The Go Box as a browser The go box (also called jump box) allows you to jump from page to page and search for documents. If you do not know the entire name of th...
WebChanges to see recent activity Each Foswiki web has a WebChanges topic that lists recent activity from all editors of the web. This can be useful when looking ...
E mail alert of topic changes Subscribing to WebNotify will enable Foswiki to send you details of changes made on topics in a certain web. You can choose to be no...
Creating a Table of Contents %TOC% automatically creates a table of contents based on the headings present in the topic. To exclude a heading from a %TOC% add !! ...
File attachments Files can be attached to any topic. The action of attaching a file to a topic is similar to attaching a file to an e mail use the Attach link i...
Breadcrumb The breadcrumb of a topic shows you page hierarchy. It is constructed using a topic's parent setting; for example, the breadcrumb on this page looks l...
Foswiki Skins Skins overlay regular templates with alternate layouts (and styles). You can use Skins to change the look of a Foswiki topic, for example, the layo...
Revision control In Foswiki, assuming appropriate AccessControls, anyone can change anything but those changes are logged. There is a complete audit trail with r...
Commenting with hidden text To hide sections of a Foswiki topic, use HTML comments. Example comment within a sentence: Visible ! and hidden text Example spa...
InterwikiPlugin links The InterwikiPlugin automatically links ExternalSite:Page text to external sites based on aliases defined in the InterWikis topic. This enab...
SpreadSheetPlugin for dynamic content Over 80 formulae are available through the SpreadSheetPlugin. For Example: * $AVERAGE() * $IF() * $REPLACE() * $...
SlideShowPlugin for presentations Use SlideShowPlugin to convert a topic with headings and bullets into a slideshow presentation. This plugin is useful when conte...
Custom rendered bullets RenderListPlugin can render bulleted lists in a variety of different ways. Use %RENDERLIST{ parameters }% before any bulleted list. More ...
Disabling links in large blocks of text You can disable automatic linking of WikiWords by surrounding the text with = noautolink = and = /noautolink = tags. Each ...
Disabling individual WikiWords Prevent a WikiWord from being linked by prefixing it with an exclamation point. Example: To escape SunOs write SunOs to get SunOs. ...
WikiWords for linking WikiWords are capitalized words, run together, such as WebPreferences and CollaborationPlatform. Using a lot of WikiWords creates a good bro...
Inline search To embed a search in a topic, use the %SEARCH{ parameters }% macro. The search macro is used by many Foswiki based applications. More Information....
SmiliesPlugin emoticons Smilies are common in e mail messages and bulletin board posts. They are used to convey an emotion, such as a smile #058; ) : ) or a frow...
Comment box with CommentPlugin The CommentPlugin allows users to quickly post comments to a page without an edit/preview/save cycle. Write %COMMENT{ attributes ...
Keyword search Interactive search is a keyword search by default. For example, to search for all topics that contain "SOAP", "WSDL", a literal "web service", but ...
ObjectPlugin The object is to use foswiki topics to store lots of objects (chunks of structured data) that can be searched, filtered and manipulated. The intentio...
DateTimePlugin Display date and time with formatting options, relative date parameters and localized dates This plugin is an extension of the macro GMTIME{"format...
Media Plugin . Uses the OBJECT html tag to embed arbitrary content into a page, with a particular bent towards media: common media formats are detected and some "...
Kino Search Contrib KinoSearch is a Perl implementation of the Apache Lucene search engine (implemented in Java). This is the implementation of this indexed searc...
Kino Search Operators Kino Search allows you to use Google style operators to narrow down your search. For example, use the and operators to indicate required...
KinoSearchPlugin __ Allows embedding a KinoSearch in any page with a custom format it will automatically update the index when saving, renaming or adding an attac...
KINOSEARCH tag If the KinoSearchPlugin is enabled, you will be able to use the KINOSEARCH tag to search indexed topics and attachments: * %KINOSEARCH{'Search S...