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...
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...
Re parenting a topic The breadcrumbs ( Contribs TipsContrib TipsOfTheDay , for example) of any topic is constructed automatically in Foswiki by foll...
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 ...
Escaping Foswiki rendering Use the verbatim tag to surround code excerpts and other formatted text with = verbatim = and = /verbatim = tags. For Example: verbati...
Preference settings Foswiki has several levels of preferences settings. See PreferenceSettings for a full list and more information: 1 Default settings: (nev...
Edit tables with EditRowPlugin EditRowPlugin allows you to edit tables using edit fields and drop down boxes. Tables have an button if preceeded by an %EDITTAB...
Tips Of The Day These are all tips of the day. They are located in the web (official distribution tips) and web (custom tips). Custom (local) tips Total: Cus...
Add New Tip Of The Day There are Custom Tips maintained on your local Foswiki installation, Official Tips distributed with the Tips Contrib, and Plugin Tips maint...
Server side include To include the contents of a web page or Foswiki topic, use %INCLUDE{"page"}%. Examples: This example requires {INCLUDE}{AllowURLs} enabled in...
PUBURL generate an URL for an attachment Generate an absolute URL for an attachment, or for a web or topic within the attachment database. Parameters ...
PUBURLPATH generate a relative URL for an attachment Generate a relative URL for an attachment, or for a web or topic within the attachment database. Parameters ...
%{ ========================================= Create new topic template This template uses parts from .WebCreateNewTopicComponents. =====================...
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...
SHOWPREFERENCE show where preferences are defined. Preference values are shown in a bulleted list, together with where they were defined. Parameters ...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
LANGUAGE language code for the current user Returns the language code for the current user. This is the language used by Foswiki to generate the user interface. T...