Business Process Technology
Prof. Dr. Mathias Weske

Public Web Preferences

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

Preferences:

  • Skin settings
    • Set TITLETAG = BPT Wiki: WebPreferences

  • List of topics of the BPT Wiki.Public web:

  • Web specific background color: (Pick a lighter one of the StandardColors)
    • Set WEBBGCOLOR = #D0D0D0
    • Set WEBCOLOR = #000

  • Colors for Level 2 Headings (h2)
    • Set H2BGCOLOR? = #F3EDE7
    • Set H2COLOR? = #900

  • List this web in the SiteMap:
    • If yes, set SITEMAPLIST to on, do not set NOSEARCHALL, and add the "what" and "use to..." description for the site map. Make sure to list only links that include the name of the web, e.g. Public.Topic links.
    • Set SITEMAPLIST = on
    • Set SITEMAPWHAT = Information about the Business Process Technology Group
    • Set SITEMAPUSETO = Information about the Business Process Technology Group

  • Exclude web from a web="all" search: (Set to on for hidden webs)
    • Set NOSEARCHALL =

  • 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 <noautolink> ... </noautolink> syntax can be used to prevents links within a block of text.

  • Default template for new topics and form(s) for this web:
    • WebTopicEditTemplate?: Default template for new topics in this web. (Site-level is used if topic does not exist)
    • TWiki.WebTopicEditTemplate: Site-level default template
    • TWikiForms: How to enable form(s)
    • Set WEBFORMS =

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

  • Settings for PublishAddOn?
    • Root directory for static-published HTML
    • Set PUBLISH_DIR = /var/lib/twiki/pub/Public/
    • Root URL for static-published HTML (should point to the same dir as PUBLISH_DIR)
    • Set PUBLISH_URL_PATH = /twiki/pub/Public
Notes:
  • A preference is defined as:
    6 spaces * Set NAME = value
    Example:
    • Set WEBBGCOLOR = #FFFFC0
  • Preferences are used as TWikiVariables by enclosing the name in percent signs. Example:
    • When you write variable %WEBBGCOLOR% , it gets expanded to #D0D0D0 .
  • The sequential order of the preference settings is significant. Define preferences that use other preferences first, i.e. set WEBCOPYRIGHT before WIKIWEBMASTER since %WEBCOPYRIGHT% uses the %WIKIWEBMASTER% variable.
  • You can introduce new preferences variables and use them in your topics and templates. There is no need to change the BPT Wiki engine (Perl scripts).

Related Topics:

University of Potsdam
Business Process Technology
Hasso-Plattner-Institute
Prof.-Dr.-Helmert-Str. 2-3
D-14482 Potsdam, Germany
Phone: +49 (0) 331-5509-180
Fax: +49 (0) 331-5509-189