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<nop>%WEB% Web Preferences

The following settings are web preferences of the %WEB%? web. These preferences overwrite the site-level preferences in %TWIKIWEB%.%WIKIPREFSTOPIC%, and can be overwritten by user preferences (your personal topic, eg: %MAINWEB%.TWikiGuest in the %MAINWEB%? web).

Preferences:

• List of topics of the %WIKITOOLNAME%.%WEB% web:
  • Set WEBTOPICLIST = Changes %SEP% Index %SEP% Search %SEP% Go <input type="text" name="topic" size="16" />

• Web specific background color: (Pick a lighter one of the %TWIKIWEB%.StandardColors?)
  • Set WEBBGCOLOR = #D0D0D0

• List this web in the %TWIKIWEB%.SiteMap?:
  • If yes, set SITEMAPLIST to on, do not set NOSEARCHALL, and add the "what" and "use to..." description for the site map. Make sure to list only links that include the name of the web, e.g. <nop>%WEB%.Topic links.
  • Set SITEMAPLIST = on
  • Set SITEMAPWHAT = Procedural World Dump
  • Set SITEMAPUSETO = Show World Information

• Exclude web from a web"all"= search: (Set to on for hidden webs)
  • Set NOSEARCHALL =

• Prevent automatic linking of WikiWords? and acronyms (if set to on); link <nop>WikiWords? (if empty); can be overwritten by web preferences:
  • Set NOAUTOLINK =
  • Note: Use the =[<nop>......]= syntax to link topics in case you disabled <nop>WikiWord? linking. The =&lt;noautolink&gt; ... &lt;/noautolink&gt;= syntax can be used to prevents links within a block of text.

• Default template for new topics and form(s) for this web:
  • WebTopicEditTemplate?: Default template for new topics in this web. (Site-level is used if topic does not exist)
  • %TWIKIWEB%.WebTopicEditTemplate?: Site-level default template
  • %TWIKIWEB%.TWikiForms: How to enable form(s)
  • Set WEBFORMS =

• Users or groups who are not / are allowed to view / change / rename topics in the <nop>%WEB% web: (See %TWIKIWEB%.TWikiAccessControl)
  • Set DENYWEBVIEW =
  • Set ALLOWWEBVIEW =
  • Set DENYWEBCHANGE =
  • Set ALLOWWEBCHANGE =
  • Set DENYWEBRENAME =
  • Set ALLOWWEBRENAME =

• Users or groups allowed to change or rename this <nop>%TOPIC% topic: (I.e. %MAINWEB%.TWikiAdminGroup)
  • Set ALLOWTOPICCHANGE =
  • Set ALLOWTOPICRENAME = %MAINWEB%.TWikiAdminGroup

• Web preferences that are not allowed to be overridden by user preferences:
  • Set FINALPREFERENCES = NOSEARCHALL, ATTACHFILESIZELIMIT, WIKIWEBMASTER, WEBCOPYRIGHT, WEBTOPICLIST, DENYWEBVIEW, ALLOWWEBVIEW, DENYWEBCHANGE, ALLOWWEBCHANGE, DENYWEBRENAME, ALLOWWEBRENAME

Notes:

• A preference is defined as: <br /> =6 spaces * Set NAME = value= <br /> Example:
  • S<nop>et WEBBGCOLOR = #FFFFC0
• Preferences are used as %TWIKIWEB%.TWikiVariables by enclosing the name in percent signs. Example:
  • When you write variable =%WEB<nop>BGCOLOR%= , it gets expanded to =%WEBBGCOLOR%= .
• The sequential order of the preference settings is significant. Define preferences that use other preferences first, i.e. set =<nop>WEBCOPYRIGHT= before =<nop>WIKIWEBMASTER= since =%<nop>WEBCOPYRIGHT%= uses the =%<nop>WIKIWEBMASTER%= variable.
• You can introduce new preferences variables and use them in your topics and templates. There is no need to change the %WIKITOOLNAME% engine (Perl scripts).

Related Topics:

• %TWIKIWEB%.%WIKIPREFSTOPIC% has site-level preferences.
• %MAINWEB%.%WIKIUSERSTOPIC% has a list of user topics. User topics can have optional user preferences.
• %TWIKIWEB%.TWikiVariables has a list of common =%<nop>VARIABLES%=.
• %TWIKIWEB%.TWikiAccessControl explains how to restrict access by users or groups.