TWiki

TWiki

Welcome to TWiki, a flexible, powerful, and easy to use Web-based collaboration platform. Use TWiki to run a project development space, a document management system, a knowledge base, or any other groupware tool, on an intranet or on the internet. Web content can be created collaboratively by using just a browser. Developers can create new web applications based on a Plugin API.

TWiki is a mature, full featured web based collaboration system:

Any web browser: Edit existing pages or create new pages by using any web browser. There is no need for ftp or http put to upload pages.

Edit link: To edit a page, simply click on the Edit link at the bottom of every page.

Auto links: Web pages are linked automatically. You do not need to learn HTML commands to link pages.

Text formatting: Simple, powerful and easy to learn text formatting rules. Basically you write text like you would write an e-mail.

Webs: Pages are grouped into TWiki webs (or collections). This allows you to set up separate collaboration groups.

Search: Full text search with/without regular expressions. See a sample search result.

E-mail notification: Get automatically notified when something has changed in a TWiki web. Subscribe in WebNotify.

Structured content: Use TWiki Forms to classify and categorize unstructured web pages and to create simple workflow systems.

File attachments: Upload and download any file as an attachment to a page by using your browser. This is similar to file attachments in an e-mail, but it happens on web pages.

Revision control: All changes to pages and attachments are tracked. Retrieve previous page revisions and differences thereof. Find out who changed what and when.

Access control: Define groups and impose fine grained read and write access restrictions based on groups and users.

Variables: Use variables to dynamically compose your pages. This allows you for example to dynamically build a table of contents: include other pages; or show a search result embedded in a page.

TWiki Plugins: Enhance the TWiki functionality with server side Plugin modules. Developers can create Perl Plugins using the TWiki Plugin API. Some example Plugins:
- ActionTrackerPlugin: Keep track of action items in meeting minutes and notify assignees by e-mail.
- CalendarPlugin: Show a monthly calendar with highlighted events.
- ChartPlugin: Create charts to visualize TWiki tables.
- DatabasePlugin: Get access to data in a database.
- HeadlinesPlugin: Build news portals that show headline news based on RSS news feeds from news sites.
- TWikiDrawPlugin: Use the TWikiDraw Java Applet to create editable drawings embedded in topics.
- SlideShowPlugin: Turn TWiki pages into web-based presentations.
- SpreadSheetPlugin: Add spreadsheet formulae like $SUM($ABOVE()) to TWiki tables.
- more...

Application platform: Developers use the TWiki platform to create web-based applications. The TWiki Variables, Plugins and Plugin API offer a rich environment where domain-specific applications can be built efficiently. An example application is the XpTrackerPlugin which allows teams to track Extreme Programming (XP) projects.

Templates and skins: A flexible templating system separates program logic and presentation. Skins overwrite template headers and footers; page content is unaffected.

Managing pages: Individual pages can be renamed, moved and deleted through the browser.

Managing users: Web based user registration and change of password.

What's new: See recent changes of TWiki webs. The change log can also be exported in XML RSS format for news syndication.

Statistics: Create Statistics of TWiki webs. Find out most popular pages and top contributors.

Preferences: Three levels of preferences: TWikiPreferences for site-level; WebPreferences for each web; and user level preferences.

Topic locking: Users are warned if a page is being edited by an other person. This is to prevent contention, e.g. simultaneous page editing.

Referred-By: Find out back-links to a page.


Author: Peter Thoeny Price: Free Version: 1.0 Platform(s): Unix, Windows, MacOS	Rating: Total Votes: 5 Demo: View it