Macros
Special text strings expand on the fly to display user data or system info
Macros are text strings in one of two forms:
%MACRONAME%
%MACRONAME{ parameter="value" }%
These usually expand into content when a topic is rendered for viewing. There are two types of macros:
- Preference settings: May be defined and modified by the user
- Registered macros: Defined by the system or by Plugins (for example, the SpreadSheetPlugin introduces a
%CALC{}%
macro)
Using Macros
To use a macro type its name. For example,
Note:
- To leave a macro unexpanded, precede it with an exclamation point, e.g. type
!%TOPIC%
to get %TOPIC%
- Alternatively, insert a
<nop>
anywhere in the macro, Eg. %<nop>TOPIC%
- Macros are expanded relative to the topic they are used in, not the topic they are defined in
- Type
%ALLVARIABLES%
to get a full listing of all macros defined for a particular topic
- If a macro is not defined, then it will be left in the text unless it is called with a
default
parameter, in which case the value of the default
parameter will replace the macro call in the output. For example, %UNDEFINED{default="blank"}%
will expand to blank
.
Order of expansion
The following describes only these types of macros:
Standard form
The key to understanding nested expressions in Foswiki is to understand that macros are expanded "inside-out, left-to-right".
Example:
%MACRO1{
something="%MACRO2{
somethingelse="%MACRO3%, %MACRO4%"
}%"
}%
The macros are expanded in this order: MACRO3, MACRO4, MACRO2, MACRO1.
Animated Example
%INCLUDE{
"%QUERY{
"'%THETOPIC%'/%THEFIELD%"
}%"
section="Summary"
}%
* Set THETOPIC = %SYSTEMWEB%.FAQWhatIsWikiWiki
* Set THEFIELD = TopicClassification
%INCLUDE{
"%QUERY{
"'%SYSTEMWEB%.FAQWhatIsWikiWiki'/%THEFIELD%"
}%"
section="Summary"
}%
* Set THETOPIC = %SYSTEMWEB%.FAQWhatIsWikiWiki
* Set THEFIELD = TopicClassification
%INCLUDE{
"%QUERY{
"'%SYSTEMWEB%.FAQWhatIsWikiWiki'/TopicClassification"
}%"
section="Summary"
}%
* Set THETOPIC = %SYSTEMWEB%.FAQWhatIsWikiWiki
* Set THEFIELD = TopicClassification
%INCLUDE{
"%QUERY{
"'System.FAQWhatIsWikiWiki'/TopicClassification"
}%"
section="Summary"
}%
* Set THETOPIC = %SYSTEMWEB%.FAQWhatIsWikiWiki
* Set THEFIELD = TopicClassification
%INCLUDE{
"FrequentlyAskedQuestion"
section="Summary"
}%
* Set THETOPIC = %SYSTEMWEB%.FAQWhatIsWikiWiki
* Set THEFIELD = TopicClassification
These topics are for frequently
asked questions including answers.
* Set THETOPIC = %SYSTEMWEB%.FAQWhatIsWikiWiki
* Set THEFIELD = TopicClassification
These topics are for frequently
asked questions including answers.
* Set THETOPIC = System.FAQWhatIsWikiWiki
* Set THEFIELD = TopicClassification
Delayed form
Standard form macros can nearly always be used to build the parameter string of another macro; however, sometimes it is desirable to bypass the
inside-out expansion order and delay the inner macro until after the outer macro has finished expansion. This is accomplished by using the
$percent format token instead of
%
, and escaping any
"
character it uses (becomes
\"
)
When working with a given macro, consult its documentation to determine which parameters support the $percent/$percnt
format tokens. Generally only output parameters like header
, format
and footer
support format tokens.
Example:
%MACRO1{
format="$percentMACRO2{
format=\"%MACRO3%, %MACRO4%\"
}$percent"
}%
The macros are expanded in this order: MACRO3, MACRO4, MACRO1,
MACRO2.
Animated Example
From the
conditional output example:
%SEARCH{
"info.date >= d2n('2009-01-01') AND info.date <= d2n('2009-12-31')"
type="query"
limit="2"
nonoise="on"
format=" * $percentICON{
\"$percentIF{
\"'$topic'/parent.name='%PARENT%'\"
then=\"info\" else=\"gear\"
}$percent\"
}$percent [[$topic]]"
}%
----
* Set PARENT = UserDocumentationCategory
%SEARCH{
"info.date >= d2n('2009-01-01') AND info.date <= d2n('2009-12-31')"
type="query"
limit="2"
nonoise="on"
format=" * $percentICON{
\"$percentIF{
\"'$topic'/parent.name='UserDocumentationCategory'\"
then=\"info\" else=\"gear\"
}$percent\"
}$percent [[$topic]]"
}%
----
* Set PARENT = UserDocumentationCategory
* %ICON{
"%IF{
"'AccessKeys'/parent.name='UserDocumentationCategory'"
then="info" else="gear"
}%"
}% [[AccessKeys]]
* %ICON{
"%IF{
"'AdminSkillsAssumptions'/parent.name='UserDocumentationCategory'"
then="info" else="gear"
}%"
}% [[AdminSkillsAssumptions]]
----
* Set PARENT = UserDocumentationCategory
* %ICON{
"info"
}% [[AccessKeys]]
* %ICON{
"gear"
}% [[AdminSkillsAssumptions]]
----
* Set PARENT = UserDocumentationCategory
* <img src="https://www.utfit.org/foswiki/pub/System/DocumentGraphics/info.png"/> [[AccessKeys]]
* <img src="https://www.utfit.org/foswiki/pub/System/DocumentGraphics/gear.png"/> [[AdminSkillsAssumptions]]
----
* Set PARENT = UserDocumentationCategory
See also:
FormattedSearch
Macro Names
Macro names must start with a letter. The following characters can be letters, numbers and the underscore '_'. Letters may be upper or lower-case, E.g.
%MYVAR%
,
%MyVar%
,
%My2ndVar%
, and
%My_Var%
are all separate, valid macro names (macros are case sensitive -
%MyVAR%
and
%MYVAR%
are not the same).
By convention all settings, predefined macros and macros registered by plugins are always UPPER-CASE.
%META:TOPICPARENT{name="AdminToolsCategory"}% #SettingPrefs
Preference Settings
A
preference setting lets you define a simple
macro that will be expanded in your output. A preference setting looks like this:
[multiple of 3 spaces] * [space] Set [space] MACRONAME [space] = [space] value
Example:
* Set WEBBGCOLOR = #FFFFC0
Macros defined using preference settings are expanded by enclosing their name in percent signs. So when you write
%WEBBGCOLOR%
, it gets expanded to
#FFD8AA
A preference macro is always taken from the most current topic revision, even when accessing previous revisions of a topic.
Preferences can be defined in a number of places:
- DefaultPreferences (Foswiki upgrades overwrite this topic)
- In (some) plugin documentation topics. (Deprecated)
- SitePreferences
- In user topics, if the user has one (yours is Main.WikiGuest)
- WebPreferences
- Sub-webs inherit the WebPreferences of their parent
- In the topic being accessed
In this list,
Set
statements which occur at numerically higher locations override macros of the same name defined at lower numbered levels,
unless the macro was listed in a finalpreferences setting (finalised) at a lower-numbered level. in this case, the macro is locked to the value at that level;
set
statements at higher-numbered levels are ignored.
Writing preference settings
Preference settings are written as a simple bullet. In TML, they are written
as
3-spaces,asterisk,equals,value
* Set MYSETTING = My setting value
When using the Wysiwyg editor, click the "Bullet" button and write the setting
as a simple bullet. Don't include the asterisk.
Spaces between the = sign and the value will be ignored. You can split a value over several lines by indenting following lines with spaces - as long as you don't try to use * as the first character on the following line.
Example:
* Set MACRONAME = value starts here
and continues here
Whatever you include in your macro will be expanded on display, exactly as if it had been entered directly (though see Parameters, below).
Example: Create a custom logo macro
- To place a logo anywhere in a web by typing
%MYLOGO%
, define the preference settings in the web's WebPreferences topic, and upload a logo file, ex: mylogo.gif
. You can upload by attaching the file to WebPreferences, or, to avoid clutter, to any other topic in the same web, e.g. LogoTopic
. Sample preference setting in WebPreferences:
* Set MYLOGO = %PUBURL%/%WEB%/LogoTopic/mylogo.gif
Preference settings are
case sensitive. (Foswiki by convention always writes settings in upper case.)
* Set lower = This is LOWER
* Set LOWER = This is UPPER
* Set LoWeR = This is MIXED
Expand %lower%, %LOWER% and %LoWeR%
Expand %lower%, %LOWER% and %LoWeR%.
preference settings can easily be disabled with a # sign. Example:
* #Set DENYWEBCHANGE = %USERSWEB%.UnknownUser
Hiding preference settings
You can hide preference settings in the output by enclosing them in HTML comments; for example,
<!--
* Set HIDDEN = This will be invisible in the output
-->
You can also set preference settings in a topic by clicking the link
Edit topic preference settings
under
More topic actions
. Preferences set in this manner are known as 'meta' preferences and are not visible in the topic text, but take effect nevertheless.
Caution If your topic will be used in an INCLUDE, it is recommended to not use HTML comments. instead, set preferences
into the topic metadata by using the "Edit Settings for this topic" button on the "More topic actions" page. Settings in an included topic are always ignored,
but nested comments will break the HTML.
Order of perference settings
If you are setting a preference and using it in the same topic, note that Foswiki reads all the preference settings from the saved version of the topic before it displays anything. This means you can use a setting anywhere in the topic, even if you set it at the very end.
But beware: it also means that if you change the setting of a macro you are using in the same topic,
Preview
will show the wrong thing, and you must
Save
the topic to see it correctly.
Preference settings and topic revision history
Foswiki always reads the settings from the most current topic revision, so viewing older revisions of a topic can show unexpected results.
And especially important,
preference settings are never overridden or set in "%INCLUDE{" topics. in the below example about weather conditions, note the difference in the CONDITIONS expansion
Parameters
Note that %CONDITIONS% expands differently when this example is viewed in
PreferenceSettings. This is because Set statement are not active in included topics. The including topic's set statements are used.
Macros defined using preference settings can take parameters. These are symbols passed in the call to the macro to define local macros that will be expanded in the output. For example,
* Set CONDITIONS = According to [[%BASETOPIC%]] the %WHAT% is %STATE% today (Set in ...).
You can call this macro passing in values for
WHAT
and
STATE
. For example:
-
%CONDITIONS{WHAT="sea" STATE="choppy"}%
- expands to
According to Macros, The sea is choppy today. (Set in Macros).
.
Parameter defaults
- The special parameter name
DEFAULT
gets the value of any unnamed parameter in the macro call.
- Parameter macros can accept a
default
parameter so that they expand to something even when a value isn't passed for them in the call.
Example:
* Set WEATHER = It's %DEFAULT{default="raining"}%.
-
%WEATHER%
expands to It's raining.
-
%WEATHER{"sunny"}%
expands to It's sunny.
The standard
formatting tokens can be used in parameters. They will be expanded immediately when the macro is instantiated.
Note that parameters
override all other macros, including system defined macros, in the expansion of the macro where they are used.
Access Control Settings
These are special types of preference settings to control access to content.
AccessControl explains these security settings in detail. Parameters are
not available in access control settings.
Local values for preferences
Certain topics (user, plugin, web, site and default preferences topics) have a problem; macros defined in those topics can have two meanings. For example, consider a user topic. A user may want to use a double-height edit box when they are editing their home topic - but
only when editing their home topic. The rest of the time, they want to have a normal edit box. This separation is achieved using
Local
in place of
Set
in the macro definition. For example, if the user sets the following in their home topic:
* Set EDITBOXHEIGHT = 10
* Local EDITBOXHEIGHT = 20
Then, when they are editing any other topic, they will get a 10 high edit box. However, when they are editing their home topic they will get a 20 high edit box.
Local
can be used wherever a preference needs to take a different value depending on where the current operation is being performed.
Use this powerful feature with great care!
%ALLVARIABLES%
can be used to get a listing of the values of all macros in their evaluation order, so you can see macro scope if you get confused.
Deprecation warning. The setting used in
this example, EDITBOXHEIGHT, is being deprecated and will be remove from
Foswiki 1.2. Note that if the edit box size is changed using the javascript
controls in the lower right corner of the edit box window, those settings will
be used, and the EDITBOX* settings will be ignored.
Predefined Macros
Most predefined macros return values that were either set in the configuration when Foswiki was installed, or taken from server info (such as current username, or date and time). Some, like
%SEARCH%
, are powerful and general tools.
Predefined macros can be overridden by preference settings (except TOPIC and WEB)
Plugins may extend the set of predefined macros (see individual Plugins topics for details)
Take the time to thoroughly read through ALL preference macros. If you actively configure your site, review macros periodically. They cover a wide range of functions, and it can be easy to miss the one perfect macro for something you have in mind. For example, see %BASETOPIC%
, %INCLUDE%
, and the mighty %SEARCH%
.
Your installation of Foswiki v1.1.9 has the following registered macros:
ACTIVATEDPLUGINS -- list of currently activated plugins
- Syntax:
%ACTIVATEDPLUGINS%
- Expands to: TWikiCompatibilityPlugin, SpreadSheetPlugin, AutoViewTemplatePlugin, CommentPlugin, CompareRevisionsAddonPlugin, EditTablePlugin, HistoryPlugin, HttpsRedirectPlugin, InterwikiPlugin, JQueryCompatibilityModePlugin, JQueryLibPlugin, JQueryPlugin, JQueryTwistyPlugin, MailerContribPlugin, MathModePlugin, PreferencesPlugin, RenderListPlugin, SendEmailPlugin, SlideShowPlugin, SmiliesPlugin, TablePlugin, TinyMCEPlugin, TwistyPlugin, WysiwygPlugin
- Related: PLUGINDESCRIPTIONS, FAILEDPLUGINS, PLUGINVERSION
ADDTOHEAD
This macro is deprecated. Please use
VarADDTOZONE instead.
It effecively is a shortcut for
%ADDTOZONE{"head" ...}%
ADDTOZONE
%ADDTOZONE{
"zone"
...
}%
Parameters:
-
"zone"
optional, comma-separated list of the names of zones that the content should be added to. The only zones guaranteed to exist are head
and script
. Defaults to head
.
-
id
optional, identifier
for the text being added with the ADDTOZONE
call, to be used in the requires
parameter of other ADDTOZONE
calls.
- Multiple
ADDTOZONE
calls with the same id
parameter will simply overwrite the earlier ADDTOZONE
call.
-
requires="..."
optional, comma separated string of ids
of text within this zone
that this content should follow when the zone is rendered. The content will be rendered even if a specified id
is missing.
-
text="..."
optional, text to be added to the named zone, mutually exclusive with topic
.
-
topic="..."
optional, full qualified web.topic
name that contains the text to be added, mutually exclusive with text
. Defaults to %BASETOPIC%
-
section="..."
optional, section of the topic
to be added, defaults to the default section between STARTINCLUDE and STOPINCLUDE.
What is a "Zone"?
Zones are specific places in the output HTML that are marked by calls to the
RENDERZONE macro. Zones are used to collect various content
together, such as Javascript and CSS, that must be included in the output HTML
in a specific order, and in a specific place.
There are two special zones called
head
and
script
. The
head
zone is rendered
as part of the HTML head section. It is the catch-all container for any content supposed
to be placed into the HTML head section, except Javascript, which is collected in the
script
zone.
All Javascript
must always be added to the
script
zone exclusively, in order to
grant ordering constraints among scripts are resolved properly. Never add Javascript to
the
head
zone -- never add non-Javascript content to the
script
zone.
Both zones are added to the HTML head section automatically just before the
closing </head> tag as if they were specified explicitly in the skin templates using:
<head>
...
%RENDERZONE{"head"}%
%RENDERZONE{"script"}%
</head>
You may create as many zones in addition to the standard
head
and
script
zones as you like. For any non-standard zone specified in
ADDTOZONE you will also need to provide an appropriate
RENDERZONE.
Interesting use cases in wiki applications:
- Create a
sidebar
zone to add widgets,
- Create a
toolbar
zone to add buttons icons
- Create a
menu
zone to add menu entries
Adding content to a zone
ADDTOZONE adds content to a zone identified with the
id
parameter.
An
id
identifier is unique within the zone that they are added to.
When the same
id
is used in multiple calls to
ADDTOZONE the
last call will win, that is previous content of the same
id
will be overwritten.
Enforcing a linear order of content within a zone
An
ADDTOZONE call may ensure that its content appears
after the
content of some other
ADDTOZONE calls by specifying their
ids
in
the
requires
parameter. The
requires
parameter constraints the linear order
of content added to a zone. When a zone is rendered, all ordering constraints
expressed via
requires
are satisfied. Those
ids
not found in a zone don't
have any influence on the final ordering. Missing
ids
aren't considered an error
rather than an over-specified ordering problem.
Working with {MergeHeadAndScriptZones}
disabled (default)
In this mode, the
head
and
script
zones are treated separately.
Even when
head
and
script
zones are treated separately, the
head
zone will
always be rendered before the
script
zone, unless otherwise specified using
RENDERZONE explicitly.
So any content in the
script
zone that depends on content placed into
the
head
zone is satisfied intrinsicly as they are both rendered as specified above.
Working with {MergeHeadAndScriptZones}
enabled
In this mode, the
head
and
script
zones are separate when adding to them,
but may be treated as merged when you call
RENDERZONE if
there are any dependencies specified that only exist in the opposite zone. This
allows an
ADDTOZONE{"head"...}
to to successfully require an
id
that has
been added to
script
.
{MergeHeadAndScriptZones}
is provided to
maintain compatibility with legacy extensions that use
ADDTOHEAD to add <script>
markup and require content
that is now in the script
zone. {MergeHeadAndScriptZones}
will be removed
from a future version of Foswiki.
Example: Adding to a zone with missing dependencies
You must ensure that no
head
content (and no inline Javascript) depends on
script
content. Any such dependency will be
ignored.
In real world application this isn't a problem as Javascript is never added
to the
head
zone or Javascript zone part of the
script
zone never really
depends on non-Javascript content part of the
head
zone.
HTML comment decoration which normally appears after each id's
content in the rendered HTML will contain a small informative text to aid
debugging.
Example
%ADDTOZONE{
"script"
text="
<script type='text/javascript'>
alert('test');
</script>"
requires="some-id-that-exists-in-script"
id="MY::TEST"
}%
Result
<script type='text/javascript'>
alert('test');
</script>
<!-- MY::TEST: requires= missing ids: some-id-that-exists-in-script -->
Example: Adding Javascript to a page
Make sure that all inline Javascript code in the topic (if it is allowed)
is added to the page using
%ADDTOZONE{"script"...requires="library-id"}%
with the appropriate library-id to guarantee a correct load order. For example, jQuery code should be added as follows:
%JQREQUIRE{"shake"}%
%ADDTOZONE{
"script"
id="MyApp::ShakePart"
text="
<script type='text/javascript'>
jQuery('#something').shake(3, 10, 180);
</script>"
requires="JQUERYPLUGIN::SHAKE"
}%
where "MyApp::ShakePart" is a unique
id
to identify the text added to
script
; and
JQUERYPLUGIN::SHAKE
signifies that the content added with that
identifier should appear beforehand.
Example: Adding CSS to a page
%ADDTOZONE{"head"
id="MyCSS"
text="
<style type='text/css' media='all'>
@import url('%PUBURLPATH%/%SYSTEMWEB%/MyCSS/foo.css');
</style>"
}%
See also
RENDERZONE,
Using ADDTOZONE,
Updating applications to use script
zone
ALLVARIABLES -- list of currently defined macros
- Syntax:
%ALLVARIABLES%
- Expands to: a table showing all defined macros in the current context
Deprecated 2009-04-29 in favour of
SHOWPREFERENCE
AQUA -- start aqua colored text
Related: ENDCOLOR,
DefaultPreferences,
StandardColors
ATTACHURL -- full URL for attachments in the current topic
ATTACHURLPATH -- path of the attachment URL of the current topic
AUTHREALM -- authentication realm
- String defined as
{AuthRealm}
expert option in configure. This is used in certain password encodings, and in login templates as part of the login prompt.
- Syntax:
%AUTHREALM%
- Expands to: Enter your LoginName. (Typically First name and last name, no space, no dots, capitalized, e.g. JohnSmith, unless you chose otherwise). Visit UserRegistration if you do not have one.
- Related: UserAuthentication, SESSIONID, SESSIONVAR, LOGIN, LOGOUT, SESSION_VARIABLE
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 name of the topic requested by the user.
- Syntax:
%BASETOPIC%
- Related: BASEWEB, INCLUDINGTOPIC, INCLUDE, TOPIC
BASEWEB -- base web where an INCLUDE started
- The web name where the includes started, e.g. the web of the first topic of nested includes. Same as
%WEB%
in case there is no include.
- This is the name of the web requested by the user.
- Syntax:
%BASEWEB%
- Related: BASETOPIC, INCLUDINGWEB, INCLUDE, WEB
BB -- bullet with line break
BB2 -- level 2 bullet with line break
BB3 -- level 3 bullet with line break
BB4 -- level 4 bullet with line break
BLACK -- start black colored text
Related: ENDCOLOR,
DefaultPreferences,
StandardColors
BLUE -- start blue colored text
Related: ENDCOLOR,
DefaultPreferences,
StandardColors
BR -- line break
BROWN -- start brown colored text
Related: ENDCOLOR,
DefaultPreferences,
StandardColors
BULLET -- bullet character
BUTTON{"text" ...} -- renders a nice button
CALC{"formula"} -- add spreadsheet calculations to tables and outside tables
- The
%CALC{"formula"}%
macro is handled by the SpreadSheetPlugin. There are around 90 formulae, such as $ABS()
, $EXACT()
, $EXISTS()
, $GET()/$SET()
, $IF()
, $LOG()
, $LOWER()
, $PERCENTILE()
, $TIME()
, $VALUE()
.
- Syntax:
%CALC{"formula"}%
- Examples:
-
%CALC{"$SUM($ABOVE())"}%
returns the sum of all cells above the current cell
-
%CALC{"$EXISTS(Web.SomeTopic)"}%
returns 1
if the topic exists
-
%CALC{"$UPPER(Collaboration)"}%
returns COLLABORATION
- Related: IF, SpreadSheetPlugin
CARET -- caret symbol
COMMENT{ attributes } -- insert an edit box into the topic to easily add comments.
- A
%COMMENT%
without parameters shows a simple text box.
- The following standard attributes are recognized
Name | Description | Default |
type | This is the name of the template to use for this comment. Comment templates are defined in a Foswiki template - see Customisation, below. If this attribute is not defined, the type is whatever is defined by COMMENTPLUGIN_DEFAULT_TYPE, either in this topic or in your WebPreferences. | below |
default | Default text to put into the textarea of the prompt. | |
target | Name of the topic to add the comment to | the current topic |
location | Regular expression specifying the comment location in the target topic. Read carefully the CommentPlugin documentation! | |
mode | For compatibility with older versions only, synonymous with type | |
nonotify | Set to "on" to disable change notification for target topics | off |
noform | Set to "on" to disable the automatic form that encloses your comment block - remember to insert <form> tags yourself! See CommentPluginExamples:noform for an example. | off |
nopost | Set to "on" to disable insertion of the posted text into the topic. | off |
remove | Set to "on" to remove the comment prompt after the first time it is clicked. | off |
button | Button label text | Add comment |
COVER -- current skin cover
-
%COVER%
extends the skin search path. For instance, if SKIN is set to catskin, bearskin
, and COVER
is set to ruskin
, the skin search path becomes ruskin, catskin, bearskin
.
- The
COVER
setting can be overridden using the URL parameter cover
, such as ?cover=ruskin
- Syntax:
%COVER%
- Expands to:
custom
- See Skins for more information
DATE -- signature format date
DISPLAYTIME{"format"} -- formatted display time
EDITACTION -- Selects an edit template
EDITTABLE{ attributes } -- edit tables using edit fields and other input fields
- The
%EDITTABLE{}%
macro is handled by the EditTablePlugin
- Syntax:
%EDITTABLE{ attributes }%
- Supported attributes:
Attribute | Comment | Default |
header | Specify the header format of a new table like " | Food | Drink | ". Useful to start a table with only a button | (no header) |
format | The format of one column when editing the table. A cell can be a text input field, or any of these edit field types: • Text input field (1 line): = | text, <size>, <initial value> | = • Textarea input field: = | textarea, <rows>x<columns>, <initial value> | = • Drop down box: = | select, <size>, <option 1>, <option 2>, etc* | = * only one item can be selected • Radio buttons: = | radio, <size*>, <option 1>, <option 2>, etc | = * size indicates the number of buttons per line in edit mode • Checkboxes: = | checkbox, <size*>, <option 1>, <option 2>, etc | = * size indicates the number of checkboxes per line in edit mode • Fixed label: = | label, 0, <label text> | = • Row number: = | row, <offset> | = • Date: = | date, <size>, <initial value>, <DHTML date format> | = (see Date Field Type) | "text, 16" for all cells |
changerows | Rows can be added and removed if "on" Rows can be added but not removed if "add" Rows cannot be added or removed if "off" | CHANGEROWS plugin setting |
quietsave | Quiet Save button is shown if "on" , hidden if "off" | QUIETSAVE plugin setting |
include | Other topic defining the EDITTABLE parameters. The first %EDITTABLE% in the topic is used. This is useful if you have many topics with the same table format and you want to update the format in one place. Use topic or web.topic notation. | (none) |
helptopic | Topic name containing help text shown below the table when editing a table. The %STARTINCLUDE% and %STOPINCLUDE% macros can be used in the topic to specify what is shown. | (no help text) |
headerislabel | Table header cells are read-only (labels) if "on" ; header cells can be edited if "off" or "0" | "on" |
editbutton | Set edit button text, e.g. "Edit this table" ; set button image with alt text, e.g. "Edit table, %PUBURL%/%SYSTEMWEB%/DocumentGraphics/edittopic.gif" ; hide edit button at the end of the table with "hide" (Note: Button is automatically hidden if an edit button is present in a cell) | EDITBUTTON plugin setting |
buttonrow | Set to top to put the edit buttons above the table. | bottom |
javascriptinterface | Use javascript to directly move and delete row without page refresh. Enable with "on" , disable with "off" . | JAVASCRIPTINTERFACE plugin setting |
Example:
%EDITTABLE{ format="| text, 20 | select, 1, one, two, three |" changerows="on" }%
| *Name* | *Type* |
| Foo | two |
Produces:
Related: See
EditTablePlugin for more details
ENCODE{"string"} -- encodes a string
- Encode character sequences in
"string"
, by mapping characters (or sequences of characters) to an alternative character (or sequence of characters). This macro can be used to encode strings for use in URLs, to encode to HTML entities, to protect quotes, and for as many other uses as you can imagine.
- Syntax:
%ENCODE{"string"}%
- Parameters:
Parameter | Description | Default |
"string" | String to encode | "" (empty string) |
type="encodingname" | Use a predefined encoding (see below). | Default is 'url'. Parameter type not be used if old or new are given. |
old="tokenlist" | Comma-separated list of tokens to replace. Tokens are normally single characters, but can also be sequences of characters. The standard format tokens may be used in this list. Each token must be unique - you cannot list the same token twice. | May not be used with type ; required if new is used |
new="tokenlist" | comma-separated list of replacement tokens. The elements in this list match 1:1 with the elements in the old list. Again, the standard format tokens may be used. An empty element in the new list will result in the corresponding token in the old list being deleted from the string. If the new list is shorter than the old list it will be extended to the same length using the empty element. Tokens do not have to be unique. When using old and new , be aware that the results of applying earlier tokens are not processed again using later tokens. (see examples below) | May not be used with type ; required if old is used |
- If
ENCODE
is called with no optional parameters (e.g. %ENCODE{"string"}%
) then the default type="url"
encoding will be used.
- Predefined encodings.
- Unless otherwise specified, the
type
parameter encodes the following "special characters"
- all non-printable ASCII characters below space, except newline (
"\n"
) and carriage return ("\r"
)
- HTML special characters
"<"
, ">"
, "&"
, single quote ('
) and double quote ("
)
- TML special characters
"%"
, "["
, "]"
, "@"
, "_"
, "*"
, "="
and "|"
-
type="entity"
or type="entities"
Encode special characters into HTML entities, like a double quote into "
. Does not encode \n
(newline).
-
type="html"
As type="entity"
except it also encodes \n
(newline)
-
type="safe"
Encode just the characters '"<>%
into HTML entities.
-
type="quote"
or type="quotes"
Escapes double quotes with backslashes (\"
), does not change any other characters
-
type="url"
Encode special characters for use in URL parameters, like a double quote into %22
- Examples
%ENCODE{"spaced name"}%= expands to
spaced%20name
%ENCODE{"| Blah | | More blah |" old="|,$n" new="|,<br />"}% expands to
| Blah | | More blah |
- this encoding is useful to protect special TML characters in tables.
%ENCODE{"10xx1x01x" old="1,x,0" new="A,,B"}% expands to
ABABA
%ENCODE{"1,2" old="$comma" new=";"}% expands to
1;2
- Values for HTML input fields must be entity encoded.
Example: <input type="text" name="address" value="%ENCODE{ "any text" type="entity" }%" />
-
ENCODE
can be used to filter user input from URL parameters and similar to help protect against cross-site scripting. The safest approach is to use type="entity"
. This can however prevent an application from fully working. You can alternatively use type="safe"
which encodes only the characters '"<>%
into HTML entities. When ENCODE
is passing a string inside another macro always use double quotes ("") type="quote". For maximum protection against cross-site scripting you are advised to install the Foswiki:Extensions.SafeWikiPlugin.
ENDCOLOR -- end colored text
ENDSECTION{"name"} -- marks the end of a named section within a topic
- Syntax:
%ENDSECTION{"name"}%
- Syntax:
%ENDSECTION{type="include"}%
- Supported parameter:
Parameter: | Description: |
"name" | Name of the section. |
type="..." | Type of the section being terminated; supported types "section" , "include" , "expandvariables" , "templateonly" . |
- If the
STARTSECTION
is named, the corresponding ENDSECTION
must also be named with the same name. If the STARTSECTION
specifies a type, then the corresponding ENDSECTION
must also specify the same type. If the section is unnamed, ENDSECTION
will match with the nearest unnamed %STARTSECTION%
of the same type above it.
- Related: STARTSECTION
ENDTAB -- ending marker for a tab of a tabpane
ENDTABPANE -- ending tag for tabpane widget
ENDTWISTY
Twisty closure, complements the opening TWISTY tag.
ENDTWISTYTOGGLE
The Twisty closure
ENV{"varname"} -- inspect the value of an environment variable
- Returns the current value of the environment variable in the CGI (Common Gateway Interface) environment. This is the environment that the CommandAndCGIScripts are running in.
- Note: For security reasons, only those environment variables whose names match the regular expression in
{AccessibleENV}
in the Security Settings/Miscellaneous section of configure
can be displayed. Any other variable will just be shown as an empty string, irrespective of its real value.
- Example:
%ENV{MOD_PERL}%
displays as: not set
- If an environment variable is undefined (as against being set to the empty string) it will be returned as
not set
.
- Related: HTTP_HOST, REMOTE_ADDR, REMOTE_PORT, REMOTE_USER
EXAMPLETAG -- example variable
- The
%EXAMPLETAG{}%
variable is handled by the ExamplePlugin?
- Syntax:
%EXAMPLETAG{"text" format="..."}%
- Parameter
text="..."
- example text.
- Parameter
format="..."
- format of report.
- Example:
%EXAMPLETAG{"hello" format="| $topic: $summary |"}%
- Related: ExamplePlugin?
EXPAND{"expression" scope="topictoexpandin" ...}%
Expands macros in
expression
as if they were used in the topic
topictoexpandin
. The viewer must have VIEW access to
topictoexpandin
for this to work. All the standard formatting macros can be used in
expression
, such as
$percent
and
$quot
.
EXPAND
can be useful when you want to pick up the value of macros defined in another topic. For example, you might want to define a set of preferences in one topic, but pick up their value in another topic (this is very useful when building reusable applications). In this case you can write:
* Set MYPREFERENCE = value
in "SettingsTopic" and then, in "MyTopic", write:
%EXPAND{"$percentMYPREFERENCE$percent" scope="SettingsTopic"}%
Of course we can also write:
%EXPAND{"$percentMYPREFERENCE$percent" scope="%OTHERTOPIC%"}%
which lets us select which other topic to get the preference value from.
Additional parameters can be passed to the macro being expanded using the standard macro syntax in the name of the macro; for example,
%EXPAND{"$percentMYPREFERENCE{$quotdefault$quot param=$quotvalue$quot}" scope="SettingsTopic"}%
Notes:
-
EXPAND
is not very efficient, and should be used sparingly.
- To expand a web preference (for example, a web access control) then set
scope="Theotherweb.%WEBPREFSTOPIC%"
FAILEDPLUGINS -- debugging for plugins that failed to load, and handler list
FORMAT{"list" format="" header="" footer="" separator=""} -- format a list of objects
Supported formatting tokens
If
type="topic"
(the default) the format string can contain
any of the
topic-specific format tokens
specified in
FormattedSearch (
$web
,
$topic
,
$parent
,
$text
,
$locked
,
$date
,
$isodate
,
$index
,
$item
,
$rev
,
$username
,
$wikiname
,
$wikiusername
,
$createdate
,
$createusername
,
$createwikiname
,
$createwikiusername
,
$summary
,
$changes
,
$formname
,
$formfield
,
$pattern
,
$count
,
$ntopics
,
$nhits
,
$pager
).
In addition, the macro supports all the standard
format tokens.
If
type="string"
then the comma separated list is treated as a list of
strings. In this case, the format tokens
$index
and
$item
will return
the position of the item in the list (1-based), and the item itself,
respectively. Note that a comma can be embedded in the data using the standard
formatting token
$comma
.
The FORMAT macro is currently only of use in formatting lists of topics,
or of simple strings. It will be extended in future releases to add the
capability to render other object types.
For more sophisticated handling of string lists, consider installing
Foswiki:Extensions.FilterPlugin.
FORMFIELD{"fieldname"} -- renders a field in the form attached to some topic
GMTIME{"format"} -- formatted GM time
GRAY -- start gray colored text
Related: ENDCOLOR,
DefaultPreferences,
StandardColors
GREEN -- start green colored text
Related: ENDCOLOR,
DefaultPreferences,
StandardColors
GROUPINFO{"name"} -- retrieve details about a group
- Syntax:
%GROUPINFO%
- Expands to: comma-separated list of all groups
- Syntax:
%GROUPINFO{"groupname"}%
- Expands to: comma-separated list of users in that group
- Parameters:
format | Format of a single user or group in the list. -
$name expands to the group name, and (for users list only) -
$wikiname , $username and $wikiusername to the relevant strings. -
$allowschange returns 0 (false) or 1 (true) if that group can be modified by the current user. -
$allowschange(UserWikiName) returns 0 (false) or 1 (true) if that group can be modified by the specified user (does not work for groups yet.). - The standard FormatTokens are also supported.
| $name for groups list, $wikiusername for users list |
separator | separator between items in the list | , |
header | Header for the list | '' |
footer | Footer for the list | '' |
zeroresults | If set, and there are no Groups or Members that can be shown, the header and footer are suppressed, and this text is output | undefined |
show | filter the output list of Groups - can be set to all , allowschange , denychange , allowschange(UserWikiName) , denychange(UserWikiName) | all |
expand | Set false if users should not be expanded from nested groups. Default behavior is to expand all nested groups into a flat list of users. | 1 |
limit | If set, limits the number of results to this | infinity |
limited | If limit is set, and the list is truncated, this text will be added at the end of the list | '' |
Note: GROUPINFO will not list members that are hidden from the current authenticated user. If the current user does not have VIEW authority for a user's topic, then the user will not be shown as a group member.
GROUPS -- a formatted list of groups
Deprecated - do not use. Use VarGROUPINFO instead
H -- help icon
- Current value: H =
- Related: I, ICON, M, N, P, Q, S, T, U, X, Y
HISTORY{ attributes } -- control attributes of tables and sorting of table columns
- The
%HISTORY{}%
macro is handled by the HistoryPlugin
- Syntax:
%HISTORY{ attributes }%
Argument |
Description |
Default value |
none |
Default layout: a simple list of topic revisions using the default format (see below) |
|
"format" or format="string" |
Format of one line, may include any variable which is supported by macro REVINFO |
"r$rev - $date - $wikiusername" |
topic="topic" |
Topic name, can be in web.topic format |
current topic |
web="web" |
Web name |
current web |
versions="number or range" |
Number or range (format: from..to ). Examples: To get version 2, write: versions="2" To get version 2 to 3, write: versions="2..3" To get version 2 to the latest, write: versions="2.." To get all versions up to version 5, write: versions="..5" To get all versions up to but not including the latest, write: versions="..-1" To get the versions from 1 to 5 in reverse order, write: versions="5..1" |
all versions in the order latest to first |
header="text" |
Text to print before the list. May contain the tokens $next and $previous which will be evaluated if there are newer or older revisions available for the topic that are not listed according to versions (or rev1 , rev2 , nrev ). These tokens take the syntax $next{'some text' url='url'} (the same for $previous ). 'some text' is the text which should be printed, 'url' is the url for the corresponding link. The tokens $rev1 , $rev2 , $nrev in 'text' or 'url' will be replaced by appropriate values for the next or previous block of revisions. See the attached oopshistory.tmpl for an example of how to use this. |
"$next" |
footer="text" |
Text to print after the list. May contain the tokens $next and $previous (see header ) |
"$previous" |
Deprecated (but supported) parameters:
Argument |
Description |
Default value |
nrev="number" |
Number of revisions to show. Ignored if versions is specified, or if both rev1 and rev2 are specified. |
10 |
rev2="number" |
Newest revision to show |
rev1+nrev if rev1 is specified, latest revision otherwise |
rev1="number" |
Oldest revision to show |
rev2-nrev |
reverse="boolean" |
Show newest revisions first, if on |
"on" |
Additional macros
The following macros are replaced only if there is a corresponding
%HISTORY%
on the page. If more than one
%HISTORY%
is used on the same page, the values from the last one will be used.
-
%HISTORY_REV1%
: Oldest revision from the printed history
-
%HISTORY_REV2%
: Latest revision from the printed history
-
%HISTORY_NREV%
: Number of the printed revisions
-
%HISTORY_MAXREV%
: Latest available revision of the topic
HOMETOPIC -- home topic in each web
HTTP -- get HTTP headers
HTTP_HOST -- environment variable
HTTPS -- get HTTPS headers
- The same as
%HTTP%
but operates on the HTTPS environment variables present when the SSL protocol is in effect. Can be used to determine whether SSL is turned on.
- Syntax:
%HTTPS%
- Syntax:
%HTTPS{"Header-name"}%
- Related: HTTP, REMOTE_ADDR, REMOTE_PORT, REMOTE_USER
I -- idea icon
- Current value: I =
- Related: H, ICON, M, N, P, Q, S, T, U, X, Y
ICON{"name" alt="" default="name"} -- small documentation graphic or icon of common attachment types
- Generates a small graphic image from the set attached to DocumentGraphics. Images typically have a 16x16 pixel size. You can select a specific image by name, or you can give a full filename, in which case the type of the file will be used to select one of a collection of common file type icons.
- if you specify an icon which cannot be found, the one specified in the
default
parameter will be used (and if that fails, the 'else' icon will be used)
- Syntax: =%ICON{ "filename or icon name" [ default="filename or icon name" ] [ alt="alt text to be added to the HTML img tag" ] }%
- Examples:
-
%ICON{"flag-gray"}%
displays as
-
%ICON{"pdf"}%
displays as
-
%ICON{"docx" default="doc"}%
displays as
-
%ICON{"smile.pdf"}%
displays as
-
%ICON{"/dont/you/dare/smile.pdf"}%
returns
-
%ICON{"data.unknown" alt="Unknown file type"}%
displays as
-
%ICON{"data.unknown"}%
displays as
-
%ICON{"http://trunk.foswiki.org/pub/System/DocumentGraphics/xsl.gif"}%
displays
- Graphic samples:
arrowbright
, bubble
, choice-yes
, hand
- File type samples:
bmp
, doc
, gif
, hlp
, html
, mp3
, pdf
, ppt
, txt
, xls
, xml
, zip
- Related: ICONURL, ICONURLPATH, DefaultPreferences, FileAttachments, DocumentGraphics
ICONURL{"name" default="name"} -- URL of small documentation graphic or icon
- Generates the full URL of a DocumentGraphics image, which Foswiki renders as an image. The related
%ICON{"name"}%
generates the full HTML img tag. Specify image name or full filename (see ICON for details on filenames.)
- Syntax:
%ICONURL{"name"}%
- Examples:
-
%ICONURL{"arrowbright"}%
returns https://www.utfit.org/foswiki/pub/System/DocumentGraphics/arrowbright.png
-
%ICONURL{"novel.pdf"}%
returns https://www.utfit.org/foswiki/pub/System/DocumentGraphics/pdf.png
-
%ICONURL{"/queen/boheme.mp3"}%
returns https://www.utfit.org/foswiki/pub/System/DocumentGraphics/mp3.png
- Related: ICONURLPATH, ICON, DefaultPreferences, FileAttachments, DocumentGraphics
ICONURLPATH{"name" default="name"} -- URL path of small documentation graphic or icon
- Generates the relative URL path of a DocumentGraphics image, typically used in an HTML img tag. Specify image name or full filename (see ICON for details on filenames.)
- Syntax:
%ICONURLPATH{"name"}%
- Examples:
-
%ICONURLPATH{"locktopic"}%
returns /foswiki/pub/System/DocumentGraphics/locktopic.png
-
%ICONURLPATH{"eggysmell.xml"}%
returns /foswiki/pub/System/DocumentGraphics/xml.png
-
%ICONURLPATH{"/doc/xhtml.xsl"}%
returns /foswiki/pub/System/DocumentGraphics/xsl.png
- Related: ICONURL, ICON, DefaultPreferences, FileAttachments, DocumentGraphics
IF{"condition" ...} -- simple conditionals
INCLUDE{"topic"} -- include other topic.
- Syntax:
%INCLUDE{"topic" ...}%
(See also the URL form of %INCLUDE%
)
- Supported parameters:
Parameter: | Description: | Default: |
"SomeTopic" | The name of a topic located in the current web, i.e. %INCLUDE{"WebNotify"}% | |
"Web.Topic" | A topic in another web, i.e. %INCLUDE{"System.SiteMap"}% | |
pattern="..." | Include a subset of a topic or a web page. Specify a RegularExpression that contains the text you want to keep in parenthesis, e.g. pattern="(from here.*?to here)" . IncludeTopicsAndWebPages has more. | none |
rev="2" | Include a previous topic revision; N/A for URLs | top revision |
warn="off" | Warn if topic include fails: Fail silently (if off ); output default warning (if set to on ); else, output specific text (use $topic for topic name) | %INCLUDEWARNING% preferences setting |
section="name" | Includes only the specified named section, as defined in the included topic by the STARTSECTION{"name" type="section"} and ENDSECTION{"name" type="section"} macros. Nothing is shown if the named section does not exists. section="" is equivalent to not specifying a section | |
PARONE="val 1" PARTWO="val 2" | Any other parameter will be defined as a macro within the scope of the included topic. The example parameters on the left will result in %PARONE% and %PARTWO% being defined within the included topic. | |
- Examples: See IncludeTopicsAndWebPages
- Related: BASETOPIC, BASEWEB, INCLUDE("URL"), INCLUDE("doc:") ,INCLUDINGTOPIC, INCLUDINGWEB, STARTINCLUDE, STOPINCLUDE, STARTSECTION, ENDSECTION
INCLUDE{"url"} -- include a web page
- Syntax:
%INCLUDE{"http://..." ...}%
(See also the topic form of %INCLUDE%
)
- Supported parameters:
Parameter: | Description: | Default: |
"http://..." | A full qualified URL, i.e. %INCLUDE{"http://foswiki.org:80/index.html"}% . Supported content types are text/html and text/plain . If the URL resolves to an attachment file on the server this will automatically translate to a server-side include. | |
pattern="..." | Include a subset of a topic or a web page. Specify a RegularExpression that contains the text you want to keep in parenthesis, e.g. pattern="(from here.*?to here)" . IncludeTopicsAndWebPages has more. | none |
raw="on" | When a page is included, normally UTfit will process it, doing the following: 1) Alter relative links to point back to originating host, 2) Remove some basic HTML tags (html, head, body, script) and finally 3) Remove newlines from HTML tags spanning multiple lines. If you prefer to include exactly what is in the source of the originating page set this to on . raw="on" is short for disableremoveheaders="on" , disableremovescript="on" , disableremovebody="on" , disablecompresstags="on" and disablerewriteurls="on" . | disabled |
literal="on" | While using the raw option will indeed include the raw content, the included content will still be processed and rendered like regular topic content. To disable parsing of the included content, set the literal option to "on" . | disabled |
disableremoveheaders="on" | Bypass stripping headers from included HTML (everything until first </head> tag) | disabled |
disableremovescript="on" | Bypass stripping all <script> tags from included HTML | disabled |
disableremovebody="on" | Bypass stripping the </body> tag and everything around over and below it | disabled |
disablecompresstags="on" | Bypass replacing newlines in HTML tags with spaces. This compression step rewrites unmatched <'s into < entities unless bypassed | disabled |
disablerewriteurls="on" | Bypass rewriting relative URLs into absolute ones | disabled |
warn="off" | Warn if URL include fails: Fail silently (if off ); output default warning (if set to on ); else, output specific text (use $topic for topic name) appended with the http error information. | %INCLUDEWARNING% preferences setting |
JavaScript in included webpages is filtered out as a security precaution per default (disable filter with disableremovescript
parameter) Foswiki by default is configured to deny URL format includes.
- Examples: See IncludeTopicsAndWebPages
- Related: INCLUDE("topic")
INCLUDE{"doc:"} -- include Foswiki embedded module documentation
INCLUDINGTOPIC -- name of topic that includes current topic
- The name of the topic that includes the current topic - same as
%TOPIC%
in case there is no include
- If a topic is used in a chain of
INCLUDEs
, INCLUDINGTOPIC
is set to the topic directly INCLUDing this one, NOT the topic that has been requested by the user (which is set in BASETOPIC
) While this Macro may appear to work, unless you require the subtle difference between INCLUDINGTOPIC
and BASETOPIC
, you probably should use BASETOPIC
- Syntax:
%INCLUDINGTOPIC%
- Related: BASETOPIC, INCLUDINGWEB, INCLUDE, TOPIC
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 in a chain of
INCLUDEs
, INCLUDINGWEB
is set to the topic directly INCLUDing this one, NOT the web that has been requested by the user (which is set in BASEWEB
) While this Macro may appear to work, unless you require the subtle difference between INCLUDINGWEB
and BASEWEB
, you probably should use BASEWEB
- Syntax:
%INCLUDINGWEB%
- Related: BASEWEB, INCLUDINGTOPIC, INCLUDE, WEB
JQICON{"name" ...} -- render an image
JQICONPATH{"name"} -- render the urlpath to an image
JQPLUGINS{"plugins" ... } -- display a summary of available plugins
JQREQUIRE{"plugin, plugin, ... "} -- enable a plugin on the current page
- This macro will load a list of plugins to be added to the current page. Use JQPLUGINS to display the list of available and active plugins. While loading a plugin, additional plugins it may depend on are loaded as well. Information about these dependencies is stored within the plugins themselves and can't be changed. Dependencies also make sure the javascript code is added to the html page in the right order. It uses ADDTOZONE to aggregate javascript and css at the right place on the html page.
- Parameters:
Parameter: | Description: | Default: |
"plugin[, plugin, plugin]" | list of plugins to be loaded | |
warn | (on/off) allows you to switch off warnings when a plugin was not found | on |
- Related: JQueryPlugin, VarJQPLUGINS, VarADDTOZONE
JQTHEME{"name" ...} -- switch jQuery UI theme
- Foswiki's default UI theme is configured in
$Foswiki::cfg{JQueryPlugin}{JQueryTheme}
and defaults to base
. Use configure to change this site wide. Use JQTHEME if you decide to use a different theme on the current page.
- Note: some Foswiki skins may come with their own jQuery UI matching the overall user experience of the web design.
- Parameters:
Parameter: | Description: | Default: |
"name" | name of theme: JQueryPlugin knows the following themes base , lightness , redmod , smoothness ; additional themes maybe created using the themeroller and installed to /foswiki/pub/System/JQueryPlugin/$name | base |
- Related: JQueryUI
LANG -- the language specified by the server locale
This macro is used to generate the
lang
(and
xml:lang
) attribute in generated HTML pages. If
{UseLocale}
is enabled, it is calculated from the
configure setting of
{Site}{Locale}
. Otherwise it defaults to
en
(English).
LANGUAGE -- language code for the current user
- Returns the language code for the current user. This is the language used by Foswiki to generate the user interface.
- The language is detected from the user's browser, unless some site/web/user/session-defined preference setting overrides it:
- If a
LANGUAGE
preference is explicitly set, this will be used as the user language instead of any language detected from the browser.
- Avoid defining
LANGUAGE
in a non- per-user way, otherwise users will not be able to choose their preferred language.
- Do not confuse
LANGUAGE
with LANG
- Syntax:
%LANGUAGE%
- Expands to: en
- Related: LANGUAGES
LANGUAGES -- list available languages
- List the languages available (as
PO
files). These are the languages in which the user interface is available.
- Syntax:
%LANGUAGES{...}%
- Supported parameters:
Parameter: | Description: | Default: |
format | format for each item. See below for format tokens available in the format string. | " * $langname" |
separator | separator between items. | "\n" (newline) |
marker="selected" | Text for $marker if the item matches selection | "selected" |
selection="%LANGUAGE%" | Current language to be selected in list | (none) |
-
format
tokens: Token | Meaning |
$langname | language's name, as informed by the translators |
$langtag | language's tag. Ex: en , pt-br , etc. |
- Example:
<select>%LANGUAGES{format="<option $marker value='$langtag'>$langname</option>" selection="%LANGUAGE%"}%</select>
creates an option list of the available languages with the current language selected
LIME -- start lime colored text
Related: ENDCOLOR,
DefaultPreferences,
StandardColors
LOCALSITEPREFS -- web.topicname of site preferences topic
- The full name of the local site preferences topic. These local site preferences overload the system level preferences defined in System.DefaultPreferences.
- Syntax:
%LOCALSITEPREFS%
- Expands to:
Main.SitePreferences
, renders as SitePreferences
LOGIN -- present a full login link
LOGOUT -- present a full logout link
You are already logged out, so %LOGOUT
expands to an empty string
M -- moved to... icon
- Current value: M =
- Related: H, I, ICON, N, P, Q, S, T, U, X, Y
MAINWEB -- synonym for USERSWEB
Deprecated. Please use %USERSWEB%
instead.
MAKETEXT -- creates text using Foswiki's I18N infrastructure
Strings captured in the
MAKETEXT
macro are automatically mapped to the
current user's selected language via
locale/*.po
translation files.
- Syntax:
%MAKETEXT{"string" args="..."}%
- Supported parameters:
Parameter | Description | Default |
"text" or string="text" | The text to be displayed (the translatable string). | none |
args="param1, param2" | a comma-separated list of arguments to be interpolated in the string, replacing [_N] placeholders in it. | none |
- Examples:
%MAKETEXT{string="Notes:"}%
expands to:
Notes:
%MAKETEXT{
"If you have any questions, please contact [_1]."
args="%WIKIWEBMASTER%"
}%
expands to:
If you have any questions, please contact webmaster@utfit.org.
%MAKETEXT{
"Did you want to [[[_1]][reset [_2]'s password]]?"
args="%SYSTEMWEB%.ResetPassword,%WIKIUSERNAME%"
}%
expands to:
Did you want to [[System.ResetPassword][reset Main.WikiGuest's password]]?
- Notes:
-
[_n]
brackets are validated to a positive integer from 1 to 100.
- Missing arguments are replaced with an empty string ''.
- An ampersand (
&
) followed by one ascii alphabetic character (a...z, A...Z) in the translatable string will be expanded to an access key string. For example, &X
will expand to <span class='foswikiAccessKey'>X</span>
. If you want to write an actual ampersand, either follow it with a non-alphabetic character or write two consecutive ampersands (&&
).
- Translatable strings starting with underscores (
_
) are reserved. You cannot use translatable phrases starting with an underscore.
- Make sure that the translatable string is constant. Do not include
%MACROS%
inside the translatable strings as they will be expanded before the %MAKETEXT{...}%
itself is handled. You can, however, use macros in the args
, as shown in the examples above.
- The string will be output in English if no mapping can be found in the
.po
translation file for the current user's selected language.
- Plurals:
- Notes on plurals:
- Only 3 arguments are supported.
- The first parameter must be an asterisk. Literals
quant
, numf
or #
are not supported.
- The 2nd parameter must be the argument number
- The 3rd parameter is the word or phrase to be made plural.
MAROON -- start maroon colored text
Related: ENDCOLOR,
DefaultPreferences,
StandardColors
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.).
Syntax:
%META{ "item" ...}%
Parameters:
-
"form"
- generates the table showing the form fields. See Form Definition.
-
"attachments"
- generate a table of attachments
-
all="on"
to show hidden attachments.
-
title="..."
to show a title - only if attachments are displayed.
-
template="..."
to use a custom template for the rendering of attachments; default attachtables
is used.
-
"moved"
- if a topic was moved or renamed, generates a message with details and a revert link
-
prefix="..."
: Prefix that goes before the moved message, but only if the message is generated, default ""
.
-
suffix="..."
: Prefix that goes after the moved message, but only if the message is generated, default ""
.
-
"parent"
- display details of ancestor topics
-
dontrecurse="on"
: By default recurses up tree, this has some cost. Equivalent to depth=1
-
depth="..."
: Return only the specified ancestor.
-
nowebhome="on"
: Suppress WebHome.
-
format="..."
: Format string used to display each parent topic where $web
expands to the web name, and $topic
expands to the topic name; default: "[[$web.$topic][$topic]]"
-
separator="..."
: Separator between parents; default " > "
-
prefix="..."
: Prefix that goes before parents, but only if there are parents, default ""
.
-
suffix="..."
: Suffix, only appears if there are parents; default ""
.
-
"formfield"
- display the value of a single form field
-
name="..."
: name of the field.
-
newline="..."
: by default, each newline character will be rewritten to <br />
to allow metadata that contains newlines to be used in tables, etc. $n
indicates a newline character.
-
bar="..."
: by default, each vertical bar is rewritten to an HTML entity so as to not be mistaken for a table separator.
-
display="on"
- only used with "formfield"
, retrieves the displayed value of a *+values
formfield type, as against the default, stored, value.
-
topic="Main.WebPreferences"
- optional parameter to select which topic to get the meta-data from.
Use of "formfield"
is deprecated in favour of the much
more powerful QUERY
macro.
Related:
QUERY
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.
- Syntax:
%METASEARCH{...}%
- Supported parameters:
Parameter: | Description: | Default: |
type="topicmoved" | What sort of search is required? "topicmoved" if search for a topic that may have been moved "parent" if searching for topics that have a specific parent i.e. its children "field" if searching for topics that have a particular form field value (use the name and value parameters to specify which field to search). | Required |
web="%WEB%" | Wiki web to search: A web, a list of webs separated by whitespace, or all webs. | Current web |
topic="%TOPIC%" | The topic the search relates to, for topicmoved and parent searches | All topics in a web |
name | form field to search, for field type searches. May be a regular expression (see SEARCH). | |
value | form field value, for field type searches. May be a regular expression (see SEARCH). | |
title="Title" | Text that is prefixed to any search results | empty |
format="..." | Custom format results. Supports same format strings as SEARCH. See FormattedSearch for usage & examples | Results in table |
default="none" | Default text shown if no search hit | Empty |
- Examples:
%METASEARCH{
type="topicmoved"
web="%WEB%"
topic="%TOPIC%"
title="This topic used to exist and was moved to: "
}%
You may want to use this in WebTopicViewTemplate? and WebTopicNonWikiTemplate?:
%METASEARCH{
type="parent"
web="%WEB%"
topic="%TOPIC%"
title="Children: "
}%
%METASEARCH{
type="field"
name="Country"
value="China"
}%
- Related: SEARCH, META
N -- "new" icon
- Current value: N =
- Related: H, I, ICON, M, P, Q, S, T, U, X, Y
NAVY -- start navy colored text
Related: ENDCOLOR,
DefaultPreferences,
StandardColors
NOP -- template text not to be expanded in instantiated topics
- Syntax:
%NOP%
- In normal topic text, expands to <nop>, which prevents expansion of adjacent macros and wikiwords
- When the topic containing this is used as a template for another topic, it is removed.
- Syntax:
%NOP{...}%
deprecated
- In normal topic text, expands to whatever is in the curly braces (if anything).
This is deprecated. Do not use it. Use %STARTSECTION{type="templateonly"}%
.. %ENDSECTION{type="templateonly"}%
instead (see TemplateTopics for more details).
- Related: STARTSECTION, TemplateTopics
NOTIFYTOPIC -- name of the notify topic
OLIVE -- start olive colored text
Related: ENDCOLOR,
DefaultPreferences,
StandardColors
ORANGE -- start orange colored text
Related: ENDCOLOR,
DefaultPreferences,
StandardColors
P -- pencil icon
- Current value: P =
- Related: H, I, ICON, M, N, Q, S, T, U, X, Y
PINK -- start pink colored text
Related: ENDCOLOR,
DefaultPreferences,
StandardColors
PLUGINDESCRIPTIONS -- list of plugin descriptions
- Syntax:
%PLUGINDESCRIPTIONS%
- Expands to:
- TWikiCompatibilityPlugin (1.1.2, v1.1.2): Add TWiki personality to Foswiki
- SpreadSheetPlugin (1.1.7, v1.1.7): Add spreadsheet calculations like "$SUM($ABOVE())" to Foswiki tables and other topic text
- AutoViewTemplatePlugin (2012-12-16, v1.1.7): Automatically sets VIEW_TEMPLATE and EDIT_TEMPLATE
- CommentPlugin (1.1.6, v1.1.6): Quickly post comments to a page without an edit/save cycle
- CompareRevisionsAddonPlugin (1.1.11, v1.1.11):
- EditTablePlugin (4.43, 4.43): Edit tables using edit fields, date pickers and drop down boxes
- HistoryPlugin (1.11, 1.11): Shows a complete history of a topic
- HttpsRedirectPlugin (1.1, $Rev: 11242 (2011-03-27) $ (2011-03-28)): Redirect authenticated users to HTTPS url.
- InterwikiPlugin (1.1.7, v1.1.7): Link ExternalSite:Page text to external sites based on aliases defined in a rules topic
- JQueryCompatibilityModePlugin (1.5, $Rev: 3114 (2009-03-15) $): Just the same as JqueryPlugin? but using the compatibilty mode to provide use with other frameworks
- JQueryLibPlugin (v1.0, $Rev: 3729 (2009-04-28) $): Provides you with the jQuery javascript library
- JQueryPlugin (4.91, 4.91): jQuery JavaScript library for Foswiki
- JQueryTwistyPlugin (1.21, $Rev: 1874 (08 Jan 2009) $): Twisty section JavaScript library to open/close content dynamically
- MailerContribPlugin (2.5.3, v2.5.3): Supports e-mail notification of changes
- MathModePlugin (4.03, 4.03): Include LaTeX formatted math in your Foswiki pages
- PreferencesPlugin (1.1.5, v1.1.5): Allows editing of preferences using fields predefined in a form
- RenderListPlugin (2.2.7, v2.2.7): Render bullet lists in a variety of formats
- SendEmailPlugin (1.5.4, 1.5.4): Send e-mails through an e-mail form
- SlideShowPlugin (2.1.6, v2.1.6): Create web based presentations based on topics with headings
- SmiliesPlugin (28 Nov 2012, v1.1.6): Render smilies like as icons
- TablePlugin (1.142, 1.142): Control attributes of tables and sorting of table columns
- TinyMCEPlugin (1.2.9, v1.2.9): Integration of the Tiny MCE WYSIWYG Editor
- TwistyPlugin (1.6.18, v1.6.18): Twisty section Javascript library to open/close content dynamically
- WysiwygPlugin (16 May 2013, v1.1.16): Translator framework for WYSIWYG editors
- Related: ACTIVATEDPLUGINS, FAILEDPLUGINS, PLUGINVERSION
PLUGINVERSION -- the version of a Foswiki Plugin, or the Foswiki Plugins API
POPUPWINDOW{"topic" ...} -- opens a topic or url in a new window
PUBURL -- the base URL of attachments
PUBURLPATH -- the base URL path of attachments
PURPLE -- start purple colored text
Related: ENDCOLOR,
DefaultPreferences,
StandardColors
Q -- question icon
- Current value: Q =
- Related: H, I, ICON, M, N, P, S, T, U, X, Y
QUERY -- get the value of meta-data
Plain strings (such as field values) are returned
without quotes. Simple arrays of scalars are also returned without quotes, in a comma-separated list (beware of values that contain commas!).
More complex data structures (e.g. arrays of hashes) will be returned as Perl code strings generated by running through
CPAN:Data::Dumper.
You can make the macro generate different output formats using the
style
parameter:
-
style="perl"
- generates values as Perl code strings
-
style="json"
- generates values as JSON strings, suitable for reading by browsers.
Only some configuration settings are available via QUERY:
{ScriptSuffix}
,
{LoginManager}
,
{AuthScripts}
,
{LoginNameFilterIn}
,
{AdminUserLogin}
,
{AdminUserWikiName}
,
{SuperAdminGroup}
,
{UsersTopicName}
,
{AuthRealm}
,
{MinPasswordLength}
,
{Register}{AllowLoginName}
,
{Register}{EnableNewUserRegistration}
,
{Register}{NeedVerification}
,
{Register}{RegistrationAgentWikiName}
,
{AllowInlineScript}
,
{DenyDotDotInclude}
,
{UploadFilter}
,
{NameFilter}
,
{AccessibleCFG}
,
{AntiSpam}{EmailPadding}
,
{AntiSpam}{HideUserDetails}
,
{AntiSpam}{RobotsAreWelcome}
,
{Stats}{TopViews}
,
{Stats}{TopContrib}
,
{Stats}{TopicName}
,
{UserInterfaceInternationalisation}
,
{UseLocale}
,
{Site}{Locale}
,
{Site}{CharSet}
,
{DisplayTimeValues}
,
{DefaultDateFormat}
,
{Site}{LocaleRegexes}
,
{UpperNational}
,
{LowerNational}
,
{PluralToSingular}
,
{EnableHierarchicalWebs}
,
{WebMasterEmail}
,
{WebMasterName}
,
{NotifyTopicName}
,
{SystemWebName}
,
{TrashWebName}
,
{SitePrefsTopicName}
,
{LocalSitePreferences}
,
{HomeTopicName}
,
{WebPrefsTopicName}
,
{UsersWebName}
,
{TemplatePath}
,
{LinkProtocolPattern}
,
{NumberOfRevisions}
,
{MaxRevisionsInADiff}
,
{ReplaceIfEditedAgainWithin}
,
{LeaseLength}
,
{LeaseLengthLessForceful}
,
{Plugins}{WebSearchPath}
,
{PluginsOrder}
,
{Cache}{Enabled}
,
{Validation}{Method}
,
{Register}{DisablePasswordConfirmation}
QUERYPARAMS -- show paramaters to the query
- Expands the parameters to the query that was used to display the page.
- Syntax:
%QUERYPARAMS{...}%
- Supported parameters:
Parameter: | Description: | Default: |
format="..." | Format string for each entry | $name=$value |
separator="..." | Separator string | separator="$n" (newline) |
encoding="entity" encoding="safe" encoding="html" encoding="quotes" encoding="url" | Control how special characters are encoded. If this parameter is not given, "safe" encoding is performed which HTML entity encodes the characters '"<>% . entity : Encode special characters into HTML entities, like a double quote into " . Does not encode \n or \r . safe : Encode characters '"<>% into HTML entities. (this is the default) html : As type="entity" except it also encodes \n and \r quotes : Escape double quotes with backslashes (\" ), does not change other characters url : Encode special characters for URL parameter use, like a double quote into %22 | type="safe" |
- The following escape sequences are expanded in the format string:
Sequence: |
Expands To: |
$name |
Name of the parameter |
$value |
String value of the parameter. Multi-valued parameters will have a "row" for each value. |
$n or $n() |
New line. Use $n() if followed by alphanumeric character, e.g. write Foo$n()Bar instead of Foo$nBar Most macros accept parameter strings which are split over multiple lines. This is usually more readable than using $n tokens. If you are familiar with sectional includes, you might also consider nested sectional includes to hold the newline content outside of the parameter string entirely. Note that newline is not a line break. The browser will wrap the lines together. If you require a line break, displaying the results on two lines, use %BR% . Or use two consecutive newlines to create a TML "Paragraph". |
$nop or $nop() |
Is a "no operation". This token gets removed; useful for nested search |
$quot |
Double quote (" ) (\" also works) |
$percent |
Percent sign (% ) ($percnt also works) |
$dollar |
Dollar sign ($ ) |
$lt |
Less than sign (< ) |
$gt |
Greater than sign (> ) |
$amp |
Ampersand (& ) |
$comma |
Comma (, ) |
Security warning!
Using QUERYPARAMS can easily be misused for cross-site scripting unless specific characters are entity encoded. By default QUERYPARAMS encodes the characters '"<>%
into HTML entities (same as encoding="safe") which is relatively safe. The safest is to use encoding="entity". When passing QUERYPARAMS inside another macro always use double quotes ("") combined with using QUERYPARAMS with encoding="quote". For maximum security against cross-site scripting you are adviced to install the Foswiki:Extensions.SafeWikiPlugin.
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 example, if you add ?name=Samantha;age=24;eyes=blue to this URL you can see this in action. This string can be appended to a URL to pass parameter values on to another page.
URLs built this way are typically restricted in length, typically to 2048 characters. If you need more space than this, you will need to use an HTML form and =%QUERYPARAMS%=
- Syntax:
%QUERYSTRING%
- Expands to:
- Related: QUERYPARAMS, URLPARAM
RED -- start red colored text
Related: ENDCOLOR,
DefaultPreferences,
StandardColors
REMOTE_ADDR -- environment variable
REMOTE_PORT -- environment variable
REMOTE_USER -- environment variable
RENDERLIST -- render bullet lists in a variety of formats
Expands as:
|
|
Sales |
RENDERZONE
%RENDERZONE{"zone" ...}%
See
ADDTOZONE for an explanation of
zones.
Parameters:
Supports the
standard format tokens in all parameters.
Notes:
-
header
and footer
are not output if there is no content in the zone (nothing has been ADDTOZONEd
). However they are output if the output is the empty string (at least one ADDTOZONE
has been processed).
- Zones are cleared after being rendered; they are only ever rendered once.
-
head
and script
are automatic zones. They don't require a corresponding RENDERZONE
anywhere in the templates - they are automatically inserted before the </head>
tag in the output HTML page.
- Normally, dependencies between individual
ADDTOZONE
statements are resolved within each zone. However, if {MergeHeadAndScriptZones}
is enabled in configure, then head
content which requires an id
that only exists in script
will be re-ordered to satisfy this dependency. {MergeHeadAndScriptZones}
will be removed from a future version of Foswiki.
See also
ADDTOZONE for more information on zones.
REVARG -- &rev=n
URL revision parameter of current topic
- Syntax:
%REVARG%
-
%REVARG%
If a topic revision is requested in the URL, it returns the revision of the current topic suitable for concatenation to the view query parameters. Otherwise returns an empty string.
- Expands to: (simulated)
&rev=3
(actual)
- Related: REVINFO, REVTITLE
REVINFO -- revision information of current topic
- Syntax:
%REVINFO%
-
%REVINFO%
is equivalent to %REVINFO{format="r1.$rev - $date - $wikiusername"}%
- Related: REVARG,REVTITLE
REVINFO{"format"} -- formatted revision information of topic
REVTITLE -- (r1)
The requested revision as displayed in topic breadcrumbs
- Syntax:
%REVTITLE%
-
%REVTITLE%
If a topic revision is requested in the URL, it returns the printable revision of the current topic revision. Otherwise returns an empty string.
- Expands to: (simulated)
(r3)
(actual)
- Related: REVINFO, REVARG
S -- red star icon
- Current value: S =
- Related: H, I, ICON, M, N, P, Q, T, U, X, Y
SCRIPTNAME -- name of current script
- The name of the current script is shown, including script suffix, if any (for example
viewauth.cgi
)
- Syntax:
%SCRIPTNAME%
- Expands to:
view
- Related: SCRIPTSUFFIX, SCRIPTURL, SCRIPTURLPATH
SCRIPTSUFFIX -- script suffix
- Some UTfit installations require a file extension for CGI scripts, such as
.pl
or .cgi
- Syntax:
%SCRIPTSUFFIX%
- Expands to:
- Related: SCRIPTNAME, SCRIPTURL, SCRIPTURLPATH
SCRIPTURL{"script"} -- URL of script
- Syntax:
%SCRIPTURL%
OR %SCRIPTURL{"script"}%
-
%SCRIPTURL%
returns the base URL of scripts - expands to https://www.utfit.org/foswiki/bin
- Expands to:
https://www.utfit.org/foswiki/bin/script
- Example: To get the authenticated version of the current topic you can write
%SCRIPTURL{"viewauth"}%/%WEB%/%TOPIC%
which expands to https://www.utfit.org/foswiki/bin/viewauth/System/Macros
In most cases you should use %SCRIPTURLPATH{"script"}%
instead, as it works with URL rewriting much better The edit
script should always be used in conjunction with ?t=%GMTIME{"$epoch"}%
to ensure pages about to be edited are not cached in the browser
- Related: PUBURL, SCRIPTNAME, SCRIPTSUFFIX, SCRIPTURLPATH
SCRIPTURLPATH{"script"} -- URL path of script
- As
%SCRIPTURL{"script"}%
, but doesn't include the protocol and host part of the URL
- Syntax:
%SCRIPTURL%
OR %SCRIPTURLPATH{"script"}%
- Expands to:
/foswiki/bin/script
The edit
script should always be used in conjunction with ?t=%GMTIME{"$epoch"}%
to ensure pages about to be edited are not cached in the browser
- Related: PUBURLPATH, SCRIPTNAME, SCRIPTSUFFIX, SCRIPTURL
SEARCH{"text"} -- search content
- Inline search, shows a search result embedded in a topic
- Syntax:
%SEARCH{"text" ...}%
- Supported parameters:
Parameter: | Description: | Default: |
"text" | Search term. Is a keyword search, literal search, regular expression search, or query, depending on the type parameter. SearchHelp has more | required |
search="text" | (Alternative to above) | N/A |
web="Name" web="Main, Know" web="all" | Comma-separated list of webs to search. You can specifically exclude webs from an all search using a minus sign - for example, web="all,-Secretweb" . The special word all means all webs that do not have the NOSEARCHALL preference set to on in their WebPreferences. Note that AccessControls are respected when searching webs; it is much better to use them than NOSEARCHALL . Wildcards are not currently supported for web names. | Current web |
topic="WebPreferences" topic="*Bug" | Limit search to topics: A topic, a topic with asterisk wildcards, or a list of topics separated by comma. Note this is a list of topic names and must not include web names. | All topics in a web |
excludetopic="Web*" excludetopic="WebHome, WebChanges" | Exclude topics from search: A topic, a topic with asterisk wildcards, or a list of topics separated by comma. Note this is a list of topic names and must not include web names. | None |
scope="topic" scope="text" scope="all" | Search topic name (title); the text (body) of topic; or all (title and body) | "text" |
type="keyword" type="word" type="literal" type="regex" type="query" | Control how the search is performed when scope="text" or scope="all" keyword : use Google-like controls as in soap "web service" -shampoo ; searches word parts: using the example, topics with "soapsuds" will be found as well, but topics with "shampoos" will be excluded word : identical to keyword but searches whole words: topics with "soapsuds" will not be found, and topics with "shampoos" will not be excluded literal : search for the exact string, like web service regex : use a RegularExpression search like soap;web service;!shampoo ; to search on whole words use \bsoap\b query : query search of form fields and other meta-data, like (Firstname='Emma' OR Firstname='John') AND Lastname='Peel' | %SEARCHVAR- DEFAULTTYPE% preferences setting (literal) |
order="topic" order="created" order="modified" order="editby" order= "formfield(name)" | Sort the results of search by the topic names, topic creation time, last modified time, last editor's WikiName, or named field of DataForms. The sorting is done web by web; if you want to sort across webs, create a formatted table and sort it with TablePlugin's initsort. Note that dates are sorted most recent date last (i.e at the bottom of the table). | Sort by topic name |
limit="all" limit="16" | Limit the number of topics from which results will be returned. This is done after sorting if order is specified. Note that this does not limit the number of hits from the same topic when you have multiple="on". | All results |
date="..." | limits the results to those pages with latest edit time in the given time interval. | All results |
reverse="on" | Reverse the direction of the search | Ascending search |
casesensitive="on" | Case sensitive search | Ignore case |
bookview="on" | BookView search, e.g. show complete topic text. Very resource demanding. Use only with small result sets | Show entire topic content. |
nonoise="on" | Shorthand for nosummary="on" nosearch="on" nototal="on" zeroresults="off" noheader="on" noempty="on" | Off |
nosummary="on" | Show topic title only | Show topic summary |
nosearch="on" | Suppress search string | Show search string |
noheader="on" | Suppress default search header Topics: Changed: By: , unless a header is explicitly specified | Show default search header, unless search is inline and a format is specified (Cairo compatibility) |
nototal="on" | Do not show number of topics found | Show number |
zeroresults="off" or zeroresults="..." | Suppress/replace all output if there are no hits (the boolean nature of the setting uses true , false , on , off , 0 so those cannot be used as a format string on their own (insert a to escape them))- can also be set to a FormattedSearch string to customise the output | zeroresults="on" - displays the summary, and number of topics found. "Number of topics: 0" |
noempty="on" | Suppress results for webs that have no hits. | Show webs with no hits |
header="..." format="..." footer="..." | Custom format results: see FormattedSearch for usage & examples | Results in table |
expandvariables="on" | Expand embedded macros before applying a FormattedSearch on a search hit. Useful to show the expanded text, e.g. to show the result of a SpreadSheetPlugin %CALC{}% instead of the formula | Raw text |
multiple="on" | Multiple hits per topic. Each hit can be formatted. The last token is used in case of a regular expression ";" and search | Only one hit per topic |
nofinalnewline="on" | If on , the search variable does not end in a line by itself. Any text continuing immediately after the SEARCH macro on the same line will be rendered as part of the table generated by the search, if appropriate. This feature is only active when format is defined. | on |
recurse="on" | Recurse into subwebs, if subwebs are enabled. Note: recurse will currently search subwebs of explicitly excluded webs. (web="all, -Sandbox" recurse="on") will still search subwebs of Sandbox . This behavior is likely to change in a future release. | off |
separator=", " | Line separator between search hits (only used when format= is set) uses FormatTokens. If separator is not defined, the default is "$n" (newline). Not defining the separator will additionally cause a newline to be added after a header and before a footer. | "$n" (Newline) |
newline="%BR%" | Line separator within a search hit. Useful if you want to put multi-line content into a table cell, for example if the format="" parameter contains a $pattern() that captures more than one line. | "$n" (Newline) |
pagesize="25" | number of items to show per page | "25" |
showpage="1" | Page of items to show (starts at 1) (over-ridden by the value specified by the URL parameter hash from $previousurl and $nexturl ) | "1" |
pager="on" | appends the pager to the footer format (the quickest way to add paging to your SEARCHes is to just add pager="on" ) Note: the default pager (when pagerformat is not defined) requires the parameters to the SEARCH to not change while paging, as it uses $previousurl and $nexturl which use a hash of the Macro's parameters to override the value of showpage . If you use time variable parameters, you will need to define your own pagerformat . | "off" |
pagerformat="text" | Custom format results: see FormattedSearch for usage & examples | filled from skin template |
groupby="none" | Warning: this option is liable to change dramatically (and potentially incompatibly) in the next major release of foswiki. Setting to "none" applies only to multi-web SEARCHs, and means the header and footer are only output once - at the beginning and end of the list of results, and the order parameter is applied over the entire set of results (this setting removes the legacy that results are always partitioned by web) see SiteChanges for an example. | "web" |
The appearance of the table emitted by the SEARCH may be controlled with TablePlugin's %TABLE{}%
macro placed just before the %SEARCH{}%
. Example: %TABLE{ tablewidth="90%" }%
Related topics: FormattedSearch,
QuerySearch,
SearchHelp,
SearchPatternCookbook,
RegularExpression,
TOPICLIST,
WEBLIST
SERVERTIME{"format"} -- formatted server time
- Same format qualifiers as
%GMTIME%
- Syntax:
%SERVERTIME%
OR %SERVERTIME{"format"}%
-
%SERVERTIME%
uses the Date format defined as {DefaultDateFormat} in configure
- Example:
%SERVERTIME{"$hou:$min"}%
expands to 02:38
Note: When used in a template topic, this macro will be expanded when the template is used to create a new topic. See TemplateTopics#TemplateTopicsVars for details.
- Related: GMTIME, SERVERTIME
SESSIONID -- unique ID for this session
SESSIONVAR -- name of CGI and session variable that stores the session ID
SESSION_VARIABLE -- get, set or clear a session variable
SHOWPREFERENCE -- show where preferences are defined.
Preference values are shown in a bulleted list.
-
%SHOWPREFERENCE%
-
%SHOWPREFERENCE{"PREFERENCENAME"}%
-
%SHOWPREFERENCE{"PREFERENCENAME,PREFERENCENAME,..."}%
- Show all of the preferences in a comma-separated list of preference names. This is particularly useful for reviewing the access controls that apply to a topic.
- Example:
%SHOWPREFERENCE{"DENYWEBCHANGE,ALLOWWEBCHANGE"}%
- Expands as:
* Set DENYWEBCHANGE = ""
* Set ALLOWWEBCHANGE = "%USERSWEB%.AdminGroup"
* ALLOWWEBCHANGE was *finalised* in System.WebPreferences
SILVER -- start silver colored text
Related: ENDCOLOR,
DefaultPreferences,
StandardColors
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 parameter skin
, such as ?skin=catskin,bearskin
- You can also extend the existing skin path using covers - see COVER
- Syntax:
%SKIN%
- Expands to:
foswikisite,pattern
- See Skins for more information
- Related: SkinBrowser
SLIDESHOWEND -- end slideshow
SLIDESHOWSTART -- convert a topic with headings into a slideshow
Slide 1: Sample Slide 1
Slide 2: Sample Slide 2
SPACEDTOPIC -- topic name, spaced and URL-encoded deprecated
- The current topic name with added URL-encoded spaces, for use in regular expressions that search for backlinks to the current topic
- Syntax:
%SPACEDTOPIC%
- Expands to:
Var%20*SPACEDTOPIC
This is a deprecated macro. It can be duplicated with %ENCODE{%SPACEOUT{"%TOPIC%" separator=" *"}%}%
- Related: SPACEOUT, TOPIC, ENCODE
SPACEOUT{"string"} -- renders string with spaces inserted in sensible places
- Inserts spaces after lower case letters that are followed by a digit or a capital letter, and after digits that are followed by a capital letter.
- Useful for spacing out WikiWords
- Syntax:
%SPACEOUT{ "%TOPIC%" }%
- Expands to:
Macros
- Supported parameters:
Parameter: | Description: | Default: |
separator | The separator to put between words e.g. %SPACEOUT{"DogsCatsBudgies" separator=", "}% -> Dogs, Cats, Budgies | ' ' |
Spaced out WikiWords are not automatically linked. To SPACEOUT
a WikiWord but preserve the link use "double bracket" format. For example, [[WebHome][%SPACEOUT{"WebHome"}%]]
expands to Web Home
- Related: SPACEDTOPIC, $PROPERSPACE() of SpreadSheetPlugin
STARTINCLUDE -- start position of topic text if included
- If present in included topic, start to include text from this location up to the end, or up to the location of the
%STOPINCLUDE%
macro. A normal view of the topic shows everything exept the %STARTINCLUDE%
macro itself.
- Syntax:
%STARTINCLUDE%
If you want more than one part of the topic included, use %STARTSECTION{type="include"}%
instead
- Related: INCLUDE, STARTSECTION, STOPINCLUDE
STARTSECTION -- marks the start of a section within a topic
- Section boundaries are defined with
%STARTSECTION{}%
and %ENDSECTION{}%
.
- Sections may be given a name to help identify them, and/or a type, which changes how they are used.
-
type="section"
- the default, used for a generic section, such as a named section used by INCLUDE.
-
type="include"
- like %STARTINCLUDE%
... %STOPINCLUDE%
except that you can have as many include blocks as you want which are all merged into one when included (%STARTINCLUDE%
is restricted to only one). Sections of type include may not be given a name.
-
type="expandvariables"
- all macros inside an "expandvariables" type section gets expanded when a new topic based on the template topic is created. See TemplateTopics for more information.
-
type="templateonly"
- start position of text to be removed when a template topic is used. This is used to embed text that you do not want expanded when a new topic based on the template topic is created. See TemplateTopics for more information.
- Syntax:
%STARTSECTION{"name"}% ................... %ENDSECTION{"name"}%
- Syntax:
%STARTSECTION{"name" type="section"}% .... %ENDSECTION{"name" type="section"}%
(type="section" is the default)
- Syntax:
%STARTSECTION{type="include"}% ........... %ENDSECTION{type="include"}%
- Syntax:
%STARTSECTION{type="expandvariables"}% ... %ENDSECTION{type="expandvariables"}%
- Syntax:
%STARTSECTION{type="templateonly"}% ...... %ENDSECTION{type="templateonly"}%
- Supported parameters:
Parameter: | Description: | Default |
"name" | Name of the section. Must be unique inside a topic. | Generated name |
type="..." | Type of the section; type "section" , "expandvariables" , "include" or "templateonly" | "section" |
If a section is not given a name, it will be assigned one. Unnamed sections are assigned names starting with _SECTION0
for the first unnamed section in the topic, _SECTION1
for the second, etc.. You can define nested sections. It is not recommended to overlap sections, although it is valid in Foswiki. Use named sections to make sure that the correct START and ENDs are matched. Section markers are not displayed when a topic is viewed.
- Related: ENDSECTION, INCLUDE, NOP, STARTINCLUDE, STOPINCLUDE
STATISTICSTOPIC -- name of statistics topic
STOPINCLUDE -- end position of topic text if included
- If present in included topic, stop to include text at this location and ignore the remaining text. A normal view of the topic shows everyting exept the
%STOPINCLUDE%
macro itself.
- Syntax:
%STOPINCLUDE%
- Related: INCLUDE, STARTINCLUDE
SYSTEMWEB -- name of documentation web
T -- tip icon
- Current value: T =
- Related: H, I, ICON, M, N, P, Q, S, U, X, Y
TAB{"text" ...} -- tab inside a tabpane widget
- Defines a tab inside a TABPANE area; must be closed using ENDTAB.
- Parameters:
Parameter: | Description: | Default: |
"text" | label of the tab | Tab |
before | when switching tabs, this is the javascript fragment to be executed just before the tab is displayed | |
after | this javascript handler is to be executed after the tab has been made visible | |
afterload | this javascript handler will be called when content loaded asynchronously (using the url parameter, below) has finished loading; depending on the network latency, this can be significantly later than execution of the after handler above | |
id | id of this tab; this id can be used in the TABPANEs select parameter to display this tab; this id is also added to the class attribute of the html element representing the tab button | |
url | link from where to load the content of the tab asynchronously when selecting this tab; the result of the addressed handler will replace the content area; if no url is set the content of the TAB ... ENDTAB area will be shown when the tab is selected | |
width | width of the tab area | auto |
height | height of the tab area | auto |
container | element where ajax content will be loaded; this is only used together with url | |
- Related: VarENDTAB, VarTABPANE, VarENDTABPANE, JQueryPlugin, JQueryTabpane
TABLE{ attributes } -- control attributes of tables and sorting of table columns
- The
%TABLE{}%
macro is handled by the TablePlugin
- Syntax:
%TABLE{ attributes }%
Attributes for tables
Argument |
Comment |
Default value |
Example |
tableborder |
Table border width (pixels). |
"1" |
tableborder="2" |
tablebordercolor |
Table border color . Is only visible when cellspacing is larger than 1, or cellborder is 0 , or tablerules is none , otherwise the cell borders overlap the table border. |
unspecified |
tablebordercolor="#333" |
tableframe |
Table frame, set to "void" (no sides), "above" (the top side only), "below" (the bottom side only), "hsides" (the top and bottom sides only), "lhs" (the left-hand side only), "rhs" (the right-hand side only), "vsides" (the right and left sides only), "box" (all four sides), "border" (all four sides). |
unspecified |
tableframe="hsides" |
tablerules |
Table rules, set to "none" (no rules), "groups" (rules will appear between row groups and column groups only), "rows" (rules will appear between rows only), "cols" (rules will appear between columns only), "all" (rules will appear between all rows and columns). See also: headerrules and datarules . |
unspecified |
tablerules="rows" |
tablewidth |
Table width: percentage of window width, or absolute pixel value. |
unspecified |
tablewidth="100%" |
headerrows |
Number of header rows to exclude from sort. (will be rendered in a HTML thead section) |
"1" |
headerrows="1" |
footerrows |
Number of footer rows to exclude from sort. (will be rendered in a HTML tfoot section) |
"0" |
footerrows="1" |
id |
Unique table identifier string, used for targeting a table with CSS. |
tableN (where N is the table order number on the page) |
id="userTable" |
summary |
Table summary used by screen readers: A summary of what the table presents. It should provide an orientation for someone who listens to the table. |
unspecified |
summary="List of subscribed users" |
caption |
Table caption: A title that will be displayed just above the table. |
unspecified |
caption="Users" |
inlinemarkup |
Set to "on" to generate inline markup HTML (in addition to the CSS markup); useful if you need to copy the table, for instance to paste the table into an email). |
unspecified |
inlinemarkup="on" |
Attributes for table sorting
Argument |
Comment |
Default value |
Example |
sort |
Set the table sorting user interface (clickable column headers) "on" or "off" . |
unspecified |
sort="on" |
initsort |
Column to sort initially (use "1" for the first column). If specified, sorting is enabled; by setting sort="off" the sorting interface can be hidden. |
unspecified |
initsort="2" |
initdirection |
Initial sorting direction for initsort , set to "up" (descending, or decreasing in value) or "down" (ascending, or increasing in value). |
down |
initdirection="up" |
disableallsort |
Disable all sorting, both initsort and header sort. This is mainly used by plugins such as the EditTablePlugin to disable sorting in a table while editing the table. |
unspecified |
disableallsort="on" |
Attributes for table cells
Argument |
Comment |
Default value |
Example |
cellpadding |
Cell padding (pixels). |
unspecified |
cellpadding="0" |
cellspacing |
Cell spacing (pixels). |
unspecified |
cellspacing="3" |
cellborder |
Cell border width (pixels). |
unspecified |
cellborder="0" |
valign |
Vertical alignment of cells and headers, set to "top" , "middle" , "bottom" or "baseline" . |
unspecified |
valign="top" |
columnwidths |
Column widths: Comma delimited list of column widths, percentage or absolute pixel value. |
unspecified |
columnwidths="80%,20%" |
Attributes for data cells
Argument |
Comment |
Default value |
Example |
datarules |
Set to "none" (no rules), "rows" (rules will appear between rows only), "cols" (rules will appear between columns only), "all" (rules will appear between all rows and columns). Overrides tablerules for data cells. |
unspecified |
datarules="none" |
datavalign |
Vertical alignment of data cells; overrides valign . |
unspecified |
datavalign="top" |
dataalign |
Data cell alignment, one value for all columns, or a comma separated list for different alignment of individual columns. Set to "left" , "center" , "right" or "justify" . Overrides individual cell settings. |
unspecified |
dataalign="center" |
databg |
Data cell background colour, a comma separated list. Specify "none" for no colour, that is to use the colour/background of the page the table is on. |
"#edf4f9,#fff" |
databg="#f2f2f2,#fff" |
databgsorted |
Data cell background colour of a sorted column; see databg . |
the values of databg |
databgsorted="#d4e8e4, #e5f5ea" |
datacolor |
Data cell text colour, a comma separated list. |
unspecified |
datacolor="#00c, #000" |
Attributes for headers
Argument |
Comment |
Default value |
Example |
headerrules |
Set to "none" (no rules), "rows" (rules will appear between rows only), "cols" (rules will appear between columns only), "all" (rules will appear between all rows and columns). Overrides tablerules for header cells. |
unspecified |
headerrules="none" |
headerbg |
Header cell background colour. Specify "none" for no colour, that is to use the colour/background of the page the table is on. |
"#6b7f93" |
headerbg="#999" |
headerbgsorted |
Header cell background colour of a sorted column. Specify "none" for no colour, that is to use the colour/background of the page the table is on. |
the value of headerbg |
headerbgsorted="#32596c" |
headercolor |
Header cell text colour. |
"#fff" |
headercolor="#00c" |
headervalign |
Vertical alignment of header cells; overrides valign . |
unspecified |
headervalign="top" |
headeralign |
Header cell alignment, one value for all columns, or a comma separated list for different alignment of individual columns. Set to "left" , "center" , "right" or "justify" . Overrides individual cell settings. |
unspecified |
headeralign="left,right" |
headerrows |
See: Attributes for tables |
Other attributes
Argument |
Comment |
Default value |
Example |
include |
Other topic defining the TABLE parameters. The first %TABLE% in the topic is used. This is useful if you have many topics with the same table format and you want to update the format in one place. Use topic or web.topic notation. |
unspecified |
include="Main.WebHome" |
TABPANE{...} -- tabpane widget
- This macro starts the tabpane, containing a series of TAB...ENDTABs and ends with ENDTABPANE. A complete tabpane normally looks like this:
%TABPANE%
%TAB{"tab 1"}%
...
%ENDTAB%
%TAB{"tab 2"}%
...
%ENDTAB%
%ENDTABPANE%
Multiple tabpanes can be nested using the following scheme:
%TABPANE%
%TAB{"tab 1"}%
%TABPANE%
%TAB{"tab 1.1"}%
...
%ENDTAB%
%TAB{"tab1.2"}%
...
%ENDTAB%
%ENDTABPANE%
%ENDTAB%
%TAB{"tab 2"}%
...
%ENDTAB%
%ENDTABPANE%
- Example: see JQueryTabpane for more examples
- Parameters:
Parameter: | Description: | Default: |
select | number or id of tab to select | 1 |
automaxexpand | resizes the tabpane to the maximum height to fit into the window | off |
minheight | when automaxexpand is enabled, this is the minimum size a tab is allowed to be resized | 230 |
class | extra class: use simple for a non-3D tabpane | |
animate | (on/off) enables/disables animation of switching tabs | off |
- Related: VarTAB, VarENDTAB, VarENDTABPANE, JQueryPlugin, JQueryTabpane
TEAL -- start teal colored text
Related: ENDCOLOR,
DefaultPreferences,
StandardColors
TOC{"Topic"} -- table of contents
TOPIC -- name of current topic
-
%TOPIC%
expands to the name of the topic. If you are looking at the text of an included topic, it is the name of the included topic.
- Syntax:
%TOPIC%
- Expands to:
Macros
, renders as Macros
- Related: BASETOPIC, INCLUDINGTOPIC, TOPICLIST, WEB
TOPICLIST{"format"} -- topic index of a web
- List of all topics in a web. The "format" defines the format of one topic item. It may include formatting tokens: The
$topic
token gets expanded to the topic name, $marker
to marker
parameter where topic matches selection
, and $web
to the name of the web, or any of the standard FormatTokens.
- Syntax:
%TOPICLIST{"format" ...}%
- Supported parameters:
Parameter: | Description: | Default: |
"format" | Format of one line, may include $web (name of web), $topic (name of the topic), $marker (which expands to marker for the item matching selection only) | "$topic" |
format="format" | (Alternative to above) | "$topic" |
separator=", " | line separator | "$n" (new line) |
marker="selected" | Text for $marker if the item matches selection | "selected" |
selection="TopicA, TopicB" | Current value to be selected in list | (none) |
web="Name" | Name of web | Current web |
- Examples:
Create a bullet list of all topics:
%TOPICLIST{" * $web.$topic"}%
Create a comma separated list of all topics:
%TOPICLIST{separator=", "}%
Create an option list (for drop down menus):
%TOPICLIST{" <option>$topic</option>"}%
Create an option list of web topics with the current topic selected:
<select>%TOPICLIST{
" <option $marker value='$topic'>$topic</option>"
separator=" "
selection="%TOPIC%"
}%</select>
- Related: SEARCH, WEBLIST
TOPICURL -- shortcut to viewing the current topic
TWIKIWEB -- synonym for SYSTEMWEB
Deprecated. Use %SYSTEMWEB%
instead
TWISTY
This renders the button as well as the toggled content section contained within this and the closing
ENDTWISTY
tag.
Usage:
%TWISTY{ ... }% Toggable contents %ENDTWISTY%
Parameter |
Value |
Description |
Remark |
id |
Unique identifier |
Used to link TWISTYBUTTON and TWISTYTOGGLE |
optional |
link |
Link label |
Link label for both show and hide links |
optional |
hidelink |
Link label |
Hide link label |
optional |
showlink |
Link label |
Show link label |
optional |
mode |
"div" or "span" |
Specify if the Twisty Toggle section will use a <div> or a <span> tag. Note that if the contents contains block elements such as div , mode should be div as well to create valid HTML markup. |
optional, defaults to <div> |
showimgleft |
Image url |
Specify the url of an image that will be displayed with the show link at the left side of the link. You may use ICONURLPATH to display one of the DocumentGraphics icons. Alternatively use an image attached to the topic. |
optional, defaults to no image |
hideimgleft |
Image url |
Specify the url of an image that will be displayed with the hide link at the left side of the link. You may use ICONURLPATH to display one of the DocumentGraphics icons. Alternatively use an image attached to the topic. |
optional, defaults to no image |
showimgright |
Image url |
Specify the url of an image that will be displayed with the show link at the right side of the link. You may use ICONURLPATH to display one of the DocumentGraphics icons. Alternatively use an image attached to the topic. |
optional, defaults to no image |
hideimgright |
Image url |
Specify the url of an image that will be displayed with the hide link at the right side of the link. You may use ICONURLPATH to display one of the DocumentGraphics icons. Alternatively use an image attached to the topic. |
optional, defaults to no image |
remember |
"on" , "off" |
If "on" , the Twisty state is remembered the next time the page is shown. If "off" , the stored setting will be cleared. Note: when used, think carefully about a unique name (id) for the Twisty, otherwise the cookie that is set might affect other Twisties with the same name. Also note that only interaction is stored, not the state of the Twisty when left unclicked. |
optional, no default |
start |
"hide" or "show" |
Initial state of the Twisty; this will override any setting stored in a cookie (see remember ). |
optional, default no initial state |
firststart |
"hide" or "show" |
Initial state of the Twisty the first time the visitor gets to see the Twisty; this will NOT override cookie settings (see remember ). |
optional, default no initial state |
noscript |
"hide" |
Make content hidden in case use does not have JavaScript on |
optional, default content is shown in case JavaScript if off |
class |
CSS class name |
Class for Twisty div or span |
optional, default none |
linkclass |
CSS class name |
Class for link |
optional, default none |
prefix |
Text |
Text to display before the show/hide links |
optional, default none |
suffix |
Text |
Text to display after the show/hide links |
optional, default none |
img |
Image url |
Deprecated, use showimgleft, hideimgleft, showimgright or hideimgright. |
optional, defaults to no image |
imgleft |
Image url |
Deprecated, use showimgleft, hideimgleft, showimgright or hideimgright. |
optional, defaults to no image |
imgright |
Image url |
Deprecated, use showimgleft, hideimgleft, showimgright or hideimgright. |
optional, defaults to no image |
hideimg |
Image url |
Deprecated, use showimgleft, hideimgleft, showimgright or hideimgright. |
optional, defaults to no image |
showimg |
Image url |
Deprecated, use showimgleft, hideimgleft, showimgright or hideimgright. |
optional, defaults to no image |
TWISTYBUTTON
Shorthand version for TWISTYSHOW & TWISTYHIDE
This is useful if both the show and the hide button take the same arguments.
TWISTYHIDE
Hide/close link
TWISTYSHOW
Show/open link
TWISTYTOGGLE
Twisty Toggle contents section
U -- "updated" icon
- Current value: U =
- Related: H, I, ICON, M, N, P, Q, S, T, X, Y
URLPARAM{"name"} -- get URL or HTTP POST parameter value
- Returns the value of the named parameter in the URL or HTTP POST request.
- Syntax:
%URLPARAM{"name"}%
- Supported parameters:
Parameter: | Description: | Default: |
"name" | The name of a URL parameter | required |
default="..." | Default value, used if the parameter is not present | empty string |
newline="<br />" | Convert newlines in textarea to other delimiters | no conversion |
encode="off" encode="entity" encode="safe" encode="url" encode="quote" | Control how special characters are encoded off : No encoding. Avoid using this when possible. See the security warning below. entity : Encode special characters into HTML entities. See ENCODE for more details. safe : Encode characters '"<>% into HTML entities. url : Encode special characters for URL parameter use, like a double quote into %22 quote : Escape double quotes with backslashes (\" ), does not change other characters; required when feeding URL parameters into other macros. | "safe" |
multiple="on" multiple="[[$item]]" | If set, gets all selected elements of a <select multiple="multiple"> tag. A format can be specified, with $item indicating the element, e.g. multiple="Option: $item" (also supports the standard format tokens) | first element |
separator=", " | Separator between multiple selections. Only relevant if multiple is specified | "\n" (new line) |
- Example:
%URLPARAM{"skin"}%
returns print
for a .../view/System/Macros?skin=print
URL
- Notes:
- URL parameters passed into HTML form fields must be entity ENCODEd.
- Double quotes in URL parameters must be escaped when passed into other macros.
Example: %SEARCH{ "%URLPARAM{ "search" encode="quote" }%" noheader="on" }%
- When used in a template topic, this macro will be expanded when the template is used to create a new topic. See TemplateTopics#TemplateTopicsVars for details.
- Watch out for internal parameters, such as
rev
, skin
, template
, topic
, web
; they have a special meaning in Foswiki. Common parameters and view script specific parameters are documented at CommandAndCGIScripts.
- If you have
%URLPARAM{
in the value of a URL parameter, it will be modified to %<nop>URLPARAM{
. This is to prevent an infinite loop during expansion.
- Security warning! Using URLPARAM can easily be misused for cross-site scripting unless specific characters are entity encoded. By default URLPARAM encodes the characters
'"<>%
into HTML entities (same as encode="safe") which is relatively safe. The safest is to use encode="entity". When passing URLPARAM inside another macro always use double quotes ("") combined with using URLPARAM with encode="quote". For maximum security against cross-site scripting you are adviced to install the Foswiki:Extensions.SafeWikiPlugin.
- Related: ENCODE, SEARCH, FormattedSearch, QUERYSTRING
USERINFO{"name"} -- retrieve details about a user
- Syntax:
%USERINFO%
- Expands to:
guest, WikiGuest,
(comma-separated list of the username, wikiusername, and emails)
- With formatted output, using tokens
$emails
, $username
, $wikiname
, $wikiusername
, $groups
and $admin
($admin returns 'true' or 'false'):
- Retrieve information about another user:
- Related: USERNAME, WIKINAME, WIKIUSERNAME, GROUPINFO, UserAuthentication, ChangeEmailAddress
USERNAME -- your login username
USERSWEB -- name of users web
- The web containing individual user topics, WikiGroups, and customised site-wide preferences.
- Syntax:
%USERSWEB%
- Expands to:
Main
- Related: SYSTEMWEB
VAR{"NAME" web="Web"} -- get a preference value from another web
- Syntax:
%VAR{"NAME" web="Web"}%
- Example: To get
%WEBBGCOLOR%
of the Main web write %VAR{"WEBBGCOLOR" web="Main"}%
, which expands to #FFEFA6
- Related: WEBPREFSTOPIC
VBAR -- vertical bar
WEB -- name of current web
-
%WEB%
expands to the name of the web where the topic is located. If you are looking at the text of an included topic, it is the web where the included topic is located.
- Syntax:
%WEB%
- Expands to:
System
- Related: BASEWEB, INCLUDINGWEB, TOPIC
WEBLIST{"format"} -- index of all webs
- List of all webs. Obfuscated webs are excluded, e.g. webs with a
NOSEARCHALL = on
preference setting. The "format"
defines the format of one web item. The $name
gets expanded to the name of the web, $qname
gets expanded to double quoted name, $marker
to marker
where web matches selection
. Subwebs are listed recursively.
- Syntax:
%WEBLIST{"format" ...}%
- Supported parameters:
Parameter: | Description: | Default: |
"format" | Format of one line, may include $name (the name of the web), $qname (the name of the web in double quotes), $indentedname (the name of the web with parent web names replaced by indents, for use in indented lists), and $marker (which expands to marker for the item matching selection only) | $name |
format="format" | (Alternative to above) | $name |
separator=", " | Line separator | $n (new line) |
web="" | if you specify $web in format, it will be replaced with this value. | none |
webs="public" | Comma separated list of webs to consider. This list can include two pseudo-webs, public which expands to all non-hidden and webtemplate which expands to the names of all template webs. NOTE: Administrators will see all webs, not just the public ones | public |
subwebs="Sandbox" | Specifies a single web. If specified, then public and webtemplate (described above) will expand relative to show subwebs *below this web only. | "" |
selection="%WEB%" | Entry to be selected in list. If one of the webs matches this selection, then $marker in the format will be expanded | selection=%WEB% |
marker="selected" | Text for $marker if the item matches selection | selected="selected" |
- Example, creates a bullet list of all webs:
%WEBLIST{" * [[$name.%HOMETOPIC%]]"}%
- Example, creates a dropdown of all public webs + Trash web, with the current web highlighted:
<form><select name="web">%WEBLIST{
"<option $marker value='$qname'>$name</option>"
webs="Trash, public"
selection="%WEB%"
separator=" "
}% </select></form>
WEBLIST
will not show a web called 'TWiki' even if it exists in the file system unless the TWikiCompatibilityPlugin
is installed and activated in configure. This is done to ensure that the TWiki compatibility components such as the TWiki web are only visible and active when needed
- Related: TOPICLIST, SEARCH
WEBPREFSTOPIC -- name of web preferences topic
WHITE -- start white colored text
Related: ENDCOLOR,
DefaultPreferences,
StandardColors
WIKIHOMEURL -- site home URL
- Syntax
%WIKIHOMEURL%
- Expands to
/foswiki/bin/view
- Normally by default set to
%SCRIPTURLPATH{"view"}%
For the top bar logo URL use %WIKILOGOURL%
defined in WebPreferences instead.
- Related: WIKITOOLNAME
WIKINAME -- your Wiki username
WIKIPREFSTOPIC -- name of site-wide preferences topic
WIKITOOLNAME -- name of your site
WIKIUSERNAME -- your Wiki username with web prefix
WIKIUSERSTOPIC -- name of topic listing all registered users
- Syntax:
%WIKIUSERSTOPIC%
- Expands to:
WikiUsers
, with Main prefix renders as WikiUsers
- Related: WIKIUSERNAME
WIKIVERSION -- the version of the installed Foswiki engine
WIKIWEBMASTER -- feedback email address for site
WIKIWEBMASTERNAME -- Name of the administrator for the site
- Syntax:
%WIKIWEBMASTERNAME%
- Expands to:
Wiki Administrator
- Related: WIKIWEBMASTER
X -- warning icon
- Current value: X =
- Related: H, I, ICON, M, N, P, Q, S, T, U, Y
Y -- "yes" icon
- Current value: Y =
- Related: H, I, ICON, M, N, P, Q, S, T, U, X
YELLOW -- start yellow colored text
Related: ENDCOLOR,
DefaultPreferences,
StandardColors
Shortcuts
The following macros are
preference settings and are frequently used in topic content.
-
%BR%
- line break
-
%BULLET%
- bullet sign
-
%BB%
- line break and bullet combined
-
%BB2%
- indented line break and bullet
-
%RED% text %ENDCOLOR%
- colored text (also %YELLOW%
, %ORANGE%
, %PINK%
, %PURPLE%
, %TEAL%
, %NAVY%
, %BLUE%
, %AQUA%
, %LIME%
, %GREEN%
, %OLIVE%
, %MAROON%
, %BROWN%
, %BLACK%
, %GRAY%
, %SILVER%
, %WHITE%
)
-
%H%
- Help icon
-
%I%
- Idea icon
-
%M%
- Moved to icon
-
%N%
- New icon
-
%P%
- Refactor icon
-
%Q%
- Question icon
-
%S%
- Red star icon
-
%T%
- Tip icon
-
%U%
- Updated icon
-
%X%
- Alert icon
-
%Y%
- Done icon
See
ShortcutMacros for a full list of predefined shortcuts.
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