Preferences for the Main Web

About this page

• This page is preferences for the entire Main Web (within this overall TWiki site)
• Web preferences override site preferences set in Main.TWikiPreferences
• Most Web preferences can be overridden by user preferences (in a personal page like TWikiGuest in the Main web)
• Some Web preferences can also be overridden by topic (page) preferences
• Preferences are set using TWikiVariables (like %WEBBGCOLOR%)
• For more detail, see WebPreferencesHelp

Preferences

Appearance Preferences

• background color for this Web (pick from StandardColors)
  • Set WEBBGCOLOR = #99CCFF
• include this Web in SiteMap
  • Set SITEMAPLIST = on
  • Set SITEMAPWHAT = Mainly users and groups registered in TWiki
  • Set SITEMAPUSETO = Find other users, edit your own user page

Security Preferences

• See TWikiAccessControl for how these work

• Default permissions for each Topic page in this Web
  • We restrict changes/rename generally, since this is mostly used by the system
  • Set ALLOWWEBCHANGE = TWikiAdminGroup, TWikiRegistrationAgent
  • Set ALLOWWEBRENAME = TWikiAdminGroup, TWikiRegistrationAgent
  • Individual user pages have permissions applied to let users edit their own pages

• Permissions applied to this page, and thus, to the Web preferences themselves
  • Set ALLOWTOPICCHANGE = TWikiAdminGroup
  • Set ALLOWTOPICRENAME = NobodyGroup

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

Manage this Web

The Main Web cannot be renamed, moved, or deleted.