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AaronFulekiWouldLikeToCheckIn
AaronFuleki Would Like to Check in Who am I? I've been a TWiki user since 2001, but never really got into hacking it or building Wiki Applications until about a year ...
AaronLWalkerWouldLikeToCheckIn
AaronLWalker Would Like to Check in Who am I? TWiki user and admin. Giving you a try. I administer several IBM WebSphere and Tivoli products at my company. What ...
AaronScamehornWouldLikeToCheckIn
AaronScamehorn Would Like to Check in Who am I? Software developer w/ 15 yrs C exp What do I want? write access to SVN for the following branches: wikiplugins ...
AcceptedBy14DayRule
ChangeProposals that are AcceptedBy14DayRule The following proposals have committed developers and were commited at least 14 days ago.
AcceptedByCommunityVote
ChangeProposals that are AcceptedByCommunityVote If a proposal has committed developers and a commitment date at least 14 days in the past, but no consensus can be ...
AcceptedByReleaseMeeting
ChangeProposals that are AcceptedByReleaseMeeting Change proposals raised according to the release process may be discussed and voted for at the release meetings ...
AcceptedFeatureProposals
Accepted Feature Proposals Proposals that have a committed owner and have been accepted according to the release process Accepted proposals waiting to be implemented ...
AcceptedProposal
ChangeProposals that are in state AcceptedProposal This state is used when a proposal has been accepted according to the release process , either by ConsensusReached ...
AccessRightsChange
Feature Proposal: Change Access control to avoid built in security issues Motivation I experienced security issues with a client, which I had to address in due course ...
ActionTrackerDescendingSort
Feature Proposal: It would be more flexible to have the option for a descending table sort in the Extensions.ActionTrackerPlugin Motivation By using a custom attribute ...
AddAContextVAR
Feature Proposal: Add a way to output the contexts that are set Motivation I would like to add a set of css classes that are dependent on the contexts that we are ...
AddADDWORKINGDAYSToSSP
Feature Proposal: Add ADDWORKINGDAYS to Extensions.SpreadSheetPlugin Motivation We have a WORKINGDAYS that calculates the number of working days between two dates ...
AddAReadOnlyMetaClass
Feature Proposal: improve internal cachebility of TopicObjects by differentiating writeable Meta objects. Motivation we open, parse and throw away a much larger number ...
AddAltParamToICON
Feature Proposal: Add an alt parameter to ICON Motivation You can use %ICON to display an icon for a filename e.g. %ICON{"flurble.jpg"}% displays as By default if ...
AddAngleBracketsToFormatTokens
Feature Proposal: Add Angle Brackets ( and ) to format tokens Proposed by Thomas Weigert Motivation Thomas proposed this to TWiki, and for consistency with TWiki ...
AddAutoViewTemplatePlugintoFoswiki
Feature Proposal: Extensions.AutoViewTemplatePlugin standardises the name of the skin page used for showing a topic with a form. We should merge it to core and install ...
AddBeforeRenameHandler
Feature Proposal: Add beforeRenameHandler to the Plugin API Motivation Allow a plugin to enforce topic naming conventions or other controls on topic names during ...
AddConfigurationWizard
Feature Proposal: Add a configuration wizard for authentication Motivation Authentication is complex, and required multiple settings of login manager, etc. The Wizard ...
AddContainsComparitorForQuerySearch
Feature Proposal: Provide a new comparitor to aid queries against fields which contain list data Motivation At the moment, if a form field contains a comma separated ...
AddCreateTopicToFunc
Feature Proposal: Add a new function createTopic to Func Motivation More intuitive for novices starting to develop extensions Description and Documentation Much ...
AddDataToRegistrationHandler
Feature Proposal: add the registration data to the parameters of the registrationHandler Motivation it converts the registrationHandler from an almost useless 'kinda ...
AddDefaultTopicParameterToINCLUDE
Feature Proposal: allow a list of topics to be specified so that we can use INCLUDE to allow customisation of shipped topic elements. Motivation UpgradeSafeCustomisationsOfSystemTopics ...
AddDollarTotalToFormattedSearch
Feature Proposal: Add $total(..) to System.FormattedSearch Motivation We lack a way of emitting this format string: format="Record $index of $total" where it should ...
AddENDINCLUDEandSTOPSECTION
Feature Proposal: Let's make an ENDINCLUDE to be consistent with ENDSECTION Motivation One of the first things I noticed coming to Foswiki were apparently arbitrary ...
AddEXPANDMacro
Feature Proposal: Motivation This proposal comes from analysis of the requirements of the System.SitePermission page, as discussed in Tasks.Item2394 . Thinking ...
AddExtensionRepositoriesToFoswikiOrg
Feature Proposal: Add Testing and Archive repositories to Foswiki.org Motivation Currently Extensions are released into a single stream, with no ability to hold back ...
AddExtraSetupToUnitTests
Feature Proposal: Allow Extensions to force required setup's into the UnitTests Motivation Both DBIStore and integrated Kino and MongoDB (and others) need to be able ...
AddFamFamFamContribToCore
Feature Proposal: Add FamFamFamContrib to the Core Motivation the 10 year old hand created System.DocumentGraphics really looks dated, and does not suit our image ...
AddFilterPlugin
Feature Proposal: FilterPlugin is such a useful thing, it should be part of the default package Motivation Simplify and standardise list formatting. Let people assume ...
AddFinishHandler
Feature Proposal: Add a finishHandler() for plugins Motivation We do have an initPlugin() that is called right at the beginning. However, there's a complementary ...
AddFooterParameterToSEARCH
In the process of updating the Plugins.TasksContrib I was somewhat surprised that there is no footer parameter to SEARCH to match the header Documentation add to ...
AddFoswikiFuncGetScriptUrlPath
Feature Proposal: Un deprecate Foswiki::Func::getScriptUrlPath() API Motivation To complement Foswiki::Func::getScriptUrl(). It seems madness that we have to reverse ...
AddFoswikiFuncWikifyWebTopicName
Feature Proposal: Add a Foswiki::Func::wikifyWebTopicName() API Motivation * Normalising user input the same way that Foswiki::Render does with nop freestyle ...
AddFurtherControlsOnSudo
Feature Proposal: Enhancements to sudo login to improve security Requirements Currently once the common sudo password is known, anyone, including guest users can ...
AddHeaderShiftParameterToINCLUDE
Feature Proposal: Add a headershift parameter to adjust included header levels   Motivation The header levels almost never fit if I try to include topics which weren ...
AddHideOptionToSTARTSECTION
Feature Proposal: Add a hide option to STARTSECTION Motivation Sometimes you create a section on the same page as you want to display it. To hide it, you must put ...
AddListOperationsToFORMAT
Feature Proposal: Add list operators to FORMAT Motivation Macro FORMAT can do list rendering, but without list operations it's value is limited to display. Extensions ...
AddLogoutHandler
Feature Proposal: Add logout handlers for LoginManagers Motivation Allow a LoginManager to respond to a logout request and perform non Foswiki cleanup operations ...
AddMatchOperatorToQueryLanguage
Feature Proposal: add match operator to query language Motivation While there #39;s a like operator ~ there #39;s no regex match. For instance, this is needed to ...
AddMetaSetActionToEditAndSave
Feature Proposal: Set any addressable topic element from save Motivation (Also known as Extensions.SetTopicValuesPlugin ) The TopicObjectModel allows us to query ...
AddNatEditToCore
Feature Proposal: Let's add NatEdit to the core Motivation NatEdit is: * pretty cool * simple * popular with the mostly normal but very slightly geeky person ...
AddNewDeveloperProcessDescribeTheAdminSteps
AddNewDeveloperProcessDescribeTheAdminSteps Headline After a developer is approved by completing the process described on GettingStarted, the following actions are ...
AddNewWebHandlers
Feature Proposal: Add beforeNewWeb and afterNewWeb handlers to the Plugin API Motivation * Allow a plugin to enforce web naming conventions or other controls on ...
AddNumberOfTopicsToFormattedSearch
Feature Proposal: Add number of topics to formatted search Motivation The AddFooterParameterToSEARCH allows people to specify a custom footer. WIBNI you can specify ...
AddOperatorsToQueries
Feature Proposal: Add missing operators to query search and %IF Motivation There are a number of things that are difficult to do in queries because of missing operators ...
AddOrRelationToFORMFIELD
Feature Proposal: Add "OR" relation to macro FORMFIELD Motivation It is now quite impossible (without FormFieldListPlugin) to list form fields values where multiple ...
AddPARENTWEBMacro
Feature Proposal: Add PARENTWEB Macro Motivation I'm building an application to manage a software project. I want to to package it in a way that a project can be ...
AddPackageNavigationToPerlDoc
Feature Proposal: Add package navigation to Perl Doc Motivation Make it easier to access documentation. Description and Documentation Make it possible to browse ...
AddPagingToAllDistributedSearchTopics
Feature Proposal: Add Paging To All Distributed Search Topics Motivation when running WebIndex on a too large web, we can DOS the server rendering (and searching ...
AddPlusValuesToRadioAndCheckboxes
Feature Proposal: Add values to radio and checkbox formfields Motivation While formfields of type select have the values feature to map the stored data to a different ...
AddRemoveFileFeatureToManifest
Feature Proposal: Add the ability to add a "remove" status for files in the manifest Motivation Currently to remove stale files, it has to be done either manually ...
AddSMELLToPerlDoc
Feature Proposal: Add SMELL, FIXME and TODO report to PerlDoc Motivation The old gendocs.pl script highlighted all of the documented SMELLs, TODOs, and FIXMEs in ...
AddSWITCHMacro
Feature Proposal: Create mechanism for switch statements Motivation The IF macro is inconvenient for building if / else ladders. Additionally, there should be a convenient ...
AddSearchResultsPaginationToRelease01x00
Feature Proposal: add search results paging capabilities to Foswiki 1.0.x Motivation Description and Documentation specification on SearchResults. to be upwardly ...
AddSetDefaultToTestFields
Feature Proposal: add set default button / js for form fields Motivation Every time I see a WaitingFor or ComittedDeveloper text field, i want to click an 'add remove ...
AddSortingBehaviourToSearch
Feature Proposal: Add different sorting behaviour(s) to search output Motivation Right now, order="..." only does text based sort (at least when not using date based ...
AddStaticContext
Feature Proposal: Add a static context Motivation Some plugins should not render content when in read only environments, such as when PDF or HTML for publishing purposes ...
AddTimeFeaturesToAttachmentLinks
Feature Proposal: Motivation Description and Documentation Following changes to lib/TWiki/attach.pm allows time/date processing: Add after use strict; use Assert ...
AddToZoneFromPluginHandlers
AddToZoneFromPluginHandlers Using ADDTOZONE from certain plugin handlers This document is linked to from the standard POD documentation Warning! Take care when ...
AddUpdatesPluginToDefaultRelease
Feature Proposal: Add Extensions.UpdatesPlugin to default release Motivation The Extensions/UpdatesPlugin was developed during Community.FoswikiCamp2011. The plugin ...
AddUserToGroupsOnRegistration
Feature Proposal: Add User To Groups On Registration Motivation Add the a ability for Foswiki to be configured such that on User registration, the new user is added ...
AddWikiSnapshots
Feature Proposal: Add snapshot functionality, making it possible to browse topics history consistently Motivation Nowadays users are able to see the history of a ...
AdminTopic
AdminTopic Topics that help organize content.
AdoptACSSFramework
Feature Proposal: Adopt a CSS framework from another project Motivation We currently have our own, and with all respect to the designers, fairly crude, CSS framework ...
AlexanderStoffersWouldLikeToCheckIn
AlexanderStoffers Would Like to Check in Who am I? I´m a industrial engineer from germany. Our company provide wiki based quality management systems in Germany. ...
AllFeatureProposals
All Feature Proposals Topic Summary Committed Developer Concern
AllFeatureRequests
AllFeatureRequests All feature requests that are not implemented or rejected. Topic Summary State Commitment
AllowGuestsToUseRESTAsDefault
Feature Request: Remove rest from the default list of AuthScripts Motivation Equal ajax browsing rights for guests! ; ) Description and Documentation By default ...
AllowJSCalendarContribToUseTimePicker
Feature Proposal: JSCalendarContrib shall be corrected to allow usage of the built in Time Picker Motivation The feature already exists in the Javascript object displaying ...
AllowLocalConfigurationForJSCalendarContrib
Feature Proposal: Allowing local JSCalendarContrib configuration Motivation Sometimes you need JSCalendarContrib to behave differently on two different webs. Description ...
AllowSectionalEditingAtTwikiDotOrg
Allow Sectional Editing At TWiki.org Some topics at TWiki.org get rather lengthy, and it is tedious to scroll to the bottom in the edit field or find a passage somewhere ...
AllowTopicAccessWhenFormRestricted
Feature Proposal: The access rights of a form overrule the access rights of the topic to which it is attached Motivation A user working in a restricted web grants ...
AllowTypedData
Feature Proposal: Allow data forms, Foswiki::Form field types and registerMETA to specify data/index types for query/search algo's w/indexes Motivation There are ...
AllowUnauthenticatedRESTHandlers
Feature Proposal: Some plugins would like REST handlers that do not require authentication. Motivation I wanted to add an unauthenticated REST handler to a plugin ...
AllowWebUsersTrashAccess
Feature Proposal: It would be really neat if users who belong to a web have the authority to move topics from a web to trash. Motivation Currently only admins can ...
AllowingQuotesInSearchFormat
AllowingQuotesInSearchFormat Headline Anyone thought about introducing a new quoting mechanism inside SEARCH ="" to avoid the ridiculous use of $quot and $percnt ...
AndrewJonesWouldLikeToCheckIn
AndrewJones Would Like to Check in Who am I? I graduated from Bournemouth University, UK this year with a degree in Business Information Technology and am working ...
AndrewPantyukhinWouldLikeToCheckIn
AndrewPantyukhin Would Like to Check in Who am I? I'm a FreeBSD ports committer (not very active lately) and a sysadmin. Used to maintain twiki on FreeBSD, but left ...
AntonioTerceiroWouldLikeToCheckIn
AntonioTerceiro Would Like to Check in Who am I? I am Antonio Terceiro. I was a TWiki developer, and wrote most of the user interface internationalization code (TWiki ...
ArneJorisWouldLikeToCheckIn
ArneJoris Would Like to Check in Who am I? I am an IT consultant who is currently using way too many Microsoft products for his own good, so I want to do something ...
ArthurClemensWouldLikeToCheckIn
ArthurClemens Would Like to Check in Who am I? In my day job I am User Experience Strategist for online activities. My base is interaction designer, which I have ...
AsadSultanWouldLikeToCheckIn
AsadSultan Would Like to Check in Who am I? Developer with Trin working with Paul Harvey. What do I want? write access to SVN for the following branches: wikiplugins ...
AutoViewTemplatePlugin
Feedback on Extensions.AutoViewTemplatePlugin This Dev Topic is imported from TWiki Site for testing purposes. Main.OliverKrueger 04 Sep 2007 This plugin looks ...
AutoincFormfieldPlugin
Feature Proposal: AutoincFormfieldPlugin Motivation The motivation to make it easier to search for all topic related to the same area. E.g. if all topics related ...
AutomagicalUpdating
Feature Proposal: Automagical Updating of Foswiki Motivation Upgrading is hard enough to be discouraging. Description and Documentation Create a set of scripts that ...
AvoidShootingSelfInFoot
Feature Proposal: Prevent Accidental Lockout of Topics Motivation In a corporate setting, people like to restrict page access. Sadly, they misspell, they get confused ...
BasicForm
Basic form for categorising topics Name: Type: Size: Values: Tooltip message: TopicClassification select 1 Classify a topic TopicSummary ...
BenBeijerWouldLikeToCheckIn
BenBeijer Would Like to Check in Who am I? BenBeijer in a nutshell: I have been programming in C (later C ) for almost 30 years (my first printf("Hello World\n") ...
BetterPluginPackageDiagnostics
Feature Proposal: It is helpful to upgraders to know which package Foswiki uses for each plugin Motivation Old debian installations symlinked twiki/lib to the system ...
BinaryDiffs
BinaryDiffs Binary Diff's Our users attach lots of drafts of large documents. I would like Foswiki to use something like http://xdelta.org/ to reduce the storage ...
BlurAuthCookieName
Feature Proposal: Blur auth Cookie Name with random string on installation Motivation This should protect users from phishing attacks on Foswiki cookies. As every ...
BrainStorming
Brainstorming for Foswiki Ideas are oozing out of someone's head, and have to be captured before they make a mess on the carpet. Use a ChangeProposal for less out ...
BrainstormingDataFormDefinitions
System.DataForms tables are awkward and limiting Problems: * Types and their modifiers are a little awkward (thinking of select multi values...etc). This could ...
BramVanOosterhoutWouldLikeToCheckIn
BramVanOosterhout Would Like to Check in Who am I? I am a 60 year old male, born in the Netherlands, living in Australia. I work for an IT company, as a process engineer ...
BryanThaleWouldLikeToCheckIn
BryanThale Would Like to Check in Who am I? I'm a software engineer with Motorola Mobile Devices where I'm a member of the Motorola Open Source Technologies Team ...
BugTracking
A ChangeProposal's BugTracking field is used for linking to Bugs in the Bugs web that track it's implementation.
BugsContrib
BugsContrib After manually installing the BugsContrib into an existing web with a different name, I'm wondering what is the "correct" way to do this? I notice that ...
BuildContribCookbook
BuildContrib Cookbook This is a cookbook of recipes for using Extensions.BuildContrib. Extensions.BuildContrib is a powerful, multi faceted build system, used to build ...
BuildingARelease
This manual process describes the autoBuildFoswiki.pl script Reminder to Kenneth and Sven: Need to change the sequence below so that the Patch branch is made at feature ...
BulkTopicCreationFromTables
BulkTopicCreationFromTables A mechanism for Foswiki that turns data in a table into a set of data form based topics Is there a mechanism for Foswiki that will convert ...
CSSResources
CSS Resources A list of resources for those intrepid adventurers who want to learn more about CSS. Local Topics this list is automatically generated by searching ...
CacheGetSkinCalculation
Feature Proposal: Introduce Foswiki {skin} Motivation As getSkin() is called several times, by Foswiki intern routines ( render etc ) and plugins quite a number ...
CachedIncludes
Feature Proposal: Improve performance of nested sectional includes Motivation INCLUDE statements are far more expensive than they have to be, especially nested sectional ...
CalendarPlugin
The most recent release of this plugin from Main.MarcelloBontempoSalgueiro is not in Subversion, meaning they are out of sync. Perhaps it should be merged in, if its ...
CasLoginContrib
This project needs your help. As you can see from the discussion below, there are a couple of patches that try to fix CAS login for Foswiki. While providing patches ...
CaseInsensitiveUserMapping
Feature Proposal: Ignore differences in case between registration and login Motivation LDAP and many Windows based authentication schemes are case insensitive. This ...
CategorizeExtensionsInFindExtensions
Feature Proposal: Group extensions by some indication of quality Motivation Extensions are of varying quality and there is little control over what constitutes an ...
CentralizeAndHideAdminInstructions
Feature Proposal: Centralize and hide administrative instructions Motivation There are a number of notes to TWiki administrators giving details of things that should ...
CentralizeHtmlFormHandling
Feature Proposal: Centralize HTML form handling with an API for developers and end users Motivation This proposal originates from my work on Extensions.FormPlugin ...
CertificatedStatisticsUpdate
CertificatedStatisticsUpdate Automatic statistics update Webstatistics is a bit awkward to update automagically per the instructions in TWikiSiteTools, especially ...
ChangeApacheAuthToDigest
Feature Proposal: Change (or Add as option) Apache Digest Auth Motivation From the Apache docs:It is important to be aware, however, that Basic authentication sends ...
ChangeDefaultHtpasswdEncoding
Feature Proposal: Change the default encoding from crypt to apache md5 Motivation crypt is completely obsolete in that it truncates passwords to 8 characters. We ...
ChangeImageLinkBehaviour
Feature Proposal: A link that looks like an image should not become an inline image Motivation I have users trying to link to metadata pages on the web that are on ...
ChangeLoginName
Feature Proposal: Users should be able to change their login name Motivation Login name assigned may no longer be appropriate Description and Documentation Especially ...
ChangeProposal
Change Proposals Classification Change proposals fall in to one of the following categories, each with its own template for new topics. Go to a classification's topic ...
ChangeProposalForm
Form Definition for ChangeProposals A ChangeProposalForm is the basic form type for all requests/reports that may lead to a change, whether they are ideas, specific ...
ChangedFeatureProposals
Changed Active Feature Proposals This topic is a helper topic that searches for feature proposals with a committed driver per our release process and displays the ...
ChangedFeatureProposalsUncommitted
Changed Feature Proposals without a committed developer This topic shows changes in feature proposals that do not have a committed developer and therefore do not follow ...
CheckinRequest
CheckinRequest Gateway See also: Community.WelcomeDeveloper, Development.FoswikiDeveloper and Community.InfrastructureTaskTeam
ChrisCauserWouldLikeToCheckIn
ChrisCauser Would Like to Check in Who am I? I was, for about 20 minutes, a developer for TWiki trying to add functionality to the Registration process and maybe ...
CleanUpNewUserTemplate
Feature Proposal: Motivation New users are irritated by messy default profile pages. Description and Documentation Customizing the NewUserTempalte is made unnecessarily ...
CleanUpTopicParentage
Feature Proposal: Clean up the parentage of topics shipped with Foswiki Motivation Navigation mechanisms based on topic hierarchy (that is, users browse their topics ...
CleanUpWebPreferences
Feature Proposal: Motivation _default.WebPreferences is a total mess, full of cruft Description and Documentation 1 deprecate WEBTOPICLIST ... once upon a time ...
CleanerConfigurePluginsPane
Feature Proposal: The bin/configure Plugins pane should be more compacted and sorted by enabled state Motivation A more compact, sorted pane would be easier for admins ...
CleanerSyntaxForMetaDataAccess
Feature Proposal: Support a cleaner syntax for quizzing meta data Motivation (I could have sworn I created a feature proposal for this before, but I can't find it ...
CloneTopicLinkUnderMore
Additional Clone Link in More Section If it is possible to rename and move a topic it shouldn't be impossible to clone a topic (same name different web or different ...
CmisPlugin
This project aims at adding CMIS support to Foswiki. This will allow to interact with Enterprise Content Management systems like Alfresco, Documentum and Sharepoint ...
CodeAndReleaseVersions
The foswiki.org repository and webs include: * the last stable release tgz/zip contains the most stable / controlled version of the core and extensions (plugins ...
CodeAttribution
CodeAttribution Please discuss on the discussion page. Note copyright laws vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. Assuming the Foswiki association will be incorporated ...
CodeAttributionDiscussion
Code attribution discussion How do we deal with code attribution of twiki code? This question has come up because of a copyright change in the .EditTablePlugin topic ...
CodeRefactoringForFastQueries
Code Refactoring For Fast Queries Searching is absolutely key to everything Foswiki does. This topic is for developers working on the core to discuss the detailed ...
CodingStandards
Perl coding standards General Principles Foswiki is a large project which, over the years, has had a lot of contributors. It is also mainly written in perl, which ...
CodingStandardsDiscussions
CodingStandardsDiscussions Regarding TWiki Coding Conventions Are we really fixated on the camel case style for function and variable names (within code)? Most Perl ...
ColasNahabooWouldLikeToCheckIn
ColasNahaboo Would Like to Check in Who am I? I am an old Unix hacker with not enough time on his hands that found in foswiki the perfect way to put and manage ...
CommittedDeveloper
Committed Developer Any ChangeProposal for new features must have a committed developer to be taken seriously. It is obvious that the developer community cannot accept ...
CommunityVote
A feature proposal has concern raised against it and a long discussion has not led to consensus. The proposal is now ready for community vote.
CompetitorLandscape
Competitor Landscape Elsewhere on the globe people are working on collaboration software. This topic keeps track of interesting developments. MojoMojo Editing with ...
CompilingTableDataIntoConfirmationEmail
CompilingTableDataIntoConfirmationEmail So somewhere you have a form which creates a table row entry with new data and then the user wants to click a link and have ...
CompletedFeatureProposals
Completed Feature Proposals Proposals that have been completed following the release process Completed Proposals (Merged to core or to default plugin) Topic ...
ConcernRaisedBy
Concern Raised By As described in the release process ANYONE can raise concern against a proposal for a new feature or change of existing feature. The concern ...
ConfigurableCookieNamesAndPaths
Feature Proposal: Make cookie paths, session cookie name configurable Motivation Over in Tasks.Item1636 those of us running multi homed Foswiki installations ...
ConfigureGuessedDirectoriesOnWin32
Feature Proposal: Foswiki guesses the paths and complains about backslashes on Win32 Motivation I think it would be better to change the paths to forward slashes ...
ConfigureScript
Feature Proposal: Configure Extension autoinstaller should remove be able to uninstall Motivation If i can install automatically, i want to be able to uninstall. ...
ConsensusReached
ChangeProposals that have reached consensus These ChangeProposals are at the stage where enough information and agreement exists to be able to start documenting and ...
ConsolidateTablesWithData
Feature Proposal: harmonize tables and data forms I see solutions like EditTable* and MultiTopicSave that are built for one or the other, but DataForms are regularly ...
ContentAccessSyntax
Content Access Syntax Introduction Legacy.TopicObjectModel, Legacy.AutomaticLinkLabelBasedOnHeading, Support.SearchingSectionsOfTheTopics, Legacy.NamedIncludeSections ...
ControlFoswikiTemporaryFileLocations
Feature Proposal: Explicitly control the storage location of temporary files used by Foswiki Motivation Tasks.Item10408 has exposed an issue caused when multiple ...
ControlOverVariableExpansion
Feature Proposal: Control over Variable Expansion Motivation We need more control over variables that should get expanded on topic creation. Use case: The "My links ...
ConvergeDateTimeFormattingModels
Converge Date and Time Formatting Models This topic was moved here by Kenneth Lavrsen because several plugins refer to it and it seems updated recently and appears ...
ConvertDatesToISO
Convert dates to ISO dates Foswiki date handling should use uniform ISO dates so that apps can filter and sort. See also: Development.AllowTypedData Problem Dates ...
CopyEditingQueue
Copy editing queue Submitting a page to be edited To submit a page to the queue, add it to the table below. If there is a related task, add a link to it in the "Task ...
CopyingToExistingTopic
Feature Proposal: Copying the topic contents from one page to an already existing page Motivation Currently, we can copy an existing topic to a new topic. However ...
CopyrightAndLicense
CopyrightAndLicense Please discuss on the discussion page. Copyright The Foswiki product is Copyright 2008 by the Foswiki project and its contributors. Please refer ...
CopyrightAndLicenseTalk
CopyrightAndLicenseTalk Assignment of copyright To make it easier to resolve any potential copyright disputes, and to simplify the task of attribution for any other ...
CoreInternals
Core Internals This page aims to describe, in geek speak, what is going on in the core internals of Foswiki, and what we hope to achieve by making these changes. This ...
CountryList
CountryList Name Andorra United Arab Emirates Afghanistan Antigua and Barbuda Anguilla Albania Armenia Netherlands Antilles ...
CpanCompatibility
CPAN Compatibility This is a starting proposal; please modify and update. Packaging and installation strategy The Foswiki project shall consist of one CPAN package ...
CrawfordCurrieWouldLikeToCheckIn
I know I already can check in, but to keep the record straight I thought I should create my justification topic. Who am I? I'm a consultant working on a variety of ...
CreateBaseSkin
Create Base Skin This is about a new base skin to build other skins upon. At the same time this is a project of refactoring current template practice. Our goals: ...
CreateHomeWebConfigVar
Feature Proposal: Create a new $TWiki::cfg{HomeWebName} configure variable Motivation This variable is needed both for symmetry with the HomeTopicName and because ...
CreateStandardTopicUpdateNotes
Feature Proposal: Create standard topic update notes Motivation When monitoring site updates, in a site changes topic, RSS or email notifications, it is often hard ...
CreoleSupport
Feature Proposal: Why wouldn't Foswiki support Creole markup ? Motivation Today, there are many more competing wiki engines than previously. Creole is an attempt ...
CronWizardFunctionalityInEachRelavantPlugin
Feature Proposal: Better Crontab documentation in each plugin Motivation Having looked at Support.CronWizard, I don't see that being a sufficient tool yet for many ...
CurrentActiveDevelopers
Get added If you want to be listed here, create a YourNameWouldLikeToCheckIn topic using this small helper RequestAccessToSubversion Current contributers and ...
CurrentState
Current State workflow A ChangeProposal's CurrentState field is used for tracking its development status. It can take the following states: Name ...
CustomNewUserTemplates
Feature Proposal: Enhance register script to specify a templatetopic param instead of hard coded 'NewUserTemplate' Motivation AddUserToGroupsOnRegistration is a great ...
CustomerAdvocates
Customer Advocates Customer advocates are members of the Foswiki community that have volunteered to monitor the FeatureProposals that are raised and evaluate them ...
CutTheCrap
Cut The Crap means cut the crap
DBIStoreContrib
DBIStoreContrib Work in progress See also Development.FoswikiTwoZero
DIsplayBrokenuserLinksBetter
Feature Proposal: Display broken user links better Motivation There should never ever be a broken link when displaying a user online. Never. Every change needs to ...
DanDascalescuWouldLikeToCheckIn
Main.DanDascalescu Would Like to Check in Who am I? I'm an open source developer interested in web applications, wikis and collaboration technologies. More can be ...
DarrylGreenWouldLikeToCheckIn
DarrylGreen Would Like to Check in Who am I? I live in Brisbane, Australia and spend way too much time at work and at home messing with computers, and cars, and bikes ...
DataFormFieldPermissions
Feature Proposal: Set permissions for DataForm fields Motivation It would be very useful, if there is a flexible and comfortable way to add permissions to DataForm ...
DataFormFieldVisibleIfNotEmpty
DataFormFieldVisibleIfNotEmpty Add additional Data Form field attribute I would like to suggest adding new Data Form field attibute (letter is for consideration, ...
DataFormInheritance
Feature Proposal: DataForm inheritance Motivation In modelling data, generalisations are common. In object oriented programming it is called subclassing, or extending ...
DatabaseStore
I've just made a semi functioning Database Store for TWiki It can create a new web stored in a DB using a file based web (ie TWiki.ManagingWebs), create and edit topics ...
DateOfCommitment
Date Of Commitment As defined in the release process the 14 day auto acceptance rule does not apply unless a proposal has one or more developers committed to implementing ...
DavidPattersonWouldLikeToCheckIn
DavidPatterson Would Like to Check in Who am I? An Operations Engineer who had the 'bad' idea to propose using a wiki at work. A few years down the line and I'm still ...
DeKiAlikeWYSIWYG
Feature Proposal: DeKi alike WYSIWYG Motivation Foswiki WYSIWYG is still very immature and unable to provide the easy interface required to %22less techee people ...
DebianRepositoryPlugin
DebianRepositoryPlugin I would be happy to receive any feedback or ideas about Extensions.DebianRepositoryPlugin. Main.AntonioTerceiro 31 Jan 2011
DebugPreferenceSettings
Feature Proposal: Add simple debugging feature for macro values Impact WhatDoesItAffect: Implementation This is checked in, but I'm quite happy to revert ...
DefineOtherMacroExpansionTypes
Feature Proposal: Define Other Macro Expansion Types Motivation WikiDrawPlugin In developing WikiDrawPlugin, I noticed that the raw TML is shown in the Changes listing ...
DelegateMoreProcessingToSearchAlgorithm
Feature Proposal: Delegate More Processing To Search Algorithm Motivation During my development of the Kino Search Algorithm in Extensions.KinoSearchContrib, it becomes ...
DeprecateAfterAttachmentSaveHandler
Feature Proposal: Deprecate afterAttachmentSaveHandler Motivation During development of Extensions.SolrPlugin I've found out that the afterAttachmentSaveHandler ...
DeprecateAllowInlineScript
Feature Proposal: Deprecate {AllowInlineScript} option in configure Motivation The option does not actually provide any real security; especially given ADDTOHEAD ...
DeprecateAutoAttach
Feature Proposal: Deprecate auto attachments, and make UpdateAttachmentsPlugin a default Motivation Auto attachments are terribly inefficient, requiring a directory ...
DeprecateContextlessURLConstructs
Feature Proposal: Deprecate Contextless URL Constructs Motivation See DeprecateContextlessURLConstructs?rev=14 for the original proposal by Main.SvenDowideit in 2008 ...
DeprecateInitUserHandler
Feature Proposal: Deprecate the initUserHandler plugin interface Motivation The preferred way to initialise users is by means of UserMapping/LoginManagers. Using ...
DeprecateSelfRunningExtensionInstaller
Feature Proposal: Deprecate the executable code in the *_installer files Motivation This code is hard coded to the relative location of the tools directory, and cannot ...
DeprecateSlashAsRef
Feature Proposal: Motivation See System.QuerySearch Using / as the REF operator in queries was a monumentally bad choice. I made the choice, but defend myslef by ...
DeprecateTinyMCEPluginInitPreference
Feature Proposal: Replace TINYMCEPLUGIN_INIT preference with topic section Motivation TINYMCEPLUGIN_INIT is unwieldy and the current implementation duplicates code ...
DeprecateUndocumentedSqBracketLinkFormat
Feature Proposal: Deprecate the undocumented space delimited Square Bracket link format Motivation There is an undocumented format for square bracket links that uses ...
DesignStudiesForNewSkin
Contents on this page are copied from WireframesViewScreen as they are more design studies than actual wireframes. Designs are just drafts by now. DesignStudiesForNewSkin ...
DeveloperDocumentation
DeveloperDocumentation Documentation used by developers, not usually of interest to non developers.
DeveloperEventsMailingList
DeveloperEventsMailingList This mailing list is used to notify developers of events that are important during development, such as checkins, unit test failures, and ...
DeveloperResponsibilities
Developer Responsibilities With every freedom comes responsibilities, and if you are able to check in you also have a responsibility to contribute to the maintenance ...
DevelopersBible
DevelopersBible This is the gateway to all documentation used day to day by developers. Read the Project Overview and follow Getting Started if you are new ...
DevelopersFeatureTestChecklist
Developers Feature Test Checklist Background When you make code changes that can affect many features it can be difficult to systematically walk through all the features ...
DevelopmentOfDevelopment
Development of Development To bring development further
DiabJeriusWouldLikeToCheckIn
DiabJerius Would Like to Check in Who am I? I'm an astrophysicist working for the Chandra X Ray observatory. I've been developing software (scientific as well as ...
DirectInteractionWithAttachments
Feature Proposal: Direct interaction with attachments Motivation For Foswiki 1.1 would like to introduce one improvement of the larger "redesigning topic interactions ...
DirectedGraphWebMapPlugin
It would be great if %WEBMAP% would default to LR rank. Would you agree? TB is only good for very deeply nested topic arrangements, and I feel that's not typically ...
DisableWikiWordsWithNumbers
Feature Proposal: Provide option to disable numbers in WikiWords Motivation Motivation described in Support.DisableWikiWordsWithNumbers Description and Documentation ...
DoWeNeedToShipClassicSkin
Do we need to ship Classic Skin? (Just before the release of TWiki 4.2) I came across this when doing translation work. A lot of lines are Classic Skin specific. This ...
DocumentationStandards
This topic is a stub; you can help Foswiki by expanding the content here to describe best practices for documentation. Documentation standards for developers For ...
DrakeDiedrichWouldLikeToCheckIn
DrakeDiedrichWouldLikeToCheckIn Who am I? A current (though mostly idle) Debian Developer and occaisional local TWiki admin at two prior jobs. Currently a system ...
DrewStevensonWouldLikeToCheckIn
DrewStevenson Would Like to Check in Who am I? Wiki Admin/Developer for the University of Minnesota What do I want? write access to SVN for the following branches ...
DublinCoreMetaData
Feature Proposal: Publishing with Dublin Core meta data in head Motivation Search engines can order relevance of data based on freshness of pages or the authors of ...
DynamicViewEditHandling
Feature Proposal: I'd like FW to dynamically decide whether an edit page is needed. Motivation The current (static) approach can cause a spurious edit session to ...
DynamicallyUpdatingDataFormProperties
Feature Proposal: Motivation I’m trying to build an app in 1.1.2 using DataForms and EditTablePlugin. (EditRowPlugin looks promising, but the extension from Foswiki ...
ENCODEnlsToBR
Feature Proposal: ENCODE newlines in a string to BR Motivation A commonly encountered problem is the case where you have a search over formfields, and you want to ...
EasierMirroringOfExtensionRepositories
Feature Proposal: Simplify building and using local extension repositories Motivation Support for local extension repositories has been around for a long time, but ...
EasierNestedSearch
Feature Proposal: Reduce $dollardollar Motivation Very hard to write nested searches, especially as they become deep Description and Documentation Allow * $(1 ...
EasyDevelopment
Feature Proposal: Fast to set up VM developer environment with Vagrant provisioning Motivation Encourage more developers in general, and hopefully core developers ...
EasyMacroPlugin
when registering through the preference variable EASYMACROS, prepend your topic with webname to allow full variable scope like in * Set EASYMACROS = System.GreetUser ...
EditChapterPluginChildSections
Feature Proposal: EditChapter should always show body of a chapter, not just a title. Motivation To provide a consistent user experience, where the editor always ...
EditorAPI
EditorAPI Motivation This is a Brainstorming topic about how to organize the javascript behind the scene to implement different editors, even mix different editors ...
EmacsCPerlMode
Emacs CPerlMode See http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi bin/wiki/CPerlMode Use the following to load cperl mode instead of perl mode: ;;; cperl mode is preferred to ...
EnableCloudStorageForAttachments
EnableCloudStorageForAttachments Extension of Attachment store to support Cloud Storage. Inspired by Main.WillNorris new Extensions.S3LinkPlugin, and the DBIStoreContrib ...
EnableDisplayOfFilesInFormattedSearch
Feature Proposal: Add something like $attachment to the format params in %SEACH Motivation This is a missing functionality. Extensions.AttachmentListPlugin allows ...
EnableWikiEditingOfSystemTopics
EnableWikiEditingOfSystemTopics Enable Wiki editing of System topics We are "the wiki that can't be edited" because of our SVN based development of the System documentation ...
EnablingIncrementalCoreUpdates
EnablingIncrementalCoreUpdates Using the Extension mechanism for small incremental Core updates We need a easier way to bring out small core updates and fixes without ...
EncryptDataInTopics
Feature Proposal: It would be great if users could add personal data to topics, viewed by their own only Motivation I have used this wiki to work, and to store information ...
EngineContribsAsCoreExtensions
Feature Proposal: Ship Extensions.FastCGIEngineContrib and Extensions.ModPerlEngineContrib as core extensions Motivation It's a very common error to configure a site ...
EnginesAsContribs
Feature Proposal: TWiki Engines distributed as Contribs Motivation Recently, FoswikiStandAloneFeature project was accepted and is about to be merged. However I thought ...
EnhanceConfigureLogging
Feature Proposal: Enhance Configure Logging Motivation Tasks.Item10616 points out that the logs of extension installation are not saved. These are valuable to ...
EnhanceInsertEditLinkDialog
Feature Proposal: It would be nice if TinyMCE's Insert/Edit link dialog had a possibility to search through all topic names Motivation Sometimes you want to insert ...
EnhanceRenderListPlugin
EnhanceRenderListPlugin Enhance RenderListPlugin In the interest of reducing code duplications I propose to incorporate the functionality of the Extensions.TreeBrowserPlugin ...
EnhancedShowPreference
Feature Proposal: A full record of all Preferences across all webs would help in site consistency Motivation The current SHOWPREFERENCE var lists the applied preferences ...
Enhancei18nArchitecture
Feature Proposal: Enable internationalisation of plugins Motivation In order to provide localized versions of plugins, a developer has to hack the local $language ...
EnriqueCadalsoWouldLikeToCheckIn
EnriqueCadalso Would Like to Check in Who am I? I have been involved in TWiki and Foswiki as a user and providing user support since more than 5 years ago. I have ...
EscapeQuotesOptionInICON
Feature Proposal: Escape quotes option in ICON Motivation Tasks.Item2181 ICON cannot be used inside a SEARCH because it uses double quotes. In Item2181 it was ...
EscapeTmlInEditor
Feature Proposal: Add a little UI to make it easier to escape TML Motivation I find that I frequently write Foswiki Markup in a text editor, and then mechanically ...
EugenMayerWouldLikeToCheckIn
EugenMayer Would Like to Check in Who am I? I guess, most of you guys know me. Bad jokes, always drinking bear at meatings :) What do I want? write access to SVN ...
EveryFoswikiARepository
EveryFoswikiARepository Every Foswiki A Repository If and when Foswiki is in CPAN, there will be a host of places to download it from. However, until then, every ...
ExcelImportExportPlugin
Ported to foswiki. There are still some warnings in the logs. Main.MichaelDaum 12 Mar 2009
ExcelImportExportPluginNoFormsFeature
Feature Proposal: It would be an improvement if the ExcelImportExportPlugin handles excel tables without having a foswiki form defined Motivation The need to define ...
ExpertOptionForCookieDomainRealm
Feature Proposal: Make the login managers cookie (domain) realm configurable. Motivation I want to share the cookie among different hosts in my company realm (*.company ...
ExplicitNumberingPlugin
This plugin is one I am often asked to install and I did install it once. But my experience with it was negative. But there is hope. The problem is that people very ...
ExportTableToCsv
Feature Proposal: Ability to export Foswiki table to CSV Motivation Allow for non technical users to export a table to csv format for use with MS Excel or other spreadsheet ...
ExtendedVariableHandling
Feature Proposal: Extended handling of variables to improve wiki database use Motivation From the point of view of some (many?) users the use of preference settings ...
ExtensionDeveloperGuide
So, you want to help Foswiki by creating an extension? Great! Here's how to get started. First, if you want to make a simple plugin using the Plugins API, read this ...
ExtensionInclude
ExtensionInclude This topic is used by extension dev pages as an introduction. Development This is the topic to discuss development of If you need support, go ...
ExtensionsAndLicensing
Plugins and License This topic describes the license that applies to Foswiki extensions. The purpose is to help new extension developers to choose the correct license ...
ExtensionsDevelopment
ExtensionsDevelopment Gateway
ExternalTracking
ExternalTracking Some parts of foswiki are derived from code that is maintained elsewhere. Here you will find pointers to these locations, and hopefully ways to monitor ...
ExtraResponseHeaderFields
Feature Proposal: Adding the script and uri to the header on a reponse help a lot when using asynchronous ajax calls Motivation To upgrade Foswiki to use a lot of ...
ExtractAndCentralizeFormattingRefactor
Feature Proposal: Refactor format rendering to use ResultSets (adds paging, consistency and speed) Motivation We've known for a long time that we need to add scalable ...
FSAPluginHooks
Feature Proposal: Plugin hooks to take advantage of Foswiki Stand Alone Motivation Foswiki Stand Alone architecture makes it possible to have persistent execution ...
FallBackToTopicWhenTrailingSpaceAndNoSuchSubweb
Feature Proposal: Fallback To Topic When URL has Trailing Space And No Subweb exists but topic does Motivation Help the user that typed a traling / but really just ...
FastCGI
FastCGI is a language independent, scalable, open extension to CGI that provides high performance without the limitations of server specific APIs. http://www.fastcgi ...
FasterAccessToCreatorData
Feature Proposal: Store creator and create date in metadata to improve performance Motivation Copied from Tasks.Item9332 SEARCH is happy to return $creator and ...
FavioFlamingoWouldLikeToCheckIn
FavioFlamingo Would Like to Check in Who am I? I am a developer. I am working on an SQL database backend that I would like to share with people. What do I want? ...
FeatureProposals
Feature Proposals See ReleaseProcess. New feature proposals will by nature be for the first Foswiki release. When you add a proposal you must create a new topic describing ...
FeatureProposalsByRelease
FeatureProposalsByRelease Release Topic Summary Developer Current State %SEARCH{ "form.name='ChangeProposalForm'" casesensitive="on" type="query ...
FeatureRequest
Feature Requests Process * The feature proposal process flow is described in the release process * We have a special 14 days rule which is good to be familiar ...
FeatureRequestTopicTemplate
%NOP{ * Note: Do not edit this topic, file a new request in FeatureRequest * #Set ALLOWTOPICCHANGE = Main.MaintainGroup }% !! Feature Proposal: Motivation Description ...
FeaturesOfSEARCH
Collection of SEARCH feature proposals, to help in refactoring.
FinerControlOverPluginsOrder
Feature Proposal: Need better mechanism than {PluginsOrder} to control plugin execution order Motivation Sometimes plugins have dependencies on other plugins, or ...
FixDelete
Feature Proposal: Fix brain dead delete Motivation It has always been a pain in the ass that TWiki supported "delete" with a move to the Trash web. I guess this implementation ...
FixRename
FixRename Renaming should be much easier In other wikis (e.g. Confluence), renaming a page is done on the same page as editing it. It's as simple as clicking on the ...
FlorianSchlichtingWouldLikeToCheckIn
FlorianSchlichting Would Like to Check in Who am I? I'm 35, I live in Berlin, Germany with my wife and two kids. I studied anthropology, economics and computer science ...
FlotForJQuery
Flot, a Javascript plotting library for jQuery http://code.google.com/p/flot/ See the examples, especially the highly interactive zooming with overview. Contributors ...
FormPluginTopicDefnition
Feature Proposal: It would be nice to be able to set the topic using form data variable substitution Motivation In a FormPlugin form which creates new topics I currently ...
FormaliseJavascriptLibraries
Formalise JS libraries in Foswiki JQueryPlugin provides a good model already: This goes off and processes something called "foo", which will use ADDTOHEAD/ZONE to ...
FormaliseMacroSpecification
Formalise a specification for a macro's arguments, among other things Prompted by WIBNIF thoughts over the last 6 months and then seeing that XWiki seems to have already ...
FormallySupportMultipleExtensionVersions
Feature Proposal: Formally support multiple extension versions This proposal is being split into 3 separate proposals: * This proposal Support versions of plugins ...
FoswikiArchitecture
FoswikiArchitecture System Architecture First Shot: Please feel free to comment, redraw, etc. Foswiki_Architecture.ppt This looks as if setting up Foswiki is very ...
FoswikiAtWork
Foswiki At Work This is a kick start topic for a book, working title "Foswiki at Work". The book will be written online, collaboratively, and will be made available ...
FoswikiBookProposal
Feature Proposal: A community written book Motivation I run a Foswiki installation here at work but I do find it difficult to provide a simple yet consise overview ...
FoswikiBot
What is FoswikiBot? FoswikiBot is an IRC bot for the #foswiki IRC channel. The bot used to be a Mozbot with a few custom modules. As of 12th of June 2011, it has been ...
FoswikiBotRss
web /view/Development The Developers Forum of Foswiki. Foswiki is an Enterprise Collaboration Platform. en us The contributing authors of Foswiki ...
FoswikiCache
FoswikiCache See also blog entries: Caching for Foswiki Part I and Part II Discuss at FoswikiCacheTalk. Previous work There have been a couple of attempts to implement ...
FoswikiCacheTalk
FoswikiCacheTalk Good idea not sure that the all encompassing term 'TWiki cache' should be used for this though, as it could easily be confused with the many types ...
FoswikiCodingConventions
FoswikiCodingConventions DEVELOPERS, FEEL FREE TO ADD TO THIS DOCUMENT Foswiki is a large and complex system, combining contributions from many different individuals ...
FoswikiDOM
I want a Foswiki::DOM! Why From https://github.com/csirac2/core/blob/dom/lib/Foswiki/DOM.pm The mission is to present a tree of Foswiki::DOM::Node objects from some ...
FoswikiFarms
FoswikiFarms Foswiki Farms I really, really want out of the box support for Foswiki Farms, both managed and user initiated. IMHO, that would be a best of breed feature ...
FoswikiForNormalUsers
FoswikiForNormalUsers This is an implementation of Carlo's design aka T*ForNormalUsers. Michael has been working on cssing it for NatSkin. Note, that there are still ...
FoswikiMicroBlogging
FoswikiMicroBlogging Foswiki Micro blogging Foswiki is a great platform for communications, both legacy and ongoing status updates, but the foswiki community is generally ...
FoswikiOnAStick
FoswikiOnAStick Foswiki on a USB stick using Strawberry Perl and I am working on building a hyperfast test, demo and personal use Foswiki. Initially it will be ...
FoswikiOrgShouldUseSSL
Feature Proposal: foswiki.org should implement SSL Motivation Logins on foswiki.org transmit passwords in the clear. This is so very 1990s : ) It would improve the ...
FoswikiRedirectCache
FoswikiRedirectCache Design and Operation of Foswiki Redirect Cache There is some confusion on how the Foswiki Redirect Cache is supposed to work. This topic currently ...
FoswikiSettingsWizard
Feature Proposal: Foswiki Settings Wizard Motivation There are alot of customisations that are possible, and hand editing three space star spaceSet elements is more ...
FoswikiStandAlone
Foswiki Stand Alone Introduction There are many ways to run web applications, including CGI, mod_perl (for Perl apps), and FastCGI. Each of them has its strengths ...
FoswikiStandAloneFeature
Feature Proposal: Foswiki as a Standalone Server Please migrate information from this page to the FoswikiStandAlone page to make it easier for developers to learn ...
FoswikiStandardVirtualMachines
FoswikiStandardVirtualMachines Foswiki Standard Virtual Machines IMHO, using standardized VM's for development and testing would be a good idea (if you all are not ...
FoswikiToXmlMetsTransition
Add XML based Storeage and query backend Motivation and a bit of theory Even if FW is not an OAIS (don't confuse with OASIS) conformant archiving tool, we already ...
FoswikiTwoZero
Developers, add your list of things you want to get into Foswiki 2.0 below. This is not a wish list of things other people should do. It's a statement of what you ...
FoswikiUserPersonas
Foswiki User Personas Persona descriptions to provide context to improve user workflows. Lena, end user (advanced) Context Lena is project manager at 'collaborative ...
FreezeRevisionNumberingScheme
Feature Proposal: Cast in stone the topic revision numbering scheme used by the RCS based stores Motivation All users are used to the existing 1..N sequential topic ...
FuncMoveTopicIgnorePermissions
Feature Proposal: It would be great if moveTopic would have an ignorepermissions option Motivation I would like to use moveTopic in a WorkflowPlugin to fork a topic ...
GSoCMentors
GSoCMentors If you are prepared to help mentor Google Summer of Code students in 2010, please add your name to the following list, with brief details of why you'd ...
GSoCStudentApplication
Google Summer of Code Student Application You must register on this site first (you will need a valid email address), then complete the following form (E mail to ...
GSoCStudentApplicationForm
Name Type Size Value Tooltip Attributes UserName text 80 Your wiki user name H
GSoCStudentApplicationTemplateTopic
Education Prior open source contributions What other FOSS projects have you contributed to? Can you link to your contributions? Interests What are your main software ...
GatewayTopic
GatewayTopic Topics that are used to group related topics
GatewayTopicSearch
Gateway Topic Search This is the search used by the Gateway Topics Topic name: Use a name in .WikiNotation. Recently ...
GenPDFAddOn
Feedback copied from Tasks.Item1174 Here are few things from my wish list: * GENPDF{"Web.Topic.Section"} Create a link for the named section of a topic. Link ...
GeneralSortingMechanism
Feature Proposal: add Sort::Maker as general sorting helper Motivation Currently: * Each module and plugin has its own sort functions * Lists are often not ...
GeneralisedCHARTdefinition
Feature Proposal: create a generalised CHART Var definition that several ChartPlugins can re use Motivation There are many many Chart generation tools mentioned here ...
GeorgeClarkWouldLikeToCheckIn
GeorgeClark Would Like to Check in Who am I? I'm a data network engineer, and run a couple of TWiki sites both for my own personal use, and for my employeer. I've ...
GettingStarted
Help on getting started as a developer Developers don't just write code. Translators are also developers, as are documentation authors, skin designers anyone who ...
GilmarSantosJrWouldLikeToCheckIn
GilmarSantosJr Would Like to Check in Who am I? I'm a system manager at Universidade Federal da Bahia. I love programming and I work with Perl since early 2005. As ...
GitAndGithub
GitAndGithub What's github Github is a social networking site for developers, using git. How to configure We made a generic user account for github called foswiki ...
GitAndPseudoInstall
git and pseudo install.pl Notes * When you try to pseudo install a missing module, pseudo install tries to clone it from the list of configured git repositories ...
GitCookbook
GitCookbook rebase Rebase is one of the most powerful feature of git, and probably most dangerous one too. As it rewrites history, you have to ensure the history ...
GoIsSearch
Overview To provide a single unified box which "does the right thing" in handling what is currently done with (a) the go box, (b) the search page and several search ...
GoUptoTocPlugin
Hi Eugen, when using it with Foswiki 1.0.0 it works fine as long as I am not logged in. After I logged in Firefox doesn't show the appended character and IE shows ...
GoogleAnalyticsPlugin
ported to Foswiki in Tasks.Item1142 , including updating to the ga.us script instead of urchin.js Main.WillNorris 25 Feb 2009 Just a minor issue ... The version ...
GoogleDocsIntegration
GoogleDocsIntegration How to integrate the power of Google Docs for Foswiki Do you see a way how we could use the applications within Google Docs with Foswiki? They ...
GrandUnifiedSearchAPITwoZero
Feature Proposal: Bring together the SEARCH visions Motivation There are really way too many FeatureRequests for small parts of TOM and QUERY functionality that will ...
GroupFunctionalityForCollaboration
Turn groups into collaboration units In Foswiki the concept of groups is much around access control. Browse through the documentation and you'll hardly find other ...
GroupPermissionsForFilterPlugin
Feature Proposal: Extend FilterPlugin with group permissions Motivation Imagine you want to clip a specific text section from the view but only for a specific wiki ...
GuentherFischerWouldLikeToCheckIn
GuentherFischer Would Like to Check in Who am I? I'm responsible for networking at the Technical University in Chemnitz/Germany and I have 8 colleagues in my team ...
GuidelinesForRecognisingSponsorsOnExtensionTopics
Guidelines for sponsor presence in extension topics This topic is comprised of guidelines for recognising sponsors on extensions such plugins and skins. A general ...
GuidelinesForSecureExtensions
Guidelines for Writing Secure Extensions A collection of guidelines on how to write secure extensions to Foswiki. Organization of scripts, data code * Client ...
GuidelinesForTWikiCompatibleDevelopment
GuidelinesForTWikiCompatibleDevelopment Licensing issues Compatibility of licenses Presently both TWiki and Foswiki are licensed under GPLv2 or later. Any contributions ...
GuidelinesForTWikiExtensionTransformation
Guidelines for moving TWiki extensions to Foswiki Migration from TWiki to Foswiki Foswiki and TWiki share a common heritage, and with the help of the Extensions ...
HarlanStennWouldLikeToCheckIn
HarlanStenn Would Like to Check in Who am I? I've been using both TWiki and Foswiki for a while. What do I want? write access to SVN for the following branches: ...
HenrikRuscheWouldLikeToCheckIn
HenrikRusche Would Like to Check in Who am I? Henrik Rusche * PhD at Imperial College: Multiphase Flow using OpenFOAM * 6 years at Volkswagen Research, Project ...
HereDocumentSyntaxForMacros
Feature Proposal: here document syntax for macros Motivation Need to break the parameter blockage Description Support here document syntax for macro parameter values ...
HideIrrelevantConfigureOptions
Feature Proposal: Configure has too many options, and often they are irrelevant Motivation Cut down on the noise in configure Description and Documentation WIBNIF ...
HierarchicalOrTreeSearches
HierarchicalOrTreeSearches Headline It's a common feature of databases to have tables with a parent child relationship. We can create these with nested searches but ...
HomepageRedesignDraftText
Homepage redesign: draft text 6 reasons why teams are choosing Foswiki Foster teamwork: Empower your team Write pages jointly with team members, directly in the ...
HomepageRedesignTalks
Homepage redesign discussion page We are now in de luxury position to discuss 2 proposals for the new design: 1 Sandbox.CarloSchulzSandbox by Carlo 1 Sandbox ...
HowToAddRESTAndMacroHandlersToContribs
HowToAddRESTAndMacroHandlersToContribs The Foswiki plugins architecture allows you to hook into the Foswiki flows at a very deep level. To support this, plugins are ...
HowToAddressNonMETAmetadata
HowToAddressNonMETAmetadata There are a couple of "things" in Foswiki topics that are really meta data well, they are processed that way, though they appear in text ...
HowToBeAGoodExtensionDeveloper
HowToBeAGoodExtensionDeveloper Bad behaviour is: 1 abandoning extensions (not maintaining them) 1 not listening to your user base 1 ignoring or even rejecting ...
HowToCreateALocalExtensionRepository
HowToCreateALocalExtensionRepository Prepare a web for the private repository * Designate a web on your private site for storage of extensions. This could be Extensions ...
HowToDeleteUserAccount
This should go into the docs: To remove a user: 1 Edit the data/.htpasswd file to delete their entry 1 Remove their topic files: data/Main/FredQuimby.txt and ...
HowToIntegrateWithRequestValidation
How to integrate with request validation (strikeone) The process of request validation is described in outline in the support article on security features. This article ...
HowToMakeSimplePlugin
How to make a simple Foswiki Plugin Introduction This topic is written for the absolute beginner that would like to write a simple plugin for Foswiki that implements ...
HowToStartExtensionDevelopmentInSubversion
How to start extension development in Subversion What is Subversion? "Subversion is a free/open source version control system. That is, Subversion manages files ...
HowToUseGit
HowToUseGit Here you will find details on how to use git for Foswiki development. You are assumed to know what git is, and what it's for, and you are expected to know ...
HowToWriteBetterCopy
Style guide for writing better copy Everyone at some point needs to write copy (text): documentation, a proposal, or answers to support questions. This topic provides ...
HtmlAttributesShouldUseSingleQuotes
Feature Proposal: HTML attributes should use single quotes Motivation If you use a macro or a piece of template code and use that string inside another macro, chances ...
HtmlPrototypeOfNewSkin
In order to give us something to play with and to better understand what we are trying to achieve, I've created an HTML prototype based on the efforts of RethinkingTopicInteraction ...
I18N
I18N is a numeronym for the word "Internationaisation"
IanBygraveWouldLikeToCheckIn
IanBygrave Would Like to Check in Who am I? I am an admin and maintainer of a 5 year old intranet twiki. I am the author of 3 plugins: * TWiki:Plugins.FootNotePlugin ...
ImmediateNotifyPlugin
Should we merge features of several plugins that appear to provide similar / overlapping functions: * Extensions.NotificationPlugin, * Configured per user ...
ImplementedAsExtension
ChangeProposals that are in state ImplementedAsExtension These ChangeProposals were implemented as an optional extension.
ImplementingLinkProposals
Implementing link proposals Gathering thoughts before tackling a re work of link handling in Foswiki * AddFoswikiFuncWikifyWebTopicName ( Tasks.Item11356 ) ...
ImproveAttachmentHandling
Feature Proposal: Improve attachment handling See also: Legacy.SharePointVsTWiki. Related: Document Management System, DMS Foswiki's current attachment display is ...
ImproveAttachmentToTrashFlow
Feature Proposal: Improve attachment to Trash flow When a attachment is deleted is is put by default into Trash.TrashAttachment. This causes problems if many users ...
ImproveExtensionBackupProcess
Feature Proposal: extender.pl should create a backup archive for extensions. Motivation * The current strategy of renaming files to the .bak suffix scatters backup ...
ImproveHtPaswdUserFlexibility
Feature Proposal: Support multiple password encodings for existing users. Motivation We have no easy way to migrate between password encodings, and our current default ...
ImprovePageLoadTime
Feature Proposal: Improve Page Load Time Motivation Currently, all CSS and JS content (inline and files) are added to a page using ADDTOHEAD. This however is not ...
ImproveSearchResultsList
Feature Proposal: Improve the readability of search results Motivation This would make it much easier to evaluate search results and find the right wiki topic you ...
ImproveSecurityOfTemplateAuth
Feature Proposal: Use Javascript to avoid passing the password in the clear. Motivation Clearly the best solution for login security is to use SSL, however it can ...
ImproveStatisticsHandlingForMissingTopics
Feature Proposal: Add option to allow statistics script to auto create missing topics Motivation Currently we have to ship a dummy WebStatistics topic with each release ...
ImproveSupportForDatabaseSearches
Feature Proposal: Next steps in improving the data store abstraction and search support Motivation Searching is the major bottleneck for any large wiki application ...
ImproveTranslationTools
ImproveTranslationTools Translate from within Foswiki views A huge improvement would be a direct translation of strings within normal Foswiki views. For example if ...
ImproveVirtualHostSupportInApacheConfigGenerator
Feature Proposal: Motivation Several people have asked to be able to support different virtual hosts using the same core codebase. There is an existing solution, ...
ImproveWebSearchPages
Feature Proposal: Integrate WebSearch, WebSearchAdvanced, Alphabetical search and SearchHelp Motivation With the advances of Sven's paginated search we have a nice ...
ImprovedRESTSupport
Feature Proposal: Enhanced REST Support Motivation The current REST support has three major shortcommings: * It is quite restrictive in what it allows, with its ...
ImprovingPerformanceUsingCaching
ImprovingPerformanceUsingCaching "How to prevent doing the same thing twice." or "Look, mummy, it has found the same hardware once again while booting." This is a ...
InGMTIMESupportTwoDigitWeek
Feature Proposal: Suggestion for true two digit week format in GMTIME Motivation For generation of automatic up to date links referring to weeks, such as Project2010Week02 ...
IngoKapplerWouldLikeToCheckIn
IngoKappler Would Like to Check in Who am I? Working in the Telcom IT industry, so far mainly busy with delivering our products to the customers by doing intallation ...
IngoWolfWouldLikeToCheckIn
IngoWolf Would Like to Check in Who am I? Hi I am Ingo Wolf, 33 years old from Germany Last years I worked in IT with managing development projects Currently I´m ...
InheritWikiLinksTopics
Feature Proposal: Allow a hierarchy of System.InterWikis topics Motivation Presently interwiki links must be configured in one topic. While it is possible to change ...
InlineTopicContentAsMeta
Feature Proposal: Inline topic content should be addressable as metadata Motivation At work we have a lot of existing topics, and yet to be copy pasted documents ...
InstallNatSkinAndWidgetsSkinOnFoswikiDotOrg
Feature Proposal: Install Extensions.NatSkin and Extensions.WidgetsSkin on foswiki.org Motivation foswiki.org to provide all commonly installed skins Extensions.NatSkin ...
InteractionPatternsForEdit
Interaction patterns for Edit Research which interaction is best suited for the Edit action. The intention is to list a limited set of ideal interactions that can ...
InterestedParties
Interested Parties This field is used to identify interested parties for a topic. The following search will show all the topic that are of interest to the logged ...
InterfacingWithValidationMethods
Feature Proposal: Strikeone and friends need a cleaner API Motivation There needs to be a cleaner API to enable applications to POST to our /bin/scripts. Examples ...
InternationalisationGuidelines
Internationalisation guidelines This document is targeted at developers (core code, plugin code and user interface developers). If you are looking for instructions ...
IntroduceForceDefaultUrlHostToggle
Feature Proposal: Sometimes its necessary to force the hostname set in {DefaultUrlHost}. Motivation I want to run Foswiki behind a reverse proxy, which translates ...
InvestigatedFeatureProposals
Feature Proposals under Investigation Proposals that are under investigation and don't yet fulfil the basic criteria in the release process mainly * Proposals must ...
IsaacLinWouldLikeToCheckIn
IsaacLin Would Like to Check in Who am I? At present, I work as a software developer/architect. My TWiki experience comes from helping to administer a TWiki installation ...
ItaloValcyWouldLikeToCheckIn
ItaloValcy Would Like to Check in Who am I? I'm a student of Computing Science at DCC/UFBA Brazil where I also work as sysadmin of the academic network, using only ...
JQFullCalendarPlugin
Just wanted to say that I have developed a FullCalendarPlugin which I will be releasing after the Easter break. It uses the jQuery FullCalendar Plugin (thanks Adam ...
JQueryLibPlugin
JQueryLibPlugin Development page for Extensions.JQueryLibPlugin Motivations I decided working on JQueryLibPlugin as at the time JQueryPlugin was not ported to Foswiki ...
JavascriptCodingStandards
Javascript Coding Standards * See UsingJQueryWithFoswiki#CodingStandards * Foswiki generally contains the source code in foo.uncompressed.js, and the minified ...
JayenAsharWouldLikeToCheckIn
JayenAshar Would Like to Check in Who am I? University student. SysAdmin. What do I want? write access to SVN for the following branches: wikiplugins What can I ...
JiraPlugin
I am about to start writing a JiraPlugin with the current loose spec: Replace == with a small HTML snippet with BUG 1234, the Jira type and Jira workflow status icons ...
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JoelDeJesus Would Like to Check in Who am I? I am Joel DeJesus and I am an English teacher living in Tokyo, Japan. I would like to use the software in educational ...
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JonathanManning Would Like to Check in Who am I? A bioinformaticist working at the University of Edinburgh, interested in the use of wikis based on Foswiki to create ...
KennethLavrsenWouldLikeToCheckIn
Who am I? * I am the guy that keep on raising bug. * I am the guy that keep on reopening discarded bugs * I am the guy that reminds you of a pitbull because ...
KinoSearchContrib
Installation examples: (just put them as you want below, and we will format it nicely and maybe merge some with the plugin documentation) Installation on debian lenny ...
KinoSearchThroughTagMeTags
Feature Proposal: It would be really nice if KinoSearch could go through the tags created with TagMe plugin Motivation To select right content user may search for ...
KipLublinerWouldLikeToCheckIn
KipLubliner Would Like to Check in Who am I? I have been quite enthusiastic about Wikis in general since I was a student. I actually first came across T(m)wiki in ...
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KoenMartens Would Like to Check in Who am I? Hi, my name is Koen and i've been working on a perl based structured wiki for about 3 years, at which point i abandoned ...
LanguageUsageGuide
LanguageUsageGuide This document provides guidance on language usage in Foswiki product documentation. For a mapping of older terms to new ones introduced by the Foswiki ...
LargeSiteAclPerformance
Discussion: Problem with ACL Performance At large Sites Motivation Low performance at large legacy sites with mandatory ACLs can be a showstopper for upgrade from ...
LarsEikWouldLikeToCheckIn
LarsEik Would Like to Check in Who am I? Been a lurker long time. Known and used T* for a couple of years. Know some Perl, enough so that I could make a little script ...
LeadNewInstallersToConfigure
Feature Proposal: redirect to configure unless when there is no configuration Motivation simplify the initial setup of a foswiki by making all functioning script ...
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LeilaPearson Would Like to Check in Who am I? I'm an Electrical Engineer who has been working primarily as an embedded software developer, development manager, and ...
LetPluginsDisableOtherPlugins
Feature Proposal: Plugins should be able to control which other plugins are enabled Motivation Plugins that export topics (e.g. Extensions.PublishPlugin) should be ...
LightboxPlugin
Can this be obseleted with the JQueryPlugin's lightbox plugin? Main.WillNorris 16 Feb 2010
LimitCreationOfSubWebs
Feature Proposal: Limit the creation of sub webs separately Motivation We would like to get tighter control over who is allowed to create subwebs. Allowing it to ...
LinksInPreview
Feature Proposal: Enable links in edit previews Motivation It's useful to see where a link would point to while previewing a page. Let's add a target=_blank attribute ...
ListFormatViewAndEditTemplate
Feature Proposal: Implement dynamic views for topic lists Motivation We have a way to view and edit individual topics using the TEMPLATEs, but what we are missing ...
LoadDifferentTopicVersions
Feature Proposal: Unifying syntax for addressing specific topic versions Motivation For the background and context, see QueryAcrossTopicRevisions. A standard "topic ...
LynnwoodBrownWouldLikeToCheckIn
LynnwoodBrown Would Like to Check in Who am I? I've been using Foswiki (and it's precursor, what's it's name) since 2001 and have been involved it the development ...
MIMETypeForWikiSyntax
Brainstorming Media Types for T/Foswiki TML WikiText Motivation Having a media type for Foswiki TML markup is useful: * ... if we wanted to allow HTTP Content ...
MacOSXFilesystemEncodingWithI18N
Bug: TWiki on Mac OS X server with Legacy.I18N generates odd looking file names Legacy.InternationalisationEnhancements tested with Mac OS X generate odd looking file ...
MacroForRetrievingFieldDefaultValues
Feature Proposal: We need to centralise into core the means to retrieve field default values Motivation In Extensions.MultiTopicSavePlugin you can edit the data forms ...
MacroSyntaxSpecification
.Macros should observe the following syntax: macro ::= '%' macro_name argList '%' ; argList ::= '{' args '}' ; args ::= cheat_args ...
MailInContribAdditionalEmailSendTo
Feature Proposal: Currently if set to "reply" on error, just the email originator is sent an email message with the error. It would be good to nominate a "CC" email ...
MailerContribShouldOptionallyExcludeCertainAuthors
Feature Proposal: MailerContrib should not notify on changes by certain authors (incl. $MYSELF) Motivation As mentioned in Item1137 its very annoying to get notified ...
MakeFoswikiPSGIConformant
MakeFoswikiPSGIConformant Previous conversation available at rev 11 At Community.FoswikiCamp2011, I made a start at converting Foswiki to PSGI. This will give us the ...
MakeREMOTEUSERaWikiWord
Feature Proposal: Make Sure Wikiname Is WikiWord With OpenLDAP Authentication REMOTE_USER Motivation I have a OpenLDAP working fine and the foswiki authentication ...
MakeSEARCHResultPartitioningByWebOptional
Feature Proposal: SEARCH rendering is always partitioned by web this is limiting Motivation Foswiki has always separated the SEARCH results by web. This causes ...
MakeStartPageCOnfigurable
Feature Proposal: Why isn't the start page configurable? Motivation For years I have wondered why the start page is not easily configurable. I'm not the only one ...
MakeTextWebFrameworks
MakeTextWebFrameworks Web based translation tools Pootle * Project: http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/pootle/index * Demo: http://pootle.locamotion.org ...
MakeUserRegistrationAsLeanAsPossible
Feature Proposal: Make UserRegistration as lean as possible Motivation Spin off from MakeUserRegistrationCustomizable. Claims made: * Main.KennethLavrsen: "If ...
MakeUserRegistrationCustomizable
Feature Proposal: Make UserRegistration customizable Motivation Any change to the UserRegistration topic is wiped out by an upgrade. It would be easier if this topic ...
MakeWEBFORMSMoreUsable
Feature Proposal: the WEBFORMS preference is a PITA Motivation I want to ship wiki applications that can be "unwrapped" in an existing web, but the need to edit WebPreferences ...
MakeZonesLessIntrusive
Feature Proposal: Make zones less intrusive, especially for non HTML output Motivation 1 It's impossible to emit custom HTML without contamination from unwanted ...
MakingExtensionsUpgradeSafe
Making extensions upgrade safe Core code already has a strong review policy, and an explicitly review period in which many eyes help avoiding non backwards compatible ...
MakingVarVARTopicCapable
Making %VAR capable of seeing VAR values on Topics, as well as on Webs. Presently VAR{} is only useful at the web level, for querying what has been set in WebPreferences ...
ManagingApplications
Feature Proposal: Provide the means to manage Foswiki applications Motivation Wiki Applications are the reason that structured data makes such a difference in Foswiki ...
MarcelPartapWouldLikeToCheckIn
MarcelPartap Would Like to Check in Who am I? Hi, for the company http://www.nuance.com Nuance Communications Inc. i am administering the internal Wiki server ...
MarkSchumannWouldLikeToCheckIn
MarkSchumann Would Like to Check in Who am I? Hello there. I'm Mark W. Schumann, an I.T. consultant from Cleveland, Ohio USA right across the lake from Canada. I ...
MarkoRintamakiWouldLikeToCheckIn
MarkoRintamaki Would Like to Check in Who am I? Hi! I am Marko "NarsuMan" Rintamäki. I have been using T and FOSWIKI about ~5 years. Here you can find some linked ...
MarkusUeberallWouldLikeToCheckIn
Who am I? I've been working as research assistant (for two years) and, following that, as consultant/programmer in the financial services sector (for over three years ...
MartinCleaverWouldLikeToCheckIn
MartinCleaver Would Like to Check in Who am I? I have been a TWiki developer since 2001, In the core I rewrote registration and added features like the TWiki.InstalledPlugins ...
MartinRaabeWouldLikeToCheckIn
MartinRaabe Would Like to Check in Who am I? I am a programmer since 1978 and I am at home in the embedded world. Since development for this area is done in a team ...
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MartinSeibert Would Like to Check in Who am I? My name is Martin Seibert. I am CEO of a German web agency. See my profile at Main.MartinSeibert to get to know more ...
MassDeleteofSelectedTopics
Feature Proposal: When a significant number of (non related) topics need deletion, it would be good to select them in a UI and process all on a single button click ...
MatthiasWientapperWouldLikeToCheckIn
MatthiasWientapper Would Like to Check in Who am I? T Fos Wiki user since 2001. Using, promoting wiki in corporate environments (admin, wiki champion and advisor ...
MediaWikiTablePlugin
Michael, Further to my comments on Tasks.Item1099 I installed the plugin and tried it against the Bounded Table. It does it all, because one can add class= to ...
MenuItemsForTopicInteraction
Wording Definitions of Menu Items used for Topic Interaction WORK IN PROGRESS! Please help shaping the best possible wording by adding comments, thoughts or correcting ...
MergeWYSIWYGEditors
Feature Proposal: Integrate improvements from Rich Text Editor from VM in Standard (CVS) Motivation Improvement of the Rich Text Editor and the raw editor in the ...
MergedToCore
ChangeProposals that have made it into a Release These ChangeProposals are in a previous release, or will be in the next major release!
MergingInSubversion
Hints and Topic for Merging Between Branches #TheBasics How can I find out the basics of merging? Read the official Subversion Manual which is well written and easy ...
MichaelDaumWouldLikeToCheckIn
MichaelDaum Would Like to Check in Who am I? I am a full time TWiki/Foswiki consultant having written tons of plugins, skins and wiki applications. I am working on ...
MichaelMcGuireWouldLikeToCheckIn
MichaelMcGuire Would Like to Check in Who am I? Automation expert inside a pharma software's documentation team. Loved Perl for years, but just started looking int ...
MichaelMellWouldLikeToCheckIn
MichaelMell Would Like to Check in Who am I? Hi! My name is Michael Mell. I am currently a PhD student at the University of Madrid, where I am working in the field ...
MichaelTempestWouldLikeToCheckIn
MichaelTempest Would Like to Check in Who am I? I am married, with three kids. I am a software engineer working on embedded systems. I introduced wiki into the company ...
MicrosoftWord
MicrosoftWord In case you don't know anything about Microsoft Word click here.
ModPerl
Background mod_perl is an Apache module that greatly speeds up Perl CGI applications by pre loading the Perl interpreter and compiling Perl scripts only once it ...
ModPerlStartupScript
Feature Proposal: Ship mod_perl_startup.pl suggested by TWiki.ApacheConfigGenerator to improve efficiency. Motivation The TWiki.ApacheConfigGenerator suggests that ...
ModelViewController
ModelViewController Model View Controller (MVC) is a well known software architecture pattern, used in many web applications. I thought it would be interesting to ...
MongoDBNotes
Life with MongoDBPlugin Notes for living with MongoDBPlugin Building the CPAN driver without cpan Installing with cpan tool is convenient, but we usually try to use ...
MongoDBPlugin
Preliminary reading The official mongo documentation is quite good, but a little sparse for examples of setting up shards that consist of replica sets. Useful links ...
MoreAttractiveForm
Feature Proposal: Render form with more attractive appearance Motivation The current form has the name of the form prominently rendered at the very top, both in editing ...
MoveCodeRepositoryToGit
Feature Proposal: migrate from Subversion to git Motivation Subversion seems to be annoying a high proportion of our contributors, and many of them are going through ...
MoveFoswikiCodeIntoCPAN
Feature Proposal: migrate foswiki into CPAN Motivation This project is moving towards implementing some of the perl best practices, one that we're missing is to have ...
MoveLogsToWorking
Feature Proposal: Move logs to 'working' It has always annoyed the tits off me that logs are stored in data by default. It's so the wrong place for log data. The proposal ...
MoveMultipleAttachmentsAtOnce
Move multiple attachments at once When refactoring a piece of text to another topic, and that text has more than one attachments included (for example illustrations ...
MoveSECTIONsToFoswikiMeta
Feature Proposal: Add an API for INCLUDE sections to Foswiki::Meta Motivation Plugin authors would like to work with topic sections more easily. In addition, there ...
MoveToJQuery
Move to jQuery Foswiki's current javascript has been refactored and unit tested. But it will never be as up to date as other libraries. We should invest our development ...
MultiStoreRefactor
Feature Proposal: Refactor the Store to allow multiple plugable backends Motivation To provide the infrastructure for DatabaseStore. TWiki topics will continue to ...
MyqLarsonWouldLikeToCheckIn
MyqLarson Would Like to Check in Who am I? Just a Foswiki user What do I want? write access to SVN for the following branches: Core wikiplugins What can I do? Find ...
NatSkin
* pseudo nat: svn installs are a pain to pseudo install all nat dependencies. Little script that does it for you. There is lots of great development going on. I just ...
NatSkinDev
NatSkinDev Discussion If you want to change the behavior of your Nat editor you can take a look at jquery.natedit.js. The jquery.natedit object is created from editjavascript ...
NativeLinuxPackageFormats
NativeLinuxPackageFormats Native Linux Package Formats My impression is that 90% of the Linux world uses .deb or .rpm for packages, so it would be good if Foswiki ...
NeedBetterWayToControlBots
NeedBetterWayToControlBots How can we better control bot scans Looking at the Foswiki.org logs, it appears that the various indexing bots, especially Bing, are generating ...
NerdoMeter
Nerdometer An tool to measure the nerd factor. 0 is the ideal. No trace of nerdiness. And 10 is an absolute disaster. This Nerdometer and its nerd factor is meant ...
NewFeatureProposals
New Feature Proposals Proposals that have a committed owner (the ones without a committed developer are not covered by the formal release process and 14 days rule ...
NewLayoutForMoreScreen
Feature Proposal: New Layout for More Screen Motivation The current More screen has grown over time and had become more and more cluttered. While there is sense in ...
NewUserPlugin
Hope I set the page up right... The Extensions.NewUserPlugin page says This plugin comes with an example template, NewLdapUserTemplate? But it doesn't show up. Oh ...
NicolasWrobelWouldLikeToCheckIn
NicolasWrobel Would Like to Check in Who am I? 32 male german living near Zurich. Softwareengineer. Want to know all http://www.wrobel.ch/twiki/bin/view.pl/Public ...
NoCommittedDeveloper
ChangeProposals that have no committed developer
NoRCSForBinaryAttachments
Feature Proposal: Allow disabling of RCS control for binary attachments Motivation RCS is primarily a text based tool, while it supports binary files it makes no ...
NormaliseRegexSyntax
Feature Proposal: Agree on a minimum syntax for regexes Motivation Since time began, Foswiki has been forced to "support" two different regular expression syntaxes ...
NotesOnJavaApplets
Notes on Java Applets and AJAX Down and Dirty Developer Documentation I compiled the following notes while working on the Extensions.JHotDrawPlugin. I wanted to be ...
NumbersAsUpperCase
Feature Proposal: Allow numbers to be treated as uppercase instead of lowercase in WikiWords Motivation User experience is always subjective, but to me numbers simply ...
OfficeConnector
Feature Proposal: Provide an Office Connector like in Confluence Motivation * Integrate employees that find Foswiki and wikis in general too technical. * Help ...
OliverKruegerWouldLikeToCheckIn
OliverKrueger Would Like to Check in Who am I? Well, I guess, I already have commit access to subversion, but I think, its good to have this topic in order to start ...
OlivierBergerWouldLikeToCheckIn
OlivierBerger Would Like to Check in Who am I? I'm a sofwtare engineer involved in lots of open source activities. I've been contributing to and around TWiki for ...
OlivierRaginelWouldLikeToCheckIn
OlivierRaginel Would Like to Check in Who am I? Hardcore BOFH What do I want? write access to SVN for the following branches: Core twikiplugins What can I do? Perl ...
OneTimeNotification
Feature Proposal: One Time Notification for Topic Creation Motivation Limits subscriptions as to reduce inbox clutter but lets everyone know that a topic of possible ...
OpenLinkInNewWndow
Feature Proposal: I want to enforce the opening of an new browser window Motivation I experienced in TWiki 4.1 and earlier maybe due to the existance of a plugin ...
OpenOffice
OpenOffice This page has more about Open Office.
OpenOfficeFrontEnd
OpenOfficeFrontEnd Motivation to OpenOfficeFrontEnd While the GUI based interfaces are good. Unless you are dealing with Writely (now called Google Docs) they are ...
OptionToAddServerTimeToEmailHeaders
Feature Proposal: Would be nice to have an option to have foswiki send email with local timezone headers instead of gmt Motivation My users get confused when using ...
OptionToAvoidFlattenedSummaryInFormattedSearch
Feature Proposal: Option to avoid completely flattening text in FormattedSearch's $summary(nnn) Motivation When presenting a list of search matches to a user, we ...
OptionsForEnhanceIfStatementsAndAttrsParsing
OptionsForEnhanceIfStatementsAndAttrsParsing Overview Currently, the %IF macro only allows one conditional test (i.e. if / then / else). It is proposed to: * ...
OrderedTopicAccesses
OrderedTopicAccesses Motivation Normally topics in a wiki are accessed through links, usually starting from some "home" page. Sometimes it is however useful to (additionally ...
PackagingJQueryPlugins
PackagingJQueryPlugins Awaiting boiling down into a feature proposal (08:27:15) CDot: MichaelDaum: I was thinking; is there some way we can streamline the packaging ...
PadraigLennonWouldLikeToCheckIn
PadraigLennon Would Like to Check in Who am I? I'm a System Integration Engineer/DBA/Unix Sysadmin working in the Financial Industry. I love integrating applications ...
PageCachingDraft
This is the draft of a topic to be included in the documentation set for Foswiki 1.1, as described in Tasks.Item8706 . It is being drafted here to involve as many ...
ParallelSearch
Feature Proposal: Boost Search Performance in huge webs by doing it parallel Motivation Doing a lot of searches for dynamic pages and forms with dynamic content, ...
ParameterizedGroupsMacro
Feature Proposal: Add format and other stuff to the GROUPS macro Motivation GROUPS is currently the only way to retrieve group information. But the result is always ...
ParameterizedVariables
Parametrized Variables Basic concept Like the ParameterizedIncludes, there should be the possibility to pass parameters when including (user definied) variables. ...
ParamsInSquabs
Feature Proposal: Allow params in a squab view Page?p=data Motivation From a user request at my company: We ve got some twiki pages where we provide links back ...
ParentTopicMailInContrib
Feature Proposal: Specifying both topic name and parent name would be useful Motivation If there are many submissions of topics via email, it would be easier to manage ...
ParkedFeatureProposals
Parked Feature Proposals Proposals that have been parked because they failed to fullfill the basic criteria in the release process mainly * Proposals must have ...
ParkedProposal
ChangeProposals that are in state ParkedProposal A proposal which may have been discussed but there was never a committed developer that came forward, or there was ...
PartlyBakedIdeas
Partly Baked Ideas This page is a staging area for all sorts of nascent ideas. The notion is that an idea can be posted here, gather a few comments, and then (if appropriate ...
PatchBinaryAsConfigureOption
Feature Proposal: Which 'patch' FosWiki uses should be a config option Motivation FosWiki (like TWiki) depends on 'GNU patch', not just any 'patch'. Which one to ...
PatchGuidelines
Patch Guidelines The Foswiki developers produce patches every so often to correct problems in Foswiki. but that's not the only use of patching; you can use patches ...
PatrickDalinghoffWouldLikeToCheckIn
PatrickDalinghoff Would Like to Check in Who am I? My name is Patrick Dalinghoff, working for Computer Science Corporation in Germany in the role of a senior systems ...
PaulAlexanderWouldLikeToCheckIn
PaulAlexander Would Like to Check in Who am I? I am a bioinformatics developer working on TRIN projects What do I want? write access to SVN for the following branches ...
PaulHarveyWouldLikeToCheckIn
PaulHarvey Would Like to Check in Who am I? I work for CSIRO (an Australian science organisation) in a small Bioinformatics team. I am responsible for evaluating ...
PeriodicTasks
Periodic Tasks Framework TWiki uses periodically scheduled tasks to automate maintenance activities such as removing stale files, cleaning up stale topic locks and ...
PerlCritic
PerlCritic Perl::Critic is an extensible framework for creating and applying coding standards to Perl source code. Essentially, it is a static source code analysis ...
PerlTidy
PerlTidy Perltidy is a Perl script which indents and reformats Perl scripts to make them easier to read. If you write Perl scripts, or spend much time reading them ...
PermissionRawSeparatelyToView
Feature Proposal: Protecting an application's code needs DENYTOPICRAW Motivation Good applications require substantial investment. To choose Foswiki as a platform ...
PermissionsChange
Feature Proposal: Changing Access Permission Motivation I am making a wiki for my Institute and find that it is really needed at a lot of places like mine to prevent ...
Persona
Personas The Inmates Are Running the Asylum, published in 1998, introduced the use of personas as a practical interaction design tool. Based on the single chapter ...
PickingIconsEasily
Extension for easy picking of icons directly from editor Summary There are many useful icons bundled with Foswiki and available in System.FamFamFamContrib ... but ...
PlannedFor
PlannedFor field in feature proposals is the release that the feature is planned for. Write it as 1.1 TBD if release has not been determined. If a near by release ...
PluggableAccessControlImplementation
Feature Proposal: Pluggable Access Control Implementation Motivation To have different Access Control modules that can retrieve the permissions from different places ...
PluggableRegistration
There has been various discussions in the past about different aspects of the Foswiki registration process, and how it can be improved. This topic is an attempt to ...
PluggableRenderers
Feature Proposal: Make Foswiki::Render pluggable Motivation Foswiki::Render is a major weakness of Foswiki. Let's make it pluggable, so we can explore deep changes ...
PluginGarbageCollection
Feature Proposal: Plugins need a working/temp file cleanup mechanism Motivation Garbage collection for plugin created files is a sore point. Right now, every site ...
PluginOrderShouldSpecifyLastPlugins
Feature Proposal: Allow PluginOrder setting to also specify the last plugins to process Motivation Some plugins may need to be last in the list of plugins to be sure ...
PluginsApiPolicies
Plugin API Policies Introduction It's important that authors of Plugins are able to work within an environment without shifting ground rules. Otherwise, people end ...
PostgreSQLSchemaForStore
PostgreSQLSchemaForStore Summary Foswiki is great, but it would be nice if data could be stored in an SQL database. I have heard of other people trying to do this ...
PreInstallNatEditContrib
Pre install NatEditContrib The Plugins.NatEditContrib is a JavaScript editor "à la Wikipedia" for TWiki. It makes editing and learning TML easier. It makes sense to ...
PreloadContribs
Feature Proposal: Support loading REST and tag handlers from contribs Motivation registerRESTHandler and registerTagHandler can currently only be called from plugins ...
ProblemsWithCompletePageHandlerAPI
ProblemsWithCompletePageHandlerAPI While working on FoswikiCache I came a cross a problem with a relatively new plugin handler, completePageHandler(text, hdr). This ...
ProblemsWithHereDocuments
ProblemsWithHereDocuments This topic shows problems that only appear on trunk, and will not render correctly on 1.0.x Where Here documents do not work Main.MichaelTempest ...
ProcessAddToBodyStart
Feature request: Process addToBody There's a related case to ProcessAddToHeadAdds, which perhaps should be called ProcessAddToBodyStart it's needed by Google Analytics ...
ProcessAddToHeadAdds
Feature Proposal: Process addToHEAD adds Motivation Currently plugins call TWiki::Func::addToHEAD to add javascript and css text and file includes to the html head ...
ProjectContributorWouldLikeToCheckInTopicTemplate
Would Like to Check in Who am I? What do I want? write access to SVN for the following branches: What can I do? Why do I want to do it? Other Notes Topics I ...
ProjectOverview
ProjectOverview Introduction This is an overview of the Foswiki development and release processes, without getting into the dirty details. Links in the text will ...
PromoteMetaDotPmToFirstClassAPI
Feature Proposal: Make Meta a first class Public API Motivation as of foswiki 1.1, we say 'in general you should call the Foswiki::Func methods in preference to calling ...
ProposalsReadyForCommunityVote
Feature Proposals taken for Community Vote A Feature proposal is ready for community vote per release process when * Proposals that have a committed developer willing ...
ProposedFor
Which release was/is this targeted for, Anyone can set this but that does not mean it will actually be done for that release; that will be decided by the priorities ...
ProtectConfigureUsingHtigestByDefault
Feature Proposal: Improve default protection of configure script Motivation T* project has added a scripted login for configure similar to template login, providing ...
QueryAccessControls
Feature Proposal: It should be easier to get a definitive overview of the Access Controls present on a given topic. Motivation Contributors in private/protected areas ...
QueryAcrossTopicRevisions
Feature Proposal: Query across all topic revisions Motivation We really want to be able to report some stuff based on the evolution of a topic. Who are all the authors ...
QueryAddressParts
Feature Proposal: Query parts of topic addresses stored in meta values Motivation Tasks.Item10874 caused the form.name value to contain a fully qualified web ...
QueryCustomCollections
Feature Proposal: Query custom collections Motivation A couple of proposals (this one used to be known as QueryLinksAndBacklinks) seem to be somewhat mergeable: ...
QueryUniqueValues
QueryUniqueValues Query for unique values It'd be brilliant to query for unique values. The new stores DBIStoreContrib (SQL DISTINCT clause) and MongoDBPlugin ...
RafaelAlvarezWouldLikeToCheckIn
RafaelAlvarez Would Like to Check in Who am I? I'm the Senior Architect/Technical Leader of the Acsel e product at Consis International, LLC. What do I want? write ...
RandomTopicPlugin
this still needs a script or rest handler (or whatever the mechanism is) to be able to provide a link to jump to a random topic. this would be especially important ...
RasmusPraestholmWouldLikeToCheckIn
RasmusPraestholm Would Like to Check in Who am I? I'm a professional IT monkey currently employed for 5 years in the IT department of an insurance company with a ...
RaulFRodriguezWouldLikeToCheckIn
RaulFRodriguez Would Like to Check in Who am I? I am a self taught sys admin. I started learning Linux OS with Slackware 3.0 back in 1995. I am an administrator of ...
RaymondLutzWouldLikeToCheckIn
RaymondLutz Would Like to Check in Who am I? I have a MSEE degree and have developed in Perl for about ten years, but not full time. I have been using fosTwiki since ...
RcsLite
Contents: also see RcsLiteTest Partial implementation of RCS in 100% Perl RcsLite will implement only those parts of RCS used by TWiki. Why do this? Many uses of ...
ReadyForReleaseMeeting
ChangeProposals that are in state ReadyForReleaseMeeting Release meetings are no longer used as a formal part of the new features process. This topic is maintained ...
ReasonForDecision
Reason For Decision This field is used to identify the reason behind a decision taken by the Foswiki Community in relation to new feature proposals according to the ...
RebrandingPlan
Foswiki when Community matters (riff inspired by AntonioRaffaeleCosta) Plan for re branding the code and documentation Heavily refactored the thread mode and fractured ...
RecodeSearchCgi
Feature Proposal: recode the search cgi to show view/System/WebSearch Motivation http://foswiki.org/bin/search is broken, and has been for longer than we've existed ...
RecursiveTMPLDefinitions
Feature Proposal: Enhance TMPL:DEF to allow recursive definition of template elements. Motivation We've always wanted to be able to append/prepend elements to TMPL ...
RedesignAdminToolsCategory
Feature Proposal: Redesign AdminToolsCategory Motivation .AdminToolsCategory is so unhelpful it might as well be thrown away. Or it needs a better structure and design ...
RedesignManagingWebs
Feature Proposal: Redesign ManagingWebs Motivation Let me call .ManagingWebs a usability nightmare. Made it urgent because I can't stand this any longer. See ...
RefactorACLCheckOnResultSetAsFilter
Feature Proposal: Refactor ACL Check and Pager on ResultSet As Filter Motivation This is a beginning of DelegateACLChecksToStoreOrCache to make large scale wiki ...
RegisterSectionTagHandler
RegisterSectionTagHandler Allow macros to automatically be passed text between %MACRO% and %/MACRO% tags I'm new to the dev community, so this thinking may violate ...
RegistrationI18N
Feature Proposal: Changing the registration form for use in I18N Motivation Promoting changes to better support I18N in Foswiki Description and Documentation Changing ...
RegistrationTopicHandler
Adding a Registration Plugin Handler Just wondering if there would be any objections to adding a registration handler for plugins. I notice there is one already, ...
RegularExpressions
Strategy for Regular Expression Support Foswiki strives to support the rich Perl regular expression syntax wherever regular expressions are required. However, because ...
RejectedByCommunityVote
ChangeProposals that are RejectedByCommunityVote
RejectedByReleaseMeeting
ChangeProposals that are RejectedByReleaseMeeting Release meetings are no longer used as a formal part of the new features process. This topic is maintained for information ...
RejectedFeatureProposals
Rejected Feature Proposals Proposals that have been rejected following the release process Proposals that have been rejected can be put back in UnderInvestigation ...
RejectedProposal
ChangeProposals that are in state RejectedProposal This state is used when a proposal has been rejected according to the release process .
RelatedTopics
Related topics are topics that have an immediate connection to the current topic. For example, in the release process the RelatedTopics form field is used to link ...
RelayAlertsToTopicTop
Relay Alerts to the top of the view page Proposal summary I don't find the fading technique the most important aspect. But I do see the added value of a dynamic page ...
ReleaseNumbering
ReleaseNumbering This topic is about release numbering as it applies to extensions. For information about release numbering of Foswiki releases, see another topic ...
ReleasePlan
Release Plan Community Decision The Community decided to restart with new release series. The community voted on Community.ReleaseNumberingDecisionVote and decided ...
ReleaseProcess
Process There are two levels of feature acceptance/tracking: * Feature proposal acceptance * Minor feature tracking bug fixes Feature proposal acceptance ...
RelicenseCoreCodebase
Should we choose to release using GPL3 Please discuss on RelicenseCoreCodebaseTalk. The proposal to use GPL3 TWiki code has the following license: TWiki is open ...
RelicenseCoreCodebaseTalk
RelicenseCoreCodebaseTalk Plugins used in both Foswiki and TWiki I believe there is no barrier to a plugin being considered part of whatever program it is plugged ...
RemoveClassicSkin
Feature Proposal: Let us remove Classic Skin Motivation See DoWeNeedToShipClassicSkin I have removed it from svn. If someone has a valid reason to put it back please ...
RemoveHardcodedCssClassNames
Feature Proposal: Remove hardcoded CSS class names Motivation Enable proper Foswiki theming. Description and Documentation Proper theming is best done through CSS ...
RemoveRedirectCGIQueryHandler
RemoveRedirectCGIQueryHandler There's a handler that purports to replace CGI redirectio. I guess it was intended to provide some sort of REST functionality at some ...
RemoveSearchDefaultType
Feature Proposal: Get rid SEARCHDEFAULTTTYPE Motivation SEARCHDEFAULTTTYPE: * has been misspelt for years * isn't unit tested * duplicates some code ...
RenameFormField
Feature Proposal: Form fields need a mechanism to rename Motivation Singlely named fields such as "Name" presently have no way to be renamed. WikiWord named fields ...
RenamingAttachments
Feature Proposal: Allow Renaming of Attachments Motivation I would like to rename attachments for the same reasons that I rename topics users make mistakes, and ...
RenderFormPlugin
I would like to do some substantial refactoring of RenderFormPlugin. Part of this work would require writing some tests to detect and correct if necessary resulting ...
ReplaceErrorDotPmTryCatch
Replace Error.pm and try/catch blocks Warning in Error.pm documentation: WARNING Using the "Error" module is no longer recommended due to the black magical nature ...
ReplaceFoswikiTimeModule
Feature Proposal: Replace Foswiki::Time with Time::ParseDate from CPAN Motivation After finding a bug in Foswiki::Time I started wondering why Foswiki needs its own ...
ReplaceGoBoxBySearchBox
Replace the Go box by a Search box Do we need the Go box? Legacy.WikiPedia uses a combined search/go field, and uses 2 action buttons for that. This works confusing ...
RequestAccessToSubversion
Want access to change the MAIN (Core) branch or extensions? Before you obtain access to submit changes to Foswiki, we would like to know more about you: your background ...
RequestAccessToSubversionForm
This page is used by RequestAccessToSubversion Your WikiName WouldLikeToCheckIn This form will create a topic named WouldLikeToCheckIn. (If you see TWikiGuest you ...
RequirePerl588
Feature Proposal: Move to 5.8.8 for various reasons Motivation * Complete lack of testing in 1.1, we have docco saying we test with 5.8, and 5.6 'might work ...
RequirementsAnalysis
Requirements Analysis Analysis of Foswiki users * Foswiki User Personas initial draft * UserExperienceHub user interface analysis and discussion Analysis ...
ResourceBookingPlugin
Feature Proposal: A plugin for booking/scheduling resources Motivation In a company or a scientific institute, there is a need for scheduling or booking resources ...
RestPlugin
JSON REST API for Topics Webs via browser Javascript Background * RethinkingTopicInteraction work needs a solid REST API of some sort. * At work we sorely ...
ResultSets
Feature Proposal: Result Sets to abstract search results, lists, and GROUP definition Motivation Closes the loop on ExtractAndCentralizeFormattingRefactor, by allowing ...
RethinkingTopicInteraction
Rethinking topic interaction No matter how cool your interface is, less of it would be better. Motivation We have gotten used to our decade old topic interaction ...
RethinkingTopicInteractionPrototype
** Scope of the prototype Although this prototype features some new designs / design ideas this is clearly not the focus. When reviewing or playing with the prototype ...
RetireTMLForScripting
RetireTMLForScripting TML scripting considered harmful My experience with Support.Question414 has been enough to face a painful truth: programming in TML is just ...
RevCommentPlugin
on irc, sven pointed out that topic changes could be twitted. including the revision comment would provide a lot more meaningful context than some automated summary ...
RevCommentsTopicDelete
Feature Proposal: When deleting a Topic to Trash, have the ability to enter a descriptive revision comment Motivation I just deleted a Topic in the Foswiki tasks ...
ReviewFileSystemPermissionsAndCheckFix
Feature Proposal: Review file permissions for consistency and implement checking/fixup Motivation There are some inconsistencies between default file permissions ...
RevisionLinkPlugin
Discuss Development about Extensions.RevisionLinkPlugin When I created the Foswiki version I decided to remove the support for the %REV something % syntax. The old ...
RichTextFormat
RichTextFormat Please see Wikipedia on Rich Text Format.
RoadmapDiscussion
Roadmap Discussion Some of the content was refactored to here from the ReleasePlan topic Introduction With the recent event, it is important to have the following ...
RobMansonWouldLikeToCheckIn
RobManson Would Like to Check in Who am I? I'm one of the directors of MOB ( MobileOnlineBusiness.com.au ) with a long history as an Information/Enterprise Architect ...
RuiProcopioWouldLikeToCheckIn
RuiProcopio Would Like to Check in Who am I? Currently i work as a project manager in a Portuguese SW company in Aerospace projects (you can have a look on my profile ...
RulebasedViewTemplates
Feature Proposal: Motivation Provide a means to apply a view template based on the topic name Description and Documentation For now the AutoViewTemplatePlugin implements ...
SMIMESupportInMail
Issue *Wiki notifications are rich HTML filled with links. In today's SPAM filled, hostile world, they're subject to being mis identified. Further, email in this ...
SVK
SVK SVK is a decentralized version control system written in Perl. It uses the Subversion filesystem but provides additional, powerful features. SVK inherits the features ...
SVN
SVN Subversion code repository for Foswiki. See SvnRepository.
SWOT
Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats See Wikipedia:SWOT_analysis The table below is an attempt to disseminate information that can answer the question ...
SafeCommentPlugin
SafeCommentPlugin Anonymous Comments I am frequently asked for this feature on our wiki at work. It would also be a critical component in making Foswiki a viable ...
SaferURLPARAMasDefault
Feature Proposal: Safer URLPARAM as default Motivation Prevent one more XSS attack point Description and Documentation Current URLPARAM is by default a direct cross ...
SandboxWebNameShouldBeMapped
Feature Proposal: The Sandbox Web name should be mapped through a config variable Motivation The installers for Extensions assume that all of the standard webs exist ...
SaschaVetterWouldLikeToCheckIn
SaschaVetter Would Like to Check in Who am I? Software engineering student and part time worker for Robert Bosch GmbH. At Bosch I maintain a TWiki system (1500 Users ...
ScanForMissingPerlModules
Feature Proposal: It would be cool to ease Perl module installation or at least to simplify figuring out what is missing Motivation A first time installer may for ...
ScottHogeWouldLikeToCheckIn
ScottHoge Would Like to Check in Who am I? I'm a perl wiki enthusiast, and have contributed/supported a number of plugins prior to the fork. My main focus is in turning ...
SeanMcCarthyWouldLikeToCheckIn
SeanMcCarthy Would Like to Check in Who am I? I'm a Senior Software Engineer with MOB ( MobileOnlineBusiness.com.au ). I've have a decade of Software Engineering ...
SearchBySection
Feature Proposal: SEARCH should be able to search in a specified section Motivation Description and Documentation Examples Impact WhatDoesItAffect: Implementation ...
SearchNeedsAltParameter
Feature Proposal: SEARCH needs an alt parameter in case of zero results Motivation Often I want to display an alternative text if SEARCH does not return any results ...
SearchOrderByTopicElement
Feature Proposal: Make Search order param consistent with query Motivation At the moment, the set of elements you can order a search on is legacy $formfield() and ...
SearchOrderingOnMultipleFields
Feature Proposal: Search ordering on multiple fields Motivation Consider the situation where you order a table on, say, City. You might want to sub order people that ...
SearchResultsPagination
Feature Proposal: Search results pagination Foswiki currently lacks a way to control a set of search results. I would like to be able to show results 1 10, then 11 ...
SearchResultsWithHeadingLinks
Feature Proposal: It would be really neat if search results contained links to headings, à la Google (or à la Bing/Yahoo) Motivation To make the search results more ...
SearchSeparatorDefaultHeaderFooter
Feature Proposal: SEARCH separator as newline after header and before footer ONLY when separator is not specified Motivation There has been a long and heavy discussion ...
SebastianKlusWouldLikeToCheckIn
SebastianKlus Would Like to Check in Who am I? I am an arquitect, working in an office in Costa Rica, Central America. Like one and a half years ago, I implemented ...
SecurityAlert-CVE-2012-TBD
Moved to Support.SecurityAlert CVE 2012 1004
SecurityAlertCVETemplate
Security Alert: Title goes here Note before anyone makes this page more sexy with tables and graphics. I have to be able to send this out as a text only email. And ...
SecurityAlertProcess
Foswiki Security Alert Process I discovered a security issue. Now What? * _ Important:_ In case you think that you discovered a security issue that could potentially ...
SecurityChecklists
Feature Proposal: Security checklists for the uninitiated Motivation Foswiki's out of the box settings are inappropriate for public sites. Make it easier/more obvious ...
SendEmailPlugin
SendEmailPlugin Do people think it would be a good idea to add the functionality to send out appointment and Calendar information in iCalendar format? Main.NeilGood ...
SetVariablePlugin
Hello, i want to use the SetVariablePlugin to create access control settings for topics in an easy way. Our wiki installation is used for project management. For each ...
SettingAndGettingVariablesUsingMacros
Feature Proposal: Setting And Getting Variables Using Macros Motivation Part 1: The standard syntax for setting a variable is * Set FOO = bar However this prevents ...
SharePoint
SharePoint More on Microsoft SharePoint.
ShipCommonlyTailoredTopicsInConfigure
Feature Proposal: Configure should install commonly tailored topics so that new releases don't overlay customized topics. Motivation We've needed a way to avoid overlaying ...
ShipCompareRevisionsAddOnWithFoswiki01x01
Feature Proposal: Motivation Extensions.CompareRevisionsAddOn and Extensions.HistoryPlugin provides a minimum functionality of what people expect these days. It is ...
ShipHistoryPluginWithFoswiki01x01
Feature Proposal: Motivation Extensions.HistoryPlugin provides a minimum functionality of what people expect these days. It is very much like the MediaWiki interface ...
ShipSubscribePluginWithFoswiki01x01
Feature Proposal: Ship the Extensions.SubscribePlugin with Foswiki 1.2 Motivation * Easy, non geeky interface over manually editting the WebNotify page * Low ...
ShortcutTopic
ShortcutTopic Used to classify needed abbreviations.
ShorterCaseInsensitiveURLs
This is another version of ShorterURLs. It only works with http.conf as it requires the use of RewriteMap, and that's not permitted in .htaccess This version adds ...
ShorterUrlSupport
Feature Proposal: Support in TWiki.pm for Shorter URLs, ommiting HomeWeb and WebHome Motivation In TWiki.ShorterUrlCookbook ( Changes to lib/TWiki.pm for extra ...
ShoutBox
Feature Proposal: Public IM ing system bit like IRC Motivation For my company's Fowsiki, would be very handy if on the main page of the wiki people could chat to ...
SimpleVarInclude
Feature Proposal: Additional section include ability Motivation I find that section includes can be too daunting for many end users. They're already breaking topics ...
SimpleWikiBuildingBlocks
Introduction I am just getting to grips with the wiki and have spent a lot of time just getting over some concepts. A few pointers would have greatly helped me overcome ...
SimplifyMasterTemplateDefinition
Feature Proposal: Stop forcing skin authors to remove the final new lines from tmpl files Motivation every release we have an issue like remove newlines from tmpl ...
SimplifySEARCHParameters
Feature Proposal: Simply SEARCH parameters Motivation combining web and topic or excludetopics doesn't quite work. Its actually impossible to search 3 webs, and only ...
SimplifySearchTemplates
Feature Proposal: replace the SPLIT and REPEAT mess in the search templates Motivation search.xxx.tmpl, searchformat.xxx.tmpl, searchmeta.xxx.tmpl, searchbookview ...
SimplifyTheDefaultInstall
Feature Proposal: http://trunk.foswiki.org/Support/HowToUseGit#Trick_for_sharing_more_of_the_configuration descibes a technique for reducing the number of path configuration ...
SimplifyTheFeatureProposalProcess
Feature Proposal: The feature proposal process is more complex than required Motivation In SupportDollarPercent I was chastised for making a change that, while not ...
SimplifyTheStoreMetaSemantics
Feature Proposal: Simplify The Store Meta Semantics T Motivation The current legacy Foswiki::Meta and Foswiki::Store maze of classes are not sufficiently well understood ...
SimulateLowBandwidth
SimulateLowBandwidth The need Our test environments sometimes differ from production server environments. Sometimes the network performance is radically different ...
SkinTemplateOverideForBatchUpload
Feature Proposal: The batchupload plugin requires amendment to three system templates. It would bebetter to have the changes in a skin or template override. Motivation ...
SmiliesPluginPictures
Feature Proposal: It would be nice if a SmiliesPlugin picture could come from other sources but the topic Motivation Customizing the pictures requires to add or exchange ...
SoftAsserts
Feature Proposal: A soft failure mode for ASSERTs Motivation Sometimes problems manifest on a production server, and it is hard to reproduce them on a dev server ...
SoftSkin
Extensions.SoftSkin development Extensions.SoftSkin is supporting JQuery UI theme roller and renders nicely on mobile devices depending of your actual page content ...
SortOrderTagForTopicsAndWebs
Feature Proposal: It would be usefull if you have a fixed list location for a topic Motivation One of our customers creates lists with the TOPICLIST Var. The list ...
SortingDocumentation
Sorting with Sort::Maker Perl Best Practices writes "Consider building your sorting routines with Sort::Maker". As of version 1.1, Foswiki ships CPAN:Sort::Maker with ...
SpecifyingConfigurationItemsForExtensions
How to integrate extension configuration into bin/configure Introduction Simple plugins can embed configuration data in the 'Plugin' topic added to the System web ...
SpeedyCGI
SpeedyCGI (also known as PersistentPerl) is an Apache module (Unix/Linux only) that can be used to accelerate CGI perl scripts. See http://daemoninc.com/SpeedyCGI ...
SpreadSheetPlugin
String Functions Conspicuously absent from its list of string functions is something like substr() in Perl or PHP, or what MS Excel calls MID(): "returns a specific ...
SpreadSheetPluginFourNewFunctions
Feature Proposal: New $EMPTY(), $LEFTSTRING(), $RIGHTSTRING(), SUBSTRING(), $INSERTSTRING() functions to SpreadSheetPlugin Motivation It is essential that we eliminate ...
SpreadsheetRegexFunction
Feature Proposal: Add a Generic REGEX function to CALC Motivation It would be handy to be able to define additional string manipulation capabilities that aren't pre ...
StatusOfPortingExtensionsToFoswiki
Status of porting extensions to Foswiki Foswiki aims to be totally transparent about what extensions actually work, and what value they can bring. We are not interested ...
StepByStepRenderingOrder
StepByStepRenderingOrder Order of plugin handler calls Here's an annotated example of the plugin handler calls during the view of a simple page (no skin, page contains ...
StephaneLencludWouldLikeToCheckIn
StephaneLenclud Would Like to Check in Who am I? See Main.StephaneLenclud What do I want? write access to SVN for the following branches: twikiplugins What can ...
StringifierContrib
I use Apache Tika to stringify it's one actively maintained package that converts many file formats. Currently it's on a TWiki site, not a FOSwiki site, but I wanted ...
StudentProject
There are often ideas mooted that don't really fit with the mission, or are too far out for most people. These could be student projects for a motivated MSc (or even ...
SubversionBasedInstall
Foswiki Installation based on Subversion Once you have followed the instructions in SvnRepository you can run a Foswiki from this checkout area simply by pointing ...
SubversionBranchingAndTagging
Subversion Branching and Tagging Overview * A major release is a release where the first digit in the version number changes. * A minor release is a release ...
SubversionMirrorSetUp
How to set up your local SVN mirror (with svk) Method 1: To have a local subversion repository The goal is to have one's own subversion repository in order to add ...
SummaryBasedOnSearchTerms
Feature Proposal: Make topic summary optionally based on search terms Or: how to better scan search results for relevancy. Motivation When doing a search if is often ...
SupplementaryDocumentation
SupplementaryDocumentation Content that helps end users in some way, but is too obscure to include in the standard documentation set Recently modified topics:
SupportBlockquoteAndIndenting
Feature Proposal: Support blockquote and paragraph indenting in TinyMCEPlugin Motivation See Support.Question293 . Apparently using the indent buttons on paragraphs ...
SupportBulkUpdates
Feature Proposal: Add a mechanism to make bulk updates directly from the browser Motivation Many advanced users/sys admins often need to perform some kind of update ...
SupportCommaFormattingToken
Feature Proposal: Support $comma formatting token Motivation While coding for ENCODEnlsToBR, I realised I need a $comma formatting token to protect comma where data ...
SupportDITA
Feature Proposal: It would be really neat if Foswiki could fully support DITA publishing Motivation I know it's somehow exotic to suggest using a (structured) Wiki ...
SupportDeferredExecution
Feature Proposal: Support deferred execution or rendering of complex topics Motivation Some extensions have extended execution times that result in slow response ...
SupportDollarPercent
Feature Proposal: Avoid a common error Motivation The escape for a % sign in macro expansion is $percnt I don't know about the rest of you, but as a native English ...
SupportDynamicGeneratedAttachments
Feature Proposal: Support dynamic or generated attachments Motivation We don't have a mechanism for dynamic attachments. There are several solutions used by various ...
SupportHorizontalMenusThroughRenderListPlugin
Feature Proposal: Define a horizontal menu with alt and title tags using a bulleted list Motivation I do translate substantial documents to wiki pages. Horizontal ...
SupportLineThroughFormatTag
Feature Proposal: Support underline and line through text decorations Motivation We currently lack the ability apply underlined or line through formatting to text ...
SupportMultiKeySorting
Feature Proposal: Support multi key sorting in SEARCH Motivation The current support for sorting SEARCH results is crude at best. Improve it to allow sorting on multiple ...
SupportPermanentLinks
Feature Proposal: Permanent links to topics, that work even if a topic is moved or renamed Motivation At work, we have database that contains links to topics in the ...
SupportRelativeBracketedLinks
SupportRelativeBracketedLinks I'd like to have a way to use relative path names in bracketed links. Let's say I have a tree of webs and sub webs, eg: WebA SubWebAA ...
SupportSSLandTLSforSMTP
Feature Proposal: Add support for SSL and TLS transport for SMTP Motivation GMail requires SSL or TLS. *nix users can support this using a local SMTP daemon, even ...
SupportShorterACRONYMS
Feature Proposal: We need support in my company for two letter ACRONYMS Motivation Two letter abbreviations are sufficiently common in general for this to be a useful ...
SupportStrippingIPsFromLogfiles
Feature Proposal: Allow switching off IP logging in logfiles Motivation Due to privacy concerns it is sometimes required to disable logging of IP addresses without ...
SupportSynchroEdit
Feature Proposal: It would be really neat to be able to edit pages synchronously, seeing edits by others in real time Motivation It would be really neat to be able ...
SupportXMLGeneration
Feature Proposal: Support an XML schema for webs/topics Motivation We need to be able to talk Foswiki resources to XML supporting web services. This is also necessary ...
SuppressNonpublishedLinks
Feature Proposal: Suppress links to topics that are not in the published scope. Motivation IMHO this change adds a lot of polish to the generated output. Description ...
SvenDowideitWouldLikeToCheckIn
SvenDowideit Would Like to Check in Who am I? I've been developing on a perl based enterprise wiki for about 10 years, so I hope to help a little here and there. ...
SvenHessWouldLikeToCheckIn
SvenHess Would Like to Check in Who am I? My name is Sven Heß and I am a developer at the company //Seibert/Media GmbH. What do I want? write access to SVN for ...
SvnRepository
Subversion See ProjectOverview for an overview of the development process, and how we do revision control. This document is all about the nitty gritty details of how ...
SynchroEdit
SynchroEdit http://synchroedit.com/ "SynchroEdit is a browser based simultaneous multiuser editor, a form of same time, different place groupware. It allows multiple ...
SynchroniseInlineAndMetaPrefs
Feature Proposal: In line * Set preferences should always match META:PREFERENCE, and vice versa   Motivation * The inconsistency hurts usability. Imagine the user ...
SyntaxForDelayingMacrosAndFormatTokens
Feature Proposal: Eliminate $dollar etc hell. Also see older UseSyntaxToChangeEvaluationOrder Motivation Easier to read write and maintain delayed macros and format ...
SyntaxHighlightingEditor
Feature Proposal: Syntax Highlighting Editor Motivation I use Movable Type. I really like the Syntax Highlighting option in the (otherwise simple textarea) editor ...
SystemCallsReview
Backtick system calls (rev 195 of trunk) Detailed security audit results Check Tasks.Item38 for latest status on this work. * These are OK (not a risk to ...
SystemTopicsUpdateMethod
Feature Proposal: New update method for system topics Motivation With every update I have to merge the updates in the distributed topics with my own modifications ...
TWikiTerminologyMap
TWikiTerminologyMap As part of our rebranding process we have to eliminate use of the T* word in topics. If we had a new name, we might be tempted to simply global ...
TagCloudPlugin
Currently the plugin takes terms in the format term:weight. I would like to add more information to a term (ie. css classes) in order to use them in format. In extended ...
TaxonomyOfMacros
Taxonomy of macros shipped with core Actually we should consider non core plugins that are good examples of any type of macro that isn't represented in core and needs ...
TechnicalOverview
Technical Overview Describing what Foswiki is, and how it works, in 3,000 metre terms, for developers. Apologies in advance that the some of the language in this ...
TemiVargheseWouldLikeToCheckIn
TemiVarghese Would Like to Check in Who am I? I am web developer working with Main.PaulHarvey. We are making plugins for TRIN. What do I want? write access to SVN ...
TemplatesCache
A file (and memory) based cache of expanded templates I started from a patch uploaded to TWiki:Codev by Sven a long time ago. He described it as optimistic, I have ...
TemplatingSearchResultSummaries
Feature Proposal: Templating search result summaries Another proposal, ListFormatViewAndEditTemplate, describes the mechanism to view lists of topics. The current ...
TestLighttpdWebserver
TestLighttpdWebserver Summary lighttpd is a lightweight webserver. The purpose is to provide a simple alternative to new (or old) developers to get a svn checkout ...
TestingWithSelenium
TestingWithSelenium Testing Foswiki with Selenium Selenium "... is a suite of tools to automate web app testing across many platforms." Extensions.UnitTestContrib ...
TheFourteenDaysRule
The 14 days rule of feature decision making It is part of the decision making process of the community, and structures the way new feature proposals are handled. The ...
ThinPrefs
Thin Prefs Main.GilmarSantosJr 11 May 2009
ThinPrefsProposal
Feature Proposal: Thin Prefs Mechanism Motivation Foswiki deals with preferences like a stack: topic preferences overrides web preferences, that override plugins ...
ThomasZobelWouldLikeToCheckIn
ThomasZobel Would Like to Check in Who am I? Thomas Zobel, Developer, //SEIBERT/MEDIA, Wiesbaden What do I want? write access to SVN for the following branches ...
TimHeiligWouldLikeToCheckIn
TimHeilig Would Like to Check in Who am I? I've been a programmer for over 25 years, most recently doing AJAX work with YUI. My open source community contributions ...
TimeSincePlugin
here's a poor man's version of Extensions.TimeSincePlugin: or, as appropriately escaped for a %SEARCH% example in Tasks.MyItems: %SEARCH{ "(CurrentState='Waiting for ...
TinyMCEPlugin
Updating with a new moxiecode release (svn) * In TinyMCEPlugin root directory in svn, use svn status to confirm there are no extraneous files or local changes ...
TinyMCEPluginShouldBeMoreModular
Feature Proposal: Directory re structure to separate upstream files AND make it easy to enable/develop TMCE plugins Motivation * TinyMCE 3.2.7 was released with ...
ToOOOrNotToOO
To Object Orient or not to Object Orient, that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler of mind to suffer the subs and gotos of outrageous C, Or to use Classes against ...
TocFailsForIdenticalHeadingNames
Bug: TOC Fails for Identical Heading Names Moved below content over from SectionTitles. Main.PeterThoeny 16 Jun 2001 Found a bug in this feature: as the tag is ...
ToolsScriptToChangeIpConfiguration
Feature Proposal:Script that changes the IP/DNS in the configuration to become the current IP Motivation For my reasons I have a Foswiki in a VM and want it to be ...
TopicAddressing
Feature Proposal: Add a Perl API for manipulating "addresses" as Foswiki::Address objects rather than just ($web, $topic, $attachment, $rev, ...) tuples Motivation ...
TopicCaseSensitivity
Topic Case Sensitivity Simple enhancement to make TWiki linking and jumping to topics more forgiving. Basically, if you specify a link to a topic and the topic exists ...
TopicClassification
Name Type Tooltip Message Select one... option DevelopmentOfDevelopment option To bring development further BrainStorming option Ideas ...
TopicDisplayName
Feature Proposal: Topic display name Create the possibility for a display name (the way a topic is shown as link) for every topic. Motivation Display (topic) names ...
TopicInteractionPlugin
The plupload part is forked at http://github.com/MichaelDaum/plupload Main.MichaelDaum 28 Oct 2010
TopicLinker
Topic linker I came across this message box on Quora that lets you insert links to other pages. It would be nice as addon for Wysiwyg and CommentPlugin. The display ...
TopicMovedMessageTooVisible
Problem The WEB.TOPIC moved from OLDWEB.OLDTOPIC on date by user put it back message is too visible and distracts users. I thinks it belongs more to the "More.. ...
TopicNameMappingTable
TopicNameMappingTable * Set SPACEDWIKIWORDPLUGIN_SPACE_OUT_WIKI_WORD_LINKS = 0 The table below shows the topic that need renaming and the new name. See also the TWikiTerminologyMap ...
TopicObjectModel
Topic Object Model (formerly TWiki Object Model) Note: CC Main.RaymondLutz's original proposal is available from the history of this topic, but as it got no implementation ...
TopicRecursePlugin
Feature Proposal: BRAINSTORMING: Core equivalent of DBRECURSE Motivation Without DBCachePlugin's DBRECURSE, it's impossible to do anything useful with topic hierarchies ...
TopicStructureForFoswikiExtensions
Topic Structure For Foswiki Extensions Please discuss on the discussion page. Overview Update the instructions on this page with your extension: Extension Name: ...
TopicStructureForFoswikiExtensionsTalk
TopicStructureForFoswikiExtensionsTalk i've added a link to the Development topic from Tasks.Component. now you can reach the download, support, and development pages ...
TopicSummary
A single line summary of content, often used in reporting search results.
TopicWasMovedToAnotherWebTestLogging
Let's test if renaming this page in the same Sandbox web is logged in Sandbox.WebChanges. Accessing data via %QUERY%: Move from to Move from to Link to this page ...
TopicsShouldGetTypesFromFormsNotNames
Feature Proposal: Short summary Motivation Reasons why this feature is needed, and why it is suitable for adding to the next release of Foswiki. Forms shouldn't ...
TranscludeEarlier
TranscludeEarlier Transclude earlier? This is a long way from an actual feature proposal, but I thought I'd see what thoughts people might have on this topic. Currently ...
TranslationProcess
TranslationProcess Foswiki translation process This topic is about coordinating the translation process. For information on how to make translations to individual ...
TranslationProcessTalk
TranslationProcessTalk Translation process for topics For the UI translations (mostly single strings) we follow a master language approach which makes sense. When ...
TranslationUserInterface
TranslationUserInterface TranslationUserInterface This document is targeted at translators. If you are looking for instructions on configuring your Foswiki to work ...
TrimAllSpaces
Feature Proposal: Variation on TRIM to remove all spaces Motivation TRIM reduces multiple spaces to one space. But there needs to be a variant that removes all spaces ...
TwistyPluginAccordion
Feature Proposal: Implementing Accordion to Twisty Motivation To have other ways to structure content, hide and show things Description and Documentation http:/ ...
USERINFOisTooRestrictive
Feature Proposal: Allow USERINFO macro to display users that are not view restricted Motivation Currently USERINFO is all or nothing. If $Foswiki::cfg{AntiSpam}{HideUserDetails ...
UnderConstruction
ChangeProposals that are in state UnderConstruction These ChangeProposals are at the stage where documentation and/or coding has started; these are LiveProjects.
UnderInvestigation
ChangeProposals that are in state UnderInvestigation Basic proposal, concept or report, anything which hasn't entered the workflow proper. Examples are: a reported ...
UnderstandingEncodings
Understanding Encodings Why do we have such a hard time with international character sets? As more of us start to understand how they work, the implications of support ...
UnicodeCharactersInNonUtf8Encodings
Unicode Characters in non UTF 8 Encodings Background It has been suggested that Foswiki should use only UTF 8 for site locales (i.e. {Site}{Locale} should only be ...
UnicodeCollation
Unicode collation Unicode has support for specific collation rules, used when sorting data see the Unicode documentation and CPAN:Unicode::Collate. This may be ...
UnicodeNormalisation
UnicodeNormalisation As part of later phases of Legacy.ProposedUTF8SupportForI18N, TWiki will by default expect and use Unicode NFC (Normalisation Form C), like Linux ...
UnicodeProblemsAndSolutionCandidates
Problems with Unicode and Solution Candidates See UseUTF8 instead. The Task Write a Perl programm that prints to STDOUT all its command line arguments and checks ...
UnicodeSupport
Unicode support TODO * Crawford removed the {NameFilter} stuff, which means we need to review our XSS strategy before merging the unicode branch on github back ...
UnitTests
Test Cases Tutorial Introduction Foswiki is written in Perl. Like all large and complex software projects, it requires developers to be disciplined and focused on ...
UpdatingExtensionsScriptZone
Updating Extensions to use script zone instead of .VarADDTOHEAD Example Current extensions, such as JQueryPlugin, no longer add = script = markup using ADDTOHEAD ...
UpgradeSafeCustomisationsOfSystemTopics
Feature Proposal: Allow users to customise System topics (such as WebSearch) in an upgrade safe way Motivation Allow admins and plugins to easily customise system ...
UpgradingFromTWikiOrg
Upgrading from TWiki to Foswiki This topic means to collect notes on what an upgrade entails, and thus what an upgrade script ought to be doing if we write one. ...
UsabilityHeuristics
Usability Categories And Heuristics Intention of this page: Development of new features or the new skin shall be checked against these categories. Background info ...
Use401ForCookieAuth
Feature Proposal: Simplified require auth Status codes (401) This is a supporting topic discussing the details of 401 responses to REST requests that fail auth. Read ...
UseEnhanceAndMoveSpecFiles
Feature Proposal: .spec files are under used and only by configure. Would be nice to use them more   Motivation More often than none users are bitten because they ...
UseSpritesForDocumentGraphics
UseSpritesForDocumentGraphics Reduce page load times by combining System.DocumentGraphics into one sprite I'm not particular skilled at this but here's an example ...
UseSyntaxToChangeEvaluationOrder
Feature Proposal: Use a different assignment operator to delay macro evaluation inside parameters Motivation In HereDocumentSyntaxForMacros Main.MichaelDaum wrote ...
UseUTF8
UseUTF8 The more work I do on getting I18N support right in WYSIWYG, the more convinced I am that Foswiki goes out of its way to make life difficult for users, admins ...
UseVariableForSignature
Feature Proposal: Make the signature format a variable Motivation Signatures formats are now hardcoded in templates. They should be configurable, and even per user ...
UserExperienceHub
User Experience Hub Entry point for all User Experience (UX) related issues, ideas, tasks. See Community.UserExperienceTaskTeam also. Foswiki's UX Projects If you ...
UserExperienceProjectAnalyzingTheStatusQuo
** Assessment of the current surface of TWiki 4.2.3 This project does not yet follow the guidelines as laid out in UserExperienceTaskTeamProjects. Please help improve ...
UserExperienceProjectDialogDrivenUI
UserExperienceProjectDialogDrivenUI This project does not yet follow the guidelines as laid out in UserExperienceTaskTeamProjects. Please help improve this page. ...
UserExperienceProjectForm
User Experience Project Form Name: Type: Size: Values: Tooltip message: TopicTitle text 80 Project title TopicSummary text 80 Classify ...
UserExperienceProjectOrganizeProjectWebsite
** Discussion topic on the website organization. Concrete task in Item29. This project does not yet follow the guidelines as described in UserExperienceTaskTeamProjects ...
UserExperienceProjectOrganizeProjectWebsiteTalk
UserExperienceProjectOrganizeProjectWebsiteTalk Home page link I removed the comment on not having a link to the home page in the main menu. Though it does not necessarily ...
UserExperienceProjectPageTitle
** This project does not yet follow the guidelines as layed out in UserExperienceTaskTeamProjects. Please help improve this page. Summary We need to consolidate ...
UserExperienceProjectWebsiteDesign
UserExperienceProjectWebsiteDesign Goal of this Project The goal of this project is to design the user exerience for the project's website. Work of this project is ...
UserExperienceProjectWireframesForNewReleaseSkinTalk
Discussion page for the UX Project: Wireframes for New Release Skin Good initiative. Defining the UX roadmap is definitely what is needed. Normally a roadmap or vision ...
UserExperienceTaskTeamProjects
User Experience Task Team Projects This is a collection of separate and concrete projects that are under discussion or development. See also the User Experience Task ...
UserExperienceVision
The vision for Foswikis User Experience Please help shaping the vision. It will set as a guideline for the Development of the new skin and overall user experience ...
UserInterfaceInternationalisation
User Interface Internationalisation Introduction This document is targeted at developers (core and plugin code and user interface developers). If you are looking ...
UserInterfaceWishList
UserInterfaceWishList It's Xmas time! Write down your wishes and they might come true : ) Please group contents in areas like "edit screen", forms, installation, ...
UsingADDTOZONE
UsingADDTOZONE The plan is to make this the master registry of ADDTOZONE identifiers and a centre of best practice. Note: as of 25/7/10, this is all in CDot's checkout ...
UsingBuildbotForContinuousIntegration
Using Buildbot For Continuous Integration I have been using buildbot for continuous integration for a number of projects, including my Foswiki psgi branch and it works ...
UsingJQueryWithFoswiki
Introduction jQuery is an industry standard Javascript framework, used by a lot of Foswiki extensions and many foswiki developers. jQuery is the "javascript framework ...
UsingModEnvToSimplifyMultisite
UsingModEnvToSimplifyMultisite I've been meaning to write this down for ages, but only just got round to it. For better or for worse, here's how I handle the simple ...
VarCachePlugin
I would rather that the cache is kept in working/cache so it does not conflict with files to be automatically attached from the pub folder for that topic using Extensions ...
VarFORMFIELDMissingThirdDefaultParameter
Feature Proposal: System.VarFORMFIELD is missing a default parameter option when the field is not instantiated in the topic Motivation System.VarFORMFIELD needs a ...
VernonLyonWouldLikeToCheckIn
VernonLyon Would Like to Check in Who am I? Hi peeps! I'm moving over from TWiki and would like to help with the QuickMenuSkin again. I also did some work on the ...
ViewTemplate
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ViewfileHttpRangeHeader
Feature Proposal: Viewfile could usefully support the Http GET "Range" header Motivation When, for instance, a video file (eg .rm file) is attached, and referred ...