TWiki Web Preferences

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

Web Preferences Settings

These settings override the defaults for this web only. See full list of defaults with explanation.

• Web settings:
  • Set WEBTOPICLIST = Welcome  |  Register  |  Changes  |  Topics  |  Index  |  Search  |  Go
  • Set WEBBGCOLOR = #FFD8AA
  • Set WEBHEADERART = /foswiki/pub/TWiki/WebPreferences/Dakar.gif
  • Set SITEMAPLIST = on
  • Set SITEMAPWHAT = Welcome, Registration, and other StartingPoints; TWiki history & Wiki style; All the docs...
  • Set SITEMAPUSETO = ...discover TWiki details, and how to start your own site.

• Default template for new topics for this web:
  • WebTopicEditTemplate: Site-level default topic template

• Comma separated list of forms that can be attached to topics in this web. See TWikiForms for more information.
  • Set WEBFORMS = TWikiPreferencesForm

• 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 = AdminGroup
  • #Set DENYWEBRENAME =
  • Set ALLOWWEBRENAME = AdminGroup

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

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

Help on Preferences

• A preference setting is defined by:
  3 or 6 spaces * Set NAME = value
  Example:
  • Set WEBBGCOLOR = #FFFFC0
• A preferences setting can be disabled with a # sign. Remove the # sign to enable a local customisation. Example:
  
  • #Set DENYWEBCHANGE = UnknownUser
• 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 your own preferences variables and use them in your topics and templates.

Related Topics

• TWiki.DefaultPreferences, Main.SitePreferences - site-level preferences
• WikiUsers - list of user topics. User topics can have optional user preferences
• TWikiVariables - list of common %VARIABLES%
• TWikiAccessControl - explains how to restrict access by users or groups

Tools

• Rename, move or delete this web:
  • Rename/move/delete web..., looking for references in all public webs - See also: ManagingWebs