Tips Of The Day

These are all tips of the day. They are located in the System web (official distribution tips) and Main web (custom tips).

• The Go Box as a browser: The go box (also called jump box) is not only a tool to allow you to jump from page to page, you can ...

• 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 the page next to Edit and Attach , there is a Raw Text link that allows one to ...

• 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 breadcrumb displayed with a particular Foswiki topic is constructed with a topic's Parent . On the ...

• Creating a Table of Contents: % nop TOC% will automatically create a table of contents for a topic based on the headers of the topic ...

• Linking to a file attachment: One can create a link to a file attachment using one of the % nop ATTACHURL% or % nop PUBURL% macros ...

• 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 % nop INCLUDE{"page"}% . Examples: ...

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

• Preference settings: Foswiki has four levels of preferences settings: 1 Site level settings: Site name, proxy ...

• File attachments: One can attach files 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 header/footer layouts. You can use Skins to change the ...

• Revision control: Foswiki has "Soft security" anyone can change anything, but changes are logged. There is a complete ...

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

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

• 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 60 formulae are available through the SpreadSheetPlugin. For Example: $AVERAGE() $IF ...

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

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

• 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 ...

Total: 29 tips