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Tips Contrib Package
Displays rotating list of "Tip-of-the-day"
Displays a rotating "Tip of the Day" to help familiarize new users with Foswiki features. Includes an application for creating custom tips for local installation.
On this page:
Summary of Contents
- Set on
TipTopictopics providing brief lessons on Foswiki features. See TipsTopics. - Set of topics for creating and managing
TipTopicXXXtopics. See TipsOfTheDayAdmin.
Detailed Documentation
- See TipsOfTheDayAdmin for instructions on managing and displaying tips.
- See TipsOfTheDayAddNew for instructions for adding new custom tips.
CSS used by TipsContrib
- .tipsOfTheDay - overall container
- .tipsOfTheDayContents - container for tipsOfTheDayHeader and tipsOfTheDayText
- strong.tipsOfTheDayHeader - header that says "Tip of the Day"
- .tipsOfTheDayText - the tip; contains title and tip summary and link "Read on"
- .tipsOfTheDayTitle - title of the tip; the link to the tip topic
Installation Instructions
Note: You do not need to install anything on the browser to use this contrib package. The following instructions are for the administrator who installs the package on the server where Foswiki is running.
- Download the ZIP file from the Plugin web (see below)
- Unzip
TipsContrib.zipin your Foswiki installation directory. Content:File: Description: lib/Foswiki/Contrib/TipsContrib.pm(noci) lib/Foswiki/Contrib/TipsContrib/DEPENDENCIES(noci) lib/Foswiki/Contrib/TipsContrib/MANIFEST(noci) data/System/TipsContrib.txt(noci) data/System/TipTopic001.txt(noci) data/System/TipTopic002.txt(noci) data/System/TipTopic003.txt(noci) data/System/TipTopic004.txt(noci) data/System/TipTopic005.txt(noci) data/System/TipTopic006.txt(noci) data/System/TipTopic007.txt(noci) data/System/TipTopic008.txt(noci) data/System/TipTopic009.txt(noci) data/System/TipTopic010.txt(noci) data/System/TipTopic011.txt(noci) data/System/TipTopic012.txt(noci) data/System/TipTopic013.txt(noci) data/System/TipTopic014.txt(noci) data/System/TipTopic015.txt(noci) data/System/TipTopic016.txt(noci) data/System/TipTopic017.txt(noci) data/System/TipTopic018.txt(noci) data/System/TipTopic019.txt(noci) data/System/TipTopic020.txt(noci) data/System/TipTopic021.txt(noci) data/System/TipTopic022.txt(noci) data/System/TipTopic023.txt(noci) data/System/TipTopic024.txt(noci) data/System/TipTopic025.txt(noci) data/System/TipTopic026.txt(noci) data/System/TipTopic027.txt(noci) data/System/TipTopic028.txt(noci) data/System/TipTopic029.txt(noci) data/System/TipsTopics.txt(noci) data/System/TipsOfTheDay.txt(noci) data/System/TipsOfTheDayAddNew.txt(noci) data/System/TipsOfTheDayAdmin.txt(noci) data/System/TipsOfTheDayInclude.txt(noci) data/System/TipsOfTheDayTemplate.txt(noci)
Dependencies
| Name | Version | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Foswiki::Plugins::SpreadSheetPlugin | >=1.20 | Required. |
Change History
| 06 Nov 2015: (1.26) | Foswikitask:Item13796: Rewrite TipsOfTheDayInclude to avoid generating HTML from the CALCULATE macro. |
| 02 Oct 2015: (1.25) | Foswikitask:Item13781: Update dependency on SpreadSheetPlugin version for better Foswiki 1.1 compatibility |
| 29 Sep 2015: (1.24) | Released with Foswiki 2.0.2 Foswikitask:Item13741: Encode search strings |
| 15 Jul 2015: (1.22) | Released with Foswiki 2.0.1 Foswikitask:Item13526: Improve search performance. |
| 14 Jun 2015: (1.21) | Released with Foswiki 2.0. Foswikitask:Item12864: use simple decimal version strings. Foswikitask:Item9693: Documentation improvements. Foswikitask:Item12888: Use preference variables, not topic explicit topic names. |
| 28 Nov 2012: (1.2.0) | Version released with Foswiki 1.1.6. Convert to perl version strings. |
| 06 Apr 2012: | Version released with Foswiki 1.1.5. Minor html cleanup and modernization. |
| 05 Dec 2011: | Version released with Foswiki 1.1.4. Minor code cleanup and documentation updates. |
| 11 Apr 2011: | Version released with Foswiki 1.1.3. Only a minor change related to how the contrib is being upgraded |
| 06 Nov 2010: | Foswikitask:Item9963 - Revert usage of $percent back to $percnt |
| 31 Jul 2010: | Foswikitask:Item9415 - Documentation updates |
| 14 Apr 2010: | Fix the "Add tip for plugin" form; Fix styles; Set correct parent on a new custom tip |
| 16 Dec 2008: | Foswiki version |
| 04 Jan 2007: | Performance improvement |
| 10 Oct 2005: | Initial version - Packaging by TWiki:Main.LynnwoodBrown |
Related Topics: SitePreferences
PackageForm edit
| Author | ProjectContributor |
| Version | 1.26 |
| Release | 06 Aug 2023 |
| Description | Displays rotating list of "Tip-of-the-day" |
| Repository | https://github.com/foswiki/distro |
| Copyright | Copyright (C) 2005-2007 Peter Thoeny, peter@thoeny.org and TWiki Contributors, 2008-2015 Foswiki Contributors. |
| License | GPL (GNU General Public License) |
| Home | http://foswiki.org/Extensions/TipsContrib |
| Support | http://foswiki.org/Support/TipsContrib |
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