TWiki Web Preferences

The following settings are web preferences of the TWiki web. These preferences overwrite the site-level preferences in TWikiPreferences, and can be overwritten by user preferences (your personal topic, eg: TWikiGuest^? in the Main web).

Preferences:

• List of topics of the TWiki.TWiki web:
  • Set WEBTOPICLIST = Welcome^? | Register^? | Changes | Topics | Index | Search | Go

• Web specific background color: (Pick a lighter one of the StandardColors^?)
  • Set WEBBGCOLOR = #FFD8AA

• List this web in the SiteMap^?:
  • If yes, Set SITEMAPLIST = on, and add the "what" and "use to..." description for the site map. Make sure to list only links that include the name of the web, e.g. TWiki.Topic links.
  • Set SITEMAPLIST = on
  • Set SITEMAPWHAT = The TWiki system web of the open software release site http://www.vtf.website/asc
  • Set SITEMAPUSETO = System web of the release site

• Exclude web from a web="all" search: (Set to on for hidden webs)
  • Set NOSEARCHALL =

• Prevent automatic linking of WikiWords^? and acronyms (if set to on); link WikiWords (if empty); can be overwritten by web preferences:
  • Set NOAUTOLINK =
  • Note: Use the [[...][...]] syntax to link topics in case you disabled WikiWord linking. The <noautolink> ... </noautolink> syntax can be used to prevents links within a block of text.

• Default template for new topics and form(s) for this web:
  • WebTopicEditTemplate: Site-level default template for new topics
  • TWikiForms^?: How to enable form(s)
  • Set WEBFORMS =

• Users or groups who are not / are allowed to view / change / rename topics in the TWiki web: (See TWikiAccessControl^?)
  • Set DENYWEBVIEW =
  • Set ALLOWWEBVIEW =
  • Set DENYWEBCHANGE =
  • Set ALLOWWEBCHANGE = TWikiAdminGroup^?
  • Set DENYWEBRENAME =
  • Set ALLOWWEBRENAME = TWikiAdminGroup^?

• Users or groups allowed to change or rename this WebPreferences topic: (I.e. TWikiAdminGroup^?)
  • Set ALLOWTOPICCHANGE = TWikiAdminGroup^?
  • Set ALLOWTOPICRENAME = TWikiAdminGroup^?

• Web preferences that are not allowed to be overridden by user preferences:
  • Set FINALPREFERENCES = NOSEARCHALL, ATTACHFILESIZELIMIT, WIKIWEBMASTER, WEBCOPYRIGHT, WEBTOPICLIST, DENYWEBVIEW, ALLOWWEBVIEW, DENYWEBCHANGE, ALLOWWEBCHANGE, DENYWEBRENAME, ALLOWWEBRENAME

Notes:

• A preference is defined as:
  6 spaces * Set NAME = value
  Example:
  • Set WEBBGCOLOR = #FFFFC0
• Preferences are used as TWikiVariables^? by enclosing the name in percent signs. Example:
  • When you write variable %WEBBGCOLOR% , it gets expanded to #FFD8AA .
• The sequential order of the preference settings is significant. Define preferences that use other preferences first, i.e. set WEBCOPYRIGHT before WIKIWEBMASTER since %WEBCOPYRIGHT% uses the %WIKIWEBMASTER% variable.
• You can introduce new preferences variables and use them in your topics and templates. There is no need to change the TWiki engine (Perl scripts).

Related Topics:

• TWikiPreferences has site-level preferences.
• TWikiUsers^? has a list of user topics. User topics can have optional user preferences.
• TWikiVariables^? has a list of common %VARIABLES%.
• TWikiAccessControl^? explains how to restrict access by users or groups.