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Foswiki Upgrade Guide This guide covers upgrading from a previous version of Foswiki to Foswiki 2.x. This upgrade procedure is used to upgrade a to a new major v...

User Authentication Controlling who can access your site Overview Authentication, or "login", is the process by which a user lets Foswiki know who they are. Know...

User Registration components This topic contains the pieces that are assembled into the UserRegistration page. There is no need to modify this topic. If a sectio...

User Settings preference settings customizable by users Some of the preference settings are explicitly intended to be customized by users, though a default is p...

A List of User Tools List of tools the user may need for setting and resetting passwords, changing email address etc.

Using HTML When, and how, to use HTML in topics. You can use most HTML tags in topics without a problem. This is useful where you want to add some content that is...

ADDTOHEAD deprecated, use ADDTOZONE instead This macro is deprecated. Please use VarADDTOZONE instead. It effecively is a shortcut for %ADDTOZONE{"head" ...}%

ADDTOZONE add content to a named zone on the page Parameters Parameter Description Default "zone" comma separated list of the names of zones th...

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

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

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

CALC add spreadsheet calculations to tables and outside tables The %CALC{"formula"}% macro is handled by the SpreadSheetPlugin. There are around 90 formulae, such...

CALCULATE add spreadsheet formulae calls using standard Macro evaluation order. The %CALCULATE{"formula"}% macro is handled by the SpreadSheetPlugin. There are ar...

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

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

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

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

ENDTWISTY complements an opening TWISTY tag to close a twisty Closes an open twisty Related

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

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

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

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

GMTIME formatted Greenwich Mean Time (UTC) Parameters Parameter Description Default "format" format $day $month $year $hour:$min %GMTI...

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

HTTP get HTTP headers * Called with the name of an HTTP request header field, returns its value. Capitalization and the use of hyphens versus underscores are n...

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 wh...

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

ICONURLPATH URL path of small documentation graphic or icon Generates the relative URL path of a image, typically used in an HTML img tag. Specify image na...

INCLUDE include another topic, or subsection of a topic, or a URL, or Foswiki embedded documentation (Including a topic) Parameters Parameter: Des...

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...

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 ...

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. T...

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

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

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

MAINWEB deprecated synonym for USERSWEB Deprecated. Please use %USERSWEB% instead.

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

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

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

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

PLUGINDESCRIPTIONS list of plugin descriptions Examples * %PLUGINDESCRIPTIONS% expands to Related ACTIVATEDPLUGINS, FAILEDPLUGINS, PLUGINVERSION

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

PUBURL generate an URL for an attachment Generate an absolute URL for an attachment, or for a web or topic within the attachment database. Parameters ...

PUBURLPATH generate a relative URL for an attachment Generate a relative URL for an attachment, or for a web or topic within the attachment database. Parameters ...

QUERY get the value of meta data Uses the query syntax described in QuerySearch to get information about meta data from one specified topic. * supports formatt...

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

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

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

REMOTE_USER environment variable Examples * %REMOTE_USER% expands to Displays the user identity established by the Web Server. Not available when using ...

RENDERLIST render bullet lists in a variety of formats The %RENDERLIST% macro is handled by the RenderListPlugin Examples * Engineering * Tech Pub...