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Using TWiki

 
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Updates

  • 9/7/08 - Investigated Web Notify further.

  • 9/5/08 - Added login issues, appearance issues, and online surveys to the list of topics to investigate. Investigated skins.

  • 9/4/08 - Started project page as "Main/RickManning". Recorded list of issues to investigate, and started looking into the basics of how TWiki works. Found a reference manual on the Twiki.org site with lots of good information.

Issues to Address

How does TWiki work? What underlying technology does it use, and how is internal storage handled?

Rice RAP is currently using TWiki 4.0.0, released Wed, 08 Feb 2006, and Plugin API version 1.1. The most recent version is TWiki 4.2.2.

  • Note: How difficult would it be to update the Twiki? Is it a good idea?

For a good reference on how TWiki works, see the TWiki 4.0.0 Reference Manual for System Administrators.

To be investigated further.

Login issues.

To be investigated.

What's a good place to find out about existing security problems and how to deal with them? How is security handled, and what are common security problems?

For a list of "security alerts" for different versions of TWiki, see TWiki Security Alerts.

To be investigated further.

How does access control work and can it be spoofed?

See TWiki User Authentication and TWiki Access Control.

To be investigated further.

Can we do general purpose programming on our TWiki?

TWiki Plugins, written in Perl, can be used for some programming needs.

TWiki Scripts appear to have more low-level functionality, such as renaming, moving, and editing large numbers of topics.

To be investigated further.

Can we get notifications for web page changes in a good format?

TWiki 4.0.0 has a service called Web Notify that can be used to notify subscribers of edited topics. Requires MailerContrib.

The RAP TWiki seems to have this functionality -- I've signed up for updates to the Main web; we'll see if it works.

What are the tradeoffs?

To be investigated.

How can we make TWiki look more polished?

Use skins.

To change the default look and feel, we would probably create our own custom skin. Then, "to make the changes visible on all pages, go to TWikiPreferences (to keep TWikiPreferences intact) and write: * Set COVER = myskin "

It looks like making a custom skin is pretty simple. We can use built-in features and/or CSS to define the layout. We might not be able to achieve quite the polished look of a static, non-wiki website, but we can definitely come much closer.

To be investigated further.

How does one become a "power user" of the wiki?

To be investigated.

How well can you couple a wiki document with a wiki presentation so that you can co-evolve either of them in parallel to the other?

To be investigated.

Can we make an online survey a la Surveymonkey with TWiki?

To be investigated.

 
META FORM name="Main.UserForm"
FORM FIELD FirstName FirstName? Rick
FORM FIELD LastName LastName? Manning
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Using TWiki

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Updates

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  • 9/7/08 - Investigated Web Notify further.
 
  • 9/5/08 - Added login issues, appearance issues, and online surveys to the list of topics to investigate. Investigated skins.

  • 9/4/08 - Started project page as "Main/RickManning". Recorded list of issues to investigate, and started looking into the basics of how TWiki works. Found a reference manual on the Twiki.org site with lots of good information.
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What are the tradeoffs?

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Using TWiki

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  • 9/5/08 - Added login issues, appearance issues, and online surveys to the list of topics to investigate. Investigated skins.
 
  • 9/4/08 - Started project page as "Main/RickManning". Recorded list of issues to investigate, and started looking into the basics of how TWiki works. Found a reference manual on the Twiki.org site with lots of good information.

Issues to Address

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  1. How does TWiki work? What underlying technology does it use, and how is internal storage handled?
  2. Login issues.
  3. What's a good place to find out about existing security problems and how to deal with them? How is security handled, and what are common security problems?
  4. How does access control work and can it be spoofed?
  5. Can we do general purpose programming on our TWiki?
  6. Can we get notifications for web page changes in a good format?
  7. What are the tradeoffs?
  8. How can we make TWiki look more polished?
  9. How does one become a "power user" of the wiki?
  10. How well can you couple a wiki document with a wiki presentation so that you can co-evolve either of them in parallel to the other?
  11. Can we make an online survey a la Surveymonkey with TWiki?
 

How does TWiki work? What underlying technology does it use, and how is internal storage handled?

Rice RAP is currently using TWiki 4.0.0, released Wed, 08 Feb 2006, and Plugin API version 1.1. The most recent version is TWiki 4.2.2.

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 For a good reference on how TWiki works, see the TWiki 4.0.0 Reference Manual for System Administrators.
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Login issues.

To be investigated.

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 For a list of "security alerts" for different versions of TWiki, see TWiki Security Alerts.
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How does access control work and can it be spoofed?

See TWiki User Authentication and TWiki Access Control.

Added:
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>		To be investigated further.
 

Can we do general purpose programming on our TWiki?

TWiki Plugins, written in Perl, can be used for some programming needs.

TWiki Scripts appear to have more low-level functionality, such as renaming, moving, and editing large numbers of topics.

Added:
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>		To be investigated further.
 

Can we get notifications for web page changes in a good format?

TWiki 4.0.0 has a service called Web Notify that can be used to notify subscribers of edited topics. Requires MailerContrib.

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What are the tradeoffs?

To be investigated.

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"To make the changes visible on all pages, go to TWikiPreferences (to keep TWikiPreferences intact) and write:

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 =* Set COVER = myskin="
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>		It looks like making a custom skin is pretty simple. We can use built-in features and/or CSS to define the layout. We might not be able to achieve quite the polished look of a static, non-wiki website, but we can definitely come much closer.

To be investigated further.

 

How does one become a "power user" of the wiki?

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META TOPICPARENT name="TWikiUsers"

Using TWiki

Updates

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  • 9/4/08 - Created project page as "Main/RickManning". Recorded list of issues to investigate, and started looking into the basics of how TWiki works. Found a reference manual on the Twiki.org site with lots of good information.
 
  • 9/5/08 - Added login issues, appearance issues, and online surveys to the list of topics to investigate.
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  • 9/4/08 - Started project page as "Main/RickManning". Recorded list of issues to investigate, and started looking into the basics of how TWiki works. Found a reference manual on the Twiki.org site with lots of good information.
 

Issues to Address

  1. How does TWiki work? What underlying technology does it use, and how is internal storage handled?
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How can we make TWiki look more polished?

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To change the default look and feel, we would probably create our own custom skin. Then,

"To make the changes visible on all pages, go to TWikiPreferences (to keep TWikiPreferences intact) and write: =* Set COVER = myskin="

 

How does one become a "power user" of the wiki?

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META TOPICPARENT name="TWikiUsers"

Using TWiki

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  • 9/4/08 - Created project page as "Main/RickManning". Recorded list of issues to investigate, and started looking into the basics of how TWiki works. Found a reference manual on the Twiki.org site with lots of good information.
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  • 9/5/08 - Added login issues, appearance issues, and online surveys to the list of topics to investigate.
 

Issues to Address

  1. How does TWiki work? What underlying technology does it use, and how is internal storage handled?
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  1. Login issues.
 
  1. What's a good place to find out about existing security problems and how to deal with them? How is security handled, and what are common security problems?
  2. How does access control work and can it be spoofed?
  3. Can we do general purpose programming on our TWiki?
  4. Can we get notifications for web page changes in a good format?
  5. What are the tradeoffs?
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  1. How can we make TWiki look more polished?
 
  1. How does one become a "power user" of the wiki?
  2. How well can you couple a wiki document with a wiki presentation so that you can co-evolve either of them in parallel to the other?
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  1. Can we make an online survey a la Surveymonkey with TWiki?
 

How does TWiki work? What underlying technology does it use, and how is internal storage handled?

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Login issues.

To be investigated.

 

What's a good place to find out about existing security problems and how to deal with them? How is security handled, and what are common security problems?

For a list of "security alerts" for different versions of TWiki, see TWiki Security Alerts.

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How can we make TWiki look more polished?

Use skins. To be investigated.

 

How does one become a "power user" of the wiki?

To be investigated.

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How well can you couple a wiki document with a wiki presentation so that you can co-evolve either of them in parallel to the other?

To be investigated.

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Can we make an online survey a la Surveymonkey with TWiki?

To be investigated.

 
META FORM name="Main.UserForm"
FORM FIELD FirstName FirstName? Rick
FORM FIELD LastName LastName? Manning
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Using TWiki

Updates

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  • 9/4/08 - Created project page as "Main/RickManning". Recorded list of issues to investigate, and started looking into the basics of how TWiki works. Found a reference manual on the Twiki.org site with lots of good information.
 

Issues to Address

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How does access control work and can it be spoofed?

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Can we do general purpose programming on our TWiki?

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TWiki Scripts appear to have more low-level functionality, such as renaming, moving, and editing large numbers of topics.

 

Can we get notifications for web page changes in a good format?

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What are the tradeoffs?

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Using TWiki

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Issues to Address

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  1. What's a good place to find out about existing security problems and how to deal with them? How is security handled, and what are common security problems?
 
  1. How does access control work and can it be spoofed?
  2. Can we do general purpose programming on our TWiki?
  3. Can we get notifications for web page changes in a good format?
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  1. How does one become a "power user" of the wiki?
  2. How well can you couple a wiki document with a wiki presentation so that you can co-evolve either of them in parallel to the other?
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How does TWiki work? What underlying technology does it use, and how is internal storage handled?

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How is security handled, and what are common security problems?

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What's a good place to find out about existing security problems and how to deal with them?

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What's a good place to find out about existing security problems and how to deal with them? How is security handled, and what are common security problems?

 
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How does access control work and can it be spoofed?

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How does access control work and can it be spoofed?

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Can we do general purpose programming on our TWiki?

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Can we do general purpose programming on our TWiki?

 To be investigated.
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Can we get notifications for web page changes in a good format?

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Can we get notifications for web page changes in a good format?

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What are the tradeoffs?

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What are the tradeoffs?

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How does one become a "power user" of the wiki?

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How well can you couple a wiki document with a wiki presentation so that you can co-evolve either of them in parallel to the other?

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How well can you couple a wiki document with a wiki presentation so that you can co-evolve either of them in parallel to the other?

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META FORM name="Main.UserForm"
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META TOPICPARENT name="TWikiUsers"

Using TWiki

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META TOPICPARENT name="TWikiUsers"

Using TWiki

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Updates

  • 9/4/08 - Created project page as "Main/RickManning".
 

Issues to Address

  1. How does TWiki work? What underlying technology does it use, and how is internal storage handled?
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  1. How does access control work and can it be spoofed?
  2. Can we do general purpose programming on our TWiki?
  3. Can we get notifications for web page changes in a good format?
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  1. What are the tradeoffs?
  2. How does one become a "power user" of the wiki?
 
  1. How well can you couple a wiki document with a wiki presentation so that you can co-evolve either of them in parallel to the other?
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Personal Preferences

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How does TWiki work? What underlying technology does it use, and how is internal storage handled?

To be investigated.

How is security handled, and what are common security problems?

To be investigated.

What's a good place to find out about existing security problems and how to deal with them?

To be investigated.

How does access control work and can it be spoofed?

To be investigated.

Can we do general purpose programming on our TWiki?

To be investigated.

Can we get notifications for web page changes in a good format?

To be investigated.

What are the tradeoffs?

To be investigated.

How does one become a "power user" of the wiki?

 
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    • #Set EDITBOXWIDTH = 70
  • Vertical size of text edit box:
    • #Set EDITBOXHEIGHT = 22
  • Style of text edit box. width: 99% for full window width (default), width: auto to disable.
    • #Set EDITBOXSTYLE = width: 99%
  • Write protect your home page: (set it to your WikiName)

Related Topics

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How well can you couple a wiki document with a wiki presentation so that you can co-evolve either of them in parallel to the other?

 
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META FORM name="Main.UserForm"
FORM FIELD FirstName FirstName? Rick
FORM FIELD LastName LastName? Manning
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My Links

  • ATasteOfTWiki - view a short introductory presentation on TWiki for beginners
  • WelcomeGuest - starting points on TWiki
  • TWikiUsersGuide - complete TWiki documentation, Quick Start to Reference
  • Sandbox - try out TWiki on your own
  • RickManningSandbox? - just for me
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  1. How does TWiki work? What underlying technology does it use, and how is internal storage handled?
  2. How is security handled, and what are common security problems?
  3. What's a good place to find out about existing security problems and how to deal with them?
  4. How does access control work and can it be spoofed?
  5. Can we do general purpose programming on our TWiki?
  6. Can we get notifications for web page changes in a good format?
  7. What are the tradeoffs
  8. How does one become a "power user" of the wiki.
  9. Produce the answers to these questions in the form of a wiki presentation.
  10. How well can you couple a wiki document with a wiki presentation so that you can co-evolve either of them in parallel to the other?
 

Personal Preferences

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My Links

  • ATasteOfTWiki - view a short introductory presentation on TWiki for beginners
  • WelcomeGuest - starting points on TWiki
  • TWikiUsersGuide - complete TWiki documentation, Quick Start to Reference
  • Sandbox - try out TWiki on your own
  • RickManningSandbox? - just for me

Personal Preferences

Uncomment preferences variables to activate them (remove the #-sign). Help and details on preferences variables are available in TWikiPreferences.

  • Show tool-tip topic info on mouse-over of WikiWord links, on or off:
    • #Set LINKTOOLTIPINFO = off
  • Horizontal size of text edit box:
    • #Set EDITBOXWIDTH = 70
  • Vertical size of text edit box:
    • #Set EDITBOXHEIGHT = 22
  • Style of text edit box. width: 99% for full window width (default), width: auto to disable.
    • #Set EDITBOXSTYLE = width: 99%
  • Write protect your home page: (set it to your WikiName)

Related Topics

META FORM name="%25MAINWEB%25.UserForm"
FORM FIELD First Name FirstName? Rick
FORM FIELD Last Name LastName? Manning
FORM FIELD OrganisationName OrganisationName?
FORM FIELD OrganisationURL OrganisationURL?
FORM FIELD Profession Profession
FORM FIELD Country Country
FORM FIELD State State
FORM FIELD Address Address
FORM FIELD Location Location
FORM FIELD Telephone Telephone
FORM FIELD VoIP VoIP?
FORM FIELD InstantMessaging (IM) InstantMessagingIM?
FORM FIELD Email Email
FORM FIELD HomePage HomePage?
FORM FIELD Comment Comment
META PREFERENCE name="VIEW_TEMPLATE" title="VIEW_TEMPLATE" type="Local" value="UserView"
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