Note: This topic is included by TWikiVariables
NOP -- template text not to be expanded in instantiated topics
- Syntax:
%NOP%
- In normal topic text, expands to <nop>, which prevents expansion of adjacent variables and wikiwords
- When the topic containing this is used as a template for another topic, it is removed.
- Syntax:
%NOP{...}% deprecated
- In normal topic text, expands to whatever is in the curly braces (if anything).
-
 Note: This is deprecated. Do not use it. Use %STARTSECTION{type="templateonly"}% .. %ENDSECTION{type="templateonly"}% instead (see TWikiTemplates for more details).
- Related: STARTSECTION, TWikiTemplates
NOTIFYTOPIC -- name of the notify topic
PLUGINDESCRIPTIONS -- list of plugin descriptions
- Syntax:
%PLUGINDESCRIPTIONS%
- Expands to:
- SpreadSheetPlugin (Dakar, 8154): Add spreadsheet calculation like
"$SUM( $ABOVE() )" to tables located in wiki.fini topics. - ActionTrackerPlugin (Dakar, 8090): Adds support for action tags in topics, and automatic notification of action statii
- BatchUploadPlugin (1.2, 12334): Attach multiple files at once by uploading a zip archive
- BlackListPlugin (any TWiki, 9979): Utility to keep malicious users away from a public TWiki site
- CalendarPlugin: (disabled)
- CommentPlugin (Dakar, 8164): Allows users to quickly post comments to a page without an edit/preview/save cycle.
- EditTablePlugin (Dakar, 8154): Edit TWiki tables using edit fields, date pickers and drop down boxes
- FilterPlugin (0.94, $Rev: 8790$): Substitute and extract information from content by using regular expressions
- GluePlugin (1.51, $Rev: 11220$): Enable TWikiML to span multiple lines
- IfDefinedPlugin (v0.91, $Rev: 9172$): Render content conditionally
- ImageGalleryPlugin (3.4, 9392): Displays image gallery with auto-generated thumbnails from attachments.
- ImagePlugin (0.4, $Rev: 12310$): Control the display and alignment of images using an easy syntax
- InterwikiPlugin (Dakar, $Rev: 8713$): Link
ExternalSite:Page text to external sites based on aliases defined in a rules topic - LinkOptionsPlugin (Dakar, 11207): Extends the "Forced Specific Links" syntax
=[[URL or TopicName][Link Text][Options]]== - NatSkinPlugin (2.994, $Rev: 9229$): Supplements the bare bones NatSkin theme for TWiki
- PreferencesPlugin (Dakar, 8170): Allows editing of preferences using fields predefined in a form
- RedDotPlugin (1.33, $Rev: 9171$): Renders edit-links as little red dots
- RenderListPlugin (Dakar, $Rev: 8713$): Render bullet lists in a variety of formats
- SlideShowPlugin (Dakar, $Rev: 8713$): Create web based presentations based on topics with headings.
- SmiliesPlugin (Dakar, 8154): Render smilies as icons, like = :-) for
 or :cool: for :cool: - TablePlugin (Dakar, 8154): Control attributes of tables and sorting of table columns
- ToolTipPlugin (Dakar, 9833): create Tool Tips for links
- TreePlugin (v0.6): Dynamic generation of TWiki topic trees
- WysiwygPlugin (Dakar, 8592): Translator framework and WYSIWYG editor for TWiki topics
- Related: ACTIVATEDPLUGINS, FAILEDPLUGINS, PLUGINVERSION
PLUGINVERSION -- the version of a TWiki Plugin, or the TWiki Plugins API
PUBURL -- the base URL of attachments
PUBURLPATH -- the base URL path of attachments
QUERYSTRING -- full, unprocessed string of parameters to this URL
- String of all the URL parameters that were on the URL used to get to the current page. For example, if you add ?name=Samantha;age=24;eyes=blue to this URL you can see this in action. This string can be appended to a URL to pass parameter values on to another page.
- Note: URLs built this way are typically restricted in length, typically to 2048 characters. If you need more space than this, you will need to use an HTML form and
%URLPARAM{}%.
- Syntax:
%QUERYSTRING%
- Expands to:
- Related: URLPARAM
REMOTE_ADDR -- environment variable
REMOTE_PORT -- environment variable
REMOTE_USER -- environment variable
REVINFO -- revision information of current topic
REVINFO{"format"} -- formatted revision information of topic
- Syntax:
%REVINFO{"format"}%
- Supported parameters:
| Parameter: | Description: | Default: |
|---|
"format" | Format of revision information, see supported variables below | "r1.$rev - $date - $wikiusername" | web="..." | Name of web | Current web | topic="..." | Topic name | Current topic | rev="1.5" | Specific revison number | Latest revision |
- Supported variables in format:
| Variable: | Unit: | Example |
|---|
$web | Name of web | Current web | $topic | Topic name | Current topic | $rev | Revison number. Prefix r1. to get the usual r1.5 format | 5 | $date | Revision date | 11 Jul 2004 | $username | Login username of revision | jsmith | $wikiname | WikiName of revision | JohnSmith | $wikiusername | WikiName with Main web prefix | Main.JohnSmith |
- Example:
%REVINFO{"$date - $wikiusername" rev="1.1"}% returns revision info of first revision
- Related: REVINFO
SCRIPTNAME -- name of current script
- The name of the current script is shown, including script suffix, if any (for example
viewauth.cgi)
- Syntax:
%SCRIPTNAME%
- Expands to:
view
- Related: SCRIPTSUFFIX, SCRIPTURL, SCRIPTURLPATH
SCRIPTSUFFIX -- script suffix
- Some wiki.fini installations require a file extension for CGI scripts, such as
.pl or .cgi
- Syntax:
%SCRIPTSUFFIX%
- Expands to:
- Related: SCRIPTNAME, SCRIPTURL, SCRIPTURLPATH
SCRIPTURL -- base URL of TWiki scripts
SCRIPTURL{"script"} -- URL of TWiki script
- Syntax:
%SCRIPTURL{"script"}%
- Expands to:
/bin/script
- Example: To get the authenticated version of the current topic you can write
%SCRIPTURL{"viewauth"}%/%WEB%/%TOPIC% which expands to /bin/viewauth/TWiki/TWikiVariablesNtoZ
- Note: In most cases you should use
%SCRIPTURLPATH{"script"}% instead, as it works with URL rewriting much better
- Related: PUBURL, SCRIPTNAME, SCRIPTSUFFIX, SCRIPTURL, SCRIPTURLPATH, SCRIPTURLPATH{"script"}
SCRIPTURLPATH -- base URL path of TWiki scripts
SCRIPTURLPATH{"script"} -- URL path of TWiki script
SEARCH{"text"} -- search content
- Inline search, shows a search result embedded in a topic
- Syntax:
%SEARCH{"text" ...}%
- Supported parameters:
| Parameter: | Description: | Default: |
|---|
"text" | Search term. Is a keyword search, literal search or regular expression search, depending on the type parameter. SearchHelp has more | required | search="text" | (Alternative to above) | N/A | web="Name"
web="Main, Know"
web="all" | Comma-separated list of webs to search. The special word all means all webs that doe not have the NOSEARCHALL variable set to on in their WebPreferences. You can specifically exclude webs from an all search using a minus sign - for example, web="all,-Secretweb". | Current web | topic="WebPreferences"
topic="*Bug" | Limit search to topics: A topic, a topic with asterisk wildcards, or a list of topics separated by comma. | All topics in a web | excludetopic="Web*"
excludetopic="WebHome, WebChanges" | Exclude topics from search: A topic, a topic with asterisk wildcards, or a list of topics separated by comma. | None | type="keyword"
type="literal"
type="regex" | Do a keyword search like soap "web service" -shampoo; a literal search like web service; or RegularExpression search like soap;web service;!shampoo | %SEARCHVAR- DEFAULTTYPE% preferences setting (literal) | scope="topic"
scope="text"
scope="all" | Search topic name (title); the text (body) of topic; or all (both) | "text" | order="topic"
order="created"
order="modified"
order="editby"
order=
"formfield(name)" | Sort the results of search by the topic names, topic creation time, last modified time, last editor, or named field of TWikiForms. The sorting is done web by web; if you want to sort across webs, create a formatted table and sort it with TablePlugin's initsort. Note that dates are sorted most recent date last (i.e at the bottom of the table). | Sort by topic name | limit="all"
limit="16" | Limit the number of results returned. This is done after sorting if order is specified | All results | date="..." | limits the results to those pages with latest edit time in the given TimeInterval. | All results | reverse="on" | Reverse the direction of the search | Ascending search | casesensitive="on" | Case sensitive search | Ignore case | bookview="on" | BookView search, e.g. show complete topic text | Show topic summary | nonoise="on" | Shorthand for nosummary="on" nosearch="on" nototal="on" zeroresults="off" noheader="on" noempty="on" | Off | nosummary="on" | Show topic title only | Show topic summary | nosearch="on" | Suppress search string | Show search string | noheader="on" | Suppress search header
Topics: Changed: By: | Show search header, unless seach is inline and a format is specified (Cairo compatibility) | nototal="on" | Do not show number of topics found | Show number | zeroresults="off" | Suppress all output if there are no hits | zeroresults="on", displays: "Number of topics: 0" | noempty="on" | Suppress results for webs that have no hits. | Show webs with no hits | header="..."
format="..." | Custom format results: see FormattedSearch for usage, variables & examples | Results in table | expandvariables="on" | Expand variables before applying a FormattedSearch on a search hit. Useful to show the expanded text, e.g. to show the result of a SpreadSheetPlugin %CALC{}% instead of the formula | Raw text | multiple="on" | Multiple hits per topic. Each hit can be formatted. The last token is used in case of a regular expression ";" and search | Only one hit per topic | nofinalnewline="on" | If on, the search variable does not end in a line by itself. Any text continuing immediately after the search variable on the same line will be rendered as part of the table generated by the search, if appropriate. | off | recurse="on" | Recurse into subwebs, if subwebs are enabled. | off | separator=", " | Line separator between hits | Newline "$n" |
- Example:
%SEARCH{"wiki" web="Main" scope="topic"}%
- Example with format:
%SEARCH{"FAQ" scope="topic" nosearch="on" nototal="on" header="| *Topic: * | *Summary: * |" format="| $topic | $summary |"% (displays results in a table with header - details)
-
 Hint: If the TWiki:Plugins.TablePlugin is installed, you may set a %TABLE{}% variable just before the %SEARCH{}% to alter the output of a search. Example: %TABLE{ tablewidth="90%" }%
- Related: METASEARCH, TOPICLIST, WEBLIST, FormattedSearch
SERVERTIME -- server time
SERVERTIME{"format"} -- formatted server time
- Same format qualifiers as
%GMTIME%
- Syntax:
%SERVERTIME{"format"}%
- Example:
%SERVERTIME{"$hou:$min"}% expands to 10:56
- Note: When used in a template topic, this variable will be expanded when the template is used to create a new topic. See TWikiTemplates#TemplateTopicsVars for details.
- Related: DISPLAYTIME, GMTIME, SERVERTIME
SESSION_VARIABLE -- get, set or clear a session variable
SESSIONID -- unique ID for this session
SESSIONVAR -- name of CGI and session variable that stores the session ID
SPACEDTOPIC -- topic name, spaced and URL-encoded deprecated
- The current topic name with added URL-encoded spaces, for use in regular expressions that search for backlinks to the current topic
- Syntax:
%SPACEDTOPIC%
- Expands to:
TWiki%20*Variables%20*Nto%20*Z
- Note: This is a deprecated variable. It can be duplicated with
%ENCODE{%SPACEOUT{"%TOPIC%" separator=" *"}%}%
- Related: SPACEOUT, TOPIC, ENCODE
SPACEOUT{"string"} -- renders string with spaces inserted in sensible places
- Inserts spaces after lower case letters that are followed by a digit or a capital letter, and after digits that are followed by a capital letter.
- Useful for spacing out WikiWords
- Syntax:
%SPACEOUT{ "%TOPIC%" }%
- Expands to:
TWiki Variables Nto Z
- Supported parameters:
| Parameter: | Description: | Default: |
|---|
separator | The separator to put between words e.g. %SPACEOUT{"DogsCatsBudgies" separator=", "}% -> Dogs, Cats, Budgies | ' ' |
-
 Hint: Spaced out WikiWords are not automatically linked. To SPACEOUT a WikiWord but preserve the link use "double bracket" format. For example, [[WebHome][%SPACEOUT{"WebHome"}%]] expands to Web Home
- Related: SPACEDTOPIC, $PROPERSPACE() of SpreadSheetPlugin
STARTINCLUDE -- start position of topic text if included
- If present in included topic, start to include text from this location up to the end, or up to the location of the
%STOPINCLUDE% variable. A normal view of the topic shows everything exept the %STARTINCLUDE% variable itself.
- Note: If you want more than one part of the topic included, use
%STARTSECTION{type="include"}% instead
- Syntax:
%STARTINCLUDE%
- Related: INCLUDE, STARTSECTION, STOPINCLUDE
STARTSECTION -- marks the start of a section within a topic
- Section boundaries are defined with
%STARTSECTION{}% and %ENDSECTION{}%.
- Sections may be given a name to help identify them, and/or a type, which changes how they are used.
-
type="section" - the default, used for a generic section, such as a named section used by INCLUDE.
-
type="include" - like %STARTINCLUDE% ... %STOPINCLUDE% except that you can have as many include blocks as you want (%STARTINCLUDE% is restricted to only one).
-
type="templateonly" - start position of text to be removed when a template topic is used. This is used to embed text that you do not want expanded when a new topic based on the template topic is created. See TWikiTemplates for more information.
- Syntax:
%STARTSECTION{"name"}% ................ %ENDSECTION{"name"}%
- Syntax:
%STARTSECTION{type="include"}% ........ %ENDSECTION{type="include"}%
- Syntax:
%STARTSECTION{type="templateonly"}% ... %ENDSECTION{type="templateonly"}%
- Supported parameters:
| Parameter: | Description: | Default |
|---|
"name" | Name of the section. Must be unique inside a topic. | Generated name | type="..." | Type of the section; type "section", "include" or "templateonly" | "section" |
- Note: If a section is not given a name, it will be assigned one. Unnamed sections are assigned names starting with
_SECTION0 for the first unnamed section in the topic, _SECTION1 for the second, etc..
- Note: You can define nested sections. It is not recommended to overlap sections, although it is valid in TWiki. Use named sections to make sure that the correct START and ENDs are matched. Section markers are not displayed when a topic is viewed.
- Related: ENDSECTION, INCLUDE, NOP, STARTINCLUDE, STOPINCLUDE
STATISTICSTOPIC -- name of statistics topic
STOPINCLUDE -- end position of topic text if included
- If present in included topic, stop to include text at this location and ignore the remaining text. A normal view of the topic shows everyting exept the
%STOPINCLUDE% variable itself.
- Syntax:
%STOPINCLUDE%
- Related: INCLUDE, STARTINCLUDE
TOC -- table of contents of current topic
TOC{"Topic"} -- table of contents
- Table of Contents. Shows a TOC that is generated automatically based on headings of a topic. Headings in WikiSyntax (
"---++ text") and HTML ("<h2>text</h2>") are taken into account. Any heading text after "!!" is excluded from the TOC; for example, write "---+!! text" if you do not want to list a header in the TOC
- Syntax:
%TOC{"SomeTopic" ...}%
- Supported parameters:
| Parameter: | Description: | Default: |
|---|
"TopicName" | topic name | Current topic | web="Name" | Name of web | Current web | depth="2" | Limit depth of headings shown in TOC | 6 | title="Some text" | Title to appear at top of TOC | none |
- Example:
%TOC{depth="2"}%
- Example:
%TOC{"TWikiDocumentation" web="TWiki" title="Contents:"}%
- Example: see TWiki:Sandbox.TestTopicInclude
- Hint: TOC will generate links to the headings, so when a reader clicks on a heading it will jump straight where that heading is anchored in the text. If you have two headings with exactly the same text, then their anchors will also be identical and they won't be able to jump to them. To make the anchors unique, you can add an invisible HTML comment to the text of the heading. This will be hidden in normal view, but will force the anchors to be different. For example, ---+ Heading <!--5-->.
- Related: TOC
TOPIC -- name of current topic
TOPICLIST{"format"} -- topic index of a web
- List of all topics in a web. The "format" defines the format of one topic item. It may include variables: The
$name variable gets expanded to the topic name, $qname to double quoted name, $marker to marker parameter where topic matches selection, and $web to the name of the web.
- Syntax:
%TOPICLIST{"format" ...}%
- Supported parameters:
| Parameter: | Description: | Default: |
|---|
"format" | Format of one line, may include $web (name of web), $name (name of the topic), $qname (name of topic in double quotes), $marker (which expands to marker for the item matching selection only) | "$name" | format="format" | (Alternative to above) | "$name" | separator=", " | line separator | "$n" (new line) | marker="selected" | Text for $marker if the item matches selection | "selected" | selection="TopicA, TopicB" | Current value to be selected in list | (none) | web="Name" | Name of web | Current web |
- Example:
%TOPICLIST{" * $web.$name"}% creates a bullet list of all topics
- Example:
%TOPICLIST{separator=", "}% creates a comma separated list of all topics
- Example:
%TOPICLIST{" <option>$name</option>"}% creates an option list (for drop down menus)
- Example:
<select>%TOPICLIST{" <option $marker value='$name'>$name</option>" separator=" " selection="%TOPIC%"}%</select> creates an option list of web topics with the current topic selected
- Related: SEARCH, WEBLIST
TWIKIWEB -- name of TWiki documentation web
- The web containing all documentation and site-wide preference settings for wiki.fini
- Syntax:
%TWIKIWEB%
- Expands to:
TWiki
- Related: MAINWEB
URLPARAM{"name"} -- get value of a URL parameter
- Returns the value of a URL parameter.
- Syntax:
%URLPARAM{"name"}%
- Supported parameters:
| Parameter: | Description: | Default: |
|---|
"name" | The name of a URL parameter | required | default="..." | Default value in case parameter is empty or missing | empty string | newline="<br />" | Convert newlines in textarea to other delimiters | no conversion | encode="entity" | Encode special characters into HTML entities. See ENCODE for more details. | no encoding | encode="url" | Encode special characters for URL parameter use, like a double quote into %22 | no encoding | multiple="on"
multiple="[[$item]]" | If set, gets all selected elements of a <select multiple="multiple"> tag. A format can be specified, with $item indicating the element, e.g. multiple="Option: $item" | first element | separator=", " | Separator between multiple selections. Only relevant if multiple is specified | "\n" (new line) |
- Example:
%URLPARAM{"skin"}% returns print for a .../view/TWiki/TWikiVariablesNtoZ?skin=print URL
- Note: URL parameters passed into HTML form fields must be entity ENCODEd
- Note: When used in a template topic, this variable will be expanded when the template is used to create a new topic. See TWikiTemplates#TemplateTopicsVars for details.
- Note: There is a risk that this variable could be misused for cross-site scripting.
- Related: ENCODE, SEARCH, FormattedSearch, QUERYSTRING
USERINFO - retrieve details about the logged in user
- By default, the retrieved info will be formatted as a comma-separated list comprising the username, wikiusername, and emails.
- Syntax:
%USERINFO%
- Expands to: =guest, TWikiGuest, =
- you can also use the
format parameter to get different formatted results:
- Syntax:
%USERINFO{format="$username is really $wikiname"}%
- Expands to
guest is really TWikiGuest
- The tokens
$emails, $username, $wikiname, $wikiusername, and $groups are available for use in the format string.
- Related: USERNAME, WIKINAME, WIKIUSERNAME, TWikiUserAuthentication, ChangeEmailAddress
USERNAME -- your login username
VAR{"NAME" web="Web"} -- get a preference value from another web
- Syntax:
%VAR{"NAME" web="Web"}%
- Example: To get
%WEBBGCOLOR% of the Main web write %VAR{"WEBBGCOLOR" web="Main"}%, which expands to #FFEFA6
- Related: WEBPREFSTOPIC
WEB -- name of current web
WEBLIST{"format"} -- index of all webs
- List of all webs. Hidden webs are excluded, e.g. webs with a
NOSEARCHALL = on preference variable. The "format" defines the format of one web item. The $name variable gets expanded to the name of the web, $qname gets expanded to double quoted name, $marker to marker where web matches selection.
- Syntax:
%WEBLIST{"format" ...}%
- Supported parameters:
| Parameter: | Description: | Default: |
|---|
"format" | Format of one line, may include $name (the name of the web), $qname (the name of the web in double quotes), $indentedname (the name of the web with parent web names replaced by indents, for use in indented lists), and $marker (which expands to marker for the item matching selection only) | "$name" | format="format" | (Alternative to above) | "$name" | separator=", " | line separator | "$n" (new line) | webs="public" | comma separated list of webs, public expands to all non-hidden | "public" | marker="selected" | Text for $marker if the item matches selection | "selected" | selection="%WEB%" | Current value to be selected in list | section="%WEB%" |
- Example:
%WEBLIST{" * [[$name.WebHome]]"}% creates a bullet list of all webs.
- Example:
%WEBLIST{"<option $marker value=$qname>$name</option>" webs="Trash, public" selection="TWiki" separator=" "}% creates a dropdown of all public webs + Trash web, with the current web highlighted.
- Related: TOPICLIST, SEARCH
WEBPREFSTOPIC -- name of web preferences topic
WIKIHOMEURL -- site home URL deprecated
WIKINAME -- your Wiki username
WIKIPREFSTOPIC -- name of site-wide preferences topic
WIKITOOLNAME -- name of your TWiki site
WIKIUSERNAME -- your Wiki username with web prefix
WIKIUSERSTOPIC -- name of topic listing all registers users
WIKIVERSION -- the version of the installed TWiki engine
Related Topics: UserDocumentationCategory
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