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.) ...

NOTE: This is a legacy rule, replaced by AcceptedBy7DayFeedbackPeriod Accepted By 14 Day Rule The 14 day rule is defined in TWikiRelease04x01Process and TheFourteenDaysRule ...

Accepted By 7 Day Feedback Period Details: TWikiReleaseManagementProcess and SevenDayFeedbackPeriod. Contributors: PeterThoeny 2010 02 16 Discussion

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 TWikiReleaseManagementProcess. 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 ...

Feature Proposal: Adding Access control on Form Fields Motivation A few work flow kind of Application require access restrictions on the fields/meta data of the applications ...

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 ...

Feature Proposal: Change Access control to avoid build in security issues Motivation I experienced security issues with a client, which I had to address in due course ...

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 Angle Brackets ( and ) to Format Tokens Motivation Some Plugins use html like syntax to trigger there tags or for additional formatting. These ...

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 ...

Add Check in Comment 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 ...

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 TWiki is enterprise focused. Many teams use RSS feeds to keep up with industry and competition. TWiki ...

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: Plugin hook for TWiki::writeLog Motivation Want to implement a plugin, which calculates various statistics based on logs. Therefore need log data ...

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 number of topics variable to Formatted Search Motivation The AddFooterParameterToSEARCH allows people to specify a custom footer. WIBNI you ...

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. ...

Feature Proposal: Add a Skin Directory to the Default Template Path Motivation Prevent the clutter in the templates directory, and to ease the life of skin developers ...

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 nop TWikiNetSkin to Distribution Motivation TWiki is enterprise focused. The TWikiNetSkin has a corporate look in is a good fit for the TWikiMission ...

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 Agent to configure Motivation A corporate environment that has a proxy may limit the outbound web traffic to certain user agents, such ...

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 ...

While doing some work for the caching mechanism in the XpTrackerPlugin, I found that I need to do some procesing after the topic was saved. I patched the TWiki20031218beta ...

Feature Proposal: Age Sensitive Dates on Topics Motivation A co worker was talking about a wiki hs used at a previous job. Pages are date stamped, as with TWiki. ...

Ajax Like AJAX is a well defined term, but the definition doesn't leave much space for applications that behave in an AJAX like way, but don't employ all the technologies ...

AlertToModifiedTopic Hi, I would like to kindly ask you for a hint regarding our new version of CalendarPlugin with iCal export. Our current version generates the ...

Who am I? "My name is Ned. I do not like my little bed.", Dr. Seuss AlexKane Software Developer: testing, debugging, profiling tools for Java, C#, ...

nop AlexeyDegtyarev Would Like to Check in Who am I? I'm Alexey Degtyarev What do I want? write access to SVN for the following branches: trunk What can I do ...

The WikiWay suggests changing some of the original WikiSyntax. For example, changed bullet points in the following way: Original/Now: bullet level 1 bullet ...

I could not get Twiki to run and got "error 500: Internal Server Error: The server encountered an unexpected condition which prevented it from fulfilling the request ...

Search for all topics with "Secur" in their topic name.

All TWiki Releases This is a dynamic report that lists all recent TWiki releases that have a release table in the release topic. It is designed to be machine readable ...

Feature Proposal: An "All Users" Group Motivation Having such a group would help in access control, particularly in areas such as a web where access in controlled ...

A single notification subscription for multiple Webs? What if we add a AllWebNotify topic for people interested in all webs contained in the TWiki? It should be easy ...

Bug: Headings containing ALLCAPS words rendered with broken anchors Headings that contain any words in ALLCAPS will have their "name" anchor incorrectly rendered. ...

Proposal : Allow things like ASN1 as a valid abbreviation (Minor change) Currently things like ASN would be a valid abbreviation. Allowing things like ASN1 as a valid ...

Allow access to topic pages to check permissions, overriding web permissions. Currently TWiki's permissions checking stops when a deny is reached on any of the following ...

Feature Proposal: Allow Blank Topics TWiki doesn't allowing saving blank topics. this as an unnecessary restriction (especially when considering TWiki in the context ...

Bug: Allow CSS classes in verbatim tags Originally asked in Support.DisableRenderingInBlocks I would like to have the option to have a CSS class assigned to ...

There are two implementation strategies available for this request: PeterKlausner implemented a method that simply pulls out the beginning of the topic for use ...

Allow Developers to Collect Donations There are some developers (like me) whose interest in TWiki is not commercially driven. Anyway, it would be nice if Plugin developers ...

It would be very useful if the TWiki view script accepts both Web/Topic pairs separated by dot and by slash like it is now (this is not the same GoToShouldAllowWebToBeSpecified ...

The TWikiImplementations example twiki application dynamically creates a form that will create a new topic by using GMTIME. That works great until you submit from ...

If you read only one topic about the direct save and no preview debate, make it this one. If you don't know which one to start with, start here. When in edit mode ...

Feature Proposal: Users should be able to choose the attachment file name Motivation It impedes TWiki acceptance if users are forced to rename their local files to ...

At the moment if you specify both a formtemplate and a templatetopic in a save, then the form values in the query will not be inserted into the newly created form ...

The current markup does escape angle brackets if they are standalone. Angle bracket pairs are untouched so that any HTML tag is passed "as is". It would be nice to ...

Feature Proposal: Allow an Include or a Search to increase/decrease header levels of extracted text Motivation One of TWiki's strengths is the ability to reuse information ...

Some wikis (e.g. ZWiki) allow indentation of paragraphs following list items. It's a very natural way to have a list of things with short descriptions associated ...

PROPOSAL: Better handling of plugin settings in upgraded environments People upgrading their systems should be able to have their settings transparently not clobbered ...

How hard would it be to allow adding multiple forms per topic? As I'm using forms more, I've throught it would nice to have a basic WebForm and then add additional ...

Allow search also in revisions Add a checkbox and functionality in advanced search on WebSearch to allow also to include revisions in search. This would allow to search ...

Allow Sectional Editing At TWiki.org Some topics at TWiki.org get rather lengthy, and it is tedious to scroll to the bottom in the edit field or find a passage somewhere ...

Feature Proposal: Allow Topic Name That Begins With Small Letter Motivation It is sometime absolutely necessary to have topic names that are very simple, like: fft ...

Bug: ALLOWTOPICVIEW Broken ALLOWTOPICVIEW is not working. Test case Set up a user who is denied viewing of a web. Add them to ALLOWTOPICVIEW for a topic in the ...

Bug: ALLOWTOPICVIEW only restricts current revision Using partial authentication, setting all ALLOW variables in a topic only seems to restrict access to the current ...

Feature Proposal: Allow URL Parameters in a double bracket link Motivation I had the need to make a link to a specific revision of a page. I tried using nop ...

Feature Proposal: Allow url params in bracket notation Motivation It would be great to be able to simply write nop % nop TOPIC%?rev 3 revision 3 or nop ...

For HtmlAreaEditor to be feasible, the symbol must be permittable immediately before a WikiWord. The problem is created by TWiki's rule that WikiWords have to be ...

The APT format (Almost Plain Text) is a simple markup language (like HTML) than can be used to write simple article like documents (like HTML). Unlike HTML, APT uses ...

News of interest related to current development in the SVN version of TWiki, especially indications of possible changes that might break things and features that developers ...

CategoryStale DeleteMe Please add any problems you find with the alpha release to this page. Sym link to Webs directory after running TWikiUnixInstaller causes ...

I suspect a lot of people are put off downloading and testing the TWikiAlphaRelease by the requirement to use CVS. I know I was before joining the CoreTeam, even ...

Allow forms to be rendered as wanted Motivation Forms are being used for a wide range of semi structured pages. Depending on the type of page, you may want a very ...

Alternate Plugin Management (Refactored from PluginsInstaller) Does community have interest in this very different approach? Each plugin is in a tree of its own ...

The current mechanism to handle plugin tags is to call each plugin that registered the commonTagsHandler. In turn, each plugin will parse the complete topic text once ...

Hello, all. I'm looking to change the Wiki style that creates bold, italics, code, and underline formnatting, as well as possibly disable traditional WikiWord linking ...

Bug: Incorrect init of alternate web preferences I think there is a bug in lib/TWiki/Prefs.pm . Under some circumstances, final preferences in alternate webs aren ...

As long as we're looking a making a break from pure HTML, I strongly recommend that we examine the principles expressed of the book "The Humane Interface: New Directions ...

Alternative TWiki Targets Alternative TWiki Targets is the first title that came to mind that seemed to work. Right now, the real mission is to start a this PAGE, ...

Always see local server time, everywhere, never anything else Some people have this specific requirement, e.g. on company intranets that are not international. Some ...

Ames's Law: From http://www.mang.canterbury.ac.nz/writing guide/writing/starbuck.shtml#Make Active verbs Adverbs Adjectives Nouns Passive verbs or To Be verbs ...

Bug: Heading containing without spaces surrounding it can't be jumped to using TOC. Test case Links in the TOC above for some of following headings are incorrect ...

"AmphetaDesk is a free, cross platform, open sourced, syndicated news aggregator" "AmphetaDesk is developed with Perl and XML" See: http://www.disobey.com/amphetadesk ...

I've done a bit of analysis of the code changes for TWikiReleaseSpring2001 since last production release. Attached in an Excel document, plus html rendering. In summary ...

Inspired by ModPerlize I crafted the attached script to analyse usage of globals in the TWiki core. The analysis was run on the checked in code as of 17the June 2004 ...

Analysis of plugins released packages, as taken from the Plugins area on 10th March 2004 The most abusive module is determined by counting the number of calls outside ...

Pulled this out of the NewBugTemplate and reset the template. JohnRouillard 07 Aug 2002 Bug: anchor tags in list if I place an anchor tag in an ordered list ...

Include text from at/after the #MyAnchor in the linkToolTipInfo generated summary. Motivation The title/tooltip text (mouse over popup) should relate to text at/after ...

The (fairly) new "and" syntax (using the ";") does not work in a topic name search. On the Wikilearn web try searching for search ; templ in the advanced search ...

Who am I? I´m AndreUlrich and discovered TWiki in the beginning of 2002 as a helpful tool. Since then I regulary take part in discussions to help TWiki going on. Now ...

Who am I? My name is Andreas Vögele. I work with trustsec IT solutions GmbH, a small company in Germany, as system administrator and software developer. We use TWiki ...

Who am I? My name is Andrew Pantyukhin. I've been a member of the FreeBSD Project as a ports committer for some time now. I support TWiki installations for a couple ...

Who am I? I am a student at Bournemouth University, UK, studying a BSc in Business Information Technology. At the moment I am gaining work experience at Ltd, which ...

My System at http://www.AndyPryke.com has some minor modifications, these should be refactored out from files here to individual pages. minor mods to fix bugs ...

CategoryStale Another implementation of Wiki in Perl, made by SergioFanchiotti (see http://www.rur.com/APW/ and TWikiClones ). starting from TWiki and Wiki ...

This is a proposed new topic classification, that is the opposite of feature brainstorming. Any proposal that involves cutting down, removing features, or moving features ...

Who am I? I'm currently a http://www.isc2.org Security and have been carrying out http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname 107 cong bills docid ...

Who am I? I'm AntonioTerceiro. Currently I'm coursing a Masters Program at Federal do Rio Grande do Sul's Informatics Intitute. I've been a TWiki advocate since 2001 ...

An Apache Authorization handler to protect attachments and enable WebDAV I am finishing (with FrancoBagnoli) an Apache ModPerl based handler to handle authorization ...

Apache Benchmark is also known as ApacheBench See ApacheBenchmark for more information on the Apache HTTP Server Benchmarking Tool. Sample header output of ab ...

ab Apache HTTP Server Benchmarking Tool ab is a tool for benchmarking your Apache Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) server. It is designed to give you an impression ...

Feature Proposal: When can one use mod perl, fastcgi, speedycgi? Motivation Documentation is absent, confusing, or in some cases contradictory. Description and Documentation ...

Hi, friends, I have just noticed in the Apache manual the sentece: New in Apache 1.3.13 is the feature that if Include points to a directory, rather than a file ...

Bug: Need another 'Directory' directive in the apache example code This is a documentation bug, basically. If the user cuts and pastes the example code into the ...

NTLM auth module for Apache/Unix can be found here: http://modntlm.sourceforge.net/ Detailed instruction on how to get it working with apache is located here ...

Is there a known problem with the Generation of Passwords for the .htpasswd file ? I use TwikiRegistrationPub (copied to TwikiRegistration ) to create new users ...

I found that if I set 'ScriptAlias' in "httpd.conf" to 'ScriptAlias /twiki/bin/ "/usr/local/twiki/bin"' it would simply display the script text however 'ScriptAlias ...

Bug: Apache snips a chunk out of the oopsmore and prevents topic reparenting Reported as reparenting topics failed due to the select list only containing a portion ...

There is Apache::Tidy However, if you are running Apache2, is available. mod tidy is even nicer than Apache::Tidy because Apache2 provides a native filtering framework ...

Bug: Apache 2.0 Breaks Non UTF 8 Encoded URLs on Windows Summary When using Firefox or similar browsers that don't send UTF 8 URLs by default, international characters ...

OK, I have TWiki (2001 version, sorry) up and running flawlessly on RedHat8.0, using Apache 2.0. I needed GnuSkin, wasn't sure that that and SessionPlugin would work ...

"Houston, we have got a problem" Dear CodevCommunity, Let me summarize the current situation and recommended actions to take. We count on you, jump on the train ...

I added some simple javascript that adds your signature to the end of the text area.... function appendSignature() { field document.forms 0 .text; ...

On CommentPluginDev, I've just written: If the appendTopicText function that I wrote on FuncDotPm was implemented, it would not be necessary to "Remember to refresh ...

Applet based editor for the less geeky individual What do people think of this: User can opt for applet based editor in their preferences (rather than existing ...

See also, overview here: http://www.portalux.com/applications/web/app servs/ TWiki needs to sit alongside other apps We can expect that the standalone paradigm to ...

An TWikiApplication is defined inside a specific web normally as a collection of topics, forms, templates, attachments and settings An application web is a "bundle ...

Which release does this feature, enhancement proposal, change requres, or bug report apply to? This field allows to sort out issues depending on the various releases ...

Patch Now Available, see my (KevinAtkinson) comments below. Thanks, Kevin, for that patch. It has introduced an optional step in which a user's email address ...

The feature of allowing users to enter arbitrary html code adds risks of cross site scripting attacks, and the reason why virtually all wikis don't allow arbitrary ...

This discussion started in FlexibleWikiWords. At work we have the need to display an arbitrary string for WikiWord links. The question is how to extend the nop ...

Arbitrary Topic Names I agree about arbitratry topic names, though, Wikipedia has shown how very useful it is to be able to do this. Subject to filtering in only a ...

TWiki Architecture Diagrams BeijingArchitectureDiagram PeterThoeny 04 Sep 2005 I restored the trashed topic and converted it into a getaway topic for architecure ...

Archiving on ibilio.org http://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/HOW.TO.SUBMIT.html fill out http://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/LSM TEMPLATE upload form and software to ftp ...

Might what we call variables (and started out as variables, e.g. WIKIWEBMASTER) be more properly called directives because they cause a computation to be done rather ...

This topic is related to PackageTWikiTopic, expect that this is a design discussion whereas PackageTWikiTopic should be more about implementation specifics (API, etc ...

Bug: Request confirmation for topic deletion Three things are certain: Death, taxes, and lost data. Guess which has occurred. Happily, it was ...

The WebHome web at TWiki.org has now over 7500 topics. Bash reports Argument list too long for the fgrep and egrep search. This renders Main.WebIndex , Main ...

Several issues raised during meeting to place TWiki on intranet I am listing this as a bug because, well, they are limitations of twiki or the users using twiki, and ...

nop ArsDigita Community System http://www.arsdigita.com/products/ WHAT: One of the oldest database backed "portal" systems around. Doesn't seem to get much press ...

The Art of Community: Building the New Age of Participation A book written by Jono Bacon, http://www.jonobacon.org/, community lead of the Ubunty project. "Online ...

I would like to suggest a new topic for codev: nop AskAQuestion or nop DeveloperQuestions. There are times when I have questions which are not appropriate for FeatureBrainstorming ...

This is a commercial Windows based database with the ability to handle unstructured text as well as structured data fields. Has impressive searching and reporting ...

Who is working or did work on this feature/bug? If not in CoreTeam, then need someone from CoreTeam to assist, their name goes in AssignedToCore A field on WebForm ...

Used by WebForm, so please edit with care. Note that names should not be removed as this means that topic edits could result in the loss of form data. Name ...

Core code benchmarks for TWiki. Unzip the attached zip in a neutral directory. Requires Storable (CPAN) Requires a local installation of Athens Must ...

Athens Release Released as TWikiRelease01Dec2001 Next Release codenamed BeijingRelease Introduction Athens is the code name for release that came out in 01 Dec ...

Wiki:AtisWiki DavidKosa 21 Nov 2002

ATOM (instead of RSS) From http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer 697 topic 14 " http://AtomEnabled.org proclaims: "AtomEnabled finally makes it possible for ...

Atom Publishing Purpose scope Atom is not just about news feed like RSS. It is also defining a protocol for publishing content on the Internet. On that topic we ...

Atom Syndication is a new syndication format, somewhat like RichSiteSummary RSS but solving some of its problems. It's been adopted by Google and has a number ...

Bug: Attach adds "txt" extension to file name When attaching the file editsection.pattern.tmpl to SectionalEditPluginDev, the upload routine changed the filename ...

Bug: Attach Allows Restricted Filenames The TopicAction Attach allows files to be uploaded which can not be accessed afterwards. Test case See .htaccess.txt in ...

Module name attach AttachCgiScript Location TWikiRoot/bin/attach Summary Provides functionality to update or create an attachment to a page Primary ...

Bug: special characters in comment field cause problems using non standard characters in the atttachment comment field causes problems. Test case upload a file ...

Attach Document Directly From URL In our team, we often find publications on the www, and I encourage everybody to attach all interesting stuff to the TWiki website ...

Bug: attach does not render TWiki syntax The attach perl script which comes with the distribution does not render TWiki syntax when viewing the table on the attach ...

Module name TWiki::Access AttachDotPm Location TWIKIROOT/lib/TWiki/Attach.pm Summary File attachment functionality Primary Author PeterThoeny ...

Attach link not struck out in PatternSkin When viewing an earlier revision, the "Attach image or document" link is not rendered struck out and disabled as link using ...

Feature Proposal: Implement Collaborative Editing Flow for attachments Motivation After three years of using twiki with more than a hundred users, the main feature ...

You know, how in PowerPoint you go around picking up pictures doing a visual skeleton before adding the text. It would be great to have the same facility in TWiki ...

Hi, is there any way to reference a couple of attached file or even a whole subdir in the Attach/Pub Area? Maybe you have a lot of files and want to make them accessable ...

I think that line 135 in attach should be... $tmpl TWiki::Store::readTemplate( "attach", $skin ); #sr removed spurious "" param SteveRoe 19 Jul 2001 Thanks ...

Attach template shows table row when there are no attachments When a topic has no attachments, in the attach template there is still a table row rendered under the ...

It would be great if you could add a WikiTemplate (i.e. prefill the TextArea with some text) while creating a WikiTopic. An elegant way to do this would be to add ...

Feature Proposal: Allow the ATTACHURL variable to reference other topics Motivation Sometimes I want to reference attachments on other topics. Description and Documentation ...

Bug: Version 1.1 link incorrect when multiple versions available Error in Attach.pm format row function. condition if( $topRev $ $rev eq "1.1") is always met for ...

Feature Proposal: Enhancement of ATTACHEDFILELINKFORMAT (and ATTACHEDIMAGEFORMAT) with $date, $fileext, ... Motivation Enhancement of ConfigurableAttachLinkFormat ...

Use image description as alt text For attached images, ATTACHEDIMAGEFORMAT uses by default the file name as alt text. Wouldn't it be more logical to have its description ...

Bug: Attached images are mangled PNG and JPG images (maybe other formats too) are mangled on upload. BMP works okay. source file 32,703 vtp.png c:\temp\ ...

Peace, TWikiers! :o) The links in the attached html are wrong, like: Codev.ImproveDocsForFirstTimeUsers I get change notifications (TWiki.Codev) to my Yahoo mbox ...

Bug: attachement save error In the file bin/upload there is a misspelling (twice): oopssaveerrr oopssaveerr When I solved this problem I got: Topic save error ...

Several people have commented to me that they expect the attach button whilst they are editing. I would like to propose that either the attach functionality is moved ...

Implemented: Change 'action' to 'manage' in attachment table Issue: Users do not understand what the link "action" in an attachement table does. Solution: Rename the ...

Bug: Attachment Comment Bug A user reported the following error when attempting to upload an attachment. By changing their comment from Webb ECR to Webb , the ...

Feature Proposal: a way to get the number of attachments I want to display the number of attachments to a topic. I propose a new variable % nop ATTACHMENTCOUNT{} ...

Not A Bug This occurs when the user forgets to set up write permissions in pub/ subdirectories of the twiki installation. I installed the TWiki according to the ...

I'd like to be able to have the attachments list hidden, and I can achieve that already. However, if I edit the body of the topic, I'd like the attachment list to ...

The logic for managing attachments is rather confusing. Updating a file with the same name should not add a new attachment Example: when I click on the "manage" for ...

Feature Proposal: Rename Attachment to Match Latest Upload Motivation I don't think it's intuitive to users that a file is re named to match the existing attachment ...

Attachments as TML, available programmatically If attachments could have an alternate rendering handler we might get a clean way of supporting FunkyNewActions on them ...

Bug: several versions of an attachment not handled correctly I added an attachment to http://twiki.org/cgi bin/attach/Plugins/CounterPluginDev, it is properly displayed ...

Bug: Version control of attachments always shows latest only When you attach documents it seems like the revisions are kept but no matter which version you try to ...

Bug: The attchements table in view is not good After I've uploaded some files I noticed that the table in which the attachments are shown, is not properly rendered ...

Pre TWikiReleaseSpring2001 TWiki has topics under revision control, but not attachments. This is the documentation for having attachments under revision control. ...

CategoryStale AttachmentsUnderRevisionControl "historic" information put here, so old topic can be used for current issues. JohnTalintyre 15 Mar 2001 Can attachments ...

Possible changes for Attachments after TWikiReleaseSpring2001 Possible changes to AttachmentsUnderRevisionControl. If someone wants one of these I suggest the specific ...

I notice that there is (apparently) working support for attachments under revision control in the March 2001 beta is this safe to use? It wasn't documented in the ...

Feature Proposal: Make Attachments Visible When Editing Motivation When editing a page and placing a link to an attachment %A nop TTACHURL%/MyPic.jpg or something ...

The attachment table gets confused if you upload a file that has spaced WikiNames, i.e. if you upload C:\path\file with nop WikiName Fix: In function getAttachAttr ...

How do we attract more graphic artists to TWiki platform? Visual appeal has a huge effect on adoption of software, arguably more than even purely technical considerations ...

Generating Attribute Methods Using AUTOLOAD Perlcookbook:ch13 12 , i.e. http://iis1.cps.unizar.es/Oreilly/perl/cookbook/ch13 12.htm MartinCleaver 16 Oct 2004 ...

AuthCAS CAS authentication Testing the TWiki CasLogin Contrib module CharlieReitsma has written a Contrib module for TWiki in order to add CAS authentication (further ...

Bug: nop AuthName Should not be nop ByPassword The nop AuthName paramter in the bin/.htaccess file should contain something more meaningful than "ByPassword" ...

Presenting localised login messages to users (I was writing an Bug item, but started to have so many doubts and "what if"'s that I preferred to post my ideas here ...

Some TWiki scripts (at present these are ViewCgiScript and RdiffCgiScript) can be accessed through two filenames (and hence invoked through two URLs), with or without ...

(Moved from AuthenticatedMode. PavelGoran 22 Jul 2003) So I've mentioned this in another posting, but I wanted to direct attention specifically to it here. Right ...

A user mentioned that submitting the registration form asks for authentication, which is a chicken and egg problem. I could verify this: Restart browser (to forget ...

Related Topics: WebAdmin, AdminToolsDev, ScriptToCreateNewWeb, TrashCanWeb, HostileUsers TWiki based group authentication is a flexible approach, and detached from ...

Bug: Authentication Needs nop AllowOverride I recently installed Twiki (Twikibeta20010803). The installation documentation was good for the most part. I did have ...

A TWiki SubSystem for Registration, Authentication, Authorisation and Privileges MartinCleaver 01 Oct 2004 See CodevDocumentationProject MartinCleaver 01 ...

Has anyone implemented a plugin or a piece of code to work with FirewallOne? Either that or any thoughts? I think it requires that a plugin is installed in the webserver ...

Here's an idea. I am guessing this would be implemented as a plugin. I'll describe the idea to begin. Each page as it grows contains contributions from all kinds ...

Author colours during a conversation It just occurred to me that it might be easy to change the colours according to author, making it easier to visually tie together ...

I propose that the original author should always be able to rename a topic s/he created regardless of the setting for ALLOWTOPICRENAME. Granted, this would be difficult ...

Fuck it. I spend an hour writing down something about the need of defining a vision for TWiki UI but lost everything due to the following after clicking the pickaxe ...

Categories, and other WikiBadges, are incredibly useful for establishing relationships between topics. But entering a topic in a category isn't all that simple; you ...

Feature Proposal: Automatic Connection (two way link) Motivation Current methods of achieving this functionality are subject to serious concerns about performance ...

It would be nice to automatically convert documents in FileAttachments from their native formats to HTML. This could be done at the time of uploading the file; or ...

Given some perldoc like syntax it might be possible to auto create (with caching) the TextFormattingRules page. This would be useful say in the situations where we ...

I was looking at CommentPlugin and thinking about what PeterMasiar said in AutomatedWebNotifyRegistration. While I agree with him about the feature being unnecessary ...

Feature Proposal: AUTOINC step value Motivation Creating a user maintained document repository. TREEVIEW/TREEBROWSER sorts on Topic name so I would like to leave ...

Feature: Create Auto incrementing Topic Names with AUTOINC n Motivation Flexible way to generate auto incremented topic names when creating new topics. This is used ...

Why aren't normal text phrases (non WikiWords) auto linked to their corresponding topics? PS: I put an implementation question into the developer's FAQ at HackingOutWikiAnnoyance ...

Automatic Save process in TWiki Raw comments Don't you hate it when your browser crashes and you loss the last hours TWiki work. Some tricky with META refresh, temp ...

Feature Proposal: Auto Table Row Numbering Motivation Saves time when it's necessary to number/renumber each table row. Especially useful when renumbering where if ...

WikiPedia:AWB WikiPedia's AutoWikiBrowser is a semi automated Wikipedia editor for Microsoft Windows 2000/XP (or newer), designed to make tedious repetitive tasks ...

Has any implemented automatic addition of name/email address to webnotify when someone creates an account? At work we require for people to have to opt out rather ...

Provide the means for a plugin to specify what permissions it needs in bin "...edits are done with the authenticated viewauth script. That ensures that the remote ...

Creating a new topic automatically adds a signature; but editing does not... Currently, TWiki has a line after the text edit box that says " nop Main.WikiName 01 ...

The TWikiTopicUpgradeScript could distinguish between different types of actions to taken on upgrade, depending on the topic. At work we did something in that direction ...

Abstract attached is a script which i anticipate will be but one part of an AutomatedBuild and DailyBuildAndSmokeTest toolchain. it could be integrated in a PluginsInstaller ...

AutomatedBuild here's a script i've used to perform a completely automated installation, from building the TWikiKernel from SVN, including packaging all conformant ...

See BuildContrib

Abstract attached is a script which i anticipate will be but one part of an AutomatedBuild and DailyBuildAndSmokeTest toolchain. it could be integrated in a PluginsInstaller ...

Each TWikiExtension type has its own page... AutomatedContribsDownload AutomatedPluginsDownload AutomatedAddOnsDownload MartinCleaver 10 Oct 2004 Someday Martin ...

Abstract attached is a script which i anticipate will be but one part of an AutomatedBuild and DailyBuildAndSmokeTest toolchain. it could be integrated in a PluginsInstaller ...

//TWikiDocGraphics/arrowright.gif AutomatedPluginsDownloadConformanceReport Abstract attached is a script which i anticipate will be but one part of an AutomatedBuild ...

Plugins filenames conformance report output from test run on 24 Apr 2005, 10h20 EST Plugin Download Status TWiki:Plugins.ActionTrackerPlugin downloaded ...

Feature Proposal: Automated Testing Framework Motivation This could help to improve the quality of TWiki base releases, plugins, and user pages Description and Documentation ...

Originally from OmittingEmailInWebNotify: Add a button in the WebNotify page to automatically add oneself to the page. WalterMundt 08 Jan 2003 IMHO this is very ...

Automatic Attachments Purpose With Automatic Attachments enabled, all files in a topic's attachment directory are shown as attachments to the topic even if they ...

Hi there, Has anyone implemented getting Twiki to insert a back reference to the referring page when you are creating a new topic? So, for instance, if I create ...

Automatic Document Classification also: unsupervised document classification CategoryOrganizingPrinciples Motivation The weakest point of document classification ...

I think a feature is missing: having TWiki automatically send you an email once when a single topic changes, in the following 2 cases: Somebody re edits a ...

Feature Proposal: Automaticly include header and footer in TWikiApplication Motivation With TWikiApplication based on TWikiForms, a header is often needed in order ...

Please, add the following line to the registration script, just before saving the user page topic generated: # create user topic if not exist if( ! wiki ...

Automatic Link Back http://www.disenchanted.com/dis/linkback.html has a system that uses the referrer data in the http request to add reciprocal links back to a site ...

Proposed: Automatic link label based on first heading in topic You get nice link labels if you pull the first heading from the linked topic and use it as the link ...

It would be nice to have an automatic way to specify links within the same page. Currently it needs to be done manually using HTML. Example: HTML "target anchor ...

Has anyone implemented a mechanism to automatically size the edit window according to the resolution of the screen being used? I imagine that this would require the ...

Consider that when doing a cut paste from another document, one of the first WikiWord making steps you do is to take out the spaces between the words of a Consecutive ...

This started in SectionTitles. The idea is to have automatically generated heading numbers, i.e. to get a structure (aka TOC) of: 1. Food 1.1 Sushi ...

http://avantgo.com/ from the web site: AvantGo is the leading provider of enterprise class mobile solutions for businesses and individuals. Our award winning mobile ...

Avoid "Click here" Links From W3C's Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines: Good link text should not be overly general; don't use "click here." Not ...

Avoid Consecutive Revisions by Same User TWikiHistory has this: 09 Feb 1999 TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny No new topic revision is created if the same person ...

UPDATE: This is now fixed through a TWiki patch available at BackFromPreviewLosesText. RichardDonkin This is a first draft comments and fixes are welcome! ...

Avoid formatting gratuitously breaking RicherSyntaxPlugin RicherSyntaxPlugin provides a number of nice improvements to TWiki markup. However, one of these causes difficulties ...

Avoid non webs in % nop WEBLIST% The % nop WEBLIST% variable defaults to all public webs when no webs parameter is supplied. This search will consider all directories ...

Avoid Parent Across Webs Moved from Bugs:Item2294, Moving a topic with a parent to another web leaves its parent in the old web For example, I wound up with: CSA ...

At present when you rename a topic some history is lost, which doesn't fit well the overall TWiki behaviour of not losing history (e.g. external links into the page ...

Feature Proposal: Prevent Users from Locking Themselves Out of Their Pages Motivation In a corporate setting, people like to restrict page access. Sadly, they misspell ...

While I find MartinCleaver's insertion of a picture in his signature innovative, there are a variety of reasons why I would not want to encourage (or allow) that on ...

Avoiding Run on Lines in Templates To avoid untoward interactions in template expansion, many templates are written as (sets of) run on lines. IMNSHO, this makes them ...

Documentation Proposal: The default webhomes are awful Motivation Improving TWiki's look and feel Description Everybody fist opens the WebHome. If he gets a headache ...

Benevolent Dictator For Life (BDFL) Benevolent Dictator For Life (commonly known as "BDFL") is a title sometimes given to an individual inside open source development ...

see Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol

NOTE: This topic is a direct INCLUDE from website. Clicking on any links (including section edit) will send you to Wikipedia.org. However, the comments section is ...

Moved content from SingletonWikiWord. PeterThoeny 18 Jun 2001 Incidently I just found that FoxWiki: uses a preceding ? to introduce links to a topic named with ...

Bug: (title) When using the back button from preview sometimes lose all entered data. Test case SORRY! this is covered by BackFromPreviewLosesText. I had determined ...

Earlier Discussion on BackFromPreviewStillLosesText Follow up TWiki.org does have the fix applied, btw, the headers show this. Not sure why there is a 4 second difference ...

Bug: Back from Preview loses text FIX AVAILABLE: See #Fix record if using older TWiki code now implemented in TWikiRelease01Feb2003 and on TWiki.org. Test ...

(Moved from BackFromPreviewLosesText this discussion is no longer relevant since there is a fix in TWikiAlphaRelease.) RichardDonkin 21 Mar 2002 Short term ...

Bug: Back From Preview Still Loses Text Question: Using the latest version of TWiki on TWiki.org which claims to have the BackFromPreviewLosesText fix installed, IE6 ...

Maybe it's just me who has overlooked it, but ought there not be a button to go from the "Preview" back to the "Edit" form? I keep using the back button in my browser ...

If TWiki mantained for each topic a table listing all topics that link to the current topic, several gruesome problems would be instantaneously fixed, like RenameTopic ...

Backpack http://www.backpackit.com/ Here's the lastest entry into the rapidly accelerating field of hosted wiki information managers. Similar to JotSpot, BackPack ...

Back to Codev I noticed that the discussions on new features gradually thinned out over several places: Codev, IRC, Bugs web and twiki dev. This results in discussions ...

Back to Codev Back on 06 Jan 2006, PeterThoeny wrote in BackToCodev I noticed that the discussions on new features gradually thinned out over several places: Codev ...

(refactored by MartinCleaver from MegaTWikiServiceRegistrationMethods ) Yes, I'd like to split up the WikiML generation from the HTML rendering of WikiML, if possible ...

Bug: Backlink search does not work There are several problems in the current TWikiRelease04Sep2004 with the Backlinks link in the navigation bar below. a. Backlinks ...

Feature Proposal: Backlinks template Motivation There has been some effort to improve the search results from the Backlinks links (see BacklinksSearchDoesNotWork ...

Bug: Backslash line break breaks form Using backslashes in the table formatting used to create a TWiki Form (e.g., to make a list of options easier to read/maintain ...

Feature Proposal: Want Backslashes in Login, to support Windows Authentication Motivation Make it easier to interface twiki to Windows authentication. Description ...

For backuping my wiki, I have a simple solution. Just put a script in the bin dir (I actually put all my local script in a scripts/ dir not to mix them with TWiki ...

Using unison just for backups These are working notes. I am not guaranteeing that using unison for this purpose is a good idea I consider synchronization an extension ...

Bug: short description When looking for versions of the atachement, the version 1.1 is unaccesible. Test case Environment TWiki version: TWikiRelease02Sep2004 ...

I don't know whether to call this a bug or not, but since it does cause problems, here goes. When TWiki renders formatted text into HTML, it does not insert end tags ...

We're using the September 2000 release. In templates/edit.tmpl there's some JavaScript which breaks for us in IE 5 and doesn't seem to do anything in Linux NS 4 ...

Bug: Bad oops message when creating new web Creating a new web without permissions results in the error: Template file oopsaccessmanage.tmpl not found or template ...

Something that's not good. Often used in the form Bad Thingtm. A clich . ChrisJanuary 28 Sep 2002

Bug: Search does not work with bad TWiki names Twiki unfortunately does not prevent creating TWiki pages with bad names (one might get a warning, but can create the ...

Script Base Format Bar see NatEditContrib for an up to date solution... Developing... coming soon... ; ) This script is the base for the Buttons for Format ...

Basic form for categorising topics Name: Type: Size: Values: Tooltip message: TopicClassification select 1 Select one..., AdminTopic, ...

Batch Moving and Reparenting of TWiki Topics How It Is My company currently uses TWiki for internal project discussion and management. So far, we've done everything ...

If you include your name on any of the WebNotify lists, a list of changes is sent to you daily (which is great !). However, all the recipients' email addresses are ...

There are many quiet TWiki deployments, e.g. installations typically not featured in Codev because the admin person chose not to participate in our community. The ...

Not sure if there are any of the TWiki users/developers who still use BeOS as their desktop OS on regular basis, but there should be some who at least tried it. This ...

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

Bug: the shipped EmptyPluginDotPm does not contain a handler for the new beforeAttachmentSaveHandler. This means that from a plugin authors perspective, it effectively ...

Implemented: New beforeCommonTagsHandler and afterCommonTagsHandler Plugin Callbacks There is already a CommonTagsHandler callback, which is used by Plugins to expand ...

beforeEditHandler($text, $topic, $web ) $text text that will be edited $topic the name of the topic in the current CGI query $web the name ...

The beforeSaveHandler plugin hook has been listed in the TWikiRelease01Dec2001 but it has not yet been implemented. The paramters are ( $text, $topic, $web ) which ...

The beforeSaveHandler plugin hook has been listed in the TWikiRelease01Dec2001 but it has not yet been implemented. The paramters are ( $text, $topic, $web ) which ...

beforeSaveHandler($text, $topic, $web, $meta ) $text text with embedded meta data tags $topic the name of the topic in the current CGI query ...

Bug: BehaviourOfSpaceInForcedLink Upgraded to 01 Feb 2003 release from 01 Dec 2001, and this looked like a bug in generating forced links containing spaces until ...

Beijing Architecture Diagram See other ArchitectureDiagrams See also CodevDocumentationProject MartinCleaver 23 Jun 2002

Will the names of the Main and TWiki default webs be changed in time for the BeijingRelease? (Note: I couldn't change the implementation date in the default form to ...

Beijing Release Released as TWikiRelease01Feb2003 Next Release codenamed CairoRelease Introduction The future production TWikiRelease following TWikiRelease01Dec2001 ...

CategoryStale An example of an IndexedThreadedDiscussions I created this topic using some of the discussion from BeijingRelease to provide a working example of an ...

Who am I? I've been admin'ing http://docs.indymedia.org TWiki ( 11000 topics) for two years, and another (private) TWiki for one year. I've been reading twiki dev ...

A Framework for Working on TWiki Performance Contents Motivation All this talk about benchmarks is fine; but when is someone going to deliver a test data set ...

Best for the Job : Egoless Programming In his book The Psychology of Computer Programming, Gerry Weinberg covers many topics, but the idea the book is most famous ...

Best Meeting Practices Interesting of topics dealing with effective and ineffective meeting practices. Contributors: MeredithLesly MeredithLesly 01 May 2006 ...

Best Time For Release Meetings Due to the poor attendance at release meetings we need to revisit the biweekly release meeting schedule. I am OK with any Monday Thursday ...

In the 7/20/01 beta, the included TWikiDocumentation.html and TWikiHistory.html files are simply blank HTML pages. Shouldn't there be some content there? ZachFrey ...

Bug: Statistics script generates "Use of uninitialized value in hash element" messages. perl 5.8: Mon Aug 12 13:35:00 2002 statistics: Use of uninitialized value ...

Better Access Controls Access controls in TWiki need to be thought hard about. The present scheme works, mostly, but is clunky and inefficient. It would (IMHO) be ...

This topic has been renamed to BetterAttachmentTableForCairoRelease. See also follow up in BetterAttachmentTableForDakarRelease PeterThoeny 20 Jul 2004

follow up in BetterAttachmentTableForDakarRelease Implemented: Smaller usability enhancements on the file attachment table 1 Link label changed from 'action ...

This topic is now closed Smaller usability enhancements on the file attachment table follow up of BetterAttachmentTableForCairoRelease Feature progress table ...

Or perhaps nop BetterColours. See also: BetterMarkupInGeneral, BetterMarkup and BetterIndicators and of course TooUglyForNonTechnicalUsers Highlight Text With ...

Better Defaults Project I plan to repackage Twiki to make it easier to install and use. Basically, I envision to add a script in each of main directories (data, pub ...

Bug: (title) SMTPErrorDectionIsNill Test case I had a bit of trouble with my installation on friday. Please add a test to the bottom of lib/TWiki/Net.pm the ...

Bug fix: StanleyKnutson sent this in Nov 2000: I have some bug fixes since the 01dec2000 release well, I actualy downloaded it on Nov 26 . I've attached the diffs ...

Bug: a better error message if the log file is unwriteable Motivation If somebody screws up the permissions on the logfile directory, then when trying to save a topic ...

The file locking mechanism needs to be improved. Several people at my site have found that at times when changes are being made to pages by multiple people, the file ...

When moving TWikiPreferences into a form, I had a lot of problems with labels. Basically I wanted the topic to be as small as possible, for fast loading, but I wanted ...

PeterThoeny 29 Jan 2002 I designed the original TWiki templates with these goals in mind: Related links are grouped: TWiki specific, Web specific, topic specific ...

See also: BetterMarkupInGeneral, BetterMarkup and BetterColors and of course TWikiDocGraphics and of course TooUglyForNonTechnicalUsers. This is brainstorming at ...

UnderscoreWikiWords proposes to use underscore (' ') to separate wikiwords as biggest and most popular wiki, http://www.wikipedia.org does. As fringe bemefits it will ...

I would like to propose the following as some modifications for dealing with links in TWiki. 1 Disable WikiWord Links : I know WikiWord style links are the cornerstone ...

Feature implemented: Better Links To Headings I have difficulty to apply CSS to headers, because these are rendered as links. These links are needed by TOCs, but it ...

I use TWiki quite a bit for making lists of things. I find the current input method of lists (Tab Star Space) to be rather awkward to type over and over again as ...

See also: everything on style sheets starting with CssResources, AuthorChangeBars, BetterColors, BetterIndicators, and BetterMarkupInGeneral. What other markup is ...

Under construction: Improved functionality of the More screen Set of changes to the "More" screen to make it more functional. Features that have been realized are ...

Realized improvements of BetterMore The table in BetterMore has been split up. This part lists the features that have been realized for CairoRelease: Feature ...

Better Password Generation (DEVELOP) Motivation The code used to generate 'new system generated passwords' in Dakar as of 3889 is very simplistic: # global used ...

This is a place to brainstorm on better performance, to present and argue and link ideas for improving the performance of the TWiki core. Ideas can range from technical ...

Feature Proposal: Revision Control should have a better Diff View Motivation I want to check changes of employees in our TWiki in a fast and easy way. Description ...

Presumption: Acceptance of a system raised and learning curve is low when users are provided with an interface they are used to. The normal user works on documents ...

To make it easier to format results with multiple hits per topic I would like to propose the following additional parameters: topicheader , topicseparator topicfooter ...

This topic has been superceded by TigerSkin. In response to request that we make this new skin available more widely, here is a snapshot of the development. Please ...

I would like to see the Template and Tag processing taken to the next level . 1 More robust tag processing 2 Language Constructs for Templates ...

Refactored from TemplateToolkit 1 FrancoBagnoli 24 Dec 2005 5 ThomasWeigert 20 Mar 2005 5 CarlinhosCecconi 06 Mar 2005 4 SergeStinckwich ...

I think I've come up with something better than the normal $ nop doRememberRemoteUser option in TWiki. Rather than the conventional: 1 Forcing every user to ...

An approach that says it's better to "just do things" rather than seek permission (synonym for better to seek denial ). Wiki in general is an exercise in better ...

Also called "asking permission". "To seek permission is to seek denial" Often used side by side with better to ask forgiveness . Cultures based on seeking ...

writeDebug is pretty usefulbut has it's limitations It'd be nice to be able to switch on off debugging in various locations in twiki especially when you just want ...

Hello all. I never particularly liked the way the "verbatim" processing is handled within TWiki. I was always getting backward on the first pass and had to go back ...

Feature Proposal: Current configure assumes individual install Motivation I would like the /bin and /lib directories to be easily share by multiple virtual hosts ...

A problem commonly encountered when somebody in charge of a company or political movement, or... do not see problems happening before it is too late because people ...

Bi directional Text From Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bi directional text: Many of the major writing systems of the world, such as Arabic and Hebrew, are ...

AllenBeyeRiddell 02 Jun 2003 It would be wonderful if twiki could support bibtex citations for bibliographies. E.G. bib:blah . There is a wiki that implements this ...

Dealing with Groups that have very large number Context I'm setting up a site that has the intent of migrating people from a mailing list to a wiki. The way this ...

The Big Picture: User's View of TWiki Overview: This critical summary of Codev topics intends to organize the various user oriented discussions going on, from ...

File Hierarchy This tree is a partial include of TWikiRoot and is part of the CodevDocumentationProject PeterThoeny 02 Feb 2004

Contains the CgiScripts, and a few HybridCgiBinScripts Many hosting setups require: chmod og w bin chmod a x bin MartinCleaver 26 Sep 2004 This is a ...

nop BizWiki / nop RapidWiki / nop CustomerVision http://www.customervision.com/ http://www.rapidwiki.com/consumer/faqdetailsummary.asp?kbid 5912 (Sandbox ...

Bug: Blank lines in htpasswd on Windows Blank lines created by register on Windows. Test case Register a user on Windows. Environment TWiki version: Alpha ...

Bliki From Wikipedia:Bliki : "A Bliki (also known as a WikiLog , Wog , WikiWeblog , Wikiblog , or Bloki ), is a blog with wiki support. This means that after ...

Blocks And Inconsistent TML This topic tries to give the overview of syntax used in TWiki Core and in many of the Plugins for surrounding a section . It is not really ...

Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol (BEEP) http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3080.txt BEEP is a generic application protocol kernel for connection oriented, asynchronous ...

Anyone implemented Blog on TWiki? Blogs are all over the news at the moment: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4086337.stm Blog Mania http://weblogs ...

Can we have the recent blog posts on the front page ? Dear all, IMHO it would be really nice to have the recent blog on the front page of TWiki.org, to make it a bit ...

nop BlogUp Ring This is a collection of sites that got a blog running using the BlogUp application which is part of the BlogPlugin package. Note: add yourself if ...

CategoryStale Announcing BlogWiki2005 Workshop Announcing BlogWiki2005 Workshop, May 19 20, 2005, Coral Gables FL # Presented by: Gerry McKiernan, Science and Technology ...

Blogging in TWiki Socialtext a start up selling a customized Wiki like tool for in company collaboration has a neat feature: each page has a category, if the category ...

What is Blosxom? Blosxom (pronounced "Blossom") is a lightweight yet feature packed weblog application designed from the ground up with simplicity, usability, and ...

Bluff JavaScript Graphs http://bluff.jcoglan.com/ (MIT license) Bluff is a JavaScript port of the graphing library for Ruby. Contributors: ArthurClemens 15 ...

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 07:21:17 0000, ImmoHuneke wrote in an email to MartinCleaver: Hi Martin, Of late there have been large numbers of new registrations on ...

Whenever I'm writing up a document with some kind of command or code fragment in the middle of a line I like to wrap it with the HTML CODE B tags, so that you get ...

Using render this bold italic isn't particularly intuitive (two consecutive underscores). How about render this bold italic and/or render this bold italic ...

Having a link as the first word of something in bold/italic text doesn't work. For eg: ThisShould be a link ThisDoesn't work either and NeitherDoesThis ( ...

Book On TWiki We all know that documentation is scattered around twiki.org. It's about time to move forward and consolidate all these resources into a central place ...

At work (WindRiver) we had the need to print a whole set of topics, i.e. all pages of a certain category. Doing that page by page is not very efficient. I added a ...

This diff against preview.tmpl will onload submit the save button on the preview page. I've search for a while I couldn't find a feature to bypass the preview functionality ...

Closing brace in a form field leads to bad parsing Inserting a closing brace in a form field make the metadata parsing wrong. I am currently using the following patch ...

This experimental page is now closed with results down below. This page is an incubator of sorts, and an easy place to toss out a thought that doesn't yet merit ...

TWiki Brainstorming Idea The Codev web is an incubator for brainstorming ideas. Smart ideas result in ChangeProposals with code attached. Rule: There are no rules ...

A BranchManager is a person identified as being responsible for the health of a branch. A BranchManager has the power to: 1 set the rules for checking in to the ...

The default view template shows bread crumbs at the top of the page so that users see where the current topic is in the parent child topic hierarchy. This feature ...

Systems such as RCS traditionally notify the old lock holder whenever a lock is broken by a new user. I think it would be useful if TWiki did the same. If nothing ...

Who am I? I am a sys admin and software developer for a major investment bank. We use twiki extensively internally for documentation. What do I want? write access ...

Feature Proposal: Bring TopicVars into Core Motivation I am proposing to add Plugins.TopicVarsPlugin 's functionality to the Core. While building TWikiApplications ...

To ease adoption of TWiki in the corporate environment it would be good to help people migrate into TWiki. One idea:,have TWiki check a series of pop3 boxes for ...

The recent to ing and fro ing over the security risk has highlighted an issue; if a downloader has not registered, they will not get security warnings. Even now, there ...

Broadcast Message Handling Introduction A broadcast message handling has been added to TWiki's default view template. The idea is to be able to convey an important ...

There's a fairly obscure bug in the March beta and current TWiki.org code that I've just discovered it's not related to the EasierExternalLinking feature (which ...

If a plugin breaks during a handler call, it breaks TWiki. This is a fix: lib/TWiki/Plugins.pm 2004 04 26 22:57:10.000000000 0500 lib/TWiki/Plugins.pm ...

Bug: Broken rendering in textarea fields of TWiKi forms When creating a TWiKi Form with an input of type textarea and using TWiKi syntax for formatting text (such ...

Bug: "sub putBackVerbatim" is broken Subroutine putBackVerbatim does not correctly convert greater than symbols; it is a cut n paste error from the previous line. ...

allows you to navigate arbitrary RDF datasets using an exploration technique called "faceted browsing". This technique lets you easily navigate through unfamiliar ...

Browser and Proxy Cache Control I've been investigating how TWiki pages can be made more cacheable, by browsers and by proxy caches. My main interest has been fixing ...

Download every old browser If you want to test your site on an old browser, see http://browsers.evolt.org/ they have an archive of all the old distributions. ...

Browser Bugs http://diveintomark.org/archives/2003/05/05/why we wont help you explains why you must validate your CSS Bugs in: Browser Bug list IE http ...

Patch Proposal: Allow browser to properly cache viewed pages Motivation Caching is often a good idea, and caching on the client browser has no inconsistencies due ...

Sidebars for TWiki's WebChanges and searching are now working well in various browsers: InternetExplorerSidebar MozillaSidebar OperaSidebar (needs ...

Having just lost a browser window full of unsaved edits to another application that kindly opened a link for me and stole my window, I thought I'd float the idea of ...

How complete the browsers are http://www.webdevout.net/browser support summary.php Technology IE 6 IE 7 Firefox 1.5 Opera 8.5 HTML / XHTML ...

Who am I? I have been working with webdevelopment off and on, mostly on for about 8 years now. I follow closely CSS, xhtml, Accessibility Guidelines and Web Standards ...

Assigned Bugs Note: With the new ChangeProposals workflow bugs are not assigned to specific core team members. Everyone is encouraged to help out at any stage ...

It has long irritated me that the beforeSaveHandler passes text with embedded metadata to plugins, and then promptly throws the modified metadata away. I cannot ...

Bug: Attempting to show BNF defs as code fails to render If you try to use TWiki to specify data using a BNF style definition, the : in the middle is eaten by TWiki ...

Duplicates of other Bugs Note: With the new ChangeProposals workflow there is no duplicate state. Duplicate topics should be merged and removed. This is a list ...

If I put the following text into a topic: data/$web/$ nop Name${Skin}Tmpl.txt data/$twikiWebname/$ nop Name${Skin}Tmpl.txt then when the topic gets saved, it gets ...

Solved! Thank you, MichaelSparks. Read SkinFAQ Reporting possible bug in HTTP EQUIV tag as in current distribution. TWikiPreferences advises to setup HTTP EQUIV ...

There is a bug in the currently running version of TWiki.org, that does not appear in the Dec 2001 release: a % nop FORMFIELD% inside a pre messes up the preview ...

Bug: Problem when renaming topic When renaming a topic of name TopicName to the new name NewTopicName all references to topics TopicNamexxxx become references to ...

Bug: Infinite Recursion in Search Try the following: create pages called nop MeetingMinutes1 and nop MeetingMinutes2 then create a nop MeetingMinutesMain ...

Bug Item Ping Pong I have quite often raised a bug report myself, had it discarded, reopened it again arguing why it is really a bug, and then it got fixed. Often ...

Bug priority is not the same as bug severity . Bug priority talks about how important it is to fix a problem. The language of bug priority often deals with ...

Rejected Bugs This is a list of TWiki bugs that are rejected. This can have several causes, i.e. a browser issue. Note: Under the new ChangeProposal workflow ...

#SubmitNewBug Submit bug reports To submit bug reports, please visit Bugs:WebHome, thanks! Note: We are using a separate TWiki installation to track bugs. ...

Bug Reports Archive Note: This is an archive. Bug tracking is now done in Bugs:WebHome. Submit new bug (Cairo and before; no longer used) Please start a new ...

%NOP{ Note: Do not edit this topic, file a bug in BugReport Set ALLOWTOPICCHANGE TWikiAdminGroup }% !! Bug: Test case Environment TWiki version: ...

Resolved Bugs This is a list of resolved bugs in TWiki. A bug is set to this status when it has been fixed and checked into the TWikiAlphaRelease. Bug Outstanding ...

A common concept in software development is to define bugs in terms of technical severity. Sample severity list: System unusable eg an installer results in ...

Some variables expanded in verbatim If you look at: http://cairotwiki.mrjc.com/view/TWiki/TRTChangesFromDistribution?from localInstallation;to TWiki20040901;sortcol ...

Bug Tracking A ChangeProposal's BugTracking field is used for linking to Bugs in the Bugs web that track it's implementation. Set ALLOWTOPICCHANGE TWikiAdminGroup ...

CategoryStale yes pleasse :) We already use a TWiki.Web using a WebForm as our BugTrackingSystem, but I would be interested to see how others have solved the reporting ...

BugTraq mailing list is an incident reporting and discussion mailing list operated by http://www.securityfocus.com/ Security Focus. KennethPorter 24 Nov 2004 ...

Bug: Use % nop HOMETOPIC% not nop WebHome In the supplied TWiki docs, all references to nop WebHome should refer to % nop HOMETOPIC%, in order to be consistent ...

Bug: quote in comment of file attachment is not stored properly A quote in the comment field of a file attachment is stored 'lossy': after some views and saves the ...

Bugs, Enhancements, and Misfeatures Carrying this in part over from Bugs:Item2134. A bug is not an enhancement is not a misfeature . A bug is when software ...

This is a dead topic; see PatchReleaseMaintenanceSVN for the TWiki patch process. Refer to the history of this topic if you are interested (occluded so it doesn't ...

BuildContrib Cookbook This is a cookbook of recipes for using BuildContrib. BuildContrib is a powerful, multi faceted build system, used to build TWiki extensions ...

This topic is not quite right for 4.2 and beyond, we are in the process of updating it. This manual process is being replaced by the buildTWikiRelease.pl script ...

NOTE: THIS TOPIC IS IN TWO BITS; THE FIRST BIT DEALS WITH THE PRAGMATIC SHORT TERM BUILD SOLUTION WORKED OUT BY SvenDowideit AND CrawfordCurrie SO WE CAN BUILD A RELEASE ...

The evolving Phase 2 UTF 8 support in TWikiAlphaRelease, outlined on ProposedUTF8SupportForI18N, works best with Perl 5.8 (though the Phase 1 UTF 8 URL support works ...

Hello, all. I've been playing around with the GenHTML add on and would like to generalize it (it currently has alot of params hard coded into the script which I'm ...

(Refactored from InternationalisationEnhancements) From InternationalisationEnhancements#Introduction: but there are security issues with allowing web users to ...

Supporting Bulgarian should be like any other language Cyrillic definitely works with the KOI8 R character encoding for Russian (see CyrillicSupport), though Bulgarian ...

Bulgarian User Interface for TWiki Several months ago I downloaded TWiki and played around with it. Several days ago I downloaded it again and found that it perfectly ...

Idea: Generic variation on BulkRegistration Motivation Sometimes, you already have the data (e.g. in a table) and now you want to get fancier. In our case, we had ...

This topic started in HowToDiscussAndSign. We have seen that it is useful to have two types of discussions in a Wiki topic: a linear one (where you add text at ...

Bug: Bullets incorrect with gaps Bullets are not correct when you try to have a single line space between doubly indented bullets Test case First situation has single ...

I was writing documentation using TWiki and had used WikiWords whereever I mentioned a concept. When I had the document reviewed (on paper) I was told that although ...

Feature Proposal: Bundle TWikiShellContrib With Dakar by Default Motivation Provide a common front end to all the maintenance scripts and those used by developers ...

Seems like there's lots of install issues with TWiki especially with user authentication. I think the /bin/testenv script goes a long way to help, but seems to ...

Business Week is a leading US weekly magazine for the business world. Also available online at http://www.BusinessWeek.com/ The 07 Jun 2004 issues has two articles ...

Buttons for Format Editing Text see NatEditContrib for an up to date solution... Developing... coming soon... ; ) I'm trying to do a flexible way to put formating ...

Who am I? Byron Darrah What do I want? write access to SVN for the following branches: MAIN, or whatever is appropriate for contributing to the EditTablePlugin. ...

Central Authentication Service ( nop CAS) Central Authentication Service is a SingleSignOn protocol designed to allow untrusted web applications to authenticate ...

Short for CrawfordCurrie

Pseudonym for CrawfordCurrie http://c dot.co.uk

CPAN Comprehensive Perl Archive Network, http://cpan.perl.org/ On twiki.org you can write InterWiki links for CPAN modules, such as CPAN:CGI, CPAN:Digest::SHA1, etc ...

MartinCleaver 06 May 2003

Cascading Style Sheets. CSS is used by both the authors and readers of web pages to define colors, fonts, layout, and other aspects of document presentation. It is ...

Deleted, all useful content incorporated in KonquerorVerticalWhitespaceProblemResolution, including a stylesheet that can be installed locally which does help with ...

There's no way at the moment to incude the contents of a file on sourceforge accessible through viewcvs apparently sourceforge blocks outgoing GET requests. It would ...

I have been told that TWiki (either stable release or latest development release, I assume) doesn't have support for using CVS as a storage backend for revisions and ...

CVS Commands Command Abbrevs Description add ad new Add a new file/directory to the repository admin adm rcs Administration front end ...

Feature Proposal: Control of proxy and browser caching through HTTP headers Motivation In search engines, it is very useful to be able to search for topics modified ...

Cache WebRss Feeds A look at WebStatistics shows one big CPU hog: hits topic 12416 WebRss 2484 WebHome 1395 WebChanges 1059 CairoRelease ...

It would be nice if view.pl did a just in time compile of wiki pages to html (as it currently does), and keep the cached version around until either the content changes ...

Bug: Users are asked for old details twice, once on the form and again by http auth BeijingRelease and AthensRelease did not require valid user for the TWiki.ChangePassword ...

Description I am trying to optimize the function specificLink in Render.pm as it popped up during my profiling attempts. It looks that some regexps are missing the ...

Default registration in Dakar is different than Cairo Cairo's default registration was to rely on external authentication (LDAP, NIS etc), e.g. the default TWikiRegistration ...

Introduction This describes a series of performance experiments performed on TWiki 1612, with the code change in Prefs described before. The experiments were performed ...

Bug: Cairo Performance Issues I am evaluating TWiki for use at work. And so far it is thumbs down because TWiki is too slow. And it is getting worse and worse. Here ...

Cairo Production Release Checklist Steps taken when preparing the Production CairoRelease. Release Preparation Status Task By Comments : ) Update ...

Cairo Release Released as TWikiRelease04Sep2004 (previously TWikiRelease01Sep2004, TWikiRelease02Sep2004 and TWikiRelease03Sep2004) Next Release codenamed DakarRelease ...

Cairo Release History A static copy of the CairoReleaseSummary has been taken on 23 Aug 2004. The content has been moved over to TWikiHistory which is TWiki's change ...

Cairo Release Summary This topic shows all features and bug fixes of the CairoRelease with topic summaries, making it easy to spot topics with missing summaries. This ...

Cairo Release Upgrade Guide With the Cairo Release, for the first time, comes a helper script for upgrading from a previous version. This feature is still beta it ...

I will try to explain the flow used, as I am quite new to perl profiling and flaws in the approach are possible. metric used The d:DProf option was added to bin ...

Feature Proposal: The CalendarPlugin needs a GUI Motivation The CalendarPlugin provides a power language for expressing events generating calendars. Users like ...

It would be really neat if you could check perl dependencies from a topic by calling checkDependencies. For example, if I could write: and get a testenv like report ...

earlyInitPlugin is never called in the Cairo code. I think this is an oversight, and propose to change the code to call it and disable the plugin if it returns false ...

At long last I have sponsorship to do some work on WYSIWYG! The first thing I want to do is to fix bugs in WysiwygPlugin, and to do that, I need to know what the bugs ...

a WYSIWYG Web based ContentManagementSystem Haven't had a chance to check it out in detail but at first blush it looks very interesting indeed: http://www.callistocms ...

The Camel Book Programming Perl , by Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, and Randal L. Schwartz. Copyright 1996 O'Reilly Media, Inc. ISBN:1565921496 Named after the ...

A familiar name for the WikiWord syntax, also called BumpyWord or StudlyCaps. RandyKramer Some reckon that TWiki should allow UnderscoreWikiWords MartinCleaver ...

Bug: Can't call method "findOne" Can't call method "findOne" without a package or object reference at ../lib/TWiki.pm line 1624. Test case On the page TWiki.TWiki ...

I can't edit TWikiRegistration page. Under Netscape 4.61 on Linux, the registration page source does not fully display on the edit page. Only the top of the page ...

Bug: (Cancelling A New Page) When you cancel a new page, you get a "This Topic Doesn't exist" page. This seems like a bug to me I should go back to where I was, ...

Bug: Cannot Exclude a Localized Topic name from the % nop SEARCH{}% The excludetopic in % nop SEARCH{}% don't works if the topic is not an english word. I tried ...

Bug: Can't redo preview page on DNS/server error IE6 seems to cache the Preview page every time you hit Back and then press Preview again. This makes an intermittent ...

You cannot use RCS keywords in a topic. This is because RCS keyword substitution will expand it to something different when the topic is saved. All the following get ...

Making TWiki variables consistent Problem A TWiki variable is a sequence of characters embedded in TWiki source text which, when seen by TWiki, may be expanded in ...

Canonical Topic Stored Form To be able to handle some browser idiosyncracies, TWiki topics are preprocessed to bring them to a fixed syntax before being stored as ...

I just installed the 7/17/2001 beta, and found that while I had no personal page, TWiki thought I was already registered, so I couldn't add a personal page. Since ...

Bug: Cant anchor a search RE to end If you try to anchor a search RE to the end using the $ RE operator, the expression fails to work correctly. Test case This ...

Bug: Can't find libraries with mod perl and 01Sep2004 When using 01Sep2004 with ModPerl, sometimes I get a Error 500 (Internal Server Error). I checked apache logs ...

Bug: Can't refer to a form using a variable Test case If you add something like WEBFORMS .FormInAnotherWeb When you try to use the form you get an error screen ...

Bug: Can't Rename a Locked Topic TWiki: Alpha from Sourceforge CVS (stand: morning 31 July 2001) Platform: linux (Suse 7.0) If I try to rename a locked topic I get ...

Bug: Can't save edits after installing TWiki20010817beta Test case Install the latest (8/17/01) beta. Edit TWiki.cfg to match site information. Pick ...

Bug: Can't send mail with full "From" address Using Net::SMTP, mailnotify does not work with a "From" address like: TWiki Administrator twiki admin@somewhere.com ...

Bug: Can't update RcsLite in CVS When trying to update RcsLite.pm in CVS the following happens: C:\devel\twiki.cvs\twiki cvs z3 d:ext:talintj@cvs.TWiki.sourceforge ...

capitonym (KAP i toh NIM) noun A word that changes pronunciation and meaning when it is capitalized. As in the following poem: Job's Job In August ...

CAPTCHA Captcha stands for "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart". It is a challenge response test used in account creation or ...

CasLogin CAS authentication Content extracted from AuthCAS OlivierBerger 14 Aug 2008 I've written a CAS login manager using AuthCAS that works for me. I ...

Bug: Case insensitive search doesn't work with 8 bit characters Filed by Stefan Lindmark, stefan /// at /// sun.com Test case Several pages contains the word ...

Feature Proposal: Ignore differences in case between registration and login Motivation LDAP and many Windows based authentication schemes are case insensitive. This ...

Bug: The "casesensitive" flag is handled inconsistently in search Please see the test cases below. When the casesensitive flag is selected, the behavior differs ...

I've been thinking recently about a few topics: GenericMetaDataStoreForTopics for categories Issues with categories; a great function, but can only have ...

nop CategoryAccessControls CategoryDescription: Anything to do with TWiki access controls

nop CategoryAdministration CategoryDescription: Tools and utilities for TWiki administrators

nop CategoryAuthentication CategoryDescription: Authentication, authorization and session tracking of users

I've always been thinking of a way to make wikis a personal productivity tool in addition to being a collaboration tool. I think i've thought of something interesting ...

nop CategoryBrainstorming CategoryDescription: Brainstorming %SEARCH{" ML Discussion What is the purpose of this topic? It searches all BrainstormingIdea topics ...

nop CategoryBranding CategoryDescription: Discussion and debate on the topic of branding TWiki logos, taglines, etc

nop CategoryBrowser CategoryDescription: Web browsers and its components, plugins

nop CategoryCaching CategoryDescription: Caching content for speed

nop CategoryCategory CategoryDescription: This is the parent of all Categories and provides help on using them. A category is a grouping of related topics. A topic ...

nop CategoryCgiAccelerators CategoryDescription: Web server add ons that accelerate TWiki execution

nop CategoryChanges CategoryDescription: Tracking changes to topics, including e mail notification; diffs displays; recent changes; instant notification; highlighting ...

nop CategoryComponents CategoryDescription: Components, Lego blocks to build wiki applications

nop CategoryCookbook CategoryDescription: Cookbooks for doing various things with TWiki, and setting it up to work in different environments. Rather than trying to ...

nop CategoryDatabase CategoryDescription: Database connectivity, database applications, wiki style and traditional

nop CategoryDateTime CategoryDescription: Date/time handling, calendars

A Category Description is a brief summary of the purpose of the category, and should give guidelines as to what should be in the category and what should not. It should ...

nop CategoryDiagrams CategoryDescription: Diagram, drawing, chart creation and display

nop CategoryEditDaemon CategoryDescription: Topics that talk about editor daemons, and associated editors.

nop CategoryEditing CategoryDescription: Topics that talk about editors, as used by end users of twiki.

nop CategoryEditingWorkflow CategoryDescription: Topics that talk about editing workflow. (save, preview, quicksave, checkpoint, etc)

The list of categories, and the edit and display templates should be a page or pages on the TWiki. They should be over ridable like WebPreferences.. You may want to ...

nop CategoryEditorApplet CategoryDescription: Discussions on applets used by end users for editing.

nop CategoryEmail CategoryDescription: E mail integration, e mail archiving

nop CategoryFightTheFlab CategoryDescription: TWiki is very powerful, but a bit overweight in places. These topics talk about ways that TWiki can fight the flab.

nop CategoryI18N CategoryDescription: Internationalization of TWiki; I18N tools

nop CategoryImages CategoryDescription: Manipulation and display of images and photos

nop CategoryImportExport CategoryDescription: Importing / exporting wiki content

nop CategoryIntegration CategoryDescription: Integration with other tools, usually web based tools

nop CategoryLocalization CategoryDescription: Localization of TWiki, localization tools, TWiki speaks in tongues

nop CategoryLoginLogout CategoryDescription: resources for providing mainstream login and logout capabilities these pages are listed here explicitly because 1. ...

It would be nice if we had a category management system that would reduce the manual labor associated with the creation of a classification system for topics. Heres ...

nop CategoryMarketing CategoryDescription: Topics that relate to the marketing of TWiki.org

nop CategoryOfficeIntegration CategoryDescription: Integration with office tools: Word processors, spreadsheets, etc

nop CategoryOrganizingPrinciples CategoryDescription: Ideas behind organising your TWiki topics