Main Web Preferences

The following settings are web preferences of the Main web. These preferences overwrite the site-level preferences in System.DefaultPreferences and Main.SitePreferences, and can be overwritten by user preferences (your personal topic, eg: WikiGuest in the Main web).

Web Preferences Settings

These settings override the defaults for this web only. See full list of defaults with explanation.

• Web settings:
  • Set WEBTOPICLIST = Users  |  Groups  |  Changes  |  Index  |  Search  |  Go
  • Set WEBBGCOLOR = #FFEFA6
  • Set SITEMAPWHAT = Welcome to Foswiki... Users, Groups
  • Set SITEMAPUSETO = ...see who is registered on this site
  • Set SITEMAPLIST = on

• Default template for new topics for this web:
  • WebTopicEditTemplate?: Default template for new topics in this web. (Site-level is used if topic does not exist)
  • System.WebTopicEditTemplate: Site-level default topic template

• Comma separated list of forms that can be attached to topics in this web. See DataForms for more information.
  • Set WEBFORMS = UserForm

• Users or groups who are not / are allowed to view / change / rename topics in the Main web: (See AccessControl). Remove the # to enable any of these settings. Remember that an empty setting is a valid setting; setting DENYWEBVIEW to nothing means that anyone can view the web.
  • Set DENYWEBVIEW =
  • Set ALLOWWEBVIEW =
  • Set DENYWEBCHANGE =
  • Set ALLOWWEBCHANGE =
  • Set DENYWEBRENAME =
  • Set ALLOWWEBRENAME =

• Users or groups allowed to change or rename this WebPreferences topic: (e.g., AdminGroup)
  • Set ALLOWTOPICCHANGE = AdminGroup
  • Set ALLOWTOPICRENAME = AdminGroup

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

Help on Preferences

• A preference setting lets you define a simple macro? that can be expanded in your output.
• A preference setting looks like this:
  3 or 6 spaces * Set NAME = value
  Example:
  • Set WEBBGCOLOR = #FFFFC0
• A preferences setting can be disabled with a # sign. Remove the # sign to enable a local customisation. Example:
  
  • #Set DENYWEBCHANGE = UnknownUser
• Macros defined using preference settings are expanded by enclosing the name in percent signs. Example:
  • When you write %WEBBGCOLOR%, it gets expanded to #FFEFA6
• The sequential order of the preference settings is significant. i.e. set WEBCOPYRIGHT before WIKIWEBMASTER since %WEBCOPYRIGHT% uses the %WIKIWEBMASTER% setting.
• You can introduce your own preference settings and use them in your topics and templates.
• Preferences can be defined in a number of places:
  1. DefaultPreferences
  2. SitePreferences
  3. Parent webs WebPreferences
  4. WebPreferences
  5. In user topics
  6. In Plugin documentation topics
  7. In topics
• Preference settings can be finalised, which means they can't be redefined

Tools

• Rename, move or delete this web:
  • Rename/move/delete web..., looking for references in all public webs - See also: ManagingWebs

Related Topics

• System.DefaultPreferences, Main.SitePreferences - site-level preferences
• WikiUsers - list of user topics. User topics can have optional user preferences
• Macros - what macros are and how to use them, including a list of common macros
• AccessControl - explains how to restrict access by users or groups