A ClassMethod is a method that must be called relative to the containing class object. This normally only applies to the new method used to create new object inst...
Acronym Definitions Plugin This plugin allows to create an "acronym definitions topic", containing a dot point list of acronyms together with their definitions: ...
TinyMCE FAQs Frequently Asked Questions of the TinyMCEPlugin integration. Q: The editor takes over the standard edit screen. That's OK, but how do I get access t...
DirectedGraphWebMapPlugin Extends the DirectedGraphPlugin and draws a map of a web, part of a web, or of the structure around a single topic. Example: Main Web T...
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 you do not know the entire name of th...
WebChanges to see recent activity Each Foswiki web has a WebChanges topic that lists recent activity from all editors of the web. This can be useful when looking ...
E mail alert of topic changes Subscribing to WebNotify will enable Foswiki to send you details of changes made on topics in a certain web. You can choose to be no...
Creating a Table of Contents %TOC% automatically creates a table of contents based on the headings present in the topic. To exclude a heading from a %TOC% add !! ...
File attachments Files can be attached to any topic. The action of attaching a file to a topic is similar to attaching a file to an e mail use the Attach link i...
Breadcrumb The breadcrumb of a topic shows you page hierarchy. It is constructed using a topic's parent setting; for example, the breadcrumb on this page looks l...
Foswiki Skins Skins overlay regular templates with alternate layouts (and styles). You can use Skins to change the look of a Foswiki topic, for example, the layo...
Revision control In Foswiki, assuming appropriate AccessControls, anyone can change anything but those changes are logged. There is a complete audit trail with r...
InterwikiPlugin links The InterwikiPlugin automatically links ExternalSite:Page text to external sites based on aliases defined in the InterWikis topic. This enab...
SlideShowPlugin for presentations Use SlideShowPlugin to convert a topic with headings and bullets into a slideshow presentation. This plugin is useful when conte...
Custom rendered bullets RenderListPlugin can render bulleted lists in a variety of different ways. Use %RENDERLIST{ parameters }% before any bulleted list. More ...
Disabling links in large blocks of text You can disable automatic linking of WikiWords by surrounding the text with = noautolink = and = /noautolink = tags. Each ...
Disabling individual WikiWords Prevent a WikiWord from being linked by prefixing it with an exclamation point. Example: To escape SunOs write SunOs to get SunOs. ...
WikiWords for linking WikiWords are capitalized words, run together, such as WebPreferences and CollaborationPlatform. Using a lot of WikiWords creates a good bro...
Inline search To embed a search in a topic, use the %SEARCH{ parameters }% macro. The search macro is used by many Foswiki based applications. More Information....
SmiliesPlugin emoticons Smilies are common in e mail messages and bulletin board posts. They are used to convey an emotion, such as a smile #058; ) : ) or a frow...
Comment box with CommentPlugin The CommentPlugin allows users to quickly post comments to a page without an edit/preview/save cycle. Write %COMMENT{ attributes ...
Keyword search Interactive search is a keyword search by default. For example, to search for all topics that contain "SOAP", "WSDL", a literal "web service", but ...
FlowchartPlugin This plugin allows you to create a flowchart from topic text. Example Stop the mouse above each item and see the tag with the name in a bigger s...
HijaxPlugin This plugin offers a simple way of using the foswiki scripts, including Oops, Login to authenticate and Strikeone Validation handling, via an AJAX i...
ObjectPlugin The object is to use foswiki topics to store lots of objects (chunks of structured data) that can be searched, filtered and manipulated. The intentio...
Full Calendar Plugin Adam Shaw has produced a great Web 2.0 Calendar UI, the jQuery FullCalendar Plugin. This Foswiki plugin provides the backend calendar managem...
FreeMindPlugin The FreeMindPlugin implements the %FREEMIND% tag to render FreeMind mindmaps in a Foswiki topic. It requires Adobe's flash player plugin to run fro...
Overview of directed graph editing Caution = dot = syntax is not compatible with versions of Foswiki:Extensions.WysiwygPlugin prior to 28 June 2009. It is reco...
#VarFLOWCHART FLOWCHART{ attributes } create a flowchart from topic text. * The %FLOWCHART% macro is handled by the FlowchartPlugin. For more information pl...