Category: Searching & Listing

Variables in this category:

META -- displays meta-data

Provided mainly for use in templates, this variable generates the parts of the topic view that relate to meta-data (attachments, forms etc.) The formfield item is the most likely to be useful to casual users.
Syntax: %META{ "item" ...}%
Parameters:

Item	Options	Description
`"formfield"`	`name="..."`: name of the field. The field value can be shortened as described in FormattedSearch for `$formfield`. `newline="..."`: by default, each newline character will be rewritten to `<br />` to allow metadata that contains newlines to be used in tables, etc. `$n` indicates a newline character. `bar="..."`: by default, each vertical bar is rewritten to an HTML entity so as to not be mistaken for a table separator. `encode="type"`: have the value encoded in the specified type. Possible types are the same as ENCODE's. If this is specified, `newline` and `bar` options are ignored. `topic="..."`: Get meta info of "Topic" or "Web.Topic"; default `"%BASEWEB%.%BASETOPIC%"`.	Show a single form field
`"form"`	`topic="..."`: Get meta info of "Topic" or "Web.Topic"; default `"%BASEWEB%.%BASETOPIC%"`.	Generates the table showing the form fields. See Form Templates
`"attachments"`	`all="on"` to show hidden attachments. `title="..."` to show a title - only if attachments are displayed. `template="..."` to use a custom template for the rendering of attachments; default `attachtables` is used. `topic="..."`: Get meta info of "Topic" or "Web.Topic"; default `"%BASEWEB%.%BASETOPIC%"`.	Generates the list of attachments
`"moved"`	`topic="..."`: Get meta info of "Topic" or "Web.Topic"; default `"%BASEWEB%.%BASETOPIC%"`.	Details of any topic moves
`"parent"`	`dontrecurse="on"`: By default recurses up tree, this has some cost. `nowebhome="on"`: Suppress WebHome. `prefix="..."`: Prefix that goes before parents, but only if there are parents, default `""`. `format="..."`: Format string used to display each parent topic where `$web` expands to the web name, and `$topic` expands to the topic name; default: `"[[$web.$topic][$topic]]"` `suffix="..."`: Suffix, only appears if there are parents; default `""`. `separator="..."`: Separator between parents; default `" > "`. `topic="..."`: Get meta info of "Topic" or "Web.Topic"; default `"%BASEWEB%.%BASETOPIC%"`.	Generates the parent link

Attention: The base topic, not the current topic, is used if %META{}% is placed in an included topic. Add a topic="%WEB%.%TOPIC%" parameter if you need meta info of the current topic.
Note: Formatting tokens can be used for newline, prefix, format, suffix and separator options, such as separator="$n * "
Category: AttachmentsAndFilesVariables, SearchingAndListingVariables, SystemInformationVariables
Related: EDITFORMFIELD, FORMFIELD, METASEARCH, PARENTTOPIC, SEARCH, ENCODE, FormattedSearch (this topic)

METASEARCH -- special search of meta data

Syntax: %METASEARCH{...}%
Supported parameters:

Parameter:	Description:	Default:
`type="topicmoved"`	What sort of search is required? `"topicmoved"` if search for a topic that may have been moved `"parent"` if searching for topics that have a specific parent i.e. its children `"field"` if searching for topics that have a particular form field value (use the `name` and `value` parameters to specify which field to search)	Required
`web="%WEB%"`	Wiki web to search: A web, a list of webs separated by whitespace, or `all` webs.	Current web
`topic="%TOPIC%"`	The topic the search relates to, for `topicmoved` and `parent` searches	All topics in a web
`name`	form field to search, for `field` type searches. May be a regular expression (see SEARCH).
`value`	form field value, for `field` type searches. May be a regular expression (see SEARCH).
`title="Title"`	Text that is prefixed to any search results	empty
`format="..."`	Custom format results. Supports same format strings as SEARCH. See FormattedSearch for usage, variables & examples	Results in table
`default="none"`	Default text shown if no search hit	Empty

Example: %METASEARCH{type="topicmoved" web="%WEB%" topic="%TOPIC%" title="This topic used to exist and was moved to: "}%
Example: You may want to use this in WebTopicViewTemplate and WebTopicNonWikiTemplate:
%METASEARCH{type="parent" web="%WEB%" topic="%TOPIC%" title="Children: "}%
Example: %METASEARCH{type="field" name="Country" value="China"}%
Note: METASEARCH is deprecated in favour of the new and much more powerful query type search. See SEARCH and QuerySearch.
Category: SearchingAndListingVariables, SystemInformationVariables
Related: EDITFORMFIELD, FORMFIELD, SEARCH, META (this topic)

SEARCH{"text"} -- search content

Inline search, shows a search result embedded in a topic
Syntax: %SEARCH{"text" ...}%
Supported parameters:

Parameter:	Description:	Default:
`"text"`	Search term. Is a keyword search, literal search, regular expression search, or query, depending on the `type` parameter. SearchHelp has more	required
`search="text"`	(Alternative to above)	N/A
`web="Name"` `web="Main, Know"` `web="all"`	Comma-separated list of webs to search. You can specifically exclude webs from an `all` search using a minus sign - for example, `web="all,-Secretweb"`. The special word `all` means all webs that do not have the `NOSEARCHALL` variable set to `on` in their WebPreferences. Note that TWikiAccessControls are respected when searching webs; it is much better to use them than `NOSEARCHALL`.	Current web
`topic="WebPreferences"` `topic="*Bug"`	Limit search to topics: A topic, a topic with asterisk wildcards, or a list of topics separated by comma. *Note* this is a list of topic names and must not include web names.	All topics in a web
`excludetopic="Web*"` `excludetopic="WebHome, WebChanges"`	Exclude topics from search: A topic, a topic with asterisk wildcards, or a list of topics separated by comma. *Note* this is a list of topic names and must not include web names.	None
`scope="topic"` `scope="text"` `scope="all"`	Search topic name (title); the text (body) of topic; or all (title and body)	`"text"`
`type="keyword"` `type="word"` `type="literal"` `type="regex"` `type="query"`	Control how the search is performed when `scope="text"` or `scope="all"` `keyword`: use Google-like controls as in `soap "web service" -shampoo`; searches word parts: using the example, topics with "soapsuds" will be found as well, but topics with "shampoos" will be excluded `word`: identical to `keyword` but searches whole words: topics with "soapsuds" will not be found, and topics with "shampoos" will not be excluded `literal`: search for the exact string, like `web service` `regex`: use a RegularExpression search like `soap;web service;!shampoo`; to search on whole words use `\bsoap\b` `query`: query search of form fields and other meta-data, like `(Firstname='Emma' OR Firstname='John') AND Lastname='Peel'`	`%SEARCHVAR- DEFAULTTYPE%` preferences setting (literal)
`sort="topic"` `sort="created"` `sort="modified"` `sort="editby"` `sort="parent"` `sort= "formfield(name)"`	Sort the results of search by the topic names, topic creation time, last modified time, last editor, parent topic name, or named field of TWikiForms. The sorting is done web by web; if you want to sort across webs, create a formatted table and sort it with TablePlugin's initsort. Note that dates are sorted most recent date last (i.e at the bottom of the table). Legacy `order` parameter is used in case `sort` is not specified.	Sort by topic name
`start="0"` `start="20"`	Specify the number of results to skip. This is done after sorting if `sort` parameter is specified. This is intended for pagination of results. If this parameter is specified, `%NTOPICS%` in the search template is replaced with the number of topics matched. Without this parameter, `%NTOPICS%` doesn't exceed the `limit` value.	No results skipped
`limit="all"` `limit="16"`	Limit the number of results returned. This is done after sorting if `sort` parameter is specified. This parameter specifing the number of results remains the same in the presense of the `start` parameter. Assuming there are more than 20 results matched, `start="10" limit="10"` results in 11th to 20th results are returned	All results
`date="..."`	limits the results to those pages with latest edit time in the given time interval.	All results
`createdate="..."`	similar to `date` but it's about create time instead of last edit. You can specify both `date` and `createdate`, in which case topics matching both conditions are shown.	All results
`reverse="on"`	Reverse the direction of the search	Ascending search
`casesensitive="on"`	Case sensitive search	Ignore case
`bookview="on"`	BookView search, e.g. show complete topic text	Show topic summary
`nonoise="on"`	Shorthand for `nosummary="on" nosearch="on" nototal="on" zeroresults="off" noheader="on" noempty="on"`	Off
`nosummary="on"`	Show topic title only	Show topic summary
`nosearch="on"`	Suppress search string	Show search string
`noheader="on"`	Suppress default search header Topics: Changed: By: , unless a `header` is explicitly specified	Show default search header, unless search is inline and a format is specified (Cairo compatibility)
`nototal="on"`	Do not show number of topics found	Show number
`zeroresults="off"`	Suppress all output if there are no hits	`zeroresults="on"`, displays: "Number of topics: 0"
`noempty="on"`	Suppress results for webs that have no hits.	Show webs with no hits
`headingoffset="2"`	Adjust the level of headings in text of topics found, taking effect in `$text` and `$pattern()` of a FormattedSearch. A `"2"` or `"+2"` increases the level by two, e.g. a `---+` H1 turns into a `---+++` H3. Positive and negative values are supported. Adjusted min and max levels are H1 and H6, respectively.	no adjustment
`header="..."` `format="..."` `footer="..."`	Custom format results. See FormattedSearch for usage, variables & examples	Results in table
`default="..."`	Default message if there are no hits in a web. See FormattedSearch for usage, variables & examples	No output
`expandvariables="on"`	Expand variables before applying a FormattedSearch on a search hit. Useful to show the expanded text, e.g. to show the result of a SpreadSheetPlugin `%CALC{}%` instead of the formula	Raw text
`multiple="on"`	Multiple hits per topic. Each hit can be formatted. The last token is used in case of a regular expression ";" and search	Only one hit per topic
`nofinalnewline="on"`	If `on`, the search variable does not end in a line by itself. Any text continuing immediately after the search variable on the same line will be rendered as part of the table generated by the search, if appropriate.	`off`
`recurse="on"`	Recurse into subwebs, if subwebs are enabled.	`off`
`separator=", "`	Line separator between search hits	`"$n"` (Newline)
`newline="%BR%"`	Line separator within a search hit. Useful if you want to put multi-line content into a table cell, for example if the format="" parameter contains a $pattern() that captures more than one line, or contains a $formfield() that returns a multi-line textfield.	`"$n"` (Newline)
`encode="html"`	Encode special characters into HTML entities. If a FORMFIELD is passed into an HTML form field it should be encoded as `"html"`. Additional encodings available: `encode="quote"`, `encode="moderate"`, `encode="safe"`, `encode="entity"` and `encode="url"`. See ENCODE for details.	no encoding

Example: %SEARCH{"wiki" web="Main" scope="topic"}%
Example with format: %SEARCH{"FAQ" scope="topic" nosearch="on" nototal="on" header="| *Topic: * | *Summary: * |" format="| $topic | $summary |"}% (displays results in a table with header - details)
Hint: If the TWiki:Plugins.TablePlugin is installed, you may set a %TABLE{}% variable just before the %SEARCH{}% to alter the output of a search. Example: %TABLE{ tablewidth="90%" }%
Category: DevelopmentVariables, DatabaseAndFormsVariables, ExportAndPublishingVariables, SearchingAndListingVariables
Related: EDITFORMFIELD, FORMFIELD, META, METASEARCH, TOPICLIST, WEBLIST, FormattedSearch, SearchResultsPagination, QuerySearch, SearchHelp, SearchPatternCookbook, RegularExpression (this topic)

TOPICLIST{"format"} -- topic index of a web

List of all topics in a web. The "format" defines the format of one topic item. It may include variables: The $topic variable gets expanded to the topic name, $marker to marker parameter where topic matches selection, and $web to the name of the web, or any of the standard FormatTokens.
Syntax: %TOPICLIST{"format" ...}%
Supported parameters:

Parameter:	Description:	Default:
`"format"`	Format of one line, may include `$web` (name of web), `$topic` (name of the topic), `$marker` (which expands to `marker` for the item matching `selection` only)	`"$topic"`
`format="format"`	(Alternative to above)	`"$topic"`
`separator=", "`	line separator	`"$n"` (new line)
`marker="selected"`	Text for `$marker` if the item matches `selection`	`"selected"`
`selection="TopicA, TopicB"`	Current value to be selected in list	`(none)`
`web="Name"`	Name of web	Current web

Example: %TOPICLIST{" * $web.$topic"}% creates a bullet list of all topics
Example: %TOPICLIST{separator=", "}% creates a comma separated list of all topics
Example: %TOPICLIST{" <option>$topic</option>"}% creates an option list (for drop down menus)
Example: <select>%TOPICLIST{" <option $marker value='$topic'>$topic</option>" separator=" " selection="%TOPIC%"}%</select> creates an option list of web topics with the current topic selected
Category: SearchingAndListingVariables, SystemInformationVariables
Related: SEARCH, WEBLIST (this topic)

WEBLIST{"format"} -- index of all webs

List of all webs. Obfusticated webs are excluded, e.g. webs with a NOSEARCHALL = on preference variable. The "format" defines the format of one web item. The $name variable gets expanded to the name of the web, $qname gets expanded to double quoted name, $marker to marker where web matches selection.
Syntax: %WEBLIST{"format" ...}%
Supported parameters:

Parameter:

Description:

Default:

"format"

Format of one line, may include following items. In addtion, the standard special tokens are handled accordingly.

Item	Description
`$name`	the name of the web
`$qname`	the name of the web in double quotes
`$indentedname`	the name of the web with parent web names replaced by indents, for use in indented lists
`$listindent`	expands to multiple-of-3 spaces for bullet (*) and numberd (1., a., etc.) lists. It's relative to the depth of the web specified by the `subwebs` parameter. See an example below.
`$marker`	expands to `marker` for the item matching `selection` only
`$web`	expands to the value specified by the `web` parameter

If you need to have a letter immediately after an item listed above, use $nop(), one of FormatTokens. e.g. $name$nop()a

"$name"

format="format" (Alternative to above) "$name"

separator=", " Line separator "$n" (new line)

web="" if you specify $web in format, it will be replaced with this ""

webs="public"

Comma separated list of webs. There are special webs:

Item	Description
`public`	expands to all non-hidden webs.
`cancopyto`	similar to `public`, but webs to which a topic of the current web cannot be copied to are excluded. Specifically, excluded are read-only webs and mirror webs.
`canmoveto`	similar to `cancopyto`, but webs to which a topic of the current web cannot be moved to are excluded. Specifically, excluded are webs residing on different disks from the current web.
`webtemplate`	expands to all template webs, whose name start with underscore (_)

NOTE 1: Administrators will see all webs, not just the public ones.
NOTE 2: If MetadataRepository is used and webs are required to be registered, then cancopyto, canmoveto, and webtemplate behave differently.

cancopyto and canmoveto results include all top level webs and subwebs of the current webs are listed regardless of accessibility - subwebs of non-current webs are excluded. They also include the user's subweb.
webtemplate result has top level template webs only.

"public"

marker="selected" Text for $marker if the item matches selection "selected"

selection="%WEB%" Current value to be selected in list selection="%WEB%"

subwebs="Sandbox" Show webs that are a sub-web of this one (recursivly) ""

depth="1" Specify the maximum depth of recursive search. E.g. %WEBLIST{depth="1"}% shows only top level webs. %WEBLIST{subwebs="Foo" depth="1"}% shows the direct subwebs of Foo. (no maximum depth)

limit="30" Limit number of webs to show "" (all)

overlimit="..." Message shown if over limit, such as: overlimit=" * [[%SYSTEMWEB%.SiteMap][More...]]" ""

Example: %WEBLIST{"$listindent * [[$name.WebHome]]"}% - creates a indented bullet list of all webs.
Example: <form><select name="web"> %WEBLIST{"<option $marker value=$qname>$name</option>" webs="Trash, public" selection="%WEB%" separator=" "}% </select></form> - creates a dropdown of all public webs + Trash web, with the current web highlighted.
Category: SearchingAndListingVariables, SystemInformationVariables
Related: TOPICLIST, SEARCH, MetadataRepository, ReadOnlyAndMirrorWebs, UsingMultipleDisks (this topic)

Total: 5 variables

Related Topics: TWikiVariables, TWikiVariablesSearch, TWikiVariablesQuickStart