Foswiki.Main Web Preferences

The following settings are web preferences of the Foswiki.Main web. These preferences overwrite the site-level preferences in DefaultPreferences, and can be overwritten by user preferences (your personal topic, i.e. TWikiGuest in the Foswiki.Main web)

Preferences:

• List of topics of the Foswiki.Main web:
  • Set WEBTOPICLIST = Users  |  Groups  |  Changes  |  Index  |  Search  |  Go

• Web specific background color: (Pick a lighter one of the StandardColors)
  • Set WEBBGCOLOR = #9b031e

• 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. Main.Topic links.
  • Set SITEMAPLIST = on
  • Set SITEMAPWHAT = Welcome to the Biostatistics main page.
  • Set SITEMAPUSETO = This is the main entry point to all Biostatistics content.

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

• Default template for new topics and form(s) for this web:
  • WebTopicEditTemplate?: Default template for new topics in this web. (Site-level is used if topic does not exist)
  • TWiki.WebTopicEditTemplate: Site-level default template
  • TWikiForms?: How to enable form(s)
  • Set WEBFORMS = ColesPreferencesForm, MicroArrayMassSpecProjectForm, WfccmBugReportForm, SubmitVacationRequest, UserForm

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

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

• Variables I want to use
  • Set LATEX = L^AT_EX

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

• Copyright notice:
  • Set WEBCOPYRIGHT = Copyright © 2009 by the contributing authors. All material on this collaboration platform is the property of the contributing authors.
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• 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 #9b031e .
• 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 Foswiki engine (Perl scripts).

• DefaultPreferences has site-level preferences.
• WikiUsers 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.