TWiki Site-Level Preferences

This topic defines site-level settings that apply to all users and webs on this TWikiSite.

• • Set SITEMAPUSETO = ...to do something.

• Copyright notice:

• Simplified Copyright notice for the WebRss feed (don't use any special characters, html tags, entities, wiki markup or WikiWords)
  • Set WEBRSSCOPYRIGHT = Copyright 2021 by contributing authors

• List of TWiki webs - on the first line of the upper toolbar (to add a new web, see ManagingWebs and SiteMap):
  • Set WIKIWEBLIST = Main  |  TWiki  |  Sandbox

• Maximum size of FileAttachments in KB, 0 for no limit:
  • Set ATTACHFILESIZELIMIT = 10000

E-mail Settings

• 'Mail this topic' mailto: link - can be included in topics, templates or skins

• 'Mail this topic' link text
  • Set MAILTHISTOPICTEXT = Send a link to this page

• • Set BR =
    

• Bullet sign:

• Vertical bar / pipe symbol:

• Vertical caret symbol:

• Line break and bullet with different levels of indentation:

• Hint: Above shortcuts are useful in TWiki tables where you cannot use newlines

• Colored text: (see more StandardColors)

  You type:

  %RED% red text %ENDCOLOR% and %GREEN% green text %ENDCOLOR%

• • The following color settings are enclosed in verbatim tags to avoid incorrect nesting of XHTML tags:

      * Set YELLOW = <font color="#ffff00">

Miscellaneous Settings

• Preference for the editor, default is raw editor, The options could be rawedit, wysiwyg.

• Format of a NewWikiWord link:
• Note that $text is the topic link text, $topic is the name of the new topic, and $web is the name of the web for the new topic. Values for the 3 are taken from the link syntax [[$web.$topic][$text]]. For normal plain WikiWord links $text and $topic are the same. The value of $web is the current web unless the link is in the format $web.$topic.

Protected System Settings

• Set FINALPREFERENCES = WEB, TOPIC

• TWikiAccessControl explains how to restrict access by users or groups.
• TWiki:Plugins.PreferencesPlugin makes editing preferences a snap.