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Feature Proposal: Update configure to allow ajax based (fast) checking Motivation Configure is flexible, but often does unnecessary work, making it slow. It requ...

AaronFuleki Would Like to Check in Who am I? I've been a TWiki user since 2001, but never really got into hacking it or building Wiki Applications until about a ...

AaronLWalker Would Like to Check in Who am I? TWiki user and admin. Giving you a try. I administer several IBM WebSphere and Tivoli products at my company. What...

AaronScamehorn Would Like to Check in Who am I? Software developer w/ 15 yrs C exp What do I want? write access to SVN for the following branches: wikiplugins ...

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Feature Proposal: Change Access control to avoid built in security issues Motivation I experienced security issues with a client, which I had to address in due c...

Feature Proposal: It would be more flexible to have the option for a descending table sort in the Extensions.ActionTrackerPlugin Motivation By using a custom att...

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Feature Proposal: Add a way to output the contexts that are set Motivation I would like to add a set of css classes that are dependent on the contexts that we ar...

Feature Proposal: Add ADDWORKINGDAYS to Extensions.SpreadSheetPlugin Motivation We have a WORKINGDAYS that calculates the number of working days between two date...

Feature Proposal: improve internal cachebility of TopicObjects by differentiating writeable Meta objects. Motivation we open, parse and throw away a much larger ...

Feature Proposal: Add a way to shift heading levels a headershift parameter to adjust included header levels Motivation The header levels almost never fit if I t...

Feature Proposal: Add an alt parameter to ICON Motivation You can use %ICON to display an icon for a filename e.g. %ICON{"flurble.jpg"}% displays as By default ...

Feature Proposal: Add Angle Brackets ( and ) to format tokens Proposed by Thomas Weigert Motivation Thomas proposed this to TWiki, and for consistency with TWi...

Feature Proposal: Extensions.AutoViewTemplatePlugin standardises the name of the skin page used for showing a topic with a form. We should merge it to core and in...

Feature Proposal: Make faster backlinks possible Motivation Finding backlinks can be quite slow. Some links are often not found as well. Abstracting backlinks ou...

Feature Proposal: Add beforeRenameHandler to the Plugin API Motivation Allow a plugin to enforce topic naming conventions or other controls on topic names during...

Feature Proposal: Add IPC::Run to avoid re inventing the wheel Motivation File::Which can be used to find the location of grep on the path, improving guessing of...

Feature Proposal: Add "" and key "" option to Foswiki::Attrs Motivation Makes writing readable and maintainable macros very easy. It also improves spotting diff...

Feature Proposal: Add a configuration wizard for authentication Motivation Authentication is complex, and required multiple settings of login manager, etc. The W...

Feature Proposal: Provide a new comparitor to aid queries against fields which contain list data Motivation At the moment, if a form field contains a comma separ...

Feature Proposal: Add a new function createTopic to Func Motivation More intuitive for novices starting to develop extensions Description and Documentation Much...

Feature Proposal: Motivation After the last round of Google's email rejections due to PTR and SPF issues, they also recommend providing DKIM signatures. Current...

Feature Proposal: Use a Foswiki app to develop WikiApps Motivation We can make WikiApp development much much easier by using the building blocks we use in our Wi...

Feature Proposal: add the registration data to the parameters of the registrationHandler Motivation it converts the registrationHandler from an almost useless 'k...

Feature Proposal: allow a list of topics to be specified so that we can use INCLUDE to allow customisation of shipped topic elements. Motivation UpgradeSafeCusto...

Feature Proposal: Add default value to STARTSECTION Motivation In trunk you can now set a default value for a TMPL:P, the default is set in the TMPL:DEF: xz (...

Feature Proposal: Motivation Whenever no web name is specified the {UsersWebName} is used as a default. However that might not be a desirable choice for sites t...

Feature Proposal: Need to specify defaults on radio and checkbox fields Motivation As per Item11928 a recent change was implemented to ensure it's now WAD (worki...

Feature Proposal: Motivation This doesn't change foswiki itself, but adds a cross platform installation packaging that should simplify installation and configur...

Feature Proposal: Add $total(..) to System.FormattedSearch Motivation We lack a way of emitting this format string: format="Record $index of $total" where it sho...

Feature Proposal: Let's make an ENDINCLUDE to be consistent with ENDSECTION Motivation One of the first things I noticed coming to Foswiki were apparently arbitr...

Feature Proposal: Motivation This proposal comes from analysis of the requirements of the System.SitePermission page, as discussed in Tasks.Item2394 . Thinkin...

Feature Proposal: Add a preload handler for plugins Sometimes a decision can be made very early whether to allow a request to proceed or not; for example, on the ...

AddEncodingToTXTFiles Add encoding to .TXT files Currently .txt files are written by the back end stores (RCSStoreContrib anb PlainFileStoreContrib) without any ...

Feature Proposal: Add Testing and Archive repositories to Foswiki.org Motivation Currently Extensions are released into a single stream, with no ability to hold ...

Feature Proposal: Allow Extensions to force required setup's into the UnitTests Motivation Both DBIStore and integrated Kino and MongoDB (and others) need to be ...

Feature Proposal: Add FamFamFamContrib to the Core Motivation the 10 year old hand created System.DocumentGraphics really looks dated, and does not suit our imag...

Feature Proposal: Add a context that represents the core feature level of Foswiki Motivation We have the API version that can be checked for changes to Func, Met...

Feature Proposal: FilterPlugin is such a useful thing, it should be part of the default package Motivation Simplify and standardise list formatting. Let people a...

Feature Proposal: Add a finishHandler() for plugins Motivation We do have an initPlugin() that is called right at the beginning. However, there's a complementary...

In the process of updating the Plugins.TasksContrib I was somewhat surprised that there is no footer parameter to SEARCH to match the header Documentation add t...

Feature Proposal: Add structure to downloaded topics Motivation Simplify search, display and other cleverness Description and Documentation Eventually I'd like ...

Feature Proposal: Motivation Summary has some output controls, added as simple arguments to the token: * $summary(50, showvarnames, noheader, searchcontex ...