Access Control Restricting read and write access to topics and webs, by users and groups Access Control allows you restrict access to single topics and entire web...
Admin tools List of tools available to the Foswiki administrator * Documentation: Reference Manual * Site Tools : , InterWikis, Macros, Doc Graphics ...
AutoTemplatePlugin %IF{"context 'AutoViewTemplatePluginEnabled' and context 'AutoTemplatePluginEnabled'" then=" WARNING: You have enabled both AutoTemp...
AutoViewTemplatePlugin Description This plugin sets the VIEW_TEMPLATE and EDIT_TEMPLATE variables according to a corresponding form definition. So when you attac...
Batch Upload Plugin Usage * Enable this plugin in LocalSite.cfg or configure Test: BatchUploadPlugin is enabled' else=' BatchUploadPlugin is not enabled. ...
Beautifier Plugin Related topics: dp.SyntaxHighlighter Introduction Use the %CODE% and %ENDCODE% macros to enclose fragments of code in your topic that you wi...
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...
BibliographyPlugin Description The Bibliography Plugin manages citations inside a Foswiki topic, and can generate an References List at the end of the topic. Thi...
BreadCrumbsPlugin Description This plugin helps you to locate where you are, and shows you how you can escape from there using breadcrumbs navigation. Two types ...
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...
ClassificationPlugin Description ClassificationPlugin is a taxonomy and folksonomy extension for Foswiki that allows you to manage knowledge assets stored in yo...
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...
CompareRevisionsAddOn Description The CompareRevisionsAddOn compares two revisions of a document, like rdiff does. But in contrast to normal rdiff, the compariso...
CompareRevisionsAddOn Plugin This is an helper plugin for the CompareRevisionsAddOn on Foswiki It has two purposes: 1 It sets the CompareRevisionAddonPluginEna...
Reference Manual () This page contains all documentation topics as one long, complete reference sheet. %BUTTON{ "" icon="fa book" target="/System/CompleteDo...
Configure Plugin This plugin provides access to all Foswiki configuration data through the webserver, supports running server side checkers and wizards, and allow...
Foswiki Contribs Extensions to Foswiki that are not .plugins Overview The term "Contrib" is used to refer to any package that is not just a simple plugin. F...
Add Ons Deprecated name for the System.Contribs type of extension. Some older extensions will still be named as an AddOn. Overview An add on runs separately...
CopyContrib This extension can be used to copy topics and webs. It allows to select which parts of an item is to copied. Typical use cases are: 1 duplicate top...
DBCacheContrib Reusable code that caches Foswiki topics, and provides fast searches of the content. Summary of Contents This module supports fast structured quer...
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...
DBIPlugin Description This plugin offers a middle layer for Foswiki extensions to ease connecting to SQL databases and manage schemes of table and index definit...
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 ...
DeeplPlugin Description This plugin integrates Deepl into Foswiki as a translation system. That means, Deepl's API can be used to translate a text or even a whol...
Foswiki 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 rea...
Developer Documentation List of documents for application developers as well as developers of skins and extensions. Application Developer Topics Topics for norm...
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 ...
Directed Graph Plugin Introduction Graph visualization is a way of representing structural information as diagrams of abstract graphs and networks. Automatic g...
DirectedGraphWebMapPlugin Extends the DirectedGraphPlugin and draws a map of a web, part of a web, or of the structure around a single topic. Example: Main Web T...
Document Viewer Plugin The Document Viewer Plugin allows you to use presentations, spreadsheets, PDFs and other documents in Foswiki without any external dependen...
EditChapterPlugin Description This plugin implements a simple section editing feature comparable to the one available for MediaWiki. It adds link urls to heading...
EditRowPlugin @import url(/System/EditRowPlugin/erp.uncompressed.css); Features: 1 You can edit one row, or even one cell at a time, instead of having to edit ...
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...
Empty Plugin Learn how to create your own plugin in .DevelopingPlugins. Documentation for Plugin API is in PerlDoc for EmptyPlugin.pm. Note that EmptyPlugin is d...
Some questions to answer: * Perhaps the plugin is installed, but did you remember to enable it in configure? * Did the installer mention any missing depende...
FlexFormPlugin Description This plugin leverages the internal capabilities to render an interface for .DataForms and adds insights to the acutal DataForm defin...
FlexWebListPlugin Description This is a replacement for Foswiki's standard WEBLIST variable. It is extended to improve the display of hierarchical web structures...
!" else=" !! Form Plugin"}% Lets you create simple and advanced web forms. Main features: * No html knowledge required to create forms * Add input fiel...
Foswiki Server Information This topic lists the detailed server execution environment. As this is sensitive information, it is only available to users with acces...
Frequently Asked Questions This is a real FAQ, and also a demo of an easily implemented knowledge base solution. You may view the code for the topic creator or ra...
Glossary of Terms Glossary of Foswiki specific terminology. $ Attachment: Any type of file that is uploaded via browser and attached to a topic, where it can b...
HijaxPlugin This plugin offers a simple way of using the foswiki scripts, including Oops, Login to authenticate and Strikeone Validation handling, via an AJAX i...
History Plugin . The output can arbitrarily be formatted. An example for a Wikipedia like history is included. When using PatternSkin enabling the HistoryPlugin c...
IconService The IconService functions as a central definition and delivery method for all sorts of icons: image icons as well as font icons. Different kinds of i...
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...
Installation Guide This guide describes the steps for installing Foswiki using Apache as the web server, on Linux. This guide describes the specific steps for ins...
Installation Guide Part 2 Post Installation Configuration and Tuning Once you have Foswiki installed and running, you can perform one or more of the following s...
Installed Plugins This site is running Foswiki version * * "}%, Release , Foswiki API version * Here is a list of the plugins currently installed and enabled ...
Instant Site Enhancements These quick enhancements are aimed at improving and customising your Foswiki as quickly as possible. New site administrators are encoura...
Inter Wiki Link Rules (or Links to other Sites) This topic lists all aliases needed to map inter wiki links to external wikis/sites. Whenever you write ExternalSi...
Interwiki Plugin The InterwikiPlugin links ExternalSite:Page text to external sites based on aliases defined in the .InterWikis topic. This plugin is inspired by ...
JEditableContrib This add on packages up the jQuery "JEditable" plugin from Miko Tuupala. This excellent little plugin gives you edit in place capability with man...
JHotDrawPlugin This plugin encapsulates the JHot Draw Java Applet. JHot Draw is a simple drawing editor that supports diagramming in a style similar to that found...
JQDataTablesPlugin Overview This plugin implements a widget to enhance normal HTML tables with extra navigation features such as sorting, filtering and paginatin...
JQMomentContrib This package integrates the moment.js library into Foswiki. The full API documentation is available at http://momentjs.com/docs/ Example E...
JQPhotoSwipeContrib Modern javascript image gallery Description JQPhotoSwipeContrib is a thin wrapper to bring PhotoSwipe to Foswiki. It adds the minimum amount ...
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...
JQTwistyContrib JQTwistyContrib is a lightweight twisty plugin implementing a subset of the features provided by .TwistyPlugin, but using javascript only. This co...
JQueryAjaxHelper This page contains a set of example JQueryPlugin helpers that can be used in wiki applications. The examples demonstrate how you can dynamically ...
JQueryCodingStandards Follow Drupal #8217;s JavaScript coding standards See also UsingJQueryWithFoswiki for more information, tips and tricks. Wrap $ When writin...
JQueryPlugin Description "jQuery is a fast, concise, JavaScript Library that simplifies how you traverse HTML documents, handle events, perform animations, and a...
JSCalendarContrib Summary of Contents This module packages the Mishoo JSCalendar Javascript in a form suitable for use with Foswiki. Detailed Documentation Read...
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...
JsonRpcContrib Summary This package implements a JSON RPC 2.0 protocol to interface with Foswiki and its plugins. In contrast to the normal REST interface of Fo...
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...
Macros Special text strings expand on the fly to display information, or trigger a function. Macros are text strings in one of three basic forms: %MACRONAME{ pa...
What makes Foswiki .... the ideal collaboration tool? Foswiki is... Wiki Structured Data Programmable Pages * Share knowledge * Edit pages collaboratively ...
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 "...
MenuListPlugin Usage Create a topic (in this example MenuTopic), containing a multi level bullet list of web.topics you want to make a folding menu with. Note: i...
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...
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...
MoreFormfieldsPlugin Description This plugin implements a set of additional special purpose formfields to be used in DataForm definitions. To make use of these f...
MultiLingualPlugin This plugin enables you to create wiki content in multiple languages. While Foswiki normally supports over 20 languages to internationalize its...
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...
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...
PerlDoc See PublishedAPI for packages intended to be used by Plugin and Contrib authors, or browse all packages. See also Developing plugins, Developer's Bible, T...
Description This plugin renders galleries from photos attached to topics. Galleries render as a grid of square thumbnails. Thumbnails are created using the Epeg l...
#SettingPrefs #PreferencesMacros Preference Settings A preference setting lets you define a simple macro that will be expanded in your output. In addition: *...
PreferencesPlugin Allows editing of preferences using fields predefined in a .DataForms. However, the edit fields are inlined in the text, similar to how tables a...
Pub Link Fixup Plugin This plugin performs pub link fixup of the generated HTML page. If Foswiki is configured with a non utf 8 {Store}{Encoding}, then links to ...
QuerySearch Pattern Cookbook This topic provides tips on the usage of QuerySearch. Pattern 1: Show recent changes without user pages We have everything in the Ma...
RedDotPlugin This plugin renders a clickable red dot (.) to ease the edit access to a page. The red dot will only be visible if the current wikiuser has write acc...
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 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...
Release Notes 2.1.x Foswiki The Free and Open Source Wiki Foswiki is an enterprise collaboration and information sharing tool targeted for professional use in ...
Render List Plugin Syntax Rules RENDERLIST Macro * Place a %RENDERLIST{ parameters }% before any bullet list * The lists can be handcrafted, generate...
RenderPlugin Description This plugin implements a couple of REST handlers to feetch content from a Foswiki backend. This can either be returned as plain content ...
Set Form Values Plugin This plugin enables automatic setting of values in form fields when you save a topic based on the the change of another form field. The t...
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 ...
Slide Show Plugin Introduction There is already a de facto standard for presentations, so why this plugin? This plugin makes sense for organizations that already...
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 : ( . This p...
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...
StringifierContrib Description This extension serves as a helper to stringify documents in a way that they can be indexed by full text search engines such as Fos...
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...
SyntaxHighlightingPlugin Description The Syntax Highlighting Plugin is used to emphasize the rendering of your wiki text according to several languages. It uses ...
TWikiCompatibilityPlugin Usage Automatically maps requests for legacy TWiki web topics to Foswiki free topics as per TopicNameMappingTable. Map TWIKIWEB to SYSTE...
Table Plugin Gives extra control of table display: * Sorting * Setting visual table properties like border width, cell spacing and cell padding * Setting...
Tag me Plugin Plugin to tag wiki content collectively in order to find content by tags and to get a meaningful page ranking. Introduction The larger a wiki gets,...
TinyMCEPlugin This is an integration of the fast and highly functional TinyMCE WYSIWYG editor. It supports a wide range of browsers, including Firefox, IE, Safari...
SlideShowPlugin for presentations Use SlideShowPlugin to convert a topic with headings and bullets into a slideshow presentation. This plugin is useful when conte...
Tips Contrib Package Displays a rotating "Tip of the Day" to help familiarize new users with Foswiki features. Includes an application for creating custom tips fo...
ToolTipPlugin This is a plugin to generate dynamic Tool Tips in HTML javascript (mouseover event). This tooltip is based on http://www.walterzorn.com/tooltip/to...
TopicInteractionPlugin Description This plugin redesigns the way how users interact with topics and attachments in various ways: * improved attachment handlin...
What is Topic Markup Language (TML)? The special text format used in Foswiki topics to simplify topic text. Foswiki lets you work using a WYSIWYG editor, which fo...
TopicTitlePlugin Description This plugin implements a way to freely specify the title of a topic. The title is then used when rendering the link to the topic ins...
TopicUserMappingContrib The User Mapping Manager interface provides services for mapping between a 'user identity' as used when talking to an external authenticat...
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.x. This upgrade procedure is used to upgrade a to a new major v...
User's Guide Some documentation topics selected specially for users * Quick Start * User Registration: Sign up so you can edit pages and select options ...
FAILEDPLUGINS debugging for plugins that failed to load Also generates a list of handlers defined by plugins Examples * %FAILEDPLUGINS% Related PLUGINDESCRI...
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...
PLUGINVERSION the version of a Foswiki Plugin, or the Foswiki Plugins API Use %PLUGINVERSION{"name"}% to get the version of a specific plugin Examples * %PLUG...
ATOM News Feeds Find out What's New There are several ways to find out what's new in each web: 1. Visit WebChanges to see recent changes 1. Subscribe in We...
WebCreatorPlugin Description This plugin extends the basic way of the Foswiki core to create webs, while circumventing some of the more arcane features that are ...
RSS News Feeds Find out What's New There are several ways to find out what's new in each web: 1. Visit WebChanges to see recent changes 1. Subscribe in...
WikiWorkbenchContrib Introduction The WikiWorkbench standardizes writing, deploying and using wiki applications on Foswiki. It builds on the core concepts of sta...
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...
Wysiwyg Plugin Support for the integration of WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editors. On its own, the only thing this plugin gives you is a stand alone HT...