Feature list

The TWIKI.NET Certified TWiki is based on the open source TWiki release 4.1.2 and has these features:

  • Installation program for Windows and Linux - simple jumpstart
  • WYSIWYG editor - ease of use
  • Stylish skin with corporate look - user acceptance
  • VMware appliance - ease of deployment, high availability and flexibility
  • Authentication against AD/LDAP - simple user management
  • Updates itself - ease of maintenace
  • Backup utility - peace of mind
  • Additional pre-installed plugins, such as CalendarPlugin, ChartPlugin, HeadlinesPlugin, TagMePlugin - turn key solution
  • Pre-installed TWiki applications, such as discussion forum, enterprise glossary (more to come) - Web 2.0 solution for the enterprise
  • Certified engine and plugins - it works
  • Professional 24/7 support - help when needed
  • Training programs for users and Wiki Champions - speed enterprise adoption
  • TWIKI.NET Independent Consultant referral - customization

Certified TWiki is a structured wiki, which allows users to build custom applications as well as publishing contents and materials. Some customers also use TWiki as a basic document management system. Others use it for workflow applications like order handling or project management. TWiki is designed with a security architecture which uniquely allows customers to track not only page changes, but user and group settings and much more information. TWiki is the powerful and secure enterprise wiki...

Certified TWiki is a mature, full featured enterprise wiki engine

  • Any web browser: Can run in almost any browser. No need for ftp or http put to upload pages
  • Edit link: To edit a page, simply click on the Edit button on each 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 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
  • E-mail notification: Get automatically notified when something has changed in a TWiki web through 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
  • Revision control: All changes to pages and attachments are tracked. Find out who changed what, when
  • Access control: Define groups and impose access restrictions based on groups and users
  • Variables: Use variables to dynamically compose your pages. This allows you to dynamically build a table of contents or 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 or plugins that interface through Perl using the TWiki Plugin API

Sample Plugins

  • 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 headlines based on RSS 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
  • XpTrackerPlugin: Track Extreme Programming (XP) projects

Application Wiki

Contributors can use the TWiki platform to create web applications. The TWiki Variables, plugins and sample applications offer a rich environment where domain-specific applications can be built efficiently by contributors with moderate skill sets. Developers can create new plugins to enhance the functionality of TWiki even further.

Sample applications

  • Blog
  • Call center status board
  • Change Request tracker
  • Glossary
  • Inventory system
  • Meeting minutes tracker
  • Sales opportunity tracker

Other Features

  • Templates and skins: A flexible template 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
  • 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 RSS for news syndication
  • Statistics: Create Statistics of TWiki webs. Find out most popular pages and top contributors
  • Preferences: Four levels of preferences: TWikiPreferences for site-level; WebPreferences for each web; user level preferences; and page level preferences
  • Conflict resolution: Content is merged automatically. In rare cases where a conflict cannot be resolved automatically, users are warned and guided to resolve the conflict manually
  • Referred-By: Find out back-links to a page
  • Exhaustive documentation: Over 60,000 pages of material on twiki.org
  • Plus many more features not listed here...

Certified Plugin List

  • BehaviourContrib
  • CalendarPlugin
  • ChartPlugin
  • ClassicSkin
  • CommentPlugin
  • Compatibility4dot1SkinContrib
  • EditTablePlugin
  • EmptyPlugin
  • HeadlinesPlugin
  • InterwikiPlugin
  • JSCalendarContrib
  • MailerContrib
  • PatternSkin
  • PreferencesPlugin
  • RenderListPlugin
  • RequireRegistrationPlugin
  • SlideShowPlugin
  • SmiliesPlugin
  • SpreadSheetPlugin
  • TablePlugin
  • TipsContrib
  • TWikiDrawPlugin
  • TWikiNetSkin (Certified TWiki Skin)
  • TWikiNetSkinPlugin
  • TwistyContrib
  • TwistyPlugin
  • WysiwygPlugin

Open Source TWiki

TWIKI.NET is deeply indebted to all of the members of the open source community and at least 800 developers who have directly contributed to building TWiki and the Plugins and Extensions. They built this rich set of features and capabilities.