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sitemapwhat |
Value for SITEMAPWHAT | '' |
nosearchall |
Value for NOSEARCHALL | '' |
action=renameweb
Parameter | Description | Default |
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newparentweb |
New parent web name | '' |
confirm |
If defined, requires a second level of confirmation. Supported values are "getlock", "continue", and "cancel" | '' |
action=editSettings
action=saveSettings
Parameter | Description | Default |
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redirectto |
If the savesettings process is successful, save will redirect to this topic or URL. The parameter value can be a TopicName , a Web.TopicName , or a URL.Note: Redirect to a URL only works if it is enabled in configure (Security setup > Miscellaneous {AllowRedirectUrl} ). |
action=bulkRegister
EmailUsersWithDetails |
Whether to mail registered users or not | false |
LogTopic |
Topic to save the log in | Same as topic name, with 'Result' appended. |
action=changePassword
email |
new email address | none |
password, =passwordA
and email
are optional. If neither or password
and passwordA
is set, then the user password is left unchanged. If email
is unset, their email is left unchanged.action=resetPassword
action=deleteUserAccount
Parameter | Description | Default |
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password |
Users' password | none |
oops
def |
Optional, can be set to the name of a single definition within template . This definition will be instantiated in the template wherever %INSTANTIATE% is seen. This lets you use a single template file for many messages. For an example, see oopsmanagebad.tmpl . |
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paramN |
Where N is an integer from 1 upwards. These values will be substituted into template for %PARAM1% etc. |
preview
save
script.rdiff
register
Parameter | Description | Default |
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register
script can only be called via http POST method, not GET. Make sure to specify the "post"
method if you call the register
script via a form action.rename
rename
script can only be called via http POST method, not GET. Make sure you specify method="post"
if you call the rename
script via a form action.copy
overwrite |
By default, copy does not happen if the destination topic already exists. If this parameter is 'on' , the destination topic is deleted if exists before copying takes place |
off (no overwrite) |
disablefixlinks |
Bypass fixing WikiWord links in the copy destination topic if copy is done across webs. Fixing links in the copied topic such as from SomeLink to Otherweb.SomeLink is usually desirable so that links in the copied topic still point to the same target | off (links are fixed) |
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rest
TWiki::Func::registerRESTHandler
method. The rest
script will print the result directly to the browser unless the endPoint
parameter is specified, in which case it will output a redirect to the given topic.configure
.save
save
script performs a range of save-related functions, as selected by the action
parameter.save
from an <a href="">
link. search
%SEARCH%
functionality driven by the following CGI parameters:Parameter: | Description: | Default: |
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"text" |
Search term. Is a keyword search, literal search or regular expression search, depending on the type parameter. SearchHelp has more |
required |
search="text" |
(Alternative to above) | N/A |
web="Name" web="Main, Know" web="all" |
Comma-separated list of webs to search. See TWikiVariables#VarSEARCH for more details. | Current web |
web="Name" web="Main, Know" web="all" |
Comma-separated list of webs to search. See VarSEARCH for more details. | Current web |
topic="WebPreferences" topic="*Bug" |
Limit search to topics: A topic, a topic with asterisk wildcards, or a list of topics separated by comma. | All topics in a web |
excludetopic="Web*" excludetopic="WebHome, WebChanges" |
Exclude topics from search: A topic, a topic with asterisk wildcards, or a list of topics separated by comma. | None |
type="keyword" type="literal" type="regex" |
Do a keyword search like soap "web service" -shampoo ; a literal search like web service ; or RegularExpression search like soap;web service;!shampoo |
%SEARCHVAR- DEFAULTTYPE% preferences setting (literal) |
nofinalnewline="on" |
If on , the search variable does not end in a line by itself. Any text continuing immediately after the search tag on the same line will be rendered as part of the table generated by the search, if appropriate. |
off |
separator=", " |
Line separator between hits | Newline "$n" |
statistics
upload
multipart/form-data
format.
Parameter | Description | Default |
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hidefile |
if defined, will not show file in attachment table | |
filepath |
local (client) path name of the file being uploaded. This is used to look up the data for the file in the HTTP query. | |
filename |
deprecated, do not use |
hidefile |
If defined, will not show file in attachment table | |
filepath |
Local (client) path name of the file being uploaded. This is used to look up the data for the file in the HTTP query. | |
filename |
Deprecated, do not use |
filecomment |
Comment to associate with file in attachment table |
createlink |
if defined, will create a link to file at end of topic | |
changeproperties |
if defined, this is a property change operation only - no file will be uploaded. | null |
updatefield |
If defined and if the value matches the name of a form field, it will update that form field with the name of the uploaded file. |
createlink |
If defined, will create a link to file at end of topic | |
changeproperties |
If defined, this is a property change operation only - no file will be uploaded. | null |
updatefield |
If defined and if the value matches the name of a form field, it will update that form field with the format defined by the updateformat parameter. |
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updateformat |
Format of the value of the form field indicated by the updatefield parameter. The default is the name of the attached file, but can be set to include more, such as the path to the image, %PUBURL%/%BASEWEB%/%BASETOPIC%/$filename . |
$filename |
curl
to upload files from the command line using this script.
upload
script can only be called via http POST method, not GET.view
skin=text
this way is DEPRECATED, use raw=text
instead.viewfile
pub
) directory using a URL. However if it contains sensitive information, you will want to protect attachments using TWikiAccessControls. In this case, you can use the viewfile
script to give access to attachments while still checking access controls.Parameter | Description | Default |
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filename |
name of attachment | |
rev |
Revision to view |
debug |
Put debug info to the debug log |
filename
parameter, you can append the attachment name
to the end of the URL path (after the topic) e.g. http://denali.phys.uniroma1.it/twiki/bin/viewfile/Webname/TopicName/Attachment.gif
debug=1
URL parameter is supplied.twiki/tools
directory.geturl.pl
wget
and curl
commands.geturl.pl some.domain /some/dir/file.html 80
http://some.domain:80/some/dir/file.html
rewriteshebang.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl
shebang lines specific to your local Perl installation. It will rewrite the first line of all your TWiki cgi scripts so they use a different shebang line. Use it if your perl is in a non-standard location, or you want to use a different interpreter (such as 'speedy').tick_twiki.pl
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newweb |
destination web name | current web |
newtopic |
destination topic name | current topic |
nonwikiword |
if defined, a non-wikiword is acceptable for the destination topic name | |
redirectto |
If the copy process is successful, copy will redirect to this topic or URL. The parameter value can be a TopicName , a Web.TopicName , or a URL.Note: Redirect to a URL only works if it is enabled in configure (Security setup > Miscellaneous {AllowRedirectUrl} ). |
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By default, copy does not happen if the destination topic already exists. If this parameter is 'on' , the destination topic is deleted if exists before copying takes place |
off (no overwrite) |
disablefixlinks |
Bypass fixing WikiWord links in the copy destination topic if copy is done across webs. Fixing links in the copied topic such as from SomeLink to Otherweb.SomeLink is usually desirable so that links in the copied topic still point to the same target | off (links are fixed) |
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rest
TWiki::Func::registerRESTHandler
method. The rest
script will print the result directly to the browser unless the endPoint
parameter is specified, in which case it will output a redirect to the given topic. excludetopic="Web*" excludetopic="WebHome, WebChanges" |
Exclude topics from search: A topic, a topic with asterisk wildcards, or a list of topics separated by comma. | None |
type="keyword" type="literal" type="regex" |
Do a keyword search like soap "web service" -shampoo ; a literal search like web service ; or RegularExpression search like soap;web service;!shampoo |
%SEARCHVAR- DEFAULTTYPE% preferences setting (literal) |
scope="topic" scope="text" scope="all" |
Search topic name (title); the text (body) of topic; or all (both) | "text" |
order="topic" order="created" order="modified" order="editby" order= |
Sort the results of search by the topic names, topic creation time, last modified time, last editor, or named field of TWikiForms. The sorting is done web by web; in case you want to sort across webs, create a formatted table and sort it with TablePlugin's initsort | Sort by topic name |
limit="all" limit="16" |
Limit the number of results returned. This is done after sorting if order is specified |
All results |
sort="topic" sort="created" sort="modified" sort="editby" sort="parent" sort= |
Sort the results of search by the topic names, topic creation time, last modified time, last editor, parent topic name, or named field of TWikiForms. The sorting is done web by web; in case you want to sort across webs, create a formatted table and sort it with TablePlugin's initsort | Sort by topic name |
limit="all" limit="16" |
Limit the number of results returned. This is done after sorting if sort is specified |
All results |
date="..." |
limits the results to those pages with latest edit time in the given time interval. | All results |
reverse="on" |
Reverse the direction of the search | Ascending search |
casesensitive="on" |
Case sensitive search | Ignore case |
raw=on |
Shows the text of the topic in a scrollable textarea | |
raw=debug |
As raw=on , but also shows the metadata (forms etc) associated with the topic. |
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raw=text |
Shows only the source of the topic, as plain text (Content-type: text/plain). Only shows the body text, not the form or other meta-data. |
raw=expandvariables |
Similar to raw=text but TWiki variables are expanded. |
raw=all |
Shows only the source of the topic, as plain text (Content-type: text/plain), with embedded meta-data. This may be useful if you want to extract the source of a topic to a local file on disc. | |
section |
Allows to view only a part of the topic delimited by a named section (see VarSTARTSECTION). If the given section is not present, no topic content is displayed. | |
contenttype |
Allows you to specify a different Content-Type: (e.g. contenttype=text/plain ) |
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rev |
Revision to view (e.g. rev=45 ) |
template |
Allows you to specify a different skin template, overriding the 'view' template the view script would normally use. The default template is view . For example, you could specify /twiki/bin/view/TWiki/TWikiScripts?template=edit. This is mainly useful when you have specialised templates for a TWiki Application. |
template |
Allows you to specify a different skin template, overriding the 'view' template the view script would normally use. The default template is view . For example, you could specify /twiki/bin/view/TWiki/TWikiScripts?template=edit. This is mainly useful when you have specialized templates for a TWiki Application. |
topic |
redirects to show the specified Web.Topic, or, redirects to a URL, if allowed by {AllowRedirectUrl} and {PermittedRedirectHostUrls} configure settings |
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createifnotexist |
If createifnotexist is set to 1 and in case the topic does not exist, it is created automatically on view. Useful to create topics automatically based on a specific template (see example below). Behind the scene, the view script redirects first to the save script, passing along all URL parameters. Thus all URL parameters of the save script can be used, such as templatetopic , topicparent and redirectto . Next, the save script creates the topic and redirects back to the view script (or displays an error in case there were any issues creating the topic). |
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extralog |
Add additional text to TWiki log, next to the user agent string. Useful to log actions by cache scripts and crawlers. |
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action |
One of createweb , deleteUserAccount , editSettings or saveSettings |
none |
action |
One of createweb , renameweb , deleteUserAccount , editSettings or saveSettings |
none |
manage
script can only be called via http POST method for createweb
renameweb
, and deleteUserAccount
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Parameter | Description | Default |
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sitemapuseto |
Value for SITEMAPUSETO | '' |
nosearchall |
Value for NOSEARCHALL | '' |
action=renameweb
Parameter | Description | Default |
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newsubweb |
Name of the web after move | '' |
newparentweb |
New parent web name | '' |
confirm |
If defined, requires a second level of confirmation. Supported values are "getlock", "continue", and "cancel" | '' |
action=editSettings
Parameter | Description | Default |
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action |
register or verify or resetPassword or approve |
register
script can only be called via http POST method, not GET. Make sure to specify the "post"
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skin |
skin(s) to use |
nonwikiword |
if defined, a non-wikiword is acceptable for the new topic name | |
redirectto |
If the rename process is successful, rename will redirect to this topic or URL. The parameter value can be a TopicName , a Web.TopicName , or a URL.Note: Redirect to a URL only works if it is enabled in configure (Miscellaneous {AllowRedirectUrl} ). |
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.rest
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Programs on the TWiki server performing actions such as rendering, saving and renaming topics.
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Parameter | Description | Default |
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password |
Users' password | none |
action=editSettings
action=saveSettings
Parameter | Description | Default |
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text |
Text of the topic | '' |
originalrev |
Revision that the edit started on | Most recent revision |
redirectto |
If the savesettings process is successful, save will redirect to this topic or URL. The parameter value can be a TopicName , a Web.TopicName , or a URL.Note: Redirect to a URL only works if it is enabled in configure (Miscellaneous {AllowRedirectUrl} ). |
action=bulkRegister
Parameter | Description | Default |
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EmailUsersWithDetails |
Whether to mail registered users or not | false |
LogTopic |
Topic to save the log in | Same as topic name, with 'Result' appended. |
action=saveSettings
action=changePassword
Parameter | Description | Default |
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text |
Text of the topic | '' |
originalrev |
Revision that the edit started on | Most recent revision |
username |
god alone knows | none |
oldpassword |
current password | none |
password |
new password | none |
passwordA |
new password confirmation | none |
email |
new email address | none |
password, =passwordA
and email
are optional. If neither or password
and passwordA
is set, then the user password is left unchanged. If email
is unset, their email is left unchanged.
action=resetPassword
Parameter | Description | Default |
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LoginName |
list of usernames to reset | none - error if not set |
Introduction |
message to be sent alongside the reset, most often used to announce to the user that they have been given an account. | '' |
action=deleteUserAccount
Parameter | Description | Default |
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password |
Users' password | none |
oops
def |
Optional, can be set to the name of a single definition within template . This definition will be instantiated in the template wherever %INSTANTIATE% is seen. This lets you use a single template file for many messages. For an example, see oopsmanagebad.tmpl . |
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paramN |
Where N is an integer from 1 upwards. These values will be substituted into template for %PARAM1% etc. |
passwd
Parameter | Description | Default |
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action |
one of changePassword or resetPassword |
none |
manage
, action=changePassword
.
action=changePassword
Parameter | Description | Default |
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username |
Username | |
oldpassword |
Existing password (plain text) | |
password |
New password (plain text) | |
passwordA |
New password confirmation (plain text) | |
TopicName |
? |
preview
save
script. confirm |
if defined, requires a second level of confirmation | |
currentwebonly |
if defined, searches current web only for links to this topic | |
nonwikiword |
if defined, a non-wikiword is acceptable for the new topic name |
resetpasswd
Parameter | Description | Default |
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LoginName |
list of usernames to reset | none - error if not set |
Introduction |
message to be sent alongside the reset, most often used to announce to the user that they have been given an account. | '' |
redirectto |
If the rename process is successful, rename will redirect to this topic or URL. The parameter value can be a TopicName , a Web.TopicName , or a URL.Note: Redirect to a URL only works if it is enabled in configure (Miscellaneous {AllowRedirectUrl} ). |
rest
TWiki::Func::registerRESTHandler
method. The rest
script will print the result directly to the browser unless the endPoint
parameter is specified, in which case it will output a redirect to the given topic. action_preview |
preview edited text | |
action_addform |
Redirect to the "change form" page. | |
action_replaceform... |
Redirect to the "change form" page. |
action_delRev |
Administrators only delete the most recent revision of the topic - all other parameters are ignored. You have to be a member of TWikiAdminGroup to use this, and not all store implementations will support it. | |
action_repRev |
Administrators only replace the text of the most recent revision of the topic with the text in the text parameter. text must included embedded meta-data tags. All other parameters are ignored. You have to be a member of TWikiAdminGroup to use this, and not all store implementations will support it. |
action_delRev |
Administrators only delete the most recent revision of the topic - all other parameters are ignored. You have to be an administrator to use this, and not all store implementations will support it. | |
action_repRev |
Administrators only replace the text of the most recent revision of the topic with the text in the text parameter. text must included embedded meta-data tags. All other parameters are ignored. You have to be an administrator to use this, and not all store implementations will support it. |
onlynewtopic |
If set, error if topic already exists | |
onlywikiname |
If set, error if topic name is not a WikiWord | |
dontnotify |
if defined, suppress change notification |
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"text" |
Search term. Is a keyword search, literal search or regular expression search, depending on the type parameter. SearchHelp has more |
required |
search="text" |
(Alternative to above) | N/A |
web="Name" web="Main, Know" web="all" |
Comma-separated list of webs to search. See TWikiVariables#VarSEARCH for more details. | Current web |
web="Name" web="Main, Know" web="all" |
Comma-separated list of webs to search. See TWikiVariables#VarSEARCH for more details. | Current web |
topic="WebPreferences" topic="*Bug" |
Limit search to topics: A topic, a topic with asterisk wildcards, or a list of topics separated by comma. | All topics in a web |
excludetopic="Web*" excludetopic="WebHome, WebChanges" |
Exclude topics from search: A topic, a topic with asterisk wildcards, or a list of topics separated by comma. | None |
type="keyword" type="literal" type="regex" |
Do a keyword search like soap "web service" -shampoo ; a literal search like web service ; or RegularExpression search like soap;web service;!shampoo |
%SEARCHVAR- DEFAULTTYPE% preferences setting (literal) |
scope="topic" scope="text" scope="all" |
Search topic name (title); the text (body) of topic; or all (both) | "text" |
order="topic" order="created" order="modified" order="editby" order= |
Sort the results of search by the topic names, topic creation time, last modified time, last editor, or named field of TWikiForms. The sorting is done web by web; in case you want to sort across webs, create a formatted table and sort it with TablePlugin's initsort | Sort by topic name |
limit="all" limit="16" |
Limit the number of results returned. This is done after sorting if order is specified |
All results |
date="..." |
limits the results to those pages with latest edit time in the given TimeInterval. | All results |
date="..." |
limits the results to those pages with latest edit time in the given time interval. | All results |
reverse="on" |
Reverse the direction of the search | Ascending search |
casesensitive="on" |
Case sensitive search | Ignore case |
bookview="on" |
BookView search, e.g. show complete topic text | Show topic summary |
twiki
upload
multipart/form-data
format.
Parameter | Description | Default |
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raw=debug |
As raw=on , but also shows the metadata (forms etc) associated with the topic. |
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raw=text |
Shows only the source of the topic, as plain text (Content-type: text/plain). Only shows the body text, not the form or other meta-data. | |
raw=all |
Shows only the source of the topic, as plain text (Content-type: text/plain), with embedded meta-data. This may be useful if you want to extract the source of a topic to a local file on disc. |
section |
Allows to view only a part of the topic delimited by a named section (see VarSTARTSECTION). If the given section is not present, no topic content is displayed. |
section |
Allows to view only a part of the topic delimited by a named section (see VarSTARTSECTION). If the given section is not present, no topic content is displayed. |
contenttype |
Allows you to specify a different Content-Type: (e.g. contenttype=text/plain ) |
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rev |
Revision to view (e.g. rev=45 ) |
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template |
Allows you to specify a different skin template, overriding the 'view' template the view script would normally use. The default template is view . For example, you could specify /twiki/bin/view/TWiki/TWikiScripts?template=edit. This is mainly useful when you have specialised templates for a TWiki Application. |
topic |
redirects (at the beging of the cgi script running) to show the spcified Web.Topic, or, redirects to a URL, if allowed by {AllowRedirectUrl} and {PermittedRedirectHostUrls} |
text
skin. In earlier TWiki versions the skin=text
parameter was used like this:
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filename |
name of attachment | |
rev |
Revision to view |
filename
parameter, you can append the attachment name
to the end of the URL path (after the topic) e.g. http://denali.phys.uniroma1.it/twiki/bin/viewfile/Webname/TopicName/Attachment.gif
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CGI environmentIn the CGI environment parameters are passed to the scripts via the URL and URL parameters. Environment variables are also used to determine the user performing the action. If the environment is not set up, the default TWiki user is used (usuallyguest ).
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action_quietsave=1 |
save, and return to view, dontnotify is ON |
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save and redirect to the edit script, dontnotify is ON |
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save, and return to view, dontnotify is on |
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save and redirect to the edit script, dontnotify is on |
action_cancel |
exit without save, return to view | |
action_preview |
preview edited text | |
action_addform |
Redirect to the "change form" page. |
formtemplate |
if defined, use the named template for the form | |
editaction |
When action is checkpoint , add form or replace form... , this is used as the action parameter to the edit script that is redirected to after the save is complete. |
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originalrev |
Revision on which the edit started. |
edit |
The script to use to edit the topic when action is checkpoint |
edit |
editparams |
The parameter string to use to edit the topic | |
redirectto |
The save process will redirect to this topic or URL if it is successful. (Typically this would be the URL that was being viewed when edit was invoked). The parameter value can be a TopicName , a Web.TopicName , or a URL.Note: Redirect to a URL only works if it is enabled in configure (Miscellaneous {AllowRedirectUrl} ). |
view topic being edited |
oops
page. webs |
comma-separated list of webs to run stats on | all accessible webs |
logdate |
YYYYMM to generate statistics for | current month |
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raw=debug |
As raw=on , but also shows the metadata (forms etc) associated with the topic. |
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raw=text |
Shows only the source of the topic, as plain text (Content-type: text/plain). Only shows the body text, not the form or other meta-data. | |
raw=all |
Shows only the source of the topic, as plain text (Content-type: text/plain), with embedded meta-data. This may be useful if you want to extract the source of a topic to a local file on disc. |
section |
Allows to view only a part of the topic delimited by a named section (see VarSTARTSECTION). If the given section is not present, no topic content is displayed. |
contenttype |
Allows you to specify a different Content-Type: (e.g. contenttype=text/plain ) |
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rev |
Revision to view (e.g. rev=45 ) |
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Allows you to specify a different skin template, overriding the 'view' template the view script would normally use. The default template is view . For example, you could specify /twiki/bin/view/TWiki/TWikiScripts?template=edit. This is mainly useful when you have specialised templates for a TWiki Application. |
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list of webs to run stats on | none |
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comma-separated list of webs to run stats on | all accessible webs |
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TWiki CGI and Command Line ScriptsPrograms on the TWiki server performing actions such as rendering, saving and renaming topics. The TWiki scripts are located in thetwiki/bin and twiki/tools directories. This topic describes the interfaces to some of those scripts. All scripts in the twiki/bin directory can be called from the CGI (Common Gateway Interface![]() twiki/tools directory can only be called from the command line.
CGI ScriptsDetails on CGI scripts located in thetwiki/bin directory.
General InformationCGI environmentIn the CGI environment parameters are passed to the scripts via the URL and URL parameters. Environment variables are also used to determine the user performing the action. If the environment is not set up, the default TWiki user is used (usuallyguest ).
Command-lineYou must be cd'd to thetwiki/bin directory to run the scripts from the command line. To avoid issues with file permissions, run the scripts as the web server user such as nobody or www .
Parameters are passed using '-name' - for example,
$ cd /usr/local/twiki/bin $ save -topic MyWeb.MyTopic -user admin -action save -text "New text of the topic"All parameters require a value. Common parametersAll the scripts accept a number of common parameters. The first two components of the URL after the script name are taken as the web and the topic, respectively. Standard URL parameters are:
Despite the name, this script doesn't actually attach a file to a topic - for that, use |
Parameter | Description | Default |
---|---|---|
filename |
Name of existing attachment (if provided, this is a "manage attachment" action) | none (in which case this is a "new attachment" action) |
changes
changes
script can receive one parameter:
Parameter | Description | Default |
---|---|---|
minor |
If 0, show only major changes. If 1, show all the changes (both minor and major) | 0 |
%SEARCH%
, while this script reads the changes
file in each web, making it much faster.
NOTE: The result from changes
script and the topic WebChanges can be different, if the changes
file is deleted from a web. In particular, in new installations the changes
script will return no results while the WebChanges topic will.
configure
configure
is the browser script used for inspection and configuration of the TWiki configuration. None of the parameters to this script are useable for any purpose except configure
.
edit
edit
scipt understands the following parameters, typically supplied by HTML input fields:
Parameter | Description | Default |
---|---|---|
action |
Optional. Use the editaction template instead of the standard edit. If action=text, then hide the form. If action=form hide the normal text area and only edit the form. | |
onlynewtopic |
If set, error if topic already exists | |
onlywikiname |
If set, error if topic name is not a WikiWord | |
templatetopic |
The name of the template topic, copied to get the initial content | |
text |
Initial text for the topic | |
topicparent |
The parent topic | |
formtemplate |
Name of the form to instantiate in the topic. Overrides the form set in the templatetopic if defined. |
|
contenttype |
Optional parameter that defines the application type to write into the CGI header. Defaults to text/html . May be used to invoke alternative client applications |
|
anyname |
Any parameter can passed to the new topic; if the template topic contains %URLPARAM{"anyname"}% , it will be replaced by its value |
|
breaklock |
If set, any lease conflicts will be ignored, and the edit will proceed even if someone is already editing the topic. |
Status
the parameter name is Status
. X
characters in the topic name will be converted on save to a number such that the resulting topic name is unique in the target web.
EDIT_SKIN
, which is used as the value of the cover
parameter in edit
URLs. This allows you to override the default edit skin on a web, topic or user basis.
login
Parameter | Description | Default |
---|---|---|
origurl |
URL that was being accessed when an access violation occurred. the login process will redirect to this URL if it is successful | none |
username |
username of user logging in | none |
password |
password of user logging in | none |
logon
manage
Parameter | Description | Default |
---|---|---|
action |
One of createweb , deleteUserAccount , editSettings or saveSettings |
none |
action=createweb
Parameter | Description | Default |
---|---|---|
newweb |
Name of the new web | '' |
baseweb |
Name of the web to copy to create the new web | '' |
webbgcolor |
value for WEBBGCOLOR | '' |
sitemapwhat |
Value for SITEMAPWHAT | '' |
sitemapuseto |
Value for SITEMAPUSETO | '' |
nosearchall |
Value for NOSEARCHALL | '' |
action=deleteUserAccount
Parameter | Description | Default |
---|---|---|
password |
Users' password | none |
action=editSettings
action=bulkRegister
Parameter | Description | Default |
---|---|---|
OverwriteHomeTopics |
Whether to overwrite existing home topics or not | false |
EmailUsersWithDetails |
Whether to mail registered users or not | false |
LogTopic |
Topic to save the log in | Same as topic name, with 'Result' appended. |
action=saveSettings
Parameter | Description | Default |
---|---|---|
text |
Text of the topic | '' |
originalrev |
Revision that the edit started on | Most recent revision |
oops
oops
templates are used with the oops
script to generate system messages. This is done to make internationalisation or other local customisations simple.
The oops
script supports the following parameters:
Parameter | Description | Default |
---|---|---|
template |
Name of the template file to display | |
def |
Optional, can be set to the name of a single definition within template . This definition will be instantiated in the template wherever %INSTANTIATE% is seen. This lets you use a single template file for many messages. For an example, see oopsmanagebad.tmpl . |
|
paramN |
Where N is an integer from 1 upwards. These values will be substituted into template for %PARAM1% etc. |
passwd
Parameter | Description | Default |
---|---|---|
action |
one of changePassword or resetPassword |
none |
manage
, action=changePassword
.
action=changePassword
Parameter | Description | Default |
---|---|---|
username |
Username | |
oldpassword |
Existing password (plain text) | |
password |
New password (plain text) | |
passwordA |
New password confirmation (plain text) | |
TopicName |
? |
preview
save
script.
rdiff
Parameter | Description | Default |
---|---|---|
rev1 | the higher revision | |
rev2 | the lower revision | |
render | the rendering style {sequential, sidebyside, raw, debug} | DIFFRENDERSTYLE, sequential |
type | history, diff, last} history diff, version to version, last version to previous | diff |
context | number of lines of context |
register
Parameter | Description | Default |
---|---|---|
action |
register or verify or resetPassword or approve |
rename
Parameter | Description<-- --> ![]() |
Default |
---|---|---|
skin |
skin(s) to use | |
newweb |
new web name | |
newtopic |
new topic name | |
breaklock |
||
attachment |
||
currentwebonly |
if defined, searches current web only for links to this topic | |
confirm |
if defined, requires a second level of confirmation | |
nonwikiword |
if defined, a non-wikiword is acceptable for the new topic name |
resetpasswd
Parameter | Description | Default |
---|---|---|
LoginName |
list of usernames to reset | none - error if not set |
Introduction |
message to be sent alongside the reset, most often used to announce to the user that they have been given an account. | '' |
rest
endPoint
parameter is specified, in which case the control is redirected to the given topic.
The rest
script itself uses one parameter:
endPoint |
Where to redirect the response once the request is served, in the form "Web.Topic" |
rest
script assumes that it will be called with URL in the form:
http://my.host/bin/rest/<subject>/<verb>
where <subject>
must be the WikiWord name of one of the installed TWikiPlugins, and the <verb>
is the alias for the function registered using the registerRESTHandler
. The <subject>
and <verb>
are then used to lookup and call the registered function.
Functions outside the Plugins also can be registered, but please consider the security implications of allowing URL access, as functions can sidestep TWiki Authentication & Authorisation settings.
<subject>
and <verb>
are checked for illegal characters exactly in the same way as the web and topic names.
As an example, the EmptyPlugin has registered a function to be used with the rest
script under the subject EmptyPlugin and the verb example. Click below to see the rest
script in action (run as TWikiGuest).
Call the Plugin
You can also call the function from the command line, but this will be run as the TWikiAdminGroup (as it is assumed that shell access is secure) - eg: ./rest EmptyPlugin.exampleNote that for calls to Plugins, they must be enabled in
configure
.
save
save
script performs a range of save-related functions, as selected by the action
parameter.
Parameter | Description | Default |
---|---|---|
action_save=1 |
default; save, return to view, dontnotify is OFF | |
action_quietsave=1 |
save, and return to view, dontnotify is ON |
|
action_checkpoint |
save and redirect to the edit script, dontnotify is ON |
|
action_cancel |
exit without save, return to view | |
action_preview |
preview edited text | |
action_addform |
Redirect to the "change form" page. | |
action_replaceform... |
Redirect to the "change form" page. | |
action_delRev |
Administrators only delete the most recent revision of the topic - all other parameters are ignored. You have to be a member of TWikiAdminGroup to use this, and not all store implementations will support it. | |
action_repRev |
Administrators only replace the text of the most recent revision of the topic with the text in the text parameter. text must included embedded meta-data tags. All other parameters are ignored. You have to be a member of TWikiAdminGroup to use this, and not all store implementations will support it. |
|
onlynewtopic |
If set, error if topic already exists | |
onlywikiname |
If set, error if topic name is not a WikiWord | |
dontnotify |
if defined, suppress change notification | |
templatetopic |
Name of a topic to use as a template for the text and form | |
text |
New text of the topic | |
forcenewrevision |
if set, forces a revision even if TWiki thinks one isn't needed | |
topicparent |
If 'none' remove any current topic parent. If the name of a topic, set the topic parent to this. | |
formtemplate |
if defined, use the named template for the form | |
editaction |
When action is checkpoint , add form or replace form... , this is used as the action parameter to the edit script that is redirected to after the save is complete. |
|
originalrev |
Revision on which the edit started. |
oops
page.
The parameters are interpreted in according to the following rules.
X
characters in the topic name will be converted to a number such that the resulting topic name is unique in the target web.
save
, checkpoint
, quietsave
, or preview
: text
parameter, if it is defined, templatetopic
, if it is defined,
formtemplate
, if defined templatetopic
, if defined,
templatetopic
, if defined,
text
and originalrev
is > 0 and is not the same as the revision number of the most recent revision. If merging is enabled both the topic and the meta-data are merged.
Form field values are passed in parameters named 'field' - for example, if I have a field Status
the parameter name is Status
.
search
%SEARCH%
functionality driven by the following CGI parameters:
Parameter: | Description: | Default: |
---|---|---|
"text" |
Search term. Is a keyword search, literal search or regular expression search, depending on the type parameter. SearchHelp has more |
required |
search="text" |
(Alternative to above) | N/A |
web="Name" web="Main, Know" web="all" |
Comma-separated list of webs to search. The special word all means all webs that doe not have the NOSEARCHALL variable set to on in their WebPreferences. You can specifically exclude webs from an all search using a minus sign - for example, web="all,-Secretweb" . |
Current web |
topic="WebPreferences" topic="*Bug" |
Limit search to topics: A topic, a topic with asterisk wildcards, or a list of topics separated by comma. | All topics in a web |
excludetopic="Web*" excludetopic="WebHome, WebChanges" |
Exclude topics from search: A topic, a topic with asterisk wildcards, or a list of topics separated by comma. | None |
type="keyword" type="literal" type="regex" |
Do a keyword search like soap "web service" -shampoo ; a literal search like web service ; or RegularExpression search like soap;web service;!shampoo |
%SEARCHVAR- DEFAULTTYPE% preferences setting (literal) |
scope="topic" scope="text" scope="all" |
Search topic name (title); the text (body) of topic; or all (both) | "text" |
order="topic" order="created" order="modified" order="editby" order= |
Sort the results of search by the topic names, topic creation time, last modified time, last editor, or named field of TWikiForms. The sorting is done web by web; in case you want to sort across webs, create a formatted table and sort it with TablePlugin's initsort | Sort by topic name |
limit="all" limit="16" |
Limit the number of results returned. This is done after sorting if order is specified |
All results |
date="..." |
limits the results to those pages with latest edit time in the given TimeInterval. | All results |
reverse="on" |
Reverse the direction of the search | Ascending search |
casesensitive="on" |
Case sensitive search | Ignore case |
bookview="on" |
BookView search, e.g. show complete topic text | Show topic summary |
nonoise="on" |
Shorthand for nosummary="on" nosearch="on" nototal="on" zeroresults="off" noheader="on" noempty="on" |
Off |
nosummary="on" |
Show topic title only | Show topic summary |
nosearch="on" |
Suppress search string | Show search string |
noheader="on" |
Suppress search header Topics: Changed: By: |
Show search header |
nototal="on" |
Do not show number of topics found | Show number |
zeroresults="off" |
Suppress all output if there are no hits | zeroresults="on" , displays: "Number of topics: 0" |
noempty="on" |
Suppress results for webs that have no hits. | Show webs with no hits |
header="..." format="..." |
Custom format results: see FormattedSearch for usage, variables & examples | Results in table |
expandvariables="on" |
Expand variables before applying a FormattedSearch on a search hit. Useful to show the expanded text, e.g. to show the result of a SpreadSheetPlugin %CALC{}% instead of the formula |
Raw text |
multiple="on" |
Multiple hits per topic. Each hit can be formatted. The last token is used in case of a regular expression ";" and search | Only one hit per topic |
nofinalnewline="on" |
If on , the search variable does not end in a line by itself. Any text continuing immediately after the search tag on the same line will be rendered as part of the table generated by the search, if appropriate. |
off |
separator=", " |
Line separator between hits | Newline "$n" |
statistics
Parameter | Description | Default |
---|---|---|
webs |
list of webs to run stats on | none |
twiki
upload
multipart/form-data
format.
Parameter | Description | Default |
---|---|---|
hidefile |
if defined, will not show file in attachment table | |
filepath |
local (client) path name of the file being uploaded. This is used to look up the data for the file in the HTTP query. | |
filename |
deprecated, do not use | |
filecomment |
Comment to associate with file in attachment table | |
createlink |
if defined, will create a link to file at end of topic | |
changeproperties |
if defined, this is a property change operation only - no file will be uploaded. | null |
curl
to upload files from the command line using this script.
view
Parameter | Description | Default |
---|---|---|
raw=on |
Shows the text of the topic in a scrollable textarea | |
raw=debug |
As raw=on , but also shows the metadata (forms etc) associated with the topic. |
|
raw=text |
Shows only the source of the topic, as plain text (Content-type: text/plain). Only shows the body text, not the form or other meta-data. | |
raw=all |
Shows only the source of the topic, as plain text (Content-type: text/plain), with embedded meta-data. This may be useful if you want to extract the source of a topic to a local file on disc. | |
contenttype |
Allows you to specify a different Content-Type: (e.g. contenttype=text/plain ) |
|
rev |
Revision to view (e.g. rev=45 ) |
|
template |
Allows you to specify a different skin template, overriding the 'view' template the view script would normally use. The default template is view . For example, you could specify /twiki/bin/view/TWiki/TWikiScripts?template=edit. This is mainly useful when you have specialised templates for a TWiki Application. |
text
skin. In earlier TWiki versions the skin=text
parameter was used like this:
http://.../view/MyWeb/MyTopic?skin=text&contenttype=text/plain&raw=on
which shows the topic as plain text; useful for those who want to download plain text for the topic.
Using skin=text
this way is DEPRECATED, use raw=text
instead.
viewfile
pub
) directory using a URL. However if it contains sensitive information, you will want to protect attachments using TWikiAccessControls. In this case, you can use the viewfile
script to give access to attachments while still checking access controls.
Parameter | Description | Default |
---|---|---|
filename |
name of attachment | |
rev |
Revision to view |
twiki/tools
directory.
geturl.pl
wget
and curl
commands. geturl <host> <path> [<port> [<header>]]
geturl some.domain /some/dir/file.html 80
http://some.domain:80/some/dir/file.html
rewriteshebang.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl
shebang lines specific to your local Perl installation. It will rewrite the first line of all your TWiki cgi scripts so they use a different shebang line. Use it if your perl is in a non-standard location, or you want to use a different interpreter (such as 'speedy').
tick_twiki.pl
0 0 * * 0 cd /usr/twiki/bin && perl ../tools/tick_twiki.pl
Note: The script has to be run by a user who can write files created by the webserver user.
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