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COLORPICKER{} -- color picker for use in HTML forms for TWiki applications

• The %COLORPICKER{}% variable is handled by the ColorPickerPlugin.
• Syntax: %COLORPICKER{ name="..." value="..." }%
• Parameters:

  Parameter	Description	Default	Example
  name	Name of input field	(required)	name="text_color"
  value	Initial color value, in hexadecimal notation for the combination of Red, Green, and Blue color values (RGB).	(none)	value="#0000ff"
  size	Size of input field	(browser default)	size="12"
  class	CSS class of input field	(none)	class="twikiInputField"
  Additional parameters can be supplied; they will be added to the HTML input field.

• Example:
  <form action="...">
%COLORPICKER{ name="text_color" size="12" value="#123456" class="twikiInputField" }%
<form>
• Category: ApplicationsAndComponentsVariables, DatabaseAndFormsVariables, EditingAndContentUpdateVariables, FormattingAndRenderingVariables, UIAndVisualizationVariables
• Related: ColorPickerPlugin, TWikiForms (this topic)

COMMENT{ attributes } -- insert an edit box into the topic to easily add comments.

• A %COMMENT% without parameters shows a simple text box.
• A %COMMENT{}% can handle the following parameters:

  Parameter	Description	Default
  type	This is the name of the template to use for this comment. Comment templates are defined in a TWiki template - see customization. If this attribute is not defined, the type is whatever is defined by COMMENTPLUGIN_DEFAULT_TYPE, either in this topic or in your WebPreferences.	"below"
  default	Default text to put into the textarea of the prompt.
  target	Name of the topic to add the comment to	the current topic
  location	Regular expression specifying the comment location in the target topic. Read carefully the CommentPlugin documentation!
  mode	For compatibility with older versions only, synonymous with type
  nonotify	Set to "on" to disable change notification for target topics	"off"
  noform	Set to "on" to disable the automatic form that encloses your comment block - remember to insert <form> tags yourself! See CommentPluginExamples#noform for an example.	"off"
  nopost	Set to "on" to disable insertion of the posted text into the topic.	"off"
  remove	Set to "on" to remove the comment prompt after the first time it is clicked.	"off"
  button	Button label text	"Add comment"
  emailto	Send comment by email. Use comma "," to seperate multiple email addresses. This feature is disabled by default. To enable this feature, please set up "$TWiki::cfg{Plugins}{CommentPlugin}{EmailEnabled} = 1;".

• See CommentPlugin for more information
• Category: ApplicationsAndComponentsVariables, DatabaseAndFormsVariables, EditingAndContentUpdateVariables, WorkflowAndAutomationVariables
• Related: HIDE, TWikiForms (this topic)

DASHBOARD -- build a dashboard with banner and boxes

• Use this variable to quickly create dashboards for intranet home, team homepages, project homepages and knowledge bases. See the TWikiDashboardAddOn for details on enabling and using the %DASHBOARD{...}% variable.
• Syntax: %DASHBOARD{ section="..." ... }%
• Example:
  %DASHBOARD{ section="dashboard_start" }%
%DASHBOARD{ section="banner" image="..." title="..." }%
%DASHBOARD{ section="box_start" title="Box 1 title" }%
Box 1 content
%DASHBOARD{ section="box_end" }%
%DASHBOARD{ section="box_start" title="Box 2 title" }%
Box 2 content
%DASHBOARD{ section="box_end" }%
...
%DASHBOARD{ section="dashboard_end" }%
• Category: AdministrationVariables, ApplicationsAndComponentsVariables, DevelopmentVariables, FormattingAndRenderingVariables, UIAndVisualizationVariables
• Related: TWikiDashboardAddOn (this topic)

DATEPICKER{} -- pop-up calendar to select a date for use in HTML forms

• The %DATEPICKER{}% variable is handled by the DatePickerPlugin.
• Syntax: %DATEPICKER{ name="..." value="..." }%
• Parameters:

  Parameter	Description	Default	Example
  name	Name of input field. φ: No output is shown if the name parameter is missing, but the CSS and Javascript are loaded.	(requiredφ)	name="Start"
  value	Initial date value.	"" (today)	value="2012-12-31"
  format	Format of resulting date value. • %a - abbreviated weekday name • %A - full weekday name • %b - abbreviated month name • %B - full month name • %C - century number • %d - the day of the month (00 ... 31) • %e - the day of the month (0 ... 31) • %H - hour (00 ... 23) • %I - hour (01 ... 12) • %j - day of the year ( 000 ... 366) • %k - hour (0 ... 23) • %l - hour (1 ... 12) • %m - month (01 ... 12) • %M - minute (00 ... 59) • %n - a newline character • %p - "PM" or "AM" • %P - "pm" or "am" • %S - second (00 ... 59) • %s - number of seconds since Epoch (since Jan 01 1970 00:00:00 UTC) • %t - a tab character • %U, %W, %V - the week number. The week 01 is the week that has the Thursday in the current year, which is equivalent to the week that contains the fourth day of January. Weeks start on Monday. • %u - the day of the week (1 ... 7, 1 = MON) • %w - the day of the week (0 ... 6, 0 = SUN) • %y - year without the century (00 ... 99) • %Y - year including the century (ex. 2012) • %% - a literal % character	"%Y-%m-%d"	format="%e %b %Y"
  id	ID of input field, optional.	"id_" + name	id="idStart"
  size	Size of input field, in number of characters.	(calculated as needed)	size="12"
  class	CSS class of input field.	"twikiInputField"	class="dateField"
  Additional HTML input field attributes, such as alt, disabled, maxlength, onblur, onchange, onfocus, readonly, style, tabindex, title

• Example:
  <form action="...">
%DATEPICKER{ name="Start_Date" }%
<form>
• Expands to:
• Category: ApplicationsAndComponentsVariables, DatabaseAndFormsVariables, DateAndTimeVariables, EditingAndContentUpdateVariables, FormattingAndRenderingVariables, UIAndVisualizationVariables
• Related: DatePickerPlugin, TWikiForms (this topic)

GET{"name"} -- get a variable

• Get the value of a named variable, previously set with %SET{}%. The %SET{}% and %GET{}% variables are handled by the SetGetPlugin.
• Syntax: %GET{ "name" default="..." }%
• Parameters:

  Parameter	Description	Default
  "name"	Name of variable.	(required)
  format="..."	Format with supported variables: • $name for variable name • $value for variable value • $isdefined expanding to 1 or 0 depending if variable is defined or not • $isset expanding to 1 or 0 depending if variable is logically true or false • $ispersistent expanding to 1 or 0 depending if variable is persistent or not • all FormatTokens such as $dollar, $n, $percnt.	"$value"
  default="..."	Text shown if variable is not defined, e.g. not found. This parameter overrides the format parameter.	"" (empty string)

• Example: %GET{"lunch"}% returns Sushi if the following has been previously set:
  %SET{ "lunch" value="Sushi" }% - see more examples
• Category: ApplicationsAndComponentsVariables, DevelopmentVariables
• Related: IF, SET, SETGETDUMP, SetGetPlugin, SpreadSheetPlugin#FuncGET (this topic)

HEADLINES{"url"} -- show RSS and ATOM feeds in TWiki pages

• The %HEADLINES{"url"}% variable is handled by the HeadlinesPlugin.
• Syntax: %HEADLINES{ "http://..." }%
• Parameters: (all but the first one are optional)

  "..."	Source of RSS or ATOM feed; this can be a URL (starting with http) or a web.topic location for internal feeds
  refresh="60"	Refresh rate in minutes for caching feed; "0" for no caching
  limit="12"	Maximum number of items shown
  header="..."	Header. May include these variables: - $channeltitle, $title: title of channel (channel.title) - $channellink, $link: link of channel (channel.link) - $channeldescription, $description: description (channel.description) - $channeldate, $date: publication date of the channel (channel.pubDate) - $rights: copyrights of the channel (channel.copyright) - $imagetitle: title text for site (image.title) - $imagelink: link for site (image.link) - $imageurl: URL of image (image.url) - $imagedescription: description of image (image.description)
  format="..."	Format of one item. May include these variables: - $title: news item title (item.title) - $link: news item link (item.link) - $description: news item description (item.description) - $date: the publication date (item.pubDate, item.date) - $category: the article category (item.category)
  Details

• Example: %HEADLINES{ "http://slashdot.org/slashdot.rdf" header="*[[$link][$title]]:* $description" format="$t* [[$link][$title]]" limit="4" }% shows the latest Slashdot news in bullet list format
• Category: ApplicationsAndComponentsVariables, ImportVariables
• Related: HeadlinesPlugin (this topic)

JQENDTAB -- end a JQuery tab within a tab pane

• This variable is handled by the JQueryPlugin. For description see JQTABPANE
• Syntax: %JQTABPANE% %JQTAB{"Tab 1}% ... %JQENDTAB% %JQTAB{"Tab 2}% ... %JQENDTAB% ... %JQENDTABPANE%
• Example: See JQTABPANE
• Category: ApplicationsAndComponentsVariables, FormattingAndRenderingVariables
• Related: JQENDTABPANE, JQTAB, JQTABPANE, JQueryPlugin (this topic)

JQENDTABPANE -- end a JQuery tab pane

• This variable is handled by the JQueryPlugin. For description see JQTABPANE
• Syntax: %JQTABPANE% %JQTAB{"Tab 1}% ... %JQENDTAB% %JQTAB{"Tab 2}% ... %JQENDTAB% ... %JQENDTABPANE%
• Example: See JQTABPANE
• Category: ApplicationsAndComponentsVariables, FormattingAndRenderingVariables
• Related: JQENDTAB, JQTAB, JQTABPANE, JQueryPlugin (this topic)

JQTAB -- start a JQuery tab within a tab pane

• This variable is handled by the JQueryPlugin. For description see JQTABPANE
• Syntax: %JQTABPANE% %JQTAB{"Tab 1}% ... %JQENDTAB% %JQTAB{"Tab 2}% ... %JQENDTAB% ... %JQENDTABPANE%
• Supported parameter:

  Parameter:	Description:	Comment:
  "..."	Name of tab, shown as tab label	Required, no default

• Example: See JQTABPANE
• Category: ApplicationsAndComponentsVariables, FormattingAndRenderingVariables
• Related: JQENDTAB, JQENDTABPANE, JQTABPANE, JQueryPlugin (this topic)

JQTABPANE -- start a JQuery tab pane

• Create nice looking horizontal tab panes in TWiki topics. Write a sequence of %JQTAB{"..."}% and %JQENDTAB% pairs, and enclose them in %JQTABPANE% and %JQENDTABPANE%. Tab panes can be nested, e.g. within one tab you can add another tab pane. These variable are handled by the JQueryPlugin.
• Syntax: %JQTABPANE% %JQTAB{"Tab 1}% ... %JQENDTAB% %JQTAB{"Tab 2}% ... %JQENDTAB% ... %JQENDTABPANE%
• Example:
  %JQTABPANE%
%JQTAB{"Tab 1"}%
Tab 1 content...
%JQENDTAB%
%JQTAB{"Tab 2"}%
Tab 2 content...
%JQENDTAB%
%JQENDTABPANE%
• Category: ApplicationsAndComponentsVariables, FormattingAndRenderingVariables
• Related: JQENDTAB, JQENDTABPANE, JQTAB, JQueryPlugin (this topic)

SET{"name" value="..."} -- set a variable

• Set a named variable that can be retrieved later with %GET{}%. No output is shown, e.g. %SET{}% resolves to an empty string. The %SET{}% and %GET{}% variables are handled by the SetGetPlugin.
• Syntax: %SET{ "name" value="..." remember="1" }%
• Parameters:

  Parameter	Description	Default
  "name"	Name of variable. Alphanumeric characters, dashes and underscores can be used.	(required)
  value="..."	Value of variable. Escape double quotes with backslash.	(required, may be empty)
  remember="1"	If set, the variable will be stored persistently so that it can be used later in any TWiki topic. See important notes.	"0"

• Example: %SET{"lunch" value="Sushi"}% - see more examples.
• Category: ApplicationsAndComponentsVariables, DevelopmentVariables
• Related: GET, IF, SETGETDUMP, SetGetPlugin, SpreadSheetPlugin#FuncSET (this topic)

SETGETDUMP{...} -- dump persistent variables

• Dump persistent name/values previously set with %SET{}%. The %SETGETDUMP{}%, %SET{}%, and %GET{}% variables are handled by the SetGetPlugin.
• Syntax: %SETGETDUMP{ format="..." separator="..." }%
• Parameters:

  Parameter	Description	Default
  format="..."	Format output using variables $name and $value	"name: $name, value: $value <br />"
  separator="..."	String used for separating entries	"\n"

• Example: %SETGETDUMP{"| $name | $value |" separator="$n"}% - see more examples.
• Category: ApplicationsAndComponentsVariables, DevelopmentVariables
• Related: GET, IF, SET, SetGetPlugin, SpreadSheetPlugin#FuncSET (this topic)

TWISTY{ attributes } -- dynamically open and close sections of content

• The %TWISTY{}% variable is handled by the TwistyPlugin.
• Syntax: %TWISTY{}% ... %ENDTWISTY%
• See plugin topic for explanation of variables and attributes
• Example:
  %TWISTY{}%
my twisty content
%ENDTWISTY%
• Category: FormattingAndRenderingVariables, ApplicationsAndComponentsVariables
• Related: TwistyPlugin, TwistyContrib (this topic)

Total: 13 variables

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