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I'd like to see a spell checker. I'm notoriously bad at spelling and any help would be appreciated. I have noticed that Ward Cunningham's Wiki has a spell checking ...
At our site, we are setting up TWiki behind a firewall, which requires us to use relative URLs. Otherwise, a user outside would connect to e.g. nop https://firewall ...
This might seem silly to Unix people, but for me figuring out how/why external utilities like RCS, .grep, and ls is tough on windows. Therefore, I would like to suggest ...
Imagine a topic has revision 1.12. A user changes the topic and adds some information (e.g. passwords, sensitive data, rude text) which sould not be in the topic at ...
Double Sided PDF Prompt Sheet Rather than be flipping screens, I thought it would be nice to have a hard copy "prompt sheet". I was thinking of something multi column ...
I set up a Bug tracking system using the WikiForms, and then i was shocked to find out that there was absolutly no support for searching or reporting of WikiForm ...
Hi all, is there any utility available using which Text pages can directly be converted into Twiki page or viewed as twiki page on the Twiki link. basically i am ...
It would be nice to expand the functionality of the % nop STARTINCLUDE% and % nop STOPINCLUDE% to allow demarcation of multiple sections within one topic for inclusion ...
Implemented: Use exclamation point to escape nop TWikiML rendering TWikiVariables and TWikiML rendering can be escaped by prefixing a variable or a word with an exclamation ...
WARNING : this is a very old support topic, and is probably not what you were looking for. See TransparentAuthentication instead. User registration does not detect ...
Hilight search terms It would be useful if after doing a web search, each found page hilights the search terms you just used. There is a javascript implementation ...
I created this page to collect all ideas how to improve testenv script in a way it will solve all problems for us and will automagically answer all questions : ...
Request: INCLUDE URL With https Protocol TWiki currently supports an INCLUDE of URLs with http protocol only. TWiki should support the https protocol as well it is ...
URLPARAM should expand in formfields I like to define a template topic with a form which contains an URLPARAM. Every time I enter it within the formfield it disappear ...
always creates links. This is not always preferable. Putting nop before does not work because the link is already there. In TWiki.pm (renderParent) the parent ...
Move Change/Add Form buttons to "topicaction" There have been a number of complaints on the placement of the button to change forms. The attached modifications to ...
The current MetaDataRendering is inconsistent which causes several problems, as discussed in RenderMetaInOtherTemplates, InconsistentApiCallsInRendering, TopicChildren ...
At our site we use Lotus Notes which makes a pretty poor stab at handling HTML encoded mails, so I'd like to be able to change the format for notify messages. The ...
And most significantly of all, NumberedHeadersAndLists which actually deals with generating a a Normal (i.e. "ALR" (Arabic Latin Roman) Numbered indented list. It ...
Implemented: Tool Tip Topic Info on Wiki Word Links Summary: Enhance the internal WikiWord links with a tool tip message that shows the topic info (summary, last ...
Hi, I started to install TWiki for our corporate intranet and realized that controlling documents (that come as links in most HTML's) could be improved in TWiki. With ...
Some of the ideas here have been rolled into the server side TWiki:Plugins/OpenOffice2TWikiAddOn including the XSLT stylesheet attached below. The stylesheets in the ...
This page does not load properly. It shows what happens when I try to embed a piece of JavaScript. The JavaScript worked fine when I used it on a HTML page before ...
This is intended to be a collaborative document putting the argument against the single hierarchy idea in TWiki. As it is a collaborative document, you have three ...
Development page for PatternSkin Refactored to highlight outstanding work CrawfordCurrie 08 Jul 2004 Executive summary: 1 Present the user a link/button with ...
TWiki Forms don't Expand Variables TWikiForms don't seem to expand "Set" variables. Test case In TWikiPreferences: Set FOOVAR A, B, C In a nop ...
Could we integrate something with the Cross Browser Rich Text Editor that is part of Mozilla IE? That would making editing of TWiki pages for non programmers a lot ...
Relative URIs don't work with Arbitrary Text For Wiki Word Links ArbitraryTextForWikiWordLinks doesn't support relative URIs (http://www.w3.org/TR/REC html40/intro ...
When I started using TWiki I thought it was good that it's difficult to delete a topic. Here are the steps: 1 More 1 Rename/move 1 Change Web to Trash ...
One users changes can trash anothers Test case Do This 1 Get one user to edit a page and keep it at the edit page 1 Get another to make some changes (Use Edit ...
The FormQueryPlugin provides potentially an enhancement by which one could realize such a searching functionality, but I didn't find out how to implement this, yet ...
It would be cool to be able to export a Twiki table to a CSV file. NateDrake 15 Dec 2003 Do you mean a simple twiki table (ie using ) ? or a WebForm Table ...
Feature Request: Include With Parameters Parameters to a topic being included cause include to fail Test case %INCLUDE{BugReport?SomeParameters}% MartinCleaver ...
Login button and User Identification For as long as I've been using and designing and building web based systems I've had to deal with programmers and user who simply ...
Please help to refactor these ideas into ConsolidateNotification If the conversations below repeat what's in ConsolidateNotification, please please help by deleting ...
This request stems from struggling for a surprisingly long time to figure out how to set a topic's parent topic before figuring it out. It comes in several parts ...
Send WikiName to Plugin registrationHandler Cloyce is a big moron he didn't notice that $wikiName was already the second parameter. (Actually, he thought it was ...
Please read ConsolidateNotification and MailerContrib It would be great if we could add people to a topic (similar to an attachment) which are immediately notified ...
Making use of HTTP REFERER HTTP REFERER: A variable passed by the web browser to the destination server giving the name and location of the document it just came ...
LiveLink Skin Against my TWiki wishes, and the ways of the Wiki:WikiMasters, but here it is... LiveLink is beginning to proliferate throughout Sun, but my group still ...
Query by Example searching This idea started in CategorySearchForm. It would be useful to build a query by example form that does some AND/OR queries of form fields ...
EXPLICIT option to process HTML only between special tags Situation TWiki's feature, that people can (and must) write HTML tags directly into the topics, has the ...
when i'm looking for a semi recent change, and i get to the end of the WebChanges list, where do i go? i've modified my WebChanges page to present long search options ...
Proposed: Separate TWiki System Preferences and Site Preferences for ease of upgrade TWiki has three documented levels of preferences settings: 1 Site level settings ...
Using a Table as Searchable Database ThomasWeigert 01 Jan 2004 Introduction Who has not been tempted to create a wiki topic with a large table representing structured ...
To get full value from TWiki a users identity is often needed. TWiki currently supports the following: Method Comment ...
Authors of large scale changes are in an impossible situation; they can always be knocked back on the basis that the proposed change "may" break something. Even small ...
Created by TWikiGuest 25 Oct 2004 I have long wanted to link to particular versions of a TWiki page: e.g. implementing a blog in TWiki, where the blog points to ...
I like users to be able to choose a login name other than their nop WikiName. This is particularly useful in intranets where people are used to signing in with a ...
Shhh! Don't tell the users, but there is a special secret skin name..... : ) I'm being sarcastic, I know, but I can't find any documentation of this feature. If you ...
DesignBug: With EditTablePlugin EDITTABLE only shows the first field unless the next line duplicates the header info; and, if the table is empty it doesn't show the ...
Security problem displaying result of search, changes, mailnotify, and viewing revisions When user display search result (standard display) or display History or receive ...
RenameTopicDoesMainMainUser reminded me to ask, can we please have username canonicalisatin published through the plugins API? I had to write my own for the action ...
Rendering the unified output of diff Category: TWikiPatches This is what I did to make the rdiff script handle unified diff output. Unified diff output is what you ...
TOC Variable Development Read the original TOC dev topic at SectionTitles. Add new comments, enhancement requests, bug reports below. Moving forward... ...
I note that there is no way to edit a topic and save it, BUT not publish it for the world to see. This would be useful when the statement of the topic is relatively ...
How about adding a LogOut button to TWiki? Most sites offer such a button on every page. Since TWiki is using HTML BasicAuth, the LogOut button would simply lead to ...
Topics in web to which you, ., made the most recent revision (last 10 max): Topic Summary Date Topics in web to which you, ., are involved (last ...
Does twiki have an integrated spell checker? Grammar checker? Syntax checker for mismatched formatting pairs? If so, do I need to look harder for them? Are those even ...
I would like to request that the Anchor links are relative to the page. The main reason is so that my users can save the pages locally and then use the Anchor links ...
Problem: Currently the amount of time for an edit lock is hard coded in twiki/lib/TWiki.cfg to 3600 seconds by default. To change this you must edit a file. # ...
When previewing, the help text on the upper left is false (01 Sep 2001 release) it says: To cancel: Go back twice. but it should be: To cancel: Go back ...
Implemented: Skin Browser to test drive skins The TWiki.TWikiSkinBrowser is useful to easily browse and test drive skins installed on the system. Since Skins are ...
Proposal: Formatted variable approach for attachment lists. Introduce a standard variable called FILELIST that can be used to list attachments available in topic anywhere ...
All variables are created equal, except that some are more equal than others. George Orwell, Animal Farm It's really irritating that a number of obviously generic ...
I came across this super bit of JavaScript when looking for something else. It lets you make all tables sortable, in the same way as TablePlugin but it's entirely ...
Sometimes when I'm doing heavy editing it's easier to copy the contents of the edit or raw view and paste into a text editor such as emacs. It's a bit of a pain in ...
I have need to break apart my WebTopicEditTemplate according to what parent your new Topic is in by default. I would like to create some high level topics that I ...
Issue: The Automatic elimination of spaces in topic names is problematic Topics that are generated from nop links with spaces (e.g. nop How To ), cause problems ...
Implemented: Properly encode parameters for form fields with ENCODE variable Search forms like FormattedSearchFormTesting and TWikiApplication sometimes show URL parameters ...
Refactoring handleCommonTags and handleIncludeFile These two closely related functions are rather confusing, and there are some performance concerns with their ...
Try doing a search for the word "format" on your wiki. You will find every topic matches. This is broken behaviour, stemmed from the fact that there are lines like ...
Unknown REMOTE USER should resolve to nop TWikiGuest I have a TWiki site which is authenticated by our corporate (proprietary) apache auth module. This module sets ...
I would like a simple way to save the edits of topics directly without having to perform a preview. This saves time in having to click through and process the two ...
Enhancement request: Edit Attachments User Interface The current attachment table looks like this: Attachment Action Size Date Who Comment Stuff.doc ...
I'm setting up a TWiki site and would like to require intranet login for all topic views and to additionally require registration to edit topics. Apache::AuthCookieNTLM ...
NickTrim 02 Apr 2004 I have had a request from one of our Twiki users. The follwing explains the issue If you go to the page you will see a couple of attachments. ...
See InstallationProblem. MartinGregory 30 Mar 2004 Probably what testenv should do is check for a TWiki release of Feb 2003 or later, and only then complain if ...
The current meta data handling can be simplified so that issues like TWikiFormsDiffRendering and IncludeImageInSearchResult can be solved. TWiki::Store::readTopic ...
Anyone done any work on changing TWiki to produce stats on a weekly basis? Thanks. MartinCleaver 26 Mar 2004 While you're at it, how about changing a running total ...
Summary doesn't read TWiki Shorthand Including the first 30 or so words in a search using the $summary variable seems to do a straight regex of the first few charachters ...
Proposed: New FIELD variable to query fields in forms, bullets and tables Summary: New % nop FIELD{"name"}% variable to pull a named field from a TWiki form ...
I see multiple webs as being a key to scaling TWiki to 100's of users. Consider each web to be an area in which to get agreement between a group of people working ...
Bug: Set statements in verbatim are not ignored Test case Add the following to any preference topic, save and refresh: Set WEBBGCOLOR red Environment ...
CategoryTWikiSyntax Allow me to put the request in a simplified FMEA format as follows. Function affected Failure Mode, example, failure mechanism, whish Cause Effect ...
AndyGlew 29 Dec 2003 Brief Does anyone have code for twiki that allows a search to be done over a group of pages, creating a nicely formatted report ...
The JavascriptBasedEditor is really neat and makes TWiki editing far more acceptable to users of current WYSIWYG applications. However I am still finding it difficult ...
Allow Renaming of Attachments There are many times when changing the name an attached file is listed as in the FileAttachment table would be very helpful. A user recently ...
In the CommentPlugin, I inherited some dodgy code that detects when the plugin is being called in "preview mode" by parsing the script name, looking for the string ...
Replacing, for instance, templates/oopsauth.tmpl Attention Either you need to register or the authentication failed%T OK Register This means: 1 You don ...
I have a system on which I've installed 3 instances of TWiki, but its Apache uses mod auth mysql instead of .htpasswd to authorize 'logging in'. It would be very ...
% nop INCLUDE% should support https I'd like to include content from a url that is "https://user:pw@some site/blog search?text NeedIncludeHttpsUrl". However the % ...
Proposed: Proper Handling of Meta Data in Topic Text Issue: Inserting TWikiMetaData in a topic text is an unsupported case. Meta data inserted at the beginning of ...
Edit Controls Based on Form Definition A QueryByExampleSearch form might contain drop down fields, radio buttons and such representing the actual definition of the ...
Some URLs are wrong in mailnotify. This is a fix I suggest In script bin/mailnotify : $wikiuser TWiki::userToWikiName( $userName ); $wikiuser ...
URL Settings don't Propogate if I click on a link on a page that I have set the skin on using a url parameter such as http://twiki.org/cgi bin/view/Codev/WebForm?skin ...
As explained in the document attached to the TWikiStoryOfWebTeach, our group at the University of Florence (Italy) is using TWiki as a collaborative tool for distance ...
Topic Not Found In This Web When it says "Topic not found" I am thinking about getting it to check in a set of other webs (definable from the sourceweb in WebPreferences ...
TextFormattingRules: The for commenting could be within the main section, rather than buried at the end. Also, I would suggest specifically noting that having embedded ...
The GoodStyle and TextFormattingRules pages always seem too small when they pop up . I have to always drag it to be larger. Is this so they work well with 800 600 ...
I would love to be able to add events and alarms for the event, presumably at the page bottom via a form. I could set the date and time for an event, and then get ...
This is really a two parter: Firstly, It would facilitate changing the Topic Classification and Topic status on pages if they had drop downs listing the current Classifications ...
While looking at http://www.plone.org (runs on zope), there are several user interface things I liked. One of them was the marker for WikiWordsWhichDontExist, which ...
MultipleTemplatesPerWeb Proposal There should be a means to have MultipleTemplatesPerWeb. This has been taken up in the companion topic CreateNewTopic, but is somewhat ...
It seems that I have lost track of a topic over the years :( I think it may have been re named and then re factored, and then replaced by another topic. this leads ...
Having read the various topics about nop MultiLevelWiki, links to databases, plugins etc. etc. (advanced functionality in general) an idea came to mind which provides ...
Just a note to say that it seems to me that RefBy (BackLinks) is incomplete as it (at best) matches only the simplest ( s type) of PluralForms (hence excluding ies ...
Using % nop INCLUDE{"url"}% is Super Slow The TWiki::Net package uses sockets to implement reading a url. This is super slow, as in about 30 seconds for each get ...
In dialog engines I have been involved with in the past, there was a need for a number of datatypes that could be checked for validity when submitting a form. Currently ...
I am creating a kit list using INCLUDE to pick up text files from another web site. It would be really nice if the text of the included files was searched by the TWiki ...
Improve Classification of Codev Requests, Brainstorming, Bugs, etc. The Codev Web has several SEARCH pages which assist with management of Requests for Enhancement ...
Topic pickers provide a list of all topics in a web so that an author can check for the right topic when writing references. IEJS has a topic picker to allow the user ...
On http://plone.org (zope), which seems high in the simplistic/looks dept. (though lacking in the power of perl, of course), is the following wiki ism (they call it ...
By definition, the creator of a topic at TWikiDotOrg is interested in that topic. Can we get the InterestedParties field prefilled with that person's name? Later we ...
moved enchancement request to ChangesEnhancements which is more suitable. This page should be deleted (docs of changes options should go to AboutWebChanges and ChangesCgiScript ...
Note: Please see AppealToCodevCommunityByCoreTeam, it goes boyond the scope of this request PeterThoeny 05 Aug 2003 Dear Peter, There have been many calls ...
Question I think that I was following the standard set of instructions, which resulted in mailnotify being placed in the CGI directory, along with view, et al. (Or ...
Rendering of forms below page data When using forms they're rendered (on viewing the topic) directly beneath the originally page data, without even so much as a line ...
Related topics: OptinallyHideWebFormExample FormRenderingOptions LessIntrusiveForms FormsUseLabelTags IncludeWithFormData FormsAndText ...
We have % TOPIC%, % BASETOPIC% % INCLUDINGTOPIC%. Is this how these should be assigned at the below: web1.topic1 include web2.topic2 include ...
What about supporting UTF 8 encoding by default? This should include: regexp/search ability topic names (wiki words) nop RCS/diff This seems to be ...
Someone just mentioned they'd like to turn over their TWiki installation to their network management group, but the group wouldn't take it on until it could be shown ...
I really liked VoidSkin's "view this page as Skin1, Skin2, ..." demo, and was disapponted to see that it called an external script. Q: why can't any and all server ...
Most people have a handful of notes in different formats that need to be "transcribed" to Twiki. The easiest (and most obvious) way to do that is to cut/paste the ...
Change reporting period How hard would it be to change WebStatistics reporting so that it totals the last xx days rather then since the beginning of the month? I ...
The position of the edit bar should be a preference (Headings added by MichaelSparks 14 June 2003 to make navigating this discussion easier) The edit bar shown ...
Testenv : automatic find and test all needed PERL modules I have added a search for use in suppose PERL files in TWiki and eval them to check againts the installed ...
Note : to give you all TOPICS you edited, this Topic need a TWiki upgrade with history search , see SearchWithNoPipe Topic on which, you, ., contributed ...
The Request: use zone instead of web . In the wild web has nothing to do with organisation, and everything to with chaos. Using "zone" avoids the confusion ...
It seems that there is a "path" for templates 1. twiki/templates/$webName/$scriptName.tmpl 2. twiki/templates/$scriptName.tmpl Arguably with skins providing ...
MetaLinkToMicrosoftFileSharing I want to have filenames which people type into wiki made into links to that resource. Please see SlashFilenamePlugin To support ...
Rendering WikiWords To Include Context When building a big TWiki site it can be useful to have multiple contexts (which is how I think of a web). What I would like ...
Well, I've read the topic CommonHeaderFooterTemplate and now propose still MoreCommonHeaderFooterTemplate. As I mentioned in NationalCharTokenClash, I'm currently ...
PmWiki has a feature whereby a user can restore a previous version by selecting a control on the diffs view. It would be nice if TWiki could do the same. 27 May ...
As is mentioned in ViewWikiAsItWas, RCS is very under utilized in TWiki today. One editing system which TWiki resembles is MSWord's "track changes" mode. However, ...
Webalizer is a free web server log file analysis program. It generates some nice graphs out of the httpd access log files. It is now installed for http://TWiki ...
Is it possible for different people to use different skins on the same web? For instance, is there anything that I can do to see TigerSkin here on Codev? MartinCleaver ...
When creating a new web out of an existing web, the topics named Web are copied into the new web. Unfortunatelly, the topics are copied including their revisions ...
This request is to implement the necessary changes to fix the issue in AttachmentsUnprotectedByReadAccessRestriction written up by StefanLindmark. This issue is show ...
It turns out that to make Ref By work across webs I need to add a " web all" parameter to the query it invokes. Two things: 1 I was under the impression that this ...
My request assumes a subweb feature similar to the MegaTWiki topic with the addition of the ability to create a standard set of topics all based on their own template ...
Ouch. I didn't see VerbatimExpandsVariables in time to take exception to the `nobody is using this, right?' discussion. I am (well... was now that we've upgraded ...
Below discussion started in MoreExpansionInTemplateTopic. PeterThoeny 28 Sep 2002 Continuing this fine discussion with myself... ; ) In handleInternalTags , the ...
One can define the possible values for a field of a form in a separate topic, by giving a table of possible values in that topic. This promises the reuse of elaborate ...
At times we might want to enforce data entry to web forms. For example, we might want to insist that users enter a ProjectGroup in the WebForm attached to this topic ...
Thought about our Twiki site growing larger and larger. Would be nice to build up a sort of web index by keyword, using a special tag like nop . Saving the topic ...
Search engines like Google highlight the search terms in the summaries of the search results (example). It would be nice, if the TWiki search could provide a similar ...
This would be implemented as a plugin. I know of a few pages that I would like to "watch", to see when changes happen. I'd like to integrate this with my TWiki page ...
This is a proposal to enable formatting of table cells. My first attempt had a typo in the topic title: TWikiFormatingInsideCells. The idea was not to have reproductive ...
Skins are very useful for customized views depending on context; I propose a shortcut to set the skin with "aliases" to the view name, e.g. http://your.site/twiki ...
Support.VariablesSet is where I first asked the question. I probably should refactor those two comments into this topic but it's late. GrantBow 15 Jan 2003
Improving the Edit Template instead of an Wysiwyg Editor Coming to the Twiki page by searching for intranet solution, i thought the technology is quite useful. However ...
From OmittingEmailInWebNotify: Be able to be mailed once (and only once) when the topic is next changed (useful if you expect and answer on a topic) Even better ...
From OmittingEmailInWebNotify: Allow topic writers to exclude specific topics from ever being notified by setting a variable inside the topic (possibly commented out ...
Originally from OmittingEmailInWebNotify: (hard) Be able to specify included/excluded topics per user per web via regexps. WalterMundt 08 Jan 2003
Sort by clicking on column headers. Click a column header once for sorting ascending by that column, click again for sorting descending. Problem: Right now the order ...
RCS is very under utilised in TWiki as it stands. It provides the edit locking mechanism plus a basic "safety net" to allow manual merging of changes (or at a psychological ...
What TWiki could benefit from a simple yet overlooked HTML feature: LABEL tags in FORMs. It's a simple change to the templates that won't affect other features, and ...
This is a Duplicate of ChooseFormButtonIssues I find very annoying the fact that the "Preview Changes" button is BELOW the Form chooser area ... I often make the ...
Bug: The ref by feature doesn't find pluralized links. Even though TWiki handles the Wiki:WikiNamePluralProblem by linking plural WikiWords to the singular topics ...
Undefined Topics Remain Unlinked I have set out to deactivate the feature where an undefined topic links to the "create" page for that topic. I did a quick hack ...
I'd like to see a few changes to the search script to ease searching of meta data. Reasons: Regexp syntax is a bit complex to enter a lot Some of the ...
ModuleLoadingPerformanceEnhancements Migrated from CommonFrontEndCgiScript: Performance related to loading of modules: Someone made the comment that if we have a ...
I use TWiki for storing lots of images. When I back up my Twiki site regularly, the size baloons by a factor of two because I have loads of archive ( ,v ) files ...
Many edits consist of just adding something to the bottom of a page. If the page is very large then there is a lot of HTTP going over the network. There should be ...
Sessions will mean user settings are always available uses, see UsingSkins. The main issues for TWiki is likely to be: Should we have them I suggest making ...
When searching all webs, the webs with zero matches are displayed. When there are a lot of webs, this sometimes means the whole first screen can be filled with these ...
Note: the enhancements listed below are not incorporated into this TWiki (yet) so if you try them here they won't work. They should be available to developers shortly ...
If you make a syntax error in a plugin, it is sometimes silently ignored, with no output in logs, either server or TWiki. To make these errors appear in TWiki debug ...
Hi! How about including some special topics for achieving behaviour like assistants MS Schedule, MS Outlook, Lotus Organizer and so on provide? I'll try to explain ...
TWiki needs a function for script urls Currently, if people want to have a clickable link that does something to a topic, they have to handcraft it, like a href ...
To get rid of all the automatically generated out of office replies Mailnotification should be done with the line Precedence: bulk added at line 4 of mailnotify.tmpl ...
There has been a need for SEARCH functionality that just returns the number of hits, without any text or the actual search result, just the number. This is useful ...
In MegaTWiki the addition of the prefix TW is suggested where the username is all numbers. The prefix being added on additions to RCS and removed when usernames ...
This one is difficult, because it is not part of html, however I'll request it anyway. Suppose I have a numbered list. 1. item 1. subitem 1. subitem ...
Often it would be helpful if search results could be gathered from multiple webs, but shown in a single block of results. Instead of things being grouped by web, everything ...
Instead of putting $noSpamPadding in TWiki.cfg, it is handy to put this in the normal configuration system. This way it can be overridden per web. I maintain a system ...
Right now the notify script sends out email which contains some HTML like the WebChanges page. So if you are wondering what changed, you have to have a mailer which ...
The edit skin has a different functionality from other skins. For example, the iej skin is a JavascriptBasedEditor, and it should be possible to use this skin alongside ...
In the standard distribution, you may want to replace all instances of Main. by % nop MAINWEB nop % because, as TWiki is now, changing the name of the nop MainWeb ...
Add a function to automatically archive or remove any diffs older than xxx days or xx number of revisions. This idea was spawned in RemoveDiffs MattWilkie 14 May ...
First sorry for the confusing name, but I struggled hard with a short, descriptive name. Here is my problem: In our installation, we have separated the data and pub ...
There's already the TWikiVariables, could the same be added to FormattedSearch? I love to use searches, but also love to use #91; ... to type links with spaces ...
On a user's page have a button: "Send Message" that brings up an edit window and upon clicking "send", sends an email message to the user without revealing the recipient ...
Please, please, Please make a directory tree instead of having all files for each "web" in one directory. We deal with over 600 servers here and TWiki is our main ...
A bit more flexibility in the presentation of InterWikis links would be useful. For example, it would be handy to turn MoinMoin:FrontPage into wiki, by writing ...
Inspiration The ability to view multilevel trees starting at a specific topic. Grouping by field (SearchByFields) is too flat. Making multiple webs is too much work ...
Hi i hope this is the right place to announce a simple TWiki site. It is aimed at student groups not having any technical interests. Contributions welcome. It's placed ...
I think this might have been covered before from a different perspective. This was WRT refactoring the nop Main.WebHome to move the user/company info and the TWiki ...
Getting into the 'using Twiki to build Twiki' mode I want to create a topic and enter the javascript that is used throughout the website. I don't want to put it on ...
Here's the story of my experience that started my thinking: I have a form to create new topics much like the feature request form. I noticed if users didn't use a ...
Hey all, Now I'm using a different machine every day and not reading TWiki.org by the hour 
I am having trouble keeping track of where I was in the conversation ...
I am having trouble keeping track of where I was in the conversation ...I would find it handy to be able to enter variables options on multiple lines, simply for clarity while editing. With all the new formatting options available for ...
It is possible to have two form templates for one topic? From user's point of view it makes sense to have part of topic's parameters set on top of the page, then ...
Retain Original Author Feature: The originator of a page should have his/her name always associated with that page, no matter how many people change it in the future ...
When a view request is made for a non existent web or topic, the HTTP status is returned as 200. It seems like it would be desirable to treat this as a 404 "page not ...
Hostile Users What about hostile users? This isn't really a brainstorming feature or idea, more of a FAQ... But I didn't find the FAQ, so I apologize if this is misplaced ...
If I want to move existing webpages into a TWiki, it would be nice to have a tool which automated turning b into and so forth. The user interface would be "Paste ...
Ok, I understand the debate where some people don't want javascript at all as part of Twiki. Fine. But for those of us who do want to use it, it would make things ...
Enhancement request for textarea in TWikiForms. The textarea form field is currently rendered as HTML, e.g. multiple lines of a textarea get rendered as one line. ...
I have created a new topic with the correct spelling: TWikiFormattingInsideCells FritzBosch 04 Dec 2001 IMHO one of the serious limitations in the current table ...
It would be useful to have an index of existing pages when editing, since sometimes it is not easy to remeber the name of a referred page. This should be quite easily ...
I have been using TWiki as a tool to replace and enhance our documentation process in our workplace. I have noticed that style sheets are in the pipe and I can probably ...
Can I suggest that we introduce a TABLEBACKGROUND variable rather than the hardcoded value #99CCCC in files such as form.pm? Certain colours really don't work when ...
Though the verbatim tags allow for code rendering, this is not enough on many cases in which we want to document, for example, a twiki page. Also it would be nice ...
When creating a new topic based on a form it is possible to specify default values for form fields. Here is the example FeatureEnhancementRequest form: New enhancement ...
There should be an easy way to include some source code in the TWiki editor without reformatting the contents. I know there is the Attach button, but I want to ...
As the current alpha is being locked down for release I have started a topic for new functions that I would like to see in Func.pm in the subsequent release: TWiki ...
Context: I set up a hidden field in order to force the default value for the UseCategory field to "Yes" when creating a new page. I couldīt find another way to ...
Is there a reason why there is one big configuration file? Why not split the cfg file in 2, 1 in the bin directory (as it was in the latest production release) and ...
Make TWiki.cfg be TWiki.cfg.dist in distributions It hasn't bitten me yet, but it's something I have to think about every time I update my TWiki. I think asking someone ...
The topic pretty much says it looking at templates (for instance) is a bit jarring with all the stuff. Besides, (x)html has lower case tags. DavidLeBlanc 15 ...
Not something for the average TWiki maybe, but it would be nice at times to see the raw form of a TWiki .txt, .tpl or .skin file. Might be a nice feature for an in ...
How about adding at the bottom of each topic the TWiki version string. This way (at least for developers), you can figure out if something you're reading about on ...
Now that $cgiQuery is a global (and, better still, available via a get routine), it is no longer necessary to pass the query to TWiki::redirect. SteveRoe 13 Jul ...
Moved KevinKinnell's comments from SearchEnhancements PeterThoeny 29 Aug 2000 The search string is the logical place to put these enhancements; within that we ...
It's not all that helpful to get daily summaries of changed pages that always start off with the text that was entered into those pages the day they where created ...
Background colour for table headings is currently hard wired. Why not add as optional entry to WebPreferences? Attachment and Form (was category) colours can default ...
I've meant to create this topic for some time, then, just before writing it, I realized that the problem may be the browsers rather than the wikis. Anyway, a pet ...
Moved from SearchAllTWikiWebs A simple and powerful, but somewhat technical solution is to introduce a new variable in TWikiPreferences, lets say % nop WIKIWEBSELECTOR ...
Here's an odd one. While it may seem "obvious" that clicking the "back" button will take you back to your previous topic, that kinda falls apart if you're in a heavy ...
With increasing document management capability (AttachmentsUnderRevisionControl) we are likely to face more issues of topics and attachments getting out of synch ...
Some external program failures will now return an oops page showing some info about the fault, but something better is needed please. I'm finding on windows, that ...
I reckon that there should be a template that is used to generate new webs and that that template and the Main and TWiki webs should not be emailing this default: ...
TWiki should have a "like pages" capability. I'm thinking specifically about the capability available at http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?MoreAboutMechanics (see the "like ...
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Related topics: WebHome, FeatureBrainstorming, FeatureToDo, FeatureUnderConstruction, FeatureNotSuitable.
-- PeterThoeny - 06 Sep 1999 Topic revision: r15 - 2008-08-28 - 19:05:31 - TWikiJanitor
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