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Name First Foswiki Version Comment Foswiki::Func 1.1.5 Main API. Foswiki::Attrs 1.1.5 Parameter passing for custom macros Foswiki::Request ...

This answer assumes you have basic knowledge about Data Forms. Using the steps below, you will create: 1 A form definition 1 A topic creation (HTML) form to...

These two questions are answered together because often when you think you want to delete a page, more often it makes sense to rename the page to contain more con...

The same topic revision will be used when you save a topic again within a certain time frame (one hour by default, configurable with the configuration setting {Re...

Foswiki allows multiple simultaneous edits of the same topic, and then merges the different changes automatically. You probably won't even notice this happening u...

A set of pages of information that are open and free for anyone to edit as they wish. They are stored in a server and managed using some software. The system crea...

GROUPS a formatted list of groups Deprecated do not use. Use VarGROUPINFO instead * Expands to a formatted list of user groups. * The macro is intended to...

ACTIVATEDPLUGINS list of currently activated plugins Examples * %ACTIVATEDPLUGINS% expands to Related PLUGINDESCRIPTIONS, FAILEDPLUGINS, PLUGINVERSION

ATTACHURL full URL for attachments in the current topic Shorthand for PUBURL, with path set to the current topic. Otherwise supports all the same parameters as PU...

AUTHREALM authentication realm String defined as the {AuthRealm} expert option in configure Security And Authentication tab, =Login sub tab.. This is used in cert...

BASETOPIC base topic where an INCLUDE started The name of the topic where a single or nested INCLUDE started same as %TOPIC% if there is no INCLUDE. This is the...

COMMENT insert an edit box into the topic to easily add comments. Parameters * The following standard attributes are recognized Name Descriptio...

DISPLAYTIME display formatted time Formatted time either GMT or Local server time, depending on {DisplayTimeValues} setting in configure. Same format qualifiers...

ENDCOLOR end colored text ENDCOLOR is one of the shortcut macros predefined in . It is used to terminate a colour change (revert back to the default colour). The ...

ENDSECTION marks the end of a named section within a topic If the STARTSECTION is named, the corresponding ENDSECTION must also be named with the same name. If th...

ENV inspect the value of an environment variable Returns the current value of the environment variable in the CGI (Common Gateway Interface) environment. This is ...

EXPAND expand macros in a string as if they were used in another topic The viewer must have VIEW access to topictoexpandin for this to work. All the standard form...

FAILEDPLUGINS debugging for plugins that failed to load Also generates a list of handlers defined by plugins Examples * %FAILEDPLUGINS% Related PLUGINDESCRI...

FORMAT format a list of objects Parameters Parameter Description Default "one, two, three" The list to be expanded into the format. R...

FORMFIELD renders a field in the form attached to some topic Parameters Parameter Description Default "name" The name of a Data form ...

GROUPINFO retrieve details about a group Parameters Parameter Description Default "groupname" Optional name of group format ...

HTTP_HOST environment variable Examples * %HTTP_HOST% expands to == Related ENV, REMOTE_ADDR, REMOTE_PORT, REMOTE_USER

ICON small documentation graphic or icon of common attachment types Generates a small graphic image from the set attached to . Images typically have a 16x16...

ICONURL URL of small documentation graphic or icon Generates the full URL of a image, which Foswiki renders as an image. The related %ICON{"name"}% generat...

IF simple conditionals Evaluate a condition and show one text or another based on the result. See details in IfStatements . Parameter Description Defa...

INCLUDINGWEB web that includes current topic The web name of the topic that includes the current topic same as %WEB% if there is no INCLUDE. If a topic is used ...

LANGUAGES list available languages List the languages available (as PO files). These are the languages in which the user interface is available. Parameters ...

LOGIN present a full login link %IF{"context authenticated" then="$percentT$percent You are already authenticated, so %LOGIN% expands to an empty string "}%...

LOGOUT present a full logout link %IF{"context authenticated" else="$percentT$percent You are already logged out, so %LOGOUT expands to an empty string" }% ...

MAKETEXT creates text using Foswiki's I18N infrastructure Strings captured in the MAKETEXT macro are automatically mapped to the current user's selected language ...

META displays meta data Provided mainly for use in templates, this macro generates the parts of the topic view that relate to meta data (attachments, forms etc.)....

METASEARCH special search of meta data METASEARCH is deprecated in favour of the new and much more powerful query type search. See SEARCH and QuerySearch. Param...

NOP template text not to be expanded in instantiated topics * %NOP% * In normal topic text, expands to nop , which prevents expansion of adjacent macros...

NOTIFYTOPIC name of the notify topic Examples * %NOTIFYTOPIC% expands to ==, renders as Related HOMETOPIC, STATISTICSTOPIC, TOPIC

PERLDEPENDENCYREPORT report perl module dependencies Intended for use by installers / administrators, reports on the status of Perl dependencies in the Foswiki co...

PLUGINVERSION the version of a Foswiki Plugin, or the Foswiki Plugins API Use %PLUGINVERSION{"name"}% to get the version of a specific plugin Examples * %PLUG...

QUERYPARAMS show parameters to the query Expands the parameters to the query that was used to display the page. Parameters Parameter: Description:...

QUERYSTRING full, unprocessed string of parameters to this URL * String of all the URL parameters that were on the URL used to get to the current page. For exa...

REMOTE_ADDR environment variable Examples * %REMOTE_ADDR% expands to == Related ENV, HTTP_HOST, REMOTE_PORT, REMOTE_USER

REMOTE_PORT environment variable Examples * %REMOTE_PORT% expands to Related ENV, HTTP_HOST, REMOTE_ADDR, REMOTE_USER

REVARG rev=n parameter of current request %REVARG% If a topic revision is requested in the URL, it returns the revision of the current topic suitable for concaten...

REVTITLE The requested revision as displayed in topic breadcrumbs If a topic revision is requested in the URL, it returns the printable revision of the current t...

SCRIPTNAME name of current script * The name of the current script is shown, including script suffix, if any (for example viewauth.cgi) Examples * %SCRIPTN...

SCRIPTSUFFIX script suffix * Some Leader.IT installations require a file extension for CGI scripts, such as .pl or .cgi Examples * %SCRIPTSUFFIX% expands t...

SERVERINFORMATION report detailed web server information Intended for use by installers / administrators, reports on the runtime information of the Foswiki instal...

SERVERTIME formatted server time Same format parameters as VarGMTIME GMTIME% , but displaying the server time instead of UTC. Examples * %SERVERTIME% els...

SESSIONID unique ID for this session Examples * %SESSIONID% expands to == Related UserAuthentication, AUTHREALM, SESSIONVAR, LOGIN, LOGOUT, SESSION_VARIABLE...

SESSIONVAR name of CGI and session variable that stores the session ID Examples * %SESSIONVAR% expands to Related UserAuthentication, AUTHREALM, SESSIONID,...

SESSION_VARIABLE get, set or clear a session variable Parameters Parameter Description "name" name of variable set value to set it to ...

SKIN current skin %SKIN% expands the skin search path. For instance, SKIN can be set to catskin, bearskin. The SKIN setting can be overridden using the URL parame...