TWiki User's Guide

Documentation for TWiki users.

• TWiki Quick Start
  • Welcome Guest: A fast track intro covering all the basics
  • ATaste Of TWiki: A short introduction training course for beginners
  • TWiki Registration: Sign up so you can edit pages and select options

• One-Page Primers
  • TWiki Site: Ultra-compact, 2-minute TWiki primer
  • TWiki Tutorial: A compact, 20-minute TWiki primer

  • TWiki Topics: Customize, rename, move, or delete TWiki topics
  • Search Help: Tips and help on search
  • Good Style: Working tips for an open collaboration environment
  • TWiki Shorthand: All of the TWiki shorthand basics
  • Text Formatting Rules: Scan all TWiki text formatting rules on one page
  • TWiki Variables: How to easily embed text, graphics, dynamic content
  • File Attachments: Browser-upload files for distribution or display
  • Web Changes Alert: Get e-mail alerts linking to the latest page changes
  • TWiki Glossary: A simple glossary of TWiki terms

• TWiki Help FAQs
  • TWiki FAQ: The first things people ask about TWiki
  • Text Formatting FAQ: Common how-to questions about posting in TWiki
  • Frequent users should also browse the full Reference Manual!

• Help on Installed Plugins

• Spread Sheet Plugin (any TWiki, $Rev: 17387 (11 Aug 2008) $): Add spreadsheet calculation like "$SUM( $ABOVE() )" to TWiki tables and other topic text
• Comment Plugin (03 Aug 2008, $Rev: 17302 (11 Aug 2008) $): Allows users to quickly post comments to a page without an edit/preview/save cycle
• Edit Table Plugin (4.8.4, $Rev: 17302 (11 Aug 2008) $): Edit TWiki tables using edit fields, date pickers and drop down boxes
• Interwiki Plugin (03 Aug 2008, $Rev: 14913 (17 Sep 2007) $): Link ExternalSite:Page text to external sites based on aliases defined in a rules topic
• Perl Doc Plugin (1.001): Extract the Perl documentation (POD) from a Perl module and display it in a topic.
• Preferences Plugin (TWiki-4.2, $Rev: 15487 (11 Aug 2008) $): Allows editing of preferences using fields predefined in a form
• Public Cache Plugin (v3, 15564):
• Slide Show Plugin (02 Aug 2008, $Rev: 17260 (11 Aug 2008) $): Create web based presentations based on topics with headings.
• Smilies Plugin (Dakar, $Rev: 16049 (11 Aug 2008) $): Render smilies as icons, like for  :-) or for  :eek:
• Spaced Wiki Word Plugin (Dakar, $Rev: 13635 (05 May 2007) $): Display TWiki links spaced out
• Table Plugin (1.034, $Rev: 17367 (11 Aug 2008) $): Control attributes of tables and sorting of table columns
• Tiny MCEPlugin (03 Aug 2008, $Rev: 17302 (11 Aug 2008) $): Integration of Tiny MCE? with Wysiwyg Plugin
• Twisty Plugin (1.4.10, $Rev: 15653 (19 Nov 2007) $): Twisty section JavaScript library to open/close content dynamically
• Wysiwyg Plugin (03 Aug 2008, $Rev: 17359 (11 Aug 2008) $): Translator framework for Wysiwyg editors