A List of User Documentation

Documentation mainly useful to end users

ACRONYM: Linking topics using acronyms.
Access Control: Restricting read and write access to topics and webs, by users and groups
Beginners Start Here: This is a short introduction to Foswiki.
Data Forms: Structured data, how to set up and work with data forms.
File Attachment: Each topic can have one or more files of any type attached to it by using the Attach screen to upload (or download) files from your local PC. Attachments are stored under revision control: uploads are automatically backed up; all previous versions of a modified file can be retrieved.
Formatted Search: Customize the display of search results.
Frequently Asked Questions: This is a real FAQ, and also a demo of an easily implemented knowledge-base solution. You may view the code for the topic creator or raw text of the whole topic to see how it was done.
Glossary Of Terms: Glossary of Foswiki-specific terminology.
Good Style: A short list of hints and recommendations that are considered basic knowledge when starting to edit existing topics.
Include Topics And Web Pages: Embed topics, or subsections of topics, or other web pages.
Installed Plugins: This site is running Foswiki version v2.1.6 , Release Foswiki-2.1.6, Foswiki API version 2.4
Macros: Special text strings expand on the fly to display information, or trigger a function.
Macros Quick Reference: See Macros for a detailed description of how to use Macros
Main Features: the ideal collaboration tool?
Managing Topics: Browser-based rename, move, copy, and delete for individual topics
Managing Webs: Browser-based rename, move, copy, and delete for individual webs
Preference Settings: A preference setting lets you define a simple macro that will be expanded in your output. In addition:
Query Search: Query searches help you search the contents of forms attached to your topics, as well as the values of other meta-data attached to the topic. Using query searches you can search:
Query Search Pattern Cookbook: This topic provides tips on the usage of Query Search.
Regular Expression: Regular expressions (REs), unlike simple text queries, allow you to search for text which matches a particular pattern.
Search Pattern Cookbook: The Search function is very powerful. Searches using a Regular Expression play an important part of tapping Foswiki's full potential. Unfortunately Regular Expressions can be incredibly obscure to the uninitiated.
Standard Colors: This table can be used to choose a color in Web Preferences of each web.
Text Editor: A text editor is different from a WYSIWYG editor because it doesn't do display formatting like bold type, or mixed font styles, sizes and colors.
Time Specifications: Date/time formats recognised and generated by Foswiki.
Topic Markup Language: The special text format used in Foswiki topics to simplify topic text.
Topics And Webs: What are Topics and Webs?
Twenty Minute Tutorial: This step-by-step, hands-on tutorial gets you up to speed with all the Foswiki basics...
User Setting: Some of the preference settings are explicitly intended to be customized by users, though a default is provided in System.Default Preferences and site wide customisation can take place in Users.Site Preferences.
Using HTML: When, and how, to use HTML in topics.
WYSIWYG: WYSIWYG is an acronym for for "What You See Is What You Get". Foswiki allows you to edit content using a WYSIWYG editor. This editor lets you edit the topic as it will appear when you save the topic, just like a text processor.
Wiki Culture: General concept and idea of wikis.
Wiki Syntax Summary: Online help for new users of Foswiki when editing a page.
Wiki Word: A WikiWord consists of two or more words with initial capitals, run together. Wiki Words are used to refer to topics.

A List of User Documentation

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