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ACTIVATEDPLUGINS -- list of currently activated plugins

• Syntax: %ACTIVATEDPLUGINS%
• Expands to: SpreadSheetPlugin, BackupRestorePlugin, ColorPickerPlugin, CommentPlugin, DatePickerPlugin, EditTablePlugin, HeadlinesPlugin, InterwikiPlugin, JQueryPlugin, PreferencesPlugin, SetGetPlugin, SlideShowPlugin, SmiliesPlugin, TWikiSheetPlugin, TablePlugin, TagMePlugin, TinyMCEPlugin, TwistyPlugin, WatchlistPlugin, WysiwygPlugin
• Category: AdministrationVariables, DevelopmentVariables
• Related: PLUGINDESCRIPTIONS, FAILEDPLUGINS, PLUGINVERSION, TWikiPlugins, InstalledPlugins (this topic)

ALLVARIABLES -- list of currently defined TWikiVariables

• Syntax: %ALLVARIABLES%
• Expands to: a table showing all defined TWikiVariables in the current context
• Category: AdministrationVariables
• Related: ACTIVATEDPLUGINS, VAR (this topic)

AUTHREALM -- authentication realm

• String defined as {AuthRealm} in configure. This is used in certain password encodings, and in login templates as part of the login prompt.
• Syntax: %AUTHREALM%
• Expands to: Enter your LoginName. (Typically First name and last name, no space, no dots, capitalized, e.g. JohnSmith, unless you chose otherwise). Visit TWikiRegistration if you do not have one.
• Category: AdministrationVariables, SecurityAndAccessControlVariables, UsersAndAuthenticationVariables
• Related: TWikiUserAuthentication, SESSIONID, SESSIONVAR, LOGIN, LOGOUT, SESSION_VARIABLE (this topic)

DASHBOARD -- build a dashboard with banner and boxes

• Use this variable to quickly create dashboards for intranet home, team homepages, project homepages and knowledge bases. See the TWikiDashboardAddOn for details on enabling and using the %DASHBOARD{...}% variable.
• Syntax: %DASHBOARD{ section="..." ... }%
• Example:
  %DASHBOARD{ section="dashboard_start" }%
%DASHBOARD{ section="banner" image="..." title="..." }%
%DASHBOARD{ section="box_start" title="Box 1 title" }%
Box 1 content
%DASHBOARD{ section="box_end" }%
%DASHBOARD{ section="box_start" title="Box 2 title" }%
Box 2 content
%DASHBOARD{ section="box_end" }%
...
%DASHBOARD{ section="dashboard_end" }%
• Category: AdministrationVariables, ApplicationsAndComponentsVariables, DevelopmentVariables, FormattingAndRenderingVariables, UIAndVisualizationVariables
• Related: TWikiDashboardAddOn (this topic)

EDITACTION -- select an edit template

• EDITACTION defined in a topic or preference setting will define the use of an editaction template instead of the standard edit. If EDITACTION is defined as text, then hide the form. If EDITACTION is defined as form hide the normal text area and only edit the form.
• Syntax: %EDITACTION% (returning either text or form)
• Expands to: %EDITACTION%
• Note: When EDITACTION is defined as text or form the Edit and Edit Raw buttons simply add ;action=text or ;action=form to the URL for the edit script. If you have defined EDITACTION in a topic setting or preference setting you can still edit the topic content or the form by removing the ;action=form or ;action=text from the edit URL in the browser and reload.
• Category: AdministrationVariables, EditingAndContentUpdateVariables, SkinsAndTemplatesVariables
• Related: TWikiScripts#edit (this topic)

FAILEDPLUGINS -- debugging for plugins that failed to load, and handler list

• Syntax: %FAILEDPLUGINS%
• Expands to: See TWikiPlugins#FAILEDPLUGINS
• Category: AdministrationVariables, SystemInformationVariables
• Related: PLUGINDESCRIPTIONS, ACTIVATEDPLUGINS, PLUGINVERSION, TWikiPlugins, InstalledPlugins (this topic)

LANGUAGE -- current user's language

• Returns the language code for the language used as the current user. This is the language actually used by TWiki Internationalization (e.g. in user interface).
• The language is detected from the user's browser, unless some site/web/user/session-defined setting overrides it:
  • If the LANGUAGE preference is set, it's used as user's language instead of any language detected from the browser.
  • Avoid defining LANGUAGE at a non per-user way, so each user can choose his/her preferred language.
• Category: AdministrationVariables, SystemInformationVariables
• Related: LANGUAGES (this topic)

LANGUAGES -- list available TWiki languages

• List the languages available (as PO files) to TWiki. Those are the languages in which TWiki's user interface is available.
• Syntax: %LANGUAGES{...}%
• Supported parameters:

  Parameter:	Description:	Default:
  format	format for each item. See below for variables available in the format string.	"   * $langname"
  separator	separator between items.	"\n" (newline)
  marker="selected"	Text for $marker if the item matches selection	"selected"
  selection="%LANGUAGE%"	Current language to be selected in list	(none)

• format variables:

  Variable	Meaning
  $langname	language's name, as informed by the translators
  $langtag	language's tag. Ex: en, pt-br, etc.

• Category: AdministrationVariables, SystemInformationVariables
• Example: <select>%LANGUAGES{format="<option $marker value='$langtag'>$langname</option>" selection="%LANGUAGE%"}%</select> creates an option list of the available languages with the current language selected (this topic)

LOCALSITEPREFS -- web.topicname of site preferences topic

• The full name of the local site preferences topic. These local site preferences overload the system level preferences defined in TWiki.TWikiPreferences.
• Syntax: %LOCALSITEPREFS%
• Expands to: Main.TWikiPreferences, renders as TWikiPreferences
• Category: AdministrationVariables, SystemInformationVariables
• Related: WEBPREFSTOPIC, WIKIPREFSTOPIC (this topic)

MDREPO -- retrieve data from metadata repository

• Attention: This variable works only if MetadataRepository is in use. Otherwise, it always returns a zero length string.
• This retrieves data from the specified metadata repository table.
• Syntax: %MDREPO{ "table" ...}% (generic form), %MDREPO{ web="..." ...}% (web specific form)
• Parameters (generic form without web="..." parameter):

  Parameter	Description	Default
  "..."	Specify the table to retrieve	This or below is required
  table="..."	(Alternative to above)	This or above is required
  separator="..."	The separator string of records	"$n" (new line)
  format="..."	Format of one record. It may contain the following items. In addtion, the standard special tokens are handled accordingly. Item Description $_ or $_() the record ID $__ or $__() The record value in the following format: FIELD_NAME=FIELD_VALUE FIELD_NAME=FIELD_VALUE ... $marker or $marker() Expands to marker for the item matching selection only $_FILED_NAME or $_FIELD_NAME() Please be noted that you need to put _ (underscore) in front of a field name. $_FIELD_NAME$ yields the value of the specified field. If the specified field does not exist in the record, it returns the null string (""). ?FIELD_NAME?IF_FIELD_HAS_VALUE? If the specified field has value and it's neither 0 nor the null string (""), it's evaluated as IF_FIELD_HAS_VALUE. Otherwise, it's evaluated as the null string. This is like q/.../ in Perl. A non-word character following ?FIELD_NAME becomes the terminator; i.e. you can write: ?FIELD_NAME:IF_TRUE: Specifically, the following characters can be used as the delimiter: ! # % ' / : ? @ ^ ` | ~ = is excluded because it clashes with a parameter specification in a URL (?name=value). ?!FIELD_NAME?IF_FIELD_HAS_NO_VALUE? Similar to above but it's opposite. If the field has value, it's evaluated as the null string. Otherwise, it's evaluated as IF_FIELD_HAS_NO_VALUE. $question Replaced with ? after the ?FIEL_DNAME and ?!FIELD_ANME constructs are processed.	"| $_ | $__ |"
  selection="..."	The record ID to be regarded as the selected. It affects how $marker in the format is evaluated.	none
  marker="..."	Text for $marker in the format if the item matches selection	"selected"
  filter="..."	The regular expression of record IDs to filter records. Matching is case-insensitive	none
  exclude="..."	Comma separated list of record IDs to be excluded. You can use regular expression. If you specify Trash\d*, then Trash, Trash1, Trash2, ... are exluded but LightTrash and TrashBag are not excluded	none

• Example: %MDREPO{"webs" filter="^A" format="| $_ | $_admin | $_master |"}%
  This would show the metadata of webs whose names start with A.
• Paramerers (web specific form):

  Parameter	Description	Default
  web="..."	Specify the web. If it's a subweb, the corresponding top level web is specified	This is required
  "..."	Specify the format of the return value in the same manner as the format parameter in the generic form	$__
  default="..."	Specify the value to be returned when the specified or implied top level web does not exist in MDREPO	"" (null string)

• Example: %MDREPO{web="Foo/Bar" "$_admin"}%
  This would show the admin field of the Foo web.
• Category: AdministrationVariables, SystemInformationVariables
• Related: MetadataRepository (this topic)

PLUGINDESCRIPTIONS -- list of plugin descriptions

• Syntax: %PLUGINDESCRIPTIONS%
• Expands to:
  • SpreadSheetPlugin (2018-07-05, $Rev: 30478 (2018-07-16) $): Add spreadsheet calculation like "$SUM( $ABOVE() )" to TWiki tables or anywhere in topic text
  • BackupRestorePlugin (2018-07-10, $Rev: 30551 (2018-07-16) $): Administrator utility to backup, restore and upgrade a TWiki site
  • ColorPickerPlugin (2018-07-05, $Rev: 30442 (2018-07-16) $): Color picker, packaged for use in TWiki forms and TWiki applications
  • CommentPlugin (2018-07-05, $Rev: 30530 (2018-07-16) $): Quickly post comments to a page without an edit/preview/save cycle
  • DatePickerPlugin (2018-07-05, $Rev: 30446 (2018-07-16) $): Pop-up calendar with date picker, for use in TWiki forms, HTML forms and TWiki plugins
  • EditTablePlugin (2018-07-05, $Rev: 30448 (2018-07-16) $): Edit TWiki tables using edit fields, date pickers and drop down boxes
  • HeadlinesPlugin (2018-07-13, $Rev: 30560 (2018-07-16) $): Show headline news in TWiki pages based on RSS and ATOM news feeds from external sites
  • ImagePlugin: (disabled)
  • InterwikiPlugin (2018-07-05, $Rev: 30454 (2018-07-16) $): Write ExternalSite:Page to link to a page on an external site based on aliases defined in a rules topic
  • JQueryPlugin (2018-07-05, $Rev: 30456 (2018-07-16) $): jQuery JavaScript library for TWiki
  • MathModePlugin: (disabled)
  • PreferencesPlugin (2018-07-05, $Rev: 30528 (2018-07-16) $): Allows editing of preferences using fields predefined in a form
  • SetGetPlugin (2018-07-05, $Rev: 30472 (2018-07-16) $): Set and get variables and JSON objects in topics, optionally persistently across topic views
  • SlideShowPlugin (2018-07-05, $Rev: 30474 (2018-07-16) $): Create web based presentations based on topics with headings.
  • SmiliesPlugin (2018-07-05, $Rev: 30476 (2018-07-16) $): Render smilies as icons, like  :-)  as or  :eek:  as
  • SyntaxHighlightingPlugin: (disabled)
  • TWikiSheetPlugin (2018-07-15, $Rev: 30604 (2018-07-16) $): Add TWiki Sheet spreadsheet functionality to TWiki tables
  • TablePlugin (2018-07-05, $Rev: 30480 (2018-07-16) $): Control attributes of tables and sorting of table columns
  • TagMePlugin (2018-07-05, $Rev: 30482 (2018-07-16) $): Tag wiki content collectively or authoritatively to find content by keywords
  • TinyMCEPlugin (2018-07-10, $Rev: 30541 (2018-07-16) $): Integration of the Tiny MCE WYSIWYG Editor
  • TwistyPlugin (2018-07-06, $Rev: 30497 (2018-07-16) $): Twisty section JavaScript library to open/close content dynamically
  • WatchlistPlugin (2018-07-10, $Rev: 30536 (2018-07-16) $): Watch topics of interest and get notified of changes by e-mail
  • WysiwygPlugin (2018-07-06, $Rev: 30528 (2018-07-16) $): Translator framework for WYSIWYG editors
• Category: AdministrationVariables, SystemInformationVariables
• Related: ACTIVATEDPLUGINS, FAILEDPLUGINS, PLUGINVERSION, TWikiPlugins, InstalledPlugins (this topic)

PLUGINVERSION -- the version of a TWiki Plugin, or the TWiki Plugins API

• Syntax: %PLUGINVERSION{"name"}% to get the version of a specific plugin
• Example: %PLUGINVERSION{"InterwikiPlugin"}% expands to $Rev: 30454 (2018-07-16) $
• Syntax: %PLUGINVERSION% to get the version of the API
• Expands to: 6.10
• Category: AdministrationVariables, SystemInformationVariables
• Related: WIKIVERSION, ACTIVATEDPLUGINS, FAILEDPLUGINS, PLUGINDESCRIPTIONS, TWikiPlugins, InstalledPlugins (this topic)

USERREPORT -- show user reports with profile pictures

• Show various user reports documented in UserReports
• Syntax: %USERREPORT{ action="..." ... }%
• Overview of actions with parameters:

  Report	action=	Parameters
  Show a simple list of registered users	"user_list"	search, limit, sort, reverse
  Show the profile picture image of a user	"profile_picture"	user, height, width, title
  Show slim, one line height user boxes	"slim_box_start" "slim_box" or "slim_box_list" "slim_box_end"	style user, style users, style none
  Show small, two line height user boxes	"small_box_start" "small_box" or "small_box_list" "small_box_end"	style user, style users, style none
  Show users in business card format	"business_card_start" "business_card" or "business_card_list" "business_card_end"	style user, style users, style none
  Show a selector to pick a user, for use in HTML forms	"select_one_user"	name, selected, users
  Show rows of checkboxes to select users, for use in HTML forms	"select_users"	name, selected, users, colums, style

• Example: %USERREPORT{ action="user_list" search="jane" limit="5" }%
• Category: AdministrationVariables, DevelopmentVariables, UsersAndAuthenticationVariables
• Related: BUBBLESIG, SEARCH, USERSIG, UserList, UserReports (this topic)

WEBPREFSTOPIC -- name of web preferences topic

• Syntax: %WEBPREFSTOPIC%
• Expands to: WebPreferences, renders as WebPreferences
• Category: AdministrationVariables, SystemInformationVariables
• Related: HOMETOPIC, LOCALSITEPREFS, WIKIPREFSTOPIC, VAR (this topic)

WIKIHOMEURL -- site home URL

• DEPRECATED, please use %WIKILOGOURL% instead.
• Syntax: %WIKIHOMEURL%
• Expands to: /bin/view/Main/WebHome
• Defined in: TWikiPreferences, default %SCRIPTURLPATH{"view"}%/%USERSWEB%/%HOMETOPIC%
• Note: For the top bar logo URL use %WIKILOGOURL% defined in WebPreferences instead.
• Category: AdministrationVariables, SystemInformationVariables
• Related: WIKILOGOURL, WIKITOOLNAME (this topic)

WIKILOGOALT -- site logo tooltip message

• Syntax: %WIKILOGOALT%
• Expands to: Home - this site is powered by TWiki(R)
• Defined in: TWikiPreferences
• Category: AdministrationVariables, SystemInformationVariables
• Related: WIKILOGOIMG, WIKILOGOURL, WIKITOOLNAME (this topic)

WIKILOGOIMG -- site logo image URL

• Syntax: %WIKILOGOIMG%
• Expands to: https://twiki.ppe.gla.ac.uk/pub/TWiki/TWikiLogos/T-logo-140x40-t.gif
• Renders as:
• Defined in: TWikiPreferences
• Category: AdministrationVariables, SystemInformationVariables
• Related: WIKILOGOALT, WIKILOGOURL, WIKITOOLNAME (this topic)

WIKILOGOURL -- site logo home URL

• Syntax: %WIKILOGOURL%
• Expands to: https://twiki.ppe.gla.ac.uk/bin/view/Main/WebHome
• Defined in: TWikiPreferences, default %SCRIPTURLPATH{"view"}%/%USERSWEB%/%HOMETOPIC%
• Category: AdministrationVariables, SystemInformationVariables
• Related: WIKILOGOALT, WIKILOGOIMG, WIKITOOLNAME (this topic)

WIKIPREFSTOPIC -- name of site-wide preferences topic

• Syntax: %WIKIPREFSTOPIC%
• Expands to: TWikiPreferences, renders as TWikiPreferences
• Category: AdministrationVariables, SystemInformationVariables
• Related: HOMETOPIC, LOCALSITEPREFS, WEBPREFSTOPIC (this topic)

WIKIVERSION -- the version of the installed TWiki engine

• Syntax: %WIKIVERSION%
• Expands to: TWiki-6.1.0, Mon, 16 Jul 2018, build 30610
• Category: AdministrationVariables, SystemInformationVariables
• Related: PLUGINVERSION, WIKITOOLNAME (this topic)

Total: 20 variables

Related Topics: TWikiVariables, TWikiVariablesSearch, TWikiVariablesQuickStart