User's Guide

Documentation for users.

• Quick Start
  • Welcome Guest: A fast track intro covering all the basics
  • Beginners Start Here: A short introduction training course for beginners
  • User Registration: Sign up so you can edit pages and select options

• One-Page Primers
  • Beginners Start Here: Ultra-compact, 2-minute primer
  • Twenty Minute Tutorial: A compact, 20-minute primer

  • Search Help: Tips and help on search
  • Good Style: Working tips for an open collaboration environment
  • Short Hand: All of the shorthand basics
  • Text Formatting Rules: Scan all text formatting rules on one page
  • Macros: How to easily embed text, graphics, dynamic content
  • File Attachments: Browser-upload files for distribution or display
  • Web Changes Alert: Get e-mail alerts linking to the latest page changes
  • Glossary Of Terms: A simple glossary of terms
  • Frequently Asked Questions: The first things people ask

  • Frequent users should also browse the full Reference Manual!

• Help on Plugins

• TWiki Compatibility Plugin (1.1.1, $Rev: 8378 (2010-07-31) $): Add TWiki personality to Foswiki
• Spread Sheet Plugin (1.1.4, $Rev: 13315 (2011-12-06) $): Add spreadsheet calculations like "$SUM($ABOVE())" to Foswiki tables and other topic text
• Spaced Wiki Word Plugin (1.0, $Rev: 1340 (22 Jan 2009) $): Display topic links spaced out
• Alias Plugin (2.40, $Rev: 4415 (2009-07-03) $): Define aliases which will be replaced with arbitrary strings automatically
• Attach Link Plugin (1.001, $Rev: 1558 (23 Dec 2008) $): Painless links to attachments
• Calendar Plugin (2.000, $Rev: 8058 (2010-07-07) $): Show a monthly calendar with highlighted events
• Comment Plugin (10 Apr 2011, $Rev: 11361 (2011-04-10) $): Quickly post comments to a page without an edit/save cycle
• Date Time Plugin (): Display date and time with formatting options, relative date parameters and localized dates
• Edit Table Plugin (4.23, $Rev: 3523 (2009-04-18) $): Edit tables using edit fields, date pickers and drop down boxes
• Excel Import Export Plugin (Foswiki, $Rev: 0$): Renders an attached Excel spreadsheet as Foswiki table
• Filter Plugin (1.70, $Rev: 1860 (08 Jan 2009) $): Substitute and extract information from content by using regular expressions
• Find Elsewhere Plugin (2.2, $Rev: 13097 (2011-11-16) $): Automatically link to another web(s) if a topic isn't found in the current web.
• Foot Note Plugin ($Date:$, $Rev:$): Place footnotes at the end of a page.
• For Each Plugin (1.102, $Rev: 10382 (2010-12-22) $): Loop over successive elements of a list, or a range of numbers.
• Headlines Plugin (2.21.1, $Rev: 2931 (2009-03-08) $): Show headline news in Foswiki pages based on RSS and ATOM news feeds from external sites
• Image Gallery Plugin (4.00-pre3, $Rev: 2463 (12 Feb 2009) $): Displays image gallery with auto-generated thumbnails from attachments
• Image Plugin (1.22, $Rev: 1863 (08 Jan 2009) $): Control the display and alignment of images using an easy syntax
• Interwiki Plugin (12 Jul 2010, $Rev: 9483 (2010-10-03) $): Link ExternalSite:Page text to external sites based on aliases defined in a rules topic
• Preferences Plugin (19 Apr 2009, $Rev: 3527 (2009-04-18) $): Allows editing of preferences using fields predefined in a form
• Publish Plugin (04 Dec 2008, $Rev: 3177 (2009-03-18) $): Generate static output (HTML, PDF) optionally upload (FTP) the output to a publishing site.
• Slide Show Plugin (2.1.4, $Rev: 12410 (2011-08-28) $): Create web based presentations based on topics with headings
• Smilies Plugin (04 Jan 2009, $Rev: 3417 (2009-04-12) $): Render smilies as icons, like for  :-) or for  :eek:
• Table Plugin (1.038, $Rev: 3525 (2009-04-18) $): Control attributes of tables and sorting of table columns
• Tiny MCEPlugin (29 Dec 2009, $Rev: 5860 (2009-12-28) $): Integration of the Tiny MCE WYSIWYG Editor
• Tree Browser Plugin (v1.9): Renders a list as a collapsable/expandable tree.
• Twisty Plugin (1.5.2, $Rev: 3417 (2009-04-12) $): Twisty section JavaScript library to open/close content dynamically
• Update Attachments Plugin (Foswiki-1.0, $Rev: 2555 (20 Feb 2009) $): A batched alternative to Auto Attachments? (adds and removes attachements)
• Update Info Plugin (Dakar, 11199): Add a %ISNEW% tag after a Wiki Word to get a visual display of whether the linked topic was created or updated recently
• Var Cache Plugin (29 Jan 2009, $Rev: 2215 (29 Jan 2009) $): Cache Foswiki macros in selected topics for faster page rendering
• Wysiwyg Plugin (1.1.3, $Rev: 13315 (2011-12-06) $): Translator framework for WYSIWYG editors
• Zone Plugin (3.1, $Rev: 9442 (2010-09-30) $): Gather content of a page in named zones while rendering it