Local customisations of site-wide preferences

info Site-level preferences are located in TWiki.TWikiPreferences, however this Users.TWikiPreferences prefs topic has override priority and should be used for local customisations. This allows for easier upgrades as you don't need to worry about the shipped preferences clobbering yours. It's easier to keep a handle on if you only copy over the settings you actually change.

Quick edit of existing preferences (edit the topic text to set new preferences)

Prevent automatic linking of WikiWords? and acronyms (if set to on); link WikiWords? (if empty); can be overwritten by web preferences:

  • Set NOAUTOLINK =
Note: Use the [[...][...]] syntax to link topics in case you disabled WikiWord? linking. The ... syntax can be used to prevents links within a block of text.

TWiki site name:

  • Set WIKITOOLNAME = Future Melbourne Wiki

Set wiki logo

  • #Set WIKILOGONAME = /wiki/pub/TWiki/FutureMelbourneSkin/com_logo.gif
  • Set WIKILOGOIMG = /wiki/pub/TWiki/FutureMelbourne2Skin/FMlogo_top.png
  • Set WIKILOGOOURL = /wiki/view/Users/WebHome
  • Set WIKILOGOALT = Future Melbourne

Change only the web logo image to site-wide

  • #Set WEBLOGOIMG = /wiki/pub/TWiki/FutureMelbourne2Skin/FMlogo_top.png

Set web logo

  • #Set WEBLOGONAME = logo.gif
  • #Set WEBLOGOIMG = /wiki/pub/Users/WebPreferences/%WEBLOGONAME%
  • #Set WEBLOGOURL = /wiki/view/Users/WebHome
  • #Set WEBLOGOALT = Home

Top banner

  • #Set WEBHEADERART =
  • #Set WEBHEADERART = /wiki/pub/TWiki/FutureMelbourneSkin/futuremelb_banner_2.gif
  • Set WEBHEADERART = /wiki/pub/TWiki/FutureMelbourne2Skin/fm2_banner.jpg
  • #Set WEBHEADERBGCOLOR = #C1D82F
  • Set WEBHEADERBGCOLOR = #FFFFFF

Skin

  • Set COVER = futuremelb2
  • Set SKIN = pattern

  • Set USERLAYOUTURL = /wiki/pub/TWiki/FutureMelbourne2Skin/layout.css
  • Set USERSTYLEURL = /wiki/pub/TWiki/FutureMelbourne2Skin/style.css
  • Set USERCOLORSURL = /wiki/pub/TWiki/FutureMelbourne2Skin/colors.css

Wysiwyg spellcheck in Firefox 2

  • Set TINYMCEPLUGIN_INIT_GECKO = gecko_spellcheck : true

  • Copyright notice:
    • Set WEBCOPYRIGHT =

  • Broadcast message for skins supporting a at the top of the page: (IMPORTANT: Set to empty message if not used; #Comment out unused messages)
    • #Set BROADCASTMESSAGE = ALERT! Service interruption notice. The website will be unavailable for a brief time for system maintenance during approx 9:30pm - 10:30pm Australian Eastern Daylight Savings time. Hopefully the interruption will only be 5 or 10 minutes. We apologise for any inconvenience.
    • #Set BROADCASTMESSAGE = NOTE: Edit and Attach will be disabled today between 05:00 PM and 06:00 PM PDT (00:00 to 01:00 GMT) for a scheduled Future Melbourne Wiki maintenance.

  • FINALPREFERENCES locks site-level preferences that are not allowed to be overridden by WebPreferences or user preferences:
    • Set FINALPREFERENCES = ATTACHFILESIZELIMIT, PREVIEWBGIMAGE, WIKITOOLNAME, WIKIHOMEURL, ALLOWROOTCHANGE, DENYROOTCHANGE, TWIKILAYOUTURL, TWIKISTYLEURL, TWIKICOLORSURL, USERSWEB, SYSTEMWEB, DOCWEB

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Topic revision: r20 - 05 Oct 2008 - 22:45:46 - MarcusLeonard