TWiki Tips Of The Day

These are all tips of the day. They are located in the TWiki web (official TWiki tips) and Main web (custom tips).

• The Go Box as a browser: The go box (also called jump box) is not only a tool to allow you to jump from page to page, you can...

• WebChanges to see recent activity: Each TWiki web has a WebChanges topic that lists recent activity from all editors of the web. This p...

• Raw Text link: At the bottom of the page next to Edit and Attach, there is a Raw Text link that allows one to easil...

• E-mail alert of topic changes: Subscribing to WebNotify will enable TWiki to send you details of changes made on topics in a certai...

• Re-parenting a topic: The breadcrumb displayed with a particular TWiki topic is constructed with a topic's Parent. On the ...

• Creating a Table of Contents: The TWikiVariables %TOC% will automatically create a table of contents for a topic based on the head...

• Linking to a file attachment: One can create a link to a file attachment using one of the following TWikiVariables, %ATTACHURL% or...

• Escaping TWiki rendering: Use the verbatim tag to surround code excerpts and other formatted text with = verbatim = and = /ver...

• Disabling links in large blocks of text: You can disable automatic linking of WikiWords by surrounding the text with = noautolink = and = /no...

• Disabling individual WikiWords: Prevent a WikiWord from being linked by prefixing it with an exclamation point. Example: To escape S...

• Server side include: To include the contents of a web page or TWiki topic, use %INCLUDE{"page"}%. Examples: * %INCLUDE...

• WikiWords for linking: WikiWords are capitalized words, run together, such as WebPreferences and CollaborationPlatform. Usi...

• Preference settings: TWiki has four levels of preferences settings: 1 Site level settings: * Site name, proxy s...

• File attachments: One can attach files to any topic. The action of attaching a file to a topic is similar to attaching...

• Breadcrumb : The breadcrumb of a topic shows you page hierarchy. It is constructed using a topic's parent setting...

• TWiki Skins : Skins overlay regular templates with alternate header/footer layouts. You can use Skins to change th...

• Revision control: TWiki has "Soft security" anyone can change anything, but changes are logged. There is a complete...

• Inline search: To embed a search in a topic, use the %SEARCH{ parameters }% TWiki Variable. The search variable i...

• Commenting with hidden text: To hide sections of a TWiki topic, use HTML comments. Example comment within a sentence: Visible !...

• InterwikiPlugin links: The InterwikiPlugin automatically links ExternalSite:Page text to external sites based on aliases de...

• SmiliesPlugin emoticons: Smilies are common in e mail messages and bulletin board posts. They are used to convey an emotion, ...

• Edit tables with EditTablePlugin: The EditTablePlugin allows you to edit TWiki tables using edit fields and drop down boxes. Tables ha...

• Control table attributes with TablePlugin: The TablePlugin gives extra control of table display: * Allows sorting * Changing table proper...

• Comment box with CommentPlugin : The CommentPlugin allows users to quickly post comments to a page without an edit/preview/save cycle...

• SpreadSheetPlugin for dynamic content: Over 60 formulae are available through the SpreadSheetPlugin. For Example: * $AVERAGE() * $IF(...

• SlideShowPlugin for presentations: Use the SlideShowPlugin to convert a topic with headings and bullets into a slideshow presentation. ...

• Custom rendered bullets: The RenderListPlugin can render bulleted lists in a variety of different ways. Use %RENDERLIST{ par...

• Keyword search: Interactive search is a keyword search by default. For example, to search for all topics that contai...

• RSS news feed of topic changes: You can use an RSS news reader to find out what is new in a TWiki web. This complements WebChanges t...

Total: 29 tips

See also: TWiki Tips Of The Day Administration

-- TWiki:Main.PaulineCheung - 06 Jan 2005