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ACTIVATEDPLUGINS -- list of currently activated plugins

ALLVARIABLES -- list of currently defined TWikiVariables

AUTHREALM -- authentication realm

DASHBOARD -- build a dashboard with banner and boxes

EDITACTION -- select an edit template

  • EDITACTION defined in a topic or preference setting will define the use of an editaction template instead of the standard edit. If EDITACTION is defined as text, then hide the form. If EDITACTION is defined as form hide the normal text area and only edit the form.
  • Syntax: %EDITACTION% (returning either text or form)
  • Expands to: %EDITACTION%
  • Note: When EDITACTION is defined as text or form the Edit and Edit Raw buttons simply add ;action=text or ;action=form to the URL for the edit script. If you have defined EDITACTION in a topic setting or preference setting you can still edit the topic content or the form by removing the ;action=form or ;action=text from the edit URL in the browser and reload.
  • Category: AdministrationVariables, EditingAndContentUpdateVariables, SkinsAndTemplatesVariables
  • Related: TWikiScripts (this topic)

FAILEDPLUGINS -- debugging for plugins that failed to load, and handler list

LANGUAGE -- current user's language

  • Returns the language code for the language used as the current user. This is the language actually used by TWiki Internationalization (e.g. in user interface).
  • The language is detected from the user's browser, unless some site/web/user/session-defined setting overrides it:
    • If the LANGUAGE preference is set, it's used as user's language instead of any language detected from the browser.
    • Avoid defining LANGUAGE at a non per-user way, so each user can choose his/her preferred language.
  • Category: AdministrationVariables, SystemInformationVariables
  • Related: LANGUAGES (this topic)

LANGUAGES -- list available TWiki languages

  • List the languages available (as PO files) to TWiki. Those are the languages in which TWiki's user interface is available.
  • Syntax: %LANGUAGES{...}%
  • Supported parameters:
    Parameter: Description: Default:
    format format for each item. See below for variables 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 variables:
    Variable Meaning
    $langname language's name, as informed by the translators
    $langtag language's tag. Ex: en, pt-br, etc.
  • Category: AdministrationVariables, SystemInformationVariables
  • 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 (this topic)

LOCALSITEPREFS -- web.topicname of site preferences topic

MDREPO -- retrieve data from metadata repository

  • Attention: This variable works only if MetadataRepository is in use. Otherwise, it always returns a zero length string.
  • This retrieves data from the specified metadata repository table.
  • Syntax: %MDREPO{ "table" ...}% (generic form), %MDREPO{ web="..." ...}% (web specific form)
  • Parameters (generic form without web="..." parameter):
    ParameterSorted ascending Description Default
    "..." Specify the table to retrieve This or below is required
    exclude="..." Comma separated list of record IDs to be excluded. You can use regular expression. If you specify Trash\d*, then Trash, Trash1, Trash2, … are exluded but LightTrash and TrashBag are not excluded none
    filter="..." The regular expression of record IDs to filter records. Matching is case-insensitive none
    format="..." Format of one record. It may contain the following items. In addtion, the standard special tokens are handled accordingly.
    Item Description
    $_ or $_() the record ID
    $__ or $__() The record value in the following format:
    FIELD_NAME=FIELD_VALUE FIELD_NAME=FIELD_VALUE …
    $marker or $marker() Expands to marker for the item matching selection only
    $_FILED_NAME or $_FIELD_NAME() Please be noted that you need to put _ (underscore) in front of a field name. $_FIELD_NAME$ yields the value of the specified field. If the specified field does not exist in the record, it returns the null string ("").
    ?FIELD_NAME?IF_FIELD_HAS_VALUE? If the specified field has value and it's neither 0 nor the null string (""), it's evaluated as IF_FIELD_HAS_VALUE. Otherwise, it's evaluated as the null string. This is like q/.../ in Perl. A non-word character following ?FIELD_NAME becomes the terminator; i.e. you can write: ?FIELD_NAME:IF_TRUE:
    Specifically, the following characters can be used as the delimiter: ! # % ' / : ? @ ^ ` | ~
    = is excluded because it clashes with a parameter specification in a URL (?name=value).
    ?!FIELD_NAME?IF_FIELD_HAS_NO_VALUE? Similar to above but it's opposite. If the field has value, it's evaluated as the null string. Otherwise, it's evaluated as IF_FIELD_HAS_NO_VALUE.
    $question Replaced with ? after the ?FIEL_DNAME and ?!FIELD_ANME constructs are processed.
    		"| $_ | $__ |"
    marker="..." Text for $marker in the format if the item matches selection "selected"
    selection="..." The record ID to be regarded as the selected. It affects how $marker in the format is evaluated. none
    separator="..." The separator string of records "$n" (new line)
    table="..." (Alternative to above) This or above is required
  • Example: %MDREPO{"webs" filter="^A" format="| $_ | $_admin | $_master |"}%
    This would show the metadata of webs whose names start with A.
  • Paramerers (web specific form):
    Parameter Description Default
    web="..." Specify the web. If it's a subweb, the corresponding top level web is specified This is required
    "..." Specify the format of the return value in the same manner as the format parameter in the generic form $__
    default="..." Specify the value to be returned when the specified or implied top level web does not exist in MDREPO "" (null string)
  • Example: %MDREPO{web="Foo/Bar" "$_admin"}%
    This would show the admin field of the Foo web.
  • Category: AdministrationVariables, SystemInformationVariables
  • Related: MetadataRepository (this topic)

PLUGINDESCRIPTIONS -- list of plugin descriptions

  • Syntax: %PLUGINDESCRIPTIONS%
  • Expands to:
    • TWikiCompatibilityPlugin (06 Aug 2023, 1.12): Add TWiki personality to Foswiki
    • SpreadSheetPlugin (17 May 2023, 1.25): Add spreadsheet calculations like "$SUM($ABOVE())" to Foswiki tables and other topic text
    • SlideShowPlugin (09 Mar 2021, 2.40): Create web based presentations based on topics with headings
    • AutoViewTemplatePlugin (06 Aug 2023, 1.24): Automatically sets VIEW_TEMPLATE and EDIT_TEMPLATE
    • BreadCrumbsPlugin (21 Jan 2024, 4.01): A flexible way to display breadcrumbs navigation
    • CommentPlugin (06 Aug 2023, 2.95): Quickly post comments to a page without an edit/save cycle
    • CompareRevisionsAddonPlugin (06 Aug 2023, 1.114):
    • ConfigurePlugin (06 Aug 2023, 1.12): configure interface using json-rpc
    • DBCachePlugin (22 Jan 2025, 17.00): Lightweighted frontend to the DBCacheContrib
    • DiffPlugin (24 Jan 2025, 4.00): Compare difference between topics and revisions
    • EditRowPlugin (17 Dec 2024, 3.402): Inline edit for tables
    • FilterPlugin (20 Dec 2024, 7.11): Substitute and extract information from content by using regular expressions
    • FlexFormPlugin (18 Feb 2025, 8.42): Flexible way to render DataForms
    • FlexWebListPlugin (20 Dec 2024, 5.00): Flexible way to display hierarchical weblists
    • GridLayoutPlugin (13 Jan 2025, 3.40): A 12er grid system for responsive layouts
    • HistoryPlugin (05 Feb 2025, 1.21): Shows a complete history of a topic
    • HomePagePlugin (06 Aug 2023, 1.23): Allow User specified home pages - on login
    • ImagePlugin:
    (disabled) Error encountered loading the plugin. See errors below.
  • InterwikiPlugin (06 Aug 2023, 1.27): Link ExternalSite:Page text to external sites based on aliases defined in a rules topic
  • JQueryPlugin (17 Dec 2024, 11.20): jQuery JavaScript library for Foswiki
  • ListyPlugin (13 Jan 2025, 6.00): Fancy list manager
  • MailerContribPlugin (06 Aug 2023, 2.84): Supports e-mail notification of changes
  • MimeIconPlugin (14 Jan 2025, 4.20): Icon sets for mimetypes
  • MoreFormfieldsPlugin (18 Feb 2025, 11.70): Additional formfield types for DataForms
  • MultiLingualPlugin (30 Apr 2024, 4.12): Support for a multi lingual Foswiki
  • NatEditPlugin (03 Feb 2025, 9.71): A Wikiwyg Editor
  • NatSkinPlugin (11 Mar 2025, 7.11): Support plugin for NatSkin
  • PreferencesPlugin (06 Aug 2023, 1.16): Allows editing of preferences using fields predefined in a form
  • RedDotPlugin (26 Jan 2024, 4.20): Quick-edit links
  • RenderListPlugin (06 Aug 2023, 2.29): Render bullet lists in a variety of formats
  • RenderPlugin (14 Jan 2025, 7.01): Render WikiApplications asynchronously
  • SmiliesPlugin (17 Sep 2015, 2.03): Render smilies like smile as icons
  • SubscribePlugin (06 Aug 2023, 3.7): This is a companion plugin to the MailerContrib. It allows you to trivially add a "Subscribe me" link to topics to get subscribed to changes.
  • TablePlugin (22 Jan 2018, 1.160): Control attributes of tables and sorting of table columns
  • TagMePlugin (10 Jan 2017, 2.2): Tag wiki content collectively to find content by keywords
  • TinyMCEPlugin (11 Feb 2019, 1.32): Integration of the Tiny MCE WYSIWYG Editor
  • TopicInteractionPlugin (21 Jan 2025, 11.01): Improved interaction with attachments and DataForms
  • TopicTitlePlugin (19 Dec 2024, 3.10): Free-form title for topics
  • TwistyPlugin (29 Jun 2023, 3.00): Twisty section Javascript library to open/close content dynamically
  • UpdatesPlugin (31 Jan 2025, 2.10): Checks Foswiki.org for updates
  • WebCreatorPlugin (30 Apr 2024, 3.10): Flexible way to create new webs
  • WebLinkPlugin (17 Jan 2025, 2.20): A parametrized %WEB macro
  • WysiwygPlugin (13 Jun 2018, 1.38): Translator framework for WYSIWYG editors

PLUGINVERSION -- the version of a TWiki Plugin, or the TWiki Plugins API

USERREPORT -- show user reports with profile pictures

  • Show various user reports documented in UserReports
  • Syntax: %USERREPORT{ action="..." … }%
  • Overview of actions with parameters:
    Report action= Parameters
    Show a simple list of registered users "user_list" search, limit, sort, reverse
    Show the profile picture image of a user "profile_picture" user, height, width, title
    Show slim, one line height user boxes "slim_box_start"
    "slim_box" or
    "slim_box_list"
    "slim_box_end"     		style
    user, style
    users, style
    none
    Show small, two line height user boxes "small_box_start"
    "small_box" or
    "small_box_list"
    "small_box_end"     		style
    user, style
    users, style
    none
    Show users in business card format "business_card_start"
    "business_card" or
    "business_card_list"
    "business_card_end"     		style
    user, style
    users, style
    none
    Show a selector to pick a user,
    for use in HTML forms     		"select_one_user" name, selected, users
    Show rows of checkboxes to select users,
    for use in HTML forms     		"select_users" name, selected, users, colums, style
  • Example: %USERREPORT{ action="user_list" search="jane" limit="5" }%
  • Category: AdministrationVariables, DevelopmentVariables, UsersAndAuthenticationVariables
  • Related: BUBBLESIG, SEARCH, USERSIG, UserList, UserReports (this topic)

WEBPREFSTOPIC -- name of web preferences topic

WIKIHOMEURL -- site home URL

WIKILOGOALT -- site logo tooltip message

WIKILOGOIMG -- site logo image URL

WIKILOGOURL -- site logo home URL

WIKIPREFSTOPIC -- name of site-wide preferences topic

WIKIVERSION -- the version of the installed TWiki engine

Total: 20 variables

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