TWiki Site-Level Preferences

The following are site-level settings that affect all users in all webs on this TWikiSite. They can be selectively overwritten on the individual web level (see WebPreferences in each web), and on the user level (create preferences in your user account topic in the Main web, ex: Main.guest).

• • NOTE: To automatically list all non-hidden webs in alphabetical order, use the %WEBLIST{}% variable instead:
    About | Education | People | Projects | Publications | Services | TWiki

Email and Proxy Server Settings

Email Link 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

• Line break:
  • Set BR =
    

• Colored text: (see more StandardColors)

  You type:	%RED% red text %ENDCOLOR% and %GREEN% green text %ENDCOLOR%
  You get:	red text and green text

  • Note: %<color>% text must end with %ENDCOLOR% . If you want to switch from one color to another one you first need to end the active color with %ENDCOLOR%, e.g. write %RED% some text %ENDCOLOR% %GREEN% more text %ENDCOLOR%.
  • Set YELLOW =
    • YELLOW looks like this

• • Set RED =
    • RED looks like this
  • Set PINK =

• • • SILVER looks like this
  • Set WHITE =
    • WHITE looks like this

• • Set ENDCOLOR =
    • To finish colored text

• Background color of non existing topic: ( default cornsilk or #FFFFCE )
  • Set NEWTOPICBGCOLOR = #FFFFCE

TWiki Site-Level Preferences

The following are site-level settings that affect all users in all webs on this TWikiSite. They can be selectively overwritten on the individual web level (see WebPreferences in each web), and on the user level (create preferences in your user account topic in the Main web, ex: Main.guest).

• TWiki webmaster email address:
  • Set WIKIWEBMASTER = webmaster@your.company

• Mail domain sending mail. SMTP requires that you identify the TWiki server sending mail. If not set, Net::SMTP will guess it for you. Ex: twiki.your.company
  • Set SMTPSENDERHOST =

Email Link Settings

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

TWiki Site-Level Preferences

The following are site-level settings that affect all users in all webs on this TWikiSite. They can be selectively overwritten on the individual web level (see WebPreferences in each web), and on the user level (create preferences in your user account topic in the Main web, ex: Main.guest).

• NOTE: You can lock individual settings at the site or web levels using User & Group Access Control - see section below.

• List of selected topics in a web - the second line of the upper toolbar (usually overwritten in individual WebPreferences):

• Copyright notice:
  • Set WEBCOPYRIGHT = Copyright © 1999-2002 by the contributing authors. \nAll material on this collaboration tool is the property of the contributing authors.
    \nIdeas, requests, problems regarding TWiki? Send feedback.

• Web specific background color: (is overwritten by web preferences)
  • Set WEBBGCOLOR = #C0C0C0

• Horizontal size of text edit box: (can be overwritten by user preferences)
  • Set EDITBOXWIDTH = 70

Email Settings

• TWiki webmaster email address:

• Mail domain sending mail. SMTP requires that you identify the TWiki server sending mail. If not set, Net::SMTP will guess it for you. Ex: twiki.your.company
  • Set SMTPSENDERHOST =

Plugins Settings

• TWikiPlugins configuration: All plugin modules that exist in the lib/TWiki/Plugins directory are activated automatically unless disabled by DISABLEDPLUGINS. You can optionally list the installed plugins in INSTALLEDPLUGINS. This is useful to define the sequence of plugin execution, or to specify other webs then the TWiki web for the plugin topics. Specify plugins as a comma separated list of topics.

• • Set U =
  • Set X =
  • Set Y =

• Colored text: (see more StandardColors)

  You type:

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

• • Set ENDCOLOR =
    • To finish colored text

Access Control Settings

• Users or groups allowed to change or rename this TWikiPreferences topic: (ex: TWikiAdminGroup)

• • Set ALLOWWEBMANAGE = TWikiAdminGroup

• Site-level preferences that are not allowed to be overridden by WebPreferences and user preferences:

Creating New Preference Variables

TWiki Site-Level Preferences

The following are site-level settings that affect all users in all webs on this TWikiSite. They can be selectively overwritten on the individual web level (see WebPreferences in each web), and on the user level (create preferences in your user account topic in the Main web, ex: Main.guest).

Miscellaneous Settings

• Graphics used in TWiki documentation - view all images in TWikiDocGraphics. (There are various ways to set up common icons as text variables. This is simply one quick approach.):
  • Set H =
  • Set I =