TWiki can be Beautiful with good CSS style and the better it looks the more popularity it will gain. Here are some SkinPackages that are based on CSS: PatternSkin ...

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CategoryStale From: IzEncodeNodeTypesInWikiNames Type: Argument (Con) Name: APzWikiNameEncodingIsCryptic Text: Wiki Name Encoding Is Cryptic. Context: ...

I recently implemented a layer that supports using TWiki webs as a generic ish database. I include here the full text of the documentation for your amusement. Please ...

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AJAX Asynchronous JavaScript and XML is a term describing a web development technique for creating interactive web applications using a combination of HTML, Style ...

AJAX Instant Messenger ajax im ("asynchronous javascript and xml instant messenger") is a browser based instant messaging client. It uses the XMLHTTPRequest object ...

Using AJAX and Script.aculo.us to dynamically populate the topic Jump box. is a useful adjunct to prototype.js which offers several extensions which can be used ...

CategoryStale From: IzEncodeNodeTypesInWikiNames Type: Argument (Pro) Name: APzWikiNameEncodingIsUnambiguous Text: Wiki Name Encoding Is Unambiguous. Context ...

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This topic moved to TWiki.ATasteOfTWiki Maybe this topic was moved before MoveTopic had the ability to search for links. I would suggest the content from ATasteOfTWiki ...

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JohnAbbe's Wiki site, based on PikiePikie good source of information on RichSiteSummary. RichardDonkin 30 Jun 2002

Suggestion to avoid Navigation interface clutter in complex web sites... How about giving an option to abbreviate WikiWord to WikiLink that has the shortest possible ...

Who am I? I am the local TWiki fanatic at work. I inroduced TWiki into our software development team a few months ago. I am a thirty something father of a couple of ...

I am wondering if it is possible to combine tags. For example: term : this is the description for term It would be very useful to be able to highlight the term ...

...an attempt to solve some puzzling questions 1 What, exactly, is the difference between WebChanges and ChangesCgiScript? 2 Why does the menu item Changes ...

1. Let's expand WikiLink to link at any commonly used resource. 2. Let's proxy pages from pther's resources to parse WikiLinks in their texts, to provide two way links ...

Discussion of TWiki experiences, usage patterns, policies, etc. at academic TWiki sites. (AcademicTWikiSites lists TWiki installations at academic institutions.) ...

Accepted By 14 Day Rule The 14 day rule is defined in TWikiRelease04x01Process and TheFourteenDaysRule. When a proposal for a new or changed feature is raised, AND ...

Accepted By Release Meeting Change proposals raised according to the TWikiRelease04x01Process will discussed and voted for at the release meetings. Anyone that shows ...

Accepted Feature Proposals Proposals that have a committed owner and have been accepted according to the release process Accepted proposals waiting to be implemented ...

Accepted Proposal A proposal has been accepted. This state is used when a proposal has been accepted according to the TWikiRelease04x01Process. Either by ConsensusReached ...

Feature Proposal: Access based WEBLIST Update 05 Feb 2007: this has already been implemented since TWiki 4.0. Motivation Quite a number of support questions deal ...

Sandbox.TWiki needs proper access control lists. The existing half baked permissions system is just too difficult to use and unwieldy. Proposal: refactor to implement ...

Bug: ALLOWWEBVIEW not working for Main Web Is this a bug or a feature?. Basically I have a huge web and several smaller webs. I would like to force some users to ...

Access Controls and Preferences There is considerable confusion regarding the relationship between TWiki Access Controls and TWiki Variables . TWiki Access Controls ...

'Access Denied' or 'Please Log In' Motivation Setting DENYTOPICVIEW to exclude the guest account produces an Oops screen with 'access enied'. This is usually OK ...

Module name TWiki::Access AccessDotPm Location TWIKIROOT/lib/TWiki/Access.pm Summary To provide access checking Primary Author PeterThoeny ...

Access Keys, what are they? One of the least known features of HTML is the accesskey attribute for links and forms, which allows the web designer to define keyboard ...

Access Key Map This is a hypothetical TableWidgkit that hasn't been built yet. It works together with the hypothetical AccessKeyPlugin to allow a user to define his ...

Access keys: (still) worth the trouble? See also: AccessKeys We have implemented access keys as: 1 Super user shortcut to action buttons 1 Aid to accessiblity ...

In Cairo and earlier, TWiki access controls were difficult to use, and the rules for web and topic access rather obscure. Specific problems were things like the inability ...

Make TWiki accessible according to US (Federal) law Section 508 It is important that sites made with TWiki are accessible to disabled people. When TWiki is used in ...

Bug: Accidental Meta Declaration In Topic Text Is Nasty. I managed to accidentally create a form declaration in a topic during an edit. It was of course for a non ...

Account Ledger Application A TWikiApplication providing a useful MashUp of the CommentPlugin, SpreadSheetPlugin and the EditTablePlugin. Useful for keeping a checkbook ...

Proposed text for COPYRIGHT in the TWiki root TWiki (TM) is Copyright (C) 1999 2005 Peter Thoeny, peter #64;thoenyPLEASENOSPAM.com and TWiki Contributors. ALL RIGHTS ...

AcroWiki Home page: http://www.acrocat.com/AcroWiki/ This is a repackage of HWiki . It's not being distributed by a company called Acrocat and cost $15. It's main ...

At the moment it is really hard for plugins to know where their handlers were invoked from. One of the problems this causes is that a plugin which generates active ...

ActivePerl is a version of Perl for Windows, ported by ActiveState. It's worth knowing that 'Perl for Win32', mentioned in some older Perl docs, was a completely ...

ActiveState is a company that receives money from Microsoft to do very nice ports of Perl (ActivePerl), Python and Tcl/Tk to Win32. http://www.activestate.com ...

nop ActiveTopic All TopicStatus categories: MikeMannix 21 Nov 2001

Feature Proposal: Add a way to display the contexts that are set Motivation I would like to add a set of css classes that are dependant on the contexts that we are ...

Feature Proposal: Add AJAX Contribs to Distribution and pave the way for improved usability. Implementation Add: YahooUserInterfaceContrib TWikiAjaxContrib ...

Feature Proposal: add topic "" to META and $attachment() to SEARCH format Motivation an irc conv, that shows a missing functionality .... Hi all, I'm strugling ...

Feature Proposal: Add $attachments to formatted search Motivation I'm surprised this isn't already present. Formatted Search needs a $attachments variable that would ...

Feature Proposal: Add autolink tag Motivation For those who desire autolinking in a web that has set AUTOLINK to off Description the noautolink tag needs an ...

Add a BeforeViewTemplateLoadHandler When thinking about how to go about building the RolebasedRenderingPlugin, I learned that it is not so easy to affect the templates ...

HI It would be nice if one can submit a comment to a page when finished editing (like in CVS). This comment should be send with the Webnotification. Because sometimes ...

Add a clearSessionValue procedure to the next release's API In BeijingRelease, getSessionValue and setSessionValue were added to the function API. These would ...

HI It would be nice if one can submit a comment to a page when finished editing (like in CVS). This comment should be send with the Webnotification. Because sometimes ...

The more functional replacement for mailnotify, Contrib::Mailer, should be added to the release package. See also: MovePluginsIntoSVN In r3734 CrawfordCurrie 04 ...

Feature Proposal: Add control over TOC rendering There is a number of control parameters I would like to add to TOC . 1 Currently we need to set !! on every ...

Feature Proposal: It would be nice if a topic could be copied, not just moved Motivation It's rather silly to copy and paste the contents of a topic rather than a ...

Use DBM Files for the User Database The site where I've just set up a restricted access wiki uses DBM files (AuthDBUserFile) instead of flat files to store user password ...

Can one of the inner circle please add DEVELOP to the interwiki rules, please? I want to be able to link to testcases e.g. ViewDEVELOP:TestCases/TestCaseAutoFormatting ...

Feature Proposal: add the registration data to the parameters of the registrationHandler Motivation it converts the registrationHandler from an almost useless 'kinda ...

Feature Proposal: The WEBLIST feature could be improved with a depth limit Motivation Because webs (and sub webs) allow security inheritance we are looking at implementing ...

Feature Proposal: Add DESCRIPTION setting to group topics Motivation Make group settings more transparent. Description and Documentation Small usability thingy: ...

The Func API has needed Email support for so long, it hurts me to think about it. sendEmail ( $text, $retries ) $error $text text of the mail, including ...

Whenever a user is entering a Wiki Web, he will be intially placed on the % nop MAINWEB% . Obviously this behaviour can be changed by editing either the variable ...

Feature Proposal: Add excludeweb parameter to SEARCH Updated 30 Apr 2005, with new patch Motivation For the BacklinksTemplate I need to create 2 searches for ...

My ISP would love it if you could add FastCGI support to at least the "view" script, since that script gets used the most often. DameonDWelchAbernathy 13 Mar 2004 ...

Add finalizeEditHandler to Plugins API Moved from Bugs:Item2935 please reopen the bug if there is agreement to do this. I have recently refactored TWiki::UI::Edit ...

Feature Proposal: Add a finishHandler() for plugins Motivation We do have an initPlugin() that is called right at the beginning. However, there's a complementary ...

In the process of updating the BugsContrib I was somewhat surprised that there is no footer parameter to SEARCH to match the header Documentation add to header ...

Feature Proposal: add format to META{"parent"} Motivation (originally written in HowToShowParentTopics) Today I was missing the ability for META{"parent"} to use ...

Feature Proposal: Add format parameter to META and METASEARCH It is confusing that META and METASEARCH cannot be formatted like SEARCH . In any case the format ...

Feature Proposal: MetaSearch is kinda useless Motivation I'd like to be able to easily create a page that shows all of its children. MetaSearch would appear to be ...

Feature Proposal: Add format parameter to URLPARAM Motivation I often have the need to write the value of a url param only if that url param is passed. For instance ...

Feature Proposal: add $formfield to META{"parent"} Motivation (originally written in HowToShowParentTopics) I am creating a client extranet, with pages of my employer ...

Propsed API: pod getSessionKeys() %keys Get a hash of all the names of session variables. Currently you have to know what they are named in order to retrieve ...

Feature Proposal: Add getUrl to TWiki::Func Motivation TWiki has a TWiki::Net::getUrl to get a webpage via http. Extensions that need to retrieve web content do not ...

Feature Proposal: Add global setting to allow non WikiWords Motivation TWiki allows to work with topic names that are non wiki words they are just not linked ...

Feature Proposal: Add GluePlugin functionality to the Core Motivation Make nop TWikiML readable: SEARCH expressions, as well as other tags really get messy up to ...

To add a google search form to your public wiki, use something like this: ...to get this: Further customizations like search results ...

Implemented: New title parameter for TOC variable Documentation in TWikiVariables, changed content indicated in red: % nop TOC{"SomeTopic" ...}% Table of Contents ...

Feature Proposal: Add HeadlinesPlugin to Distribution Motivation Two way RSS feeds are expected nowadays. TWiki should ship with frequently used features, hence the ...

Feature Proposal: Add HeadlinesPlugin to the list of Preinstalled Plugins Motivation For smaller intranet websites, the HeadlinesPlugin is a good way of encouraging ...

Moved from OldUsabilityIdeas ArthurClemens 09 Jun 2003 I've noticed that some sites can change icon in title from standard IE to something custom: how I can do ...

Proposed: Add $installWeb to initializeUserHandler It appears that $installWeb is not available to initializeUserHandler. The only argument passed to it is $theLoginName ...

Feature Proposal: Add Installer Link To Extension Info Table Motivation Its just a minor but nice feature to be able to use wget from your local directory to download ...

Feature Proposal: Add an isempty operator to the IF variable Motivation I was trying to build an expression (think SQL query) where some parts must be added only ...

Feature Proposal: New % nop ISINGROUP{}% variable Motivation There's often a need to include stuff depending on a person's "role", which roughly corresponds to groups ...

Add isTrue() to TWiki::Func Currently TWiki uses TWiki::isTrue to determine whether a boolean option to a tag represents true or false. The values interpreted ...

Feature Proposal: Add isValidWebName to TWiki::Func Motivation To provide plugin and other developers with a stable api, building on the idea behind Func.pm. ...

Cairo apparently includes the EditTablePlugin. One of the recent additions to this plugin was the ability to edit dates using jscalendar. I think it is not appropriate ...

I looked at BetterSkins, and decided that I wanted a menu on the left hand side like lots of web sites. It turned out to be easy, except for one small detail. I edited ...

Feature Proposal: Add a "no encode" parameter to SPACEDTOPIC Motivation This came up with working on BacklinksTemplate: There is one bug with the implementation ...

Feature Proposal: Add an online IRC Chat to the Support Web Motivation Not many users are familiar with IRC. To facilitate online help we could provide an online ...

Feature request: Add parent variable to template A lot of times I miss the ability to simply get the topic's parent. Template/skin authors could be helped by adding ...

Add a Plugin Identifier Function In a discussion started at SmartSessionPluginDev about identifying one version of nop SessionPlugin over another version of nop ...

Add qualification to bug report To order bug reports by severity we need a qualification dropdown for bug reports. For example: visual, major, etc. ArthurClemens ...

Implemented: New REVINFO revision variable for templates The current % nop REVINFO% variable that is used in view.tmpl is already formatted in a way that is not always ...

Add SanitizeAttachmentName To TWiki::Func This has been implemented for TWiki 4.2, see Bugs:Item3780 ArthurClemens 18 Mar 2007 Enhancing TWikiFuncDotPm with ...

ViewAfterSaveLosesText contains some assistance on how to troubleshoot save problems. It should be added to an appropriate documentation page FaQ, or troubleshooting ...

It has long been a source of considerable irritation to me that plugins have to manage their own searches over webs; the only way available for them to search in webs ...

Add param section See Bugs:Item2400 To create TWiki AJAX applications it is essential to pass a section as url parameter. For instance http://twiki.org/cgi bin/view ...

I'm sensing a groundswell of opinion that the SessionPlugin should be added to the kernel (i.e. be shipped in every release). So I'm proposing it for Dakar, to see ...

Feature Proposal: add a settingstopic parameter to edit save Motivation Similar to templatetopic and formtemplate , but used to over ride the META:PREFERENCES ...

(This is my first feature request, so be gentle with me : ) ) I see the "This is your signature for easy copy paste operation" at the bottom of the edit window. ...

Add thead and tfoot to TWiki tables YahooUserInterfaceContrib has a JavaScript based table sorting, that relies on the header row being in a thead section, which ...

SvenDowideit is refactoring this topic to seperate the AddTWikiAdminUser feature from the SimplifiedUserMappingCodeInterface feature use the configure password for ...

Feature Proposal: Add templates to bulk registration Motivation When one is doing bulk registration, one may well want to have different user pages be created using ...

Feature Proposal: Add textarea rich type to TWiki Form Definitions Motivation Allows TWikiApps to be designed to present contained HTML blocks in TWikiForm fields ...

Feature Proposal: Add current topic to "My Links" I would like to see a link in the personal left bar: "Add current topic". Clicking would add the current topic to ...

What if, in addition to the Edit button at the bottom of the page, we also had an Append button? This would bring up an empty (signature only) box. When the ...

If you´ve ever used Backflip.com you´ll hopefully understand what I am getting at here. How about adapting an existing WebBrowser plug in that maintains your bookmarks ...

Feature Proposal: Extend VarVAR to referencing variables defined in a topic. Motivation This conversation from irc sums up the motivation: Lynnwood Doesn't it seem ...

Feature Proposal: Add TRUNCATE variable Motivation Often I want to truncate string values. Currently only formatted search has a truncate options for topic, summary ...

Feature Proposal: Add USERSLIST TWiki variable Motivation Now we have proper user mappers, the old search mechanisms are no longer good enough to get a list of users ...

Feature Proposal: Add User To Groups On Registration Motivation Add the a ability for TWiki to be configured such that on User registration, the new user is added ...

This started in TWikiPluginAPI PeterThoeny 06 Feb 2001 Proposal we probably need a way to ADD values to a variable, so that you can fix a minimal set of site ...

I would like to see a link to Managing Webs (specifically "Adding a New Web") under TWikiSiteTools in TWiki TWiki WebHome . The form to add a web seems (to ...

Bug: Adding a New Web fails if user not already logged in "Add Web" breaks if not logged in. (i.e. if it has to ask you to login during the creation process). Instead ...

Feature Proposal: The plugin workarea is great but... Motivation ... there is no way to "keep their areas tidy." Description and Documentation Add 3 functions: ...

Feature Proposal: Add WysiwygPlugin to Dakar In Bugs:Item612, Sven states that "the Wysiwyg editor is not going out with Dakar at all". I am very puzzled about this ...

Adding a setUserName Function to Func API In a subject I brought up in SmartSessionPluginDev, I suggested that perhaps a "setUserName" function should be added to ...

Feature Proposal: Adding arguments to (user defined) variables Motivation This would allow some TWiki programming tasks to be done in a clearer and more efficient ...

Hello all, i've been playing with twiki on our intranet for two weeks now, and it is really awesome. I've never seen a "Intranet for techies" so active ! So here's ...

Proposed handy hint It's often the case that when you are building TWikiApplications, there are frequently used constructs that you want to add to the text for example ...

Questions, advice, and experience regarding web granularity, web names, etc. Initial question: What should the granularity of webs be? How many webs is good: a few ...

Adding opt in for mailing purposes It's generally considered the Right Thing for people who register on a web site to specifically opt in to receiving mail. I bring ...

Documentation Proposal: some more ingredients for the windows install cookbook Motivation Adding some paragraphs to the windows cookbook might be helpfull. Especially ...

Feature Proposal: The role a user serves often affects content Motivation The role a person plays within a TWiki is frequently of fundamental importance in what ...

While I was introducing someone I work with to TWiki, he wondered if the enumerated lists could use things other than numbers (i.e., letters and roman numerals). HTML ...

Feature Proposal: kupu isn't the only choice Motivation Users may prefer other wysiwyg editors. Description and Documentation My personal motivation is that kupu ...

A small (I hope) addition to ACL It would be really helpful to be able to do something like #Set ALLOWTOPICCHANGE SampleTeacher #Set ALLOWTOPICCHANGE ...

My idea is developing an AddOn API to make it easy to create, change and delete TWiki pages from programs. That would make it possible to write TWiki extensions like ...

Add spaceOutWikiWord to Func Motivation To space out wikiwords, plugins now invent their own methods. This leads to buggy implementations, see SpacedWikiWordPlugin ...

It would be very useful to have some management tools to handle some common wikimaster duties: renaming a topic and all references to it DONE (ManagingTopics ...

nop AdminTopic Topics that help organize content. See TopicClassification for complete topic category list New Admin Topic: (Use a name in WikiNotation) ...

The following patch, when applied to the templates/edit. .tmpl files changes them from the hardcoded next step in the workflow to an administrator changeable preference ...

Legacy content: assertion This has been raised before once or twice, but can we please adopt the Teamwork logos before the Cairo release? To reiterate, there are ...

Advanced Hypertext Summary: To manage a huge, worldwide information space, users need proven features like fat links, typed links, integrated search and browsing ...

Any of you ever tried using http://aegis.sf.net or BitKeeper? Both of these products are free for Open Source use and are established ways of handling patch contributions ...

If "AffectsContrib" is selected in WhatDoesItAffect, this field must be filled in to indicate which Plugin/Addon/Skin/Contrib is affected.

Which Extension(s) (Plugin/Contrib/Addon/Skin) the code changes in a ChangeProposal affects. E.G. bug may only be reported for a particular plugin but to fix it may ...

For BugReport ChangeProposals, which releases are affected by this bug. You should tick all releases affected by the bug. Discussion I'd like to expand on the above ...

ChangeProposalForm affects a specific Plugin/Contrib/Addon/Skin. The report must indicate exactly what is affected. If this is not checked, it is the core that is ...

ChangeProposalForm affects public documentation (docs shipped with the release). This should not be ticked if the change only affects internal documentation.

ChangeProposalForm increases or decreases end user functionality. If functionality has changed but not reduced or increased this should not be ticked.

ChangeProposalForm affects the look and feel for an end user. An example might be the position or size of a button, or the colour of a message.

ChangeProposalForm has a significant positive or negative effect on performance. Performance of the core code is normally measured in AthensMarks, and end user performance ...

ChangeProposalForm affects an API published outside the core. At the time of writing this relates to the Func interface only, but it is anticipated that this will ...

afterAttachmentSaveHandler(\%attrHash, $topic, $web, $error ) \%attrHash reference to hash of attachment attribute values $topic the name of the ...

Proposal: call plugin handler after locks are broken. Such handlers can then notify the old owner of what has happened. If accepted soon, I will try to build this ...

afterCommonTagsHandler($text, $topic, $web ) $text text to be processed $topic the name of the topic in the current CGI query $web the name ...

afterEditHandler($text, $topic, $web ) $text text that is being previewed $topic the name of the topic in the current CGI query $web the ...

Fix for afterEditHandler Bug in TWiki 4.0.0 4.0.4 The afterEditHandler is only called by preview, not save. This makes makes a beforeEditHandler / afterEditHandler ...

afterSaveHandler($text, $topic, $web, $error, $meta ) $text the text of the topic excluding meta data tags (see beforeSaveHandler) $topic ...