamFamFamFlagIcons FamFamFamMiniIcons FamFamFamMintIcons FamFamFamSilkIcons FamFamFamSilkCompanion1Icons...
FamFamFamFlagIcons 'Flags' are 247 icons in GIF and PNG formats representing most countries in the world as small pixel icons. These flag icons are available ...
FamFamFamFoswikiExtras So far built by Foswiki:Main.SvenDowideit based on the Silk ones above, except for 1 the XML icon which comes from http://commons.wiki...
FamFamFamMiniIcons "Mini" is a set of 144 GIF icons available for free use for any purpose. Source These Icons come from http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/mini/...
FamFamFamMintIcons "Mint" icons are a small set of tiny PNG web icons, loosely based on Shaun Inman's Mint statistics software. Released on the same day as the p...
FamFamFamSilkCompanion1Icons Mark James created a great set of 1,022 silky smooth 16x16 true colour icons in PNG format, aptly named Silk Icons. Damien Guard's se...
FamFamFamSilkCompanion2Icons Mark James created a great set of 1,022 silky smooth 16x16 true colour icons in PNG format, aptly named Silk Icons. GeoSilk icon set...
FamFamFamSilkGeoSilkIcons Mark James created a great set of 1,022 silky smooth 16x16 true colour icons in PNG format, aptly named Silk Icons. GeoSilk icon set by...
FamFamFamSilkIcons Silk is a smooth, free icon set, containing over 700 16 by 16 pixel icons in strokably soft PNG format. Containing a large variety of icons, y...
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 attachme...
!" else=" !! Form Plugin"}% Lets you create simple and advanced web forms. Main features: * No html knowledge required to create forms * Add input fiel...
FreeMindPlugin The FreeMindPlugin implements the %FREEMIND% tag to render FreeMind mindmaps in a Foswiki topic. It requires Adobe's flash player plugin to run fro...
Full Calendar Plugin Adam Shaw has produced a great Web 2.0 Calendar UI, the jQuery FullCalendar Plugin. This Foswiki plugin provides the backend calendar managem...
Generate PDF Add On This Add On to Foswiki adds a supplementary view script called genpdf. genpdf generates a PDF document using the htmldoc tool from htt...
GraphvizPlugin GraphViz is a way of representing structural information as diagrams of abstract graphs and networks. Automatic graph drawing has many important ap...
GridLayoutPlugin Description GridLayoutPlugin implements a 12er grid system for flexible layouts. A grid is a set of HTML div elements that are styled in a way ...
History Plugin . The output can arbitrarily be formatted. An example for a Wikipedia like history is included. When using PatternSkin enabling the HistoryPlugin c...
HolidaylistPlugin The HolidaylistPlugin handles the %HOLIDAYLIST% macro to insert a vacation list on the current page. Smilies are used to indicate if a person is...
ImageGalleryPlugin Description This plugin helps you in viewing pictures that are attached to a topic in a nice thumbnail gallery. Clicking on a thumbnail zooms...
ImagePlugin Use this plugin to control the display and alignment of images using an easy syntax and support for server side resizing and thumbnailing. There are a...
JQPhotoSwipeContrib Modern javascript image gallery Description JQPhotoSwipeContrib is a thin wrapper to bring PhotoSwipe to Foswiki. It adds the minimum amount ...
JQPrettyPhotoContrib This package integrates the great prettyphoto jquery lightbox clone by Stephane Caron prettyPhoto is a full blown media lightbox supporting ...
JQSerialPagerContrib This is a jQuery plugin for Foswiki that implements a widget to handle long lists. It therefore splits the list and adds a pager so that it t...
JQTablePlugin This plugin does two things: 1 If TablePlugin is enabled, it enhances TablePlugin with client side column sorting (if Javascript is enabled) 1...
JSTreeContrib This add on packages up the jQuery "jsTree" plugin to give you poserful support for display and manipulation of n ary tree data. See http://www.jstr...
Javascript Foswiki will work without Javascript enabled in the browser: * When performing read only actions, Eg. view, rdiff * If {Validation}{Method} is se...
LatexModePlugin This LaTeX Mode Plugin allows you to include LaTeX mark up commands within a Foswiki page. It uses external programs (specifically latex, dvipng ...
LikePlugin This plugin lets you vote on topics, attachments and comments by means of a like or a dislike . All "likes" are stored within Foswiki, that is: they a...
Mail In to Foswiki This Contrib supports the submission of content to Foswiki topics via e mail. What it does Mails can be pulled out of mail folders using POP3,...
Mailer Contrib Allows users to "subscribe" to regularly scheduled emails containing either: * A report on changes to all topics that have changed within a part...
What makes Foswiki …. the ideal collaboration tool? Foswiki is… Wiki Structured Data Programmable Pages * Share knowledge * Edit pages collaboratively ...
MaterialIcons Usage As an icon font material icons may be accessed via the JQICON macro. To do so you need to register the material icons font to the IconServi...
MediaElementPlugin This plugin adds media support to Foswiki using MediaElement.js. MediaElement.js is an easy cross browser HTML5 audio and video player in pure ...
Media Plugin . Uses the OBJECT html tag to embed arbitrary content into a page, with a particular bent towards media: common media formats are detected and some "...
MetaCommentPlugin This is YACS (yet another comment system) which tries to 1 be easy to use, 1 scale up to lots of comments 1 provide different layouts a...
#MetaData Meta data Additional data, Foswiki generated or from forms, may be embedded in the topic text using META: macros Overview The default store engines st...
MetaDataPlugin This plugin allows to store data sets to Foswiki topics. Foswiki itself is a structured wiki already using .DataForms which are attached a topic. ...
MimeIconPlugin This plugin tries to map known mime types commonly found on the internet to an icon set. There are not many icon sets that have a got coverage of m...
NatEditHelpText Help text for the NatEditPlugin editor About the editor This edit interface is available in two different modes: (1) WYSIWYG (what you see is what...
Natural Edit Plugin Description The NatEdit is an wiki editor that helps in learning the TML Language by providing a GUI. By design, this is not a wysiwyg editor...
The Natural Skin NatSkin improves your Foswiki experience by bringing together some of the most useful features from different plugins in a consistent way. NatSki...
NatSkinTopicCreator Description The NatSkin TopicCreator is a unified way to create topics in your wiki. It especially is tailored towards the WikiWorkbench fram...
Documentation Graphics and Filetype icons This is the Foswiki icon library. The graphics can be used in topics and by web applications. Usage Default notation: ...
Pattern skin Select a theme to change the look, or tune the entire appearance with CSS or templates. Browse available themes You may quickly change the appearanc...
CSS elements in PatternSkin This page is a reference for all CSS classes used in PatternSkin. PatternSkin uses 4 stylesheets: * layout.css: positioning of bloc...
PatternSkinCssCookbook Recipe: Center the page This recipe shows how center the page horizontally and vertically. This line loads the extra style definition: *...
PatternSkinCssCookbook Recipe: Center the page with a border This recipe shows how to put a border around the page, while centering the page horizontally. The exa...
PatternSkinCssCookbook Recipe: EditTable style Cookbook example to illustrate control over EditTable edit styles. 1 EditTable uses a monospace font in edit mod...
PatternSkinCssCookbook Recipe: Font variation Cookbook example with other fonts and font colors. This line loads the extra style definition: * Set USERSTYLEURL...
PatternSkinCssCookbook Recipe: Hide action buttons This recipe shows how to hide the action buttons for unauthorised and/or guest users: (Edit, Attach …) Note t...
PatternSkinCssCookbook Recipe: Hide the left bar This line loads the extra style definition: * Set USERSTYLEURL = //PatternSkinCssCookbookNoLeftBar/hideleftbar...
PatternSkinCssCookbook Recipe: Hide the top bar This recipe shows how to hide the top bar. This line loads the extra style definition: * Set USERSTYLEURL=/noto...
PatternSkinCssCookbook Recipe: Sidebar background color To see if the background color really extends beyond the body, we make the body contents longer than the s...
System.PatternSkinCssCookbook Recipe: Left Sidebar Toggle The Sidebar is hidden for screens with width This line loads the extra style definition: * Set USERS...
Pattern Skin Elements Some intro text. Text. Heading 1 text Heading 2 text Heading 3 text Heading 4 text Heading 5 text Heading 6 text A very very very ver...
PatternSkin theme: Foswiki release 1.1.5 Use this theme if you have created a theme or sub skin that relies on the styling of PatternSkin around release 1.1.5 or ...
PatternSkin theme: 2009 Test this theme Choose column ' selected='selected' "}% Column left (default) Column right No column Small left column Choose v...
PatternSkin theme: Foswiki "Fat Willy" Site Skin Test this theme Choose column ' selected='selected' "}% Column right No column Hide theme Store theme...
PDF Plugin . Introduction The PDF generator of PDF Plugin is wkhtmltopdf, which uses the WebKit browser engine. It creates PDF files that look similar as they wo...
Plain Skin The plain skin is used to get the rendered topic text without any page decoration such as side, top or bottom bars. The text is shown without any marku...
#SettingPrefs #PreferencesMacros Preference Settings A preference setting lets you define a simple macro that will be expanded in your output. In addition: *...
Background Image for Preview Preview looks like the real page, but the links lead to an oops dialog warning users of not yet saved topics. In addition, a backgrou...
Print Skin The print skin, used for printable pages with a small footer. Other skins, such as PatternSkin, may introduce their own print skin. This skin is part o...
Foswiki brand material The official Foswiki logo and derivatives are attached to this page. Logo artwork Logo customization The logo can be changed by redefinin...
PublishPlugin Generates a static view of a web, as HTML files on disc, or as a PDF, or as a zip or tgz archive file, or by uploading directly to an FTP server. Th...
Query Search Query searches help you search the contents of forms attached to your topics, as well as the values of other meta data attached to the topic. Using q...
RatingContrib This is a rating widget that can support a "line of stars" style input field. Usage You can use the new rating type in form fields. The result of t...
Reference Manual Documentation for webmasters, system administrators, project managers, team leaders, and all other users of Foswiki the Free and Open Source Wi...
Appendix A: Foswiki Development Time line The complete timeline of Foswiki Releases. Foswiki was forked from TWiki 4.2.4 and released with significant improvments...
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 2.1.6 Foswiki The Free and Open Source Wiki Foswiki is an enterprise collaboration and information sharing tool targeted for professional use i...
Render List Plugin Syntax Rules RENDERLIST Macro * Place a %RENDERLIST{ parameters }% before any bullet list * The lists can be handcrafted, generate...
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...
Send Email Plugin . Usage 1 Create a form on the page that invokes the sendemail script 1 Add a "to" field and a submit button 1 Make sure to fill in al...
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 ...
The Smilies Plugin : ) Smilies are common in e mail messages and bulletin board posts. They are used to convey an emotion, such as a smile : ) or a frown : ( . Th...
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...
Subscribe Plugin Example (only works if plugin is installed, and you are logged in you are: and you are not .WikiGuest): This version is designed for use w...
TagCloudPlugin Description This plugin helps rendering tag clouds. From Wikipedia:Tag_cloud A Tag Cloud is a text based depiction of tags across a body of conten...
TimeTablePlugin The TimeTablePlugin handles the tag %TIMETABLE% and creates a weekly timetable. The timetable is rendered with HTML tables and should work with a...
Linking to a file attachment A link to a file attachment may be created in a few different ways: 1 If using the WYSIWYG editor (TinyMCEPlugin), use the attach ...
File attachments Files can be attached to any topic. The action of attaching a file to a topic is similar to attaching a file to an e mail use the Attach link i...
TopicInteractionPlugin Description This plugin redesigns the way how users interact with topics and attachments in various ways: * improved attachment handlin...
Topics What are Topics and Webs? #SystemWebFigure Figure: depiction of , ReferenceManual, ManagingTopics, ManagingWebs, MainFeatures topics contained in the web...
Tree Browser Plugin Renders a bulleted or numbered list as a collapsible/expandable tree of nodes. Acknowledgment This plugin leverages the dTree JavaScript tree...
Tree Plugin Syntax Rules %TREEVIEW{}% displays topic children in a hierarchical tree %TREE{}% synonym of %TREEVIEW{}% Samples See the following page for sample...
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 ...
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...
User Registration components This topic contains the pieces that are assembled into the UserRegistration page. There is no need to modify this topic. If a sectio...
VotePlugin This plugin can be used to build an online voting system, or poll. There are two ways to vote for an item: * select: vote for a given choice from a ...
WebDAVLinkPlugin Usage This plugin adds support that helps you edit files held in WebDAV resources using native applications (such as Microsoft Word) when you cl...
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...