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 read-only, so that upgrades can safely overwrite it without risk to your customizations.
Preference settings local to your site should be set in
Main.SitePreferences (this topic is pointed to by {LocalSitePreferences}, which is set by the admin in the
configure interface). Settings in
Main.SitePreferences will override settings in this topic, and should be used for defining custom settings.
Read more on how to set preferences.
Default Web Preferences
NOTE: These are just defaults; don't change them here. Instead, add them to the WebPreferences topic in each web
- List of selected topics in a web (used in menus)
- Web-specific background color: (is overwritten by web preferences)
- Image, URL and alternate tooltip text of web's logo.
- List this web in the SiteMap:
- If yes, set SITEMAPLIST to
on
, do not set NOSEARCHALL, and add the "what" and "use to..." description for the site map. Make sure to list only links that include the name of the web, e.g. TWiki.Topic links. - Set SITEMAPLIST = on
- Set SITEMAPWHAT = Describe what this web does.
- Set SITEMAPUSETO = ...to do something.
- Copyright notice:
- Set WEBCOPYRIGHT = Copyright © by the contributing authors. All material on this collaboration platform is the property of the contributing authors.
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- Simplified Copyright notice for the WebRss feed (don't use any special characters, html tags, entities, wiki markup or WikiWords)
- Set WEBRSSCOPYRIGHT =by contributing authors
- Exclude web from a
web="all"
search: (Set to on
for hidden webs; is overwritten by web preferences) Note it is much better to use AccessControls in individual webs to control who can and can't view the contents of a web. NOSEARCHALL is retained for compatibility, but you should avoid using it. - Prevent automatic linking of WikiWords and acronyms (if set to
on
); link WikiWords (if empty); can be overwritten by web preferences:- Set NOAUTOLINK =
- Note: Use the
[[...][...]]
syntax to link topics in case you disabled WikiWord linking. The <noautolink> ... </noautolink>
syntax can be used to prevents links within a block of text.
- If you use non WikiWords for topic names (for example "Expenses" or "Mighty1") and if you use bracket notation to link to those topics, it is useful to turn of all warnings (like: "WARNING: This topic name is not recommended because it will not be linked automatically") and checkboxes ("Allow non WikiWord for the new topic name"). Can be overwritten by web preferences. Set to
on
to activate:- Set HIDE_NON_WIKI_WORD_WARNINGS =
- Warn if
%INCLUDE{}%
of topic fails: Fail silently if empty or off
. Output warning message (defined in templates/oopsalerts.tmpl) if set to on
. Otherwise output specific text (use $topic
for topic). You can override this in web preferences, or by using a warn="..."
parameter with %INCLUDE{}%
:
- Generated Table of Contents (TOC) settings
- The first header level to appear in the TOC:
- Set TOC_MIN_DEPTH =
- If not set:
1
- Possible values:
1
to 6
- The last header level to appear in the TOC:
- Set TOC_MAX_DEPTH =
- If not set:
6
- Possible values:
1
to 6
- Can be overridden by
depth
parameter of TOC
- The default TOC title:
- Set TOC_TITLE =
- If not set: nothing
- Possible values: any string, for example
On this page:
- Can be overridden by
title
parameter of TOC
- Do not show a TOC if the topic it contains is included in another topic:
- Set TOC_HIDE_IF_INCLUDED =
- If not set: included TOC is shown
- Possible values:
on
or nothing
Default User Settings
NOTE: They are typically redefined in topics of individual
WikiUsers- Show tool-tip topic info on mouse-over of WikiWord links. Setting can be on, off, or customized. An empty setting or off setting disables the tool-tips (for better performance). The setting can contain $summary to show the topic summary, $date for the last change date, $rev for the revision, $username for the login name of the last editor, $wikiname for the WikiName, $wikiusername for Main.WikiName, $topic for the topic name, and $web for the web name
- Set LINKTOOLTIPINFO = off
- #Set LINKTOOLTIPINFO = $username - $date - r$rev: $summary
- This is exactly equivalent to:
- #Set LINKTOOLTIPINFO = on
- Horizontal size of text edit box: (can be overwritten by user preferences)
- Vertical size of text edit box: (can be overwritten by user preferences)
- Style of text edit box. Set to
width: 99%
for full window width (default; this will override the EDITBOXWIDTH setting), or width: auto
to disable. This setting works for IE and some other recent browsers. (can be overwritten by user preferences)- Set EDITBOXSTYLE = width:99%
- Default state of the Force New Revision (ForceNewRevision) check box in preview. Check box is initially checked if
Set FORCENEWREVISIONCHECKBOX = checked="checked"
, or unchecked if empty: (can be overwritten by user preferences)- Set FORCENEWREVISIONCHECKBOX =
- Default state of the Minor Changes, Don't Notify (DontNotify) check box in preview. Check box is initially checked if
Set DONTNOTIFYCHECKBOX = checked="checked"
, or unchecked if empty: (can be overwritten by user preferences)
- Default state of the link check box in the attach file page. Checkbox is initially checked if
Set ATTACHLINKBOX = checked="checked"
, or unchecked if empty (Set ATTACHLINKBOX =
). If checked, a link is created to the attached file at the end of the topic: (can be overwritten by user preferences)
- Format of file link when the link check box is checked: (can be overwritten by user preferences)
- NOTE: Keyword
$name
gets expanded to filename; $comment
to comment; \t
to tab (3 spaces for bullets).
* Set ATTACHEDFILELINKFORMAT = \n * [[%ATTACHURL%/$name][$name]]: $comment
- Format of images when the link check box is checked: (can be overwritten by user preferences)
- NOTE: Keyword
$name
gets expanded to filename; $comment
to comment; $size
to width="..." height="..."
attribute of img
tag; \t
to tab and \n
to linefeed (3 spaces for bullets).
* Set ATTACHEDIMAGEFORMAT = \n * $comment:
\n
Platform Settings
- Site name:
- Set WIKITOOLNAME = Foswiki
- Image, URL and alternate tooltip text of the logo for this installation: you should change these settings for your site, or they can be overwridden in WebPreferences for individual webs by defining these settings there.
- List of Foswiki webs - on the first line of the upper toolbar (to add a new web, see ManagingWebs and SiteMap):
- Maximum size of FileAttachments in KB, 0 for no limit:
- Set ATTACHFILESIZELIMIT = 10000
- Broadcast message for skins supporting a %BROADCASTMESSAGE% at the top of the page: (IMPORTANT: Set to empty message if not used; #Comment out unused messages)
- Set BROADCASTMESSAGE =
- #Set BROADCASTMESSAGE = NOTE: Edit and Attach will be disabled today between 05:00 PM and 06:00 PM PDT (00:00 to 01:00 GMT) for a scheduled Foswiki maintenance.
- Users or groups allowed to create new top-level webs: (ex: WebCreatorsGroup?). If set to nothing, only administrators will be able to do this.
Search Settings
- Default type for search bin script, one of: keyword (for search engine like syntax), regex (for RegularExpression search), or literal (for verbatim search). It does not influence the default for the WebSearch
- Set SEARCHDEFAULTTTYPE = keyword
- Default for
%SEARCH{}%
macro, one of: keyword, regex, or literal- Set SEARCHVARDEFAULTTYPE = literal
- Stop words, e.g., common words and characters to exclude from a keyword search:
- Set SEARCHSTOPWORDS = a, all, am, an, and, any, as, at, b, be, by, c, d, e, for, from, g, h, how, i, i'm, i.e., in, is, isn't, it, it's, its, j, k, l, m, n, o, of, on, or, p, q, r, s, t, that, that's, the, this, to, u, v, w, was, wasn't, what, what's, when, where, who, who's, will, with, x, y, z
E-mail Settings
- 'Mail this topic' mailto: link - can be included in topics, templates or skins
- 'Mail this topic' link text
- Set MAILTHISTOPICTEXT = Send a link to this page
HTTP-EQUIV Settings
- NOTE: Changing cache behaviour with these settings should not be necessary and may cause cache-related problems. These settings do not affect proxy caches.
- NOTE: The current values of these preferences are not displayed in view mode (values are
<link>
-tags).
http-equiv
meta tags for view
, rdiff
, attach
, search*
scripts:- #Set HTTP_EQUIV_ON_VIEW =
- Set HTTP_EQUIV_ON_VIEW =
http-equiv
meta tags for edit
script:
http-equiv
meta tags for preview
script:- Set HTTP_EQUIV_ON_PREVIEW =
Skin Settings
- Skin overriding the default templates: (can be overwritten by WebPreferences and user preferences)
- Global skin styles. To change the look of the site, point these variables to custom CSS attachments.
- Set FOSWIKI_LAYOUT_URL = /pub/System/PatternSkin/layout.css
- Set FOSWIKI_STYLE_URL = /pub/System/PatternSkin/style.css
- Set FOSWIKI_COLORS_URL = /pub/System/PatternSkin/colors.css
- Themes that add upon the global skin styles. Choose from the Theme Browser at PatternSkin.
- Set PATTERNSKIN_THEME = /pub/System/PatternSkin/theme_foswiki_noframe.css
- Set PATTERNSKIN_COLUMNS = /pub/System/PatternSkin/column_left.css
- Overriding styles that add upon the global and theme styles. Enabled by default but empty to prevent browsers from fetching %USERLAYOUTURL%-style URLs.
- Set USERLAYOUTURL =
- Set USERSTYLEURL =
- Set USERCOLORSURL =
- Set WEBHEADERART =
- Set WEBHEADERBGCOLOR =
Skin icons
- Topic containing the icon graphics library. Icons can easily be rendered with
%ICON{name}%
.
Legacy support
- Support for legacy "EDITTOPIC", used to be hard-coded, now replaced by TMPL:P conditional instantiation
- Set EDITURL = /bin/edit/TWiki/DefaultPreferences?t=1386338281
- Set EDITTOPIC = Edit
Plugins Settings
- You can enable/disable Plugins using the configure interface.
- You can also disable installed plugins in individual webs/topics by defining the DISABLEDPLUGINS preference setting to be a list of plugins to disable e.g.
- Set DISABLEDPLUGINS = SpreadSheetPlugin,EditTablePlugin
- Currently, %DISABLEDPLUGINS% is set to "%DISABLEDPLUGINS%"
- Currently activated Plugins: TWikiCompatibilityPlugin, SpreadSheetPlugin, ArmPowerPlugin, CommentPlugin, EditTablePlugin, InterwikiPlugin, PreferencesPlugin, RedirectPlugin, SlideShowPlugin, SmiliesPlugin, TablePlugin, TinyMCEPlugin, TwistyPlugin, WysiwygPlugin
Rendering Shortcuts Settings
- Line break: Note that the setting has an intentional trailing space
- Vertical bar / pipe symbol:
- Line break and bullet with different levels of indentation:
- Set BB =
o - Set BB2 =
o - Set BB3 =
o - Set BB4 =
o
- Hint: Above shortcuts are useful in tables where you cannot use newlines
- Macros for graphics used in documentation - view all images in DocumentGraphics:
- Set H =
- Set I =
- Set M =
- Set N =
- Set P =
- Set Q =
- Set S =
- Set T =
- Set U =
- Set X =
- Set Y =
- Colored text: (see more StandardColors)
You type: | %RED% red text %ENDCOLOR% and %GREEN% green text %ENDCOLOR% |
You get: | red text and green text |
- Note:
%<color>%
text must end with %ENDCOLOR%
. If you want to switch from one color to another one you first need to end the active color with %ENDCOLOR%
, e.g. write %RED% some text %ENDCOLOR% %GREEN% more text %ENDCOLOR%
. - Set YELLOW = looks like this
- Set ORANGE = looks like this
- Set RED = looks like this
- Set PINK = looks like this
- Set PURPLE = looks like this
- Set TEAL = looks like this
- Set NAVY = looks like this
- Set BLUE = looks like this
- Set AQUA = looks like this
- Set LIME = looks like this
- Set GREEN = looks like this
- Set OLIVE = looks like this
- Set MAROON = looks like this
- Set BROWN = looks like this
- Set BLACK = looks like this
- Set GRAY = looks like this
- Set SILVER = looks like this
- Set WHITE = looks like this (with gray background)
- The following color settings are enclosed in verbatim tags to avoid incorrect nesting of XHTML tags:
* Set YELLOW =
* Set ORANGE =
* Set RED =
* Set PINK =
* Set PURPLE =
* Set TEAL =
* Set NAVY =
* Set BLUE =
* Set AQUA =
* Set LIME =
* Set GREEN =
* Set OLIVE =
* Set MAROON =
* Set BROWN =
* Set BLACK =
* Set GRAY =
* Set SILVER =
* Set WHITE =
* Set ENDCOLOR =
Miscellaneous Settings
- Format of a NewWikiWord? link:
- Note that
$text
is the topic link text, $topic
is the name of the new topic, and $web
is the name of the web for the new topic. Values for the 3 are taken from the link syntax [[$web.$topic][$text]]
. For normal plain WikiWord links $text
and $topic
are the same. The value of $web
is the current web unless the link is in the format $web.$topic
.- default setting:
- Set NEWLINKFORMAT = $text?
- alternative setting:
- #Set NEWLINKFORMAT = $text
- PreviewBackground image:
- Set PREVIEWBGIMAGE = /pub/System/PreviewBackground/preview2bg.gif
- User-friendly synonyms for system webs
- show extra help for ApacheLogin users for AdminUser login
Access Control Settings
- No-one (except admins) should change this topic
Creating New Preference Settings
You can introduce new
preference settings and use them in your topics and templates. There is no need to change the Foswiki engine (Perl scripts).
- A preference is defined in a ShortHand bullet item:
[3 spaces] * [space] Set NAME = value
Example (as a nested bullet item, indented 6 spaces): - Preferences are used as Macros by enclosing the name in percent signs:
%
. Example:- When you write
%WEBBGCOLOR%
, it gets expanded to #FFD8AA
.
- The sequential order of the preference settings is significant. Define preferences that use other preferences FIRST. For example, set
WEBCOPYRIGHT
before WIKIWEBMASTER
since the copyright notice uses the Wiki administrator e-mail address. - In order to protect your custom preferences from being overwritten when upgrading the System.DefaultPreferences topic, it is recommended that all custom settings are defined in Main.DefaultPreferences?.
Protected System Settings
The following macros are declared final to protect them as read only. These are system macros that should never be attempted set or altered in any preference topic or topic settings.
- Set FINALPREFERENCES = WEB, TOPIC
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