What is an ACRONYM? An acronym is an abbreviation that is typically made up of the first letter or letters of a phrase. A very familiar example would be WWW stan...

This is a short introduction to Foswiki. What is a Wiki? The basic function of Foswiki is a Wiki (if that helps!) A Wiki is like a web site, except that you can ...

Editing Shorthand Formatting Command: You write: You get: Paragraphs: Blank lines will create new paragraphs. 1st paragraph 2nd paragraph 1st paragraph 2nd ...

A set of pages of information that are open and free for anyone to edit as they wish. They are stored in a server and managed using some software. The system crea...

Frequently Asked Questions This is a real FAQ, and also a demo of an easily implemented knowledge base solution. You may view the code for the topic creator or ra...

Collaboration Tips Following you will find a short list of hints and recommendations that are considered basic knowledge when starting to edit existing topics. ...

Instant Site Enhancements These quick enhancements are aimed at improving and customising your Foswiki as quickly as possible. New site administrators are encoura...

Appendix A: Foswiki Development Time line Foswiki Release 1.1.9 19 Nov 2013 Foswiki 1.1.9 was built 18 Nov 2013. It is a release that contains 43 fixes and 4 e...

Foswiki Release 1.1.9 Foswiki The Free and Open Source Wiki Foswiki is an enterprise collaboration and information sharing tool targeted for professional use i...

This topic has been deprecated please see WikiSyntax instead.

Shortcuts Easy ways to save some typing Some macros are just shortcuts for longer sequences of characters, to either save typing or to easily allow line breaks in...

SyntaxHighlightingPlugin Description The Syntax Highlighting Plugin is used to emphasize the rendering of your wiki text according to several languages. It uses ...

TinyMCE FAQs Frequently Asked Questions of the TinyMCEPlugin integration. Q: The editor takes over the standard edit screen. That's OK, but how do I get access t...

Raw Text link At the bottom of each page among the action links (assuming use of the default PatternSkin), there is a View wiki text link which shows how a topic ...

Topics #SystemWebFigure Figure: depiction of WebHome, ReferenceManual, ManagingTopics, ManagingWebs, MainFeatures topics contained in the System web #TopicDef...

20 Minute Tutorial This step by step, hands on tutorial gets you up to speed with all the Foswiki basics... 1. Get set... Open two browser windows, so that you...

A List of User Documentation $ AccessKeys : Access keys are keyboard shortcuts which allow the user to navigate around a website or a piece of computer sof...

User's Guide Some documentation topics selected specially for users * Quick Start * User Registration: Sign up so you can edit pages and select options ...

Using HTML You can use most HTML tags in topics without a problem. This is useful where you want to add some content that is formatted in a way that is not suppor...

#VarTOC TOC{"Topic"} table of contents * Table of Contents. Shows a TOC that is generated automatically based on headings of a topic. Headings in WikiSyntax...

Welcome to Foswiki Welcome to Foswiki! This site is a meeting place to work on common interests. Anyone can contribute using any web browser. Foswiki looks like a...

Wiki culture, concepts and principles General concept and idea of wikis What is a wiki? "A wiki is a page or collection of Web pages designed to enable anyone w...

What is a WikiWord? A WikiWord consists of two or more words with initial capitals, run together. WikiWords are topic names. A Foswiki topic name always has a fix...