Tips Contrib Package

Summary of Contents

• Set on TWikiTip topics providing brief lessons on TWiki features. See TWikiTips.
• Set of topics for creating and managing TWikiTipXXX topics. See TWikiTipsOfTheDayAdmin.

Detailed Documentation

• See TWikiTipsOfTheDayAdmin for instructions on managing and displaying tips.
• See TWikiTipsOfTheDayAddNew for instructions for adding new custom tips.

Settings

This extension requires no settings. See TWikiTipsOfTheDayAdmin for administration details.

• One line description:
• Set SHORTDESCRIPTION = Displays rotating list of "TWiki Tip-of-the-day"

CSS used by TipsContrib

• .tipsOfTheDay - overall container
• .tipsOfTheDayContents - container for tipsOfTheDayHeader and tipsOfTheDayText
• strong.tipsOfTheDayHeader - header that says "TWiki Tip of the Day"
• .tipsOfTheDayText - the tip; contains title and tip summary and link "Read on"
• .tipsOfTheDayTitle - title of the tip; the link to the tip topic

Installation Instructions

Note: You do not need to install anything on the browser to use this contrib package. The following instructions are for the administrator who installs the package on the server where TWiki is running.

• Download the ZIP file from the Plugin web (see below)
• Unzip TipsContrib.zip in your twiki installation directory. Content:

  File:	Description:

  %$MANIFEST%

Contrib Info

Author:	TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny, TWiki:Main.PaulineCheung
Copyright:	© 2005-2018 Peter Thoeny, TWiki.org © 2005-2018 TWiki:TWiki.TWikiContributor
License:	GPL (GNU General Public License)
Dependencies:	TWiki:Plugins.SpreadSheetPlugin
Version:	2018-07-14
Change History:
2018-07-14:	TWikibug:Item7834: Sanitation of search
2018-07-06:	TWikibug:Item7841: Copyright update to 2018
2016-01-09:	TWikibug:Item7708: Copyright update to 2016
2013-10-25:	TWikibug:Item7376: Suppress header in tips of the day with noheader="on" parameter
2013-01-23:	TWikibug:Item6977: TWiki.TWikiTip029 timed out on a large site, which is fixed
2012-09-04:	TWikibug:Item6837: Doc fixes
2011-07-07:	TWikibug:Item6711: Change "user homepage" to "profile page"
2010-06-27:	TWikibug:Item6479: More doc improvements
2010-05-15:	TWikibug:Item6433: Doc improvements; replacing TWIKIWEB with SYSTEMWEB
2007-01-04:	Performance improvement
2005-10-10:	Initial version - Packaging by TWiki:Main.LynnwoodBrown
Home:	http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/TipsContrib
Feedback:	http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/TipsContribDev
Appraisal:	http://TWiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/TipsContribAppraisal

Related Topics: TWikiPreferences