Tips Of The Day

• The Go Box as a browser: The go box (also called jump box) allows you to jump from page to page and search for documents. If ...

• WebChanges to see recent activity: Each Foswiki web has a WebChanges topic that lists recent activity from all editors of the web. This ...

• Raw Text link: At the bottom of each page among the action links (assuming use of the default PatternSkin), there is ...

• E-mail alert of topic changes: Subscribing to WebNotify will enable Foswiki to send you details of changes made on topics in a certain ...

• Re-parenting a topic: The breadcrumbs ( Contribs TipsContrib TipsOfTheDay , for example) of any topic is constructed ...

• Creating a Table of Contents: %TOC% automatically creates a table of contents based on the headings present in the topic. To exclude ...

• Linking to a file attachment: A link to a file attachment may be created in a few different ways: 1 If using the WYSIWYG editor ...

• Escaping Foswiki rendering: Use the verbatim tag to surround code excerpts and other formatted text with = verbatim = and = /verbatim ...

• Disabling links in large blocks of text: You can disable automatic linking of WikiWords by surrounding the text with = noautolink = and = /noautolink ...

• Disabling individual WikiWords: Prevent a WikiWord from being linked by prefixing it with an exclamation point. Example: To escape SunOs ...

• Server side include: To include the contents of a web page or Foswiki topic, use %INCLUDE{"page"}%. Examples: This example ...

• WikiWords for linking: WikiWords are capitalized words, run together, such as WebPreferences and CollaborationPlatform. Using ...

• Preference settings: Foswiki has several levels of preferences settings. See PreferenceSettings for a full list and more information ...

• File attachments: Files can be attached to any topic. The action of attaching a file to a topic is similar to attaching ...

• Breadcrumb : The breadcrumb of a topic shows you page hierarchy. It is constructed using a topic's parent setting ...

• Foswiki Skins : Skins overlay regular templates with alternate layouts (and styles). You can use Skins to change the ...

• Revision control: In Foswiki, assuming appropriate AccessControls, anyone can change anything but those changes are logged ...

• Inline search: To embed a search in a topic, use the %SEARCH{ parameters }% macro. The search macro is used by many ...

• Commenting with hidden text: To hide sections of a Foswiki topic, use HTML comments. Example comment within a sentence: Visible ...

• InterwikiPlugin links: The InterwikiPlugin automatically links ExternalSite:Page text to external sites based on aliases defined ...

• SmiliesPlugin emoticons: Smilies are common in e mail messages and bulletin board posts. They are used to convey an emotion, such ...

• Edit tables with EditTablePlugin: EditTablePlugin allows you to edit tables using edit fields and drop down boxes. Tables have an button ...

• Control table attributes with TablePlugin: The TablePlugin gives extra control of table display: * Allows sorting * Changing table properties ...

• Comment box with CommentPlugin : The CommentPlugin allows users to quickly post comments to a page without an edit/preview/save cycle ...

• SpreadSheetPlugin for dynamic content: Over 80 formulae are available through the SpreadSheetPlugin. For Example: * $AVERAGE() * $IF( ...

• SlideShowPlugin for presentations: Use SlideShowPlugin to convert a topic with headings and bullets into a slideshow presentation. This ...

• Custom rendered bullets: RenderListPlugin can render bulleted lists in a variety of different ways. Use %RENDERLIST{ parameters ...

• Keyword search: Interactive search is a keyword search by default. For example, to search for all topics that contain ...

• RSS news feed of topic changes: You can use an RSS news reader to find out what is new in a Foswiki web. This complements WebChanges ...