Completed Feature Proposals

Proposals that have been completed following the release process

Completed Proposals (Merged to core or to default plugin)

Topic	Summary	Tasks Item	Developer	Release
AddAltParamToICON	Add an alt parameter to ICON	Tasks.Item8552	CrawfordCurrie	1.1
AddAngleBracketsToFormatTokens	Add Angle Brackets (< and >) to format tokens	Tasks.Item1710	KennethLavrsen	1.0.6
AddAutoViewTemplatePlugintoFoswiki	AutoViewTemplatePlugin standardises the name of the skin page used for showing a topic with a form. We should merge it to core and install on FW.org	Tasks.Item2216	OliverKrueger
AddDataToRegistrationHandler	Add the registration data to the parameters of the registrationHandler	before foswiki and Task.Item2170	SvenDowideit
AddEXPANDMacro	EXPAND macro will enable cross-topic macro expansion		CrawfordCurrie	1.1
AddExtensionRepositoriesToFoswikiOrg	Add Testing and Archive repositories to Foswiki.org		GeorgeClark
AddFamFamFamContribToCore	Add FamFamFamContrib to the Core	Tasks/Item2456	SvenDowideit
AddFinishHandler	Add a finishHandler() for plugins	Tasks.Item1328	CrawfordCurrie	1.1
AddFooterParameterToSEARCH	Add footer parameter to SEARCH to match the header	Tasks.Item886	KennethLavrsen	1.0.6
AddMatchOperatorToQueryLanguage	Add match operator to query language	Tasks.Item1975	MichaelDaum
AddNumberOfTopicsToFormattedSearch	Add number of topics to formatted search	Tasks.Item886 Tasks.Item1595	KennethLavrsen	1.0.6
AddOperatorsToQueries	Add missing operators to query search and %IF	Tasks.Item10129	CrawfordCurrie	2.0
AddPackageNavigationToPerlDoc	Add package navigation to Perl Doc	Tasks.Item11437	KipLubliner	1.1.5
AddPlusValuesToRadioAndCheckboxes	Add +values to radio and checkbox formfields	Tasks.Item10071, Tasks.Item11428	MichaelDaum	1.1.5
AddSMELLToPerlDoc	Add SMELL, FIXME and TODO report to PerlDoc	Tasks.Item10217	GeorgeClark	1.1.4
AddStaticContext	Add a static context	Tasks.Item8575; Tasks.Item8656	GeorgeClark	1.1
AddUserToGroupsOnRegistration	Add User To Groups On Registration	Tasks.Item2172	SvenDowideit	1.1
AllowJSCalendarContribToUseTimePicker	JSCalendarContrib shall be corrected to allow usage of the built-in Time-Picker	Tasks.Item8677	RaulFRodriguez	1.1
AllowLocalConfigurationForJSCalendarContrib	Allowing local JSCalendarContrib configuration	Foswikitask:Item8833	AntonioTerceiro	1.1
BetterPluginPackageDiagnostics	It is helpful to upgraders to know which package Foswiki uses for each plugin	Tasks.Item10136	GeorgeClark	1.1.4
ChangeApacheAuthToDigest	Change (or Add in Addition) Apache Digest Auth	Tasks.Item10962	GeorgeClark	1.1.4
CleanUpNewUserTemplate	Clean Up NewUserTemplate	Tasks.Item8745 Tasks.Item9671	MichaelDaum
CleanUpWebPreferences	Clean up WebPreferences	Tasks.Item8746	MichaelDaum	1.1
CleanerConfigurePluginsPane	The bin/configure Plugins pane should be more compacted and sorted by enabled state			1.1
CleanerSyntaxForMetaDataAccess	Support a cleaner syntax for quizzing meta-data	Tasks.Item8638	CrawfordCurrie	1.1
CloneTopicLinkUnderMore	Clone topic feature in More screen	http://foswiki.org/Tasks/Item1873	MartinCleaver	1.0
ConfigureGuessedDirectoriesOnWin32	Foswiki guesses the paths and complains about backslashes on Win32	Tasks.Item9240	SvenDowideit	1.1
ControlOverVariableExpansion	Control over Variable Expansion		PeterThoeny
DebugPreferenceSettings	Add simple debugging feature for macro values	Tasks.Item1523	CrawfordCurrie	1.1
DelegateMoreProcessingToSearchAlgorithm	Delegate More Processing To SearchAlgorithm?	Tasks.Item1370	SvenDowideit	1.1
DeprecateAfterAttachmentSaveHandler	Deprecate afterAttachmentSaveHandler	Tasks.Item8749	MichaelDaum	1.1
DeprecateAllowInlineScript	Deprecate {AllowInlineScript} option in configure	Tasks.Item2305 Tasks.Item2429	CrawfordCurrie	1.1
DoWeNeedToShipClassicSkin	remove Classic skin, its 10 years old and no-one loves it.	Tasks.Item5000	ArthurClemens	1.0
ENCODEnlsToBR	ENCODE newlines in a string to BR	Tasks.Item8695	CrawfordCurrie
EnginesAsContribs	Foswiki Engines distributed as Contribs		GilmarSantosJr	1.0
EnhanceConfigureLogging	Enhance Configure Logging	Tasks.Item10616	GeorgeClark	1.1.4
ExpertOptionForCookieDomainRealm	Make the login managers cookie (domain) realm configurable.	Item8560	OliverKrueger	1.1
ExtraResponseHeaderFields	Adding the script and uri to the header on a reponse help a lot when using asyncron ajax calls		EugenMayer
FasterAccessToCreatorData	Store creator and create date in metadata to improve performance	Tasks.Item9332, Tasks.Item10678, Item10006?		1.2
FoswikiCache	A pluggable caching service and built-in HTML page cache	Tasks.Item3695	MichaelDaum	1.1
FoswikiStandAloneFeature
GeneralSortingMechanism	Add Sort::Maker to distributed CPAN libs	Tasks.Item8834	ArthurClemens	1.1
ImproveAttachmentToTrashFlow	Improve attachment-to-Trash flow
ImproveExtensionBackupProcess	Extender.pl should create a backup archive for extensions.	Tasks.Item8640	GeorgeClark	1.1
ImproveHtPaswdUserFlexibility	Support multiple password encodings for existing users.	Tasks.Item10962	GeorgeClark
ImprovePageLoadTime	Improve Page Load Time	Tasks.Item8502, Tasks.Item8521, Tasks.Item8571, Tasks.Item8566, Tasks.Item8696	MichaelDaum
ImproveSearchResultsList	Improve the readability of search results
ImproveStatisticsHandlingForMissingTopics	Add option to allow statistics script to auto-create missing topics, also add more authorization checks.	Tasks.Item11392	GeorgeClark	1.1.5
ImproveWebSearchPages	Integrate WebSearch, WebSearchAdvanced, Alphabetical search and SearchHelp?	Tasks.Item8839	ArthurClemens	1.1
InheritWikiLinksTopics	Allow a hierarchy of InterWikis topics	Tasks.Item9260	AndrewJones	1.1.3
MakeSEARCHResultPartitioningByWebOptional	SEARCH rendering is always partitioned by web	Tasks.Item2276	SvenDowideit
MakeUserRegistrationAsLeanAsPossible	Make UserRegistration as lean as possible	Tasks.Item8796	ArthurClemens	1.1
MakeUserRegistrationCustomizable	Make UserRegistration customizable	Tasks.Item8701	ArthurClemens	1.1
MoveLogsToWorking	Move logs to 'working'	Tasks.Item2008	CrawfordCurrie	1.1
MoveToJQuery	Enhance PatternSkin to use jQuery	Tasks.Item8623	MichaelDaum, ArthurClemens
NormaliseRegexSyntax	Agree on a minimum syntax for regexes	Tasks.Item8857	CrawfordCurrie	1.1
OpenLinkInNewWndow	I want to enforce the opening of an new browser window
OptionToAddServerTimeToEmailHeaders	Would be nice to have an option to have foswiki send email with local timezone headers instead of gmt	Tasks.item10523	GeorgeClark
ParameterizedGroupsMacro	Add format and other stuff to the GROUPS macro	Tasks.Item2154, Tasks.Item2173, Tasks.Item8704	CrawfordCurrie
ParameterizedVariables	Discussion on implementing parameterized variables	Tasks.Item10187	CrawfordCurrie	1.1.4
ParamsInSquabs	Allow params in a squab view Page?p=data	Tasks.Item1654	CrawfordCurrie	1.1
ProcessAddToHeadAdds	Process addToHEAD adds	Tasks.Item6014	ArthurClemens	1.1
RcsLite	write a pure perl replacement for rcs and use it as a Store impl.
RecodeSearchCgi	recode the search cgi to show view/System/WebSearch	Tasks.Item8761	SvenDowideit
RecursiveTMPLDefinitions	Enhance TMPL:DEF to allow recursive definition of template elements.	Tasks.Item2545	SvenDowideit, ChunHuang	1.1
RemoveClassicSkin	Let us remove Classic Skin		ArthurClemens
RemoveRedirectCGIQueryHandler	Remove the unused and dangerous redirectCGIQueryHandler	Tasks.Item8818	CrawfordCurrie	1.1
RenamingAttachments	Allow Renaming of Attachments
SMIMESupportInMail	Add SMIME support in email	Tasks.Item10522	GeorgeClark
SaferURLPARAMasDefault	Safer URLPARAM as default	Tasks.Item375	KennethLavrsen	1.0
SandboxWebNameShouldBeMapped	The Sandbox Web name should be mapped through a config variable (2.0)	Tasks.Item8744	GeorgeClark	1.1.5
ScanForMissingPerlModules	It would be cool to ease Perl module installation or at least to simplify figuring out what is missing	Tasks.Item10170	IngoKappler	Hopefully during December 2010
SearchNeedsAltParameter	SEARCH needs an alt parameter in case of zero results	Tasks.Item883	ArthurClemens or SvenDowideit	1.1
SearchOrderingOnMultipleFields	Search ordering on multiple fields	Tasks.Item96	KoenMartens
SearchSeparatorDefaultHeaderFooter	SEARCH separator as newline after header and before footer ONLY when separator is not specified	Tasks.Item1773	KennethLavrsen	1.1
ShipCompareRevisionsAddOnWithFoswiki01x01	Ship CompareRevisionsAddOn with Foswiki 1.1	Tasks.Item1858	WillNorris	1.1
ShipHistoryPluginWithFoswiki01x01	Ship HistoryPlugin with Foswiki 1.1	Tasks.Item1856	WillNorris	1.1
ShipSubscribePluginWithFoswiki01x01	Ship the SubscribePlugin with Foswiki 1.2	Tasks.Item10830	AndrewJones	1.2
SimplifySearchTemplates	replace the SPLIT and REPEAT mess in the search templates	Tasks.Item8768	SvenDowideit
SoftAsserts	A soft-failure-mode for ASSERTs	Tasks.Item9161	MichaelTempest	1.1
SpreadSheetPluginFourNewFunctions	New $EMPTY(), $LEFTSTRING(), $RIGHTSTRING(), SUBSTRING() functions to SpreadSheetPlugin		KennethLavrsen	1.0.5
SummaryBasedOnSearchTerms	Make topic summary optionally based on search terms		ArthurClemens
SupportBlockquoteAndIndenting	Support <blockquote> and paragraph indenting in TinyMCEPlugin	Tasks.Item2341, Tasks.Item2516	PaulHarvey, CrawfordCurrie	1.2
SupportCommaFormattingToken	Support , formatting token	Tasks.Item8695	CrawfordCurrie
SupportDollarPercent	Also allow token to be spelled percent you avoid a common error	Tasks.Item8624	CrawfordCurrie	1.1
SupportSSLandTLSforSMTP	Add support for SSL and TLS transport for SMTP	Tasks.Item10521	GeorgeClark	1.1.4
SupportStrippingIPsFromLogfiles	Allow switching off IP logging in logfiles	Tasks.Item10637	GeorgeClark
TestLighttpdWebserver	a simple lighttpd configuration and laucher script for testing/development purposes		AntonioTerceiro, GilmarSantosJr
ThinPrefsProposal	Thin Prefs Mechanism	Tasks.Item1541	GilmarSantosJr	1.1
TopicAddressing	Consistent methods for breaking apart topic names/"addresses"	Tasks.Item10376	PaulHarvey	2.0
TopicMovedMessageTooVisible	Topic moved message at the bottom of normal view is too visible. Move to diff page	Tasks.Item9446	LynnwoodBrown	1.1
USERINFOisTooRestrictive	Allow USERINFO macro to display users that are not view restricted	Tasks.Item11410	GeorgeClark	1.1.5
UseVariableForSignature	Make the signature format a variable	Tasks.Item8607	ArthurClemens	1.1
			PeterThoeny: 1 CrawfordCurrie: 3 GeorgeClark: 3 KipLubliner: 1 AndrewJones: 2 AntonioTerceiro: 2 ArthurClemens: 10 ArthurClemens or SvenDowideit: 1 ChunHuang: 1 CrawfordCurrie: 14 EugenMayer: 1 GeorgeClark: 12 GilmarSantosJr: 3 IngoKappler: 1 KennethLavrsen: 6 KoenMartens: 1 LynnwoodBrown: 1 MartinCleaver: 1 MichaelDaum: 8 MichaelTempest: 1 OliverKrueger: 2 PaulHarvey: 2 RaulFRodriguez: 1 SvenDowideit: 9 WillNorris: 2	: 30 1.0: 4 1.0.5: 1 1.0.6: 3 1.1: 37 1.1.3: 1 1.1.4: 6 1.1.5: 5 1.2: 3 2.0: 2 Hopefully during December 2010: 1

Proposals that were implemented as non-default Plugin

(these may be rejected proposals where the developer decided to implement the feature as plugin or other extension instead)

Topic	Summary	Tasks Item	Developer	Release
AddMetaSetActionToEditAndSave	Set any addressable topic element from save		SvenDowideit
DeprecateTinyMCEPluginInitPreference	Replace TINYMCEPLUGIN_INIT preference with topic section	Tasks.Item8416, Tasks.Item9210	PaulHarvey
EasierMirroringOfExtensionRepositories	Simplify building and using local extension repositories	Tasks.Item8804	GeorgeClark
ExcelImportExportPluginNoFormsFeature	It would be an improvement if the ExcelImportExportPlugin handles excel tables without having a foswiki form defined	Tasks.Item8177	SvenHess
GroupPermissionsForFilterPlugin	Extend FilterPlugin with group permissions
MacroForRetrievingFieldDefaultValues	We need to centralise into core the means to retrieve field default values
SupportPermanentLinks	It would be nice if Foswiki provided invariant links, that work even if a topic is moved or renamed.		OliverKrueger
			GeorgeClark: 1 OliverKrueger: 1 PaulHarvey: 1 SvenDowideit: 1 SvenHess: 1	: 7

-- Contributors: KennethLavrsen - 24 Apr 2007