Customization

Themes

You can add or remove themes to the list of choice in Preferences from the Zope Mgt Interface (ZMI). Look in your wiki folder for themes. You can delete a style sheet or add to the current choices. Look at one of the current themes for guidance on creating a new one. To replace the current default theme, look in the css folder for default.css.

Branding your wiki

The easiest way to brand your wiki is to add a banner to the top of the page. You can do this by adding a graphic or text banner to the page templates from the Zope management interface (ZMI). See http://commonplacebook.org for ideas.

Administration

Permissions

To view this wiki, users need View and Access content information permissions on the folder. To create new pages they need Add ZWiki Page permission; to upload files, Add Documents, Images, and Files. Permissions to add comments, edit, reparent etc. all begin with Zwiki: and appear at the end of the permissions list.

Subscriptions

Mail-out

Set up a Zope MailHost object and add a mail_from folder string property containing a valid From address. A "subscribe" link will appear in the page footer. You may want to add the ZWiki:MailHostFix to make Bcc work.

Mail in

You'll need to set up a special mail alias, a zope helper method, a default discussion page and mail_to/mail_replyto folder properties. Users will be able to reply to comments by mail. See ZWiki:WikiMail.

Syndication

You can configure your wiki to have an RSS feed of Recent Changes. ZCatalog required. See ZWiki:RSSFeeds and ZWiki:ZwikiAndZCatalog

External Editing

Install the ZWiki:ExternalEditor zope product and make sure users have the Use external editor permission. EE's pencil icon will appear in the page footer. Users will probably be able to edit pages with their preferred editor after installing EE's client helper app.

A Bug Tracker

An issue tracking database integrated with the wiki. See ZWiki:HowToInstallAZwikiTracker

Security

If you allow untrusted users to edit your wiki, you should be aware of the server-side trojan issue. Unless carefully configured Zwiki may allow users to create content (eg DTML or javascript) which will be executed when viewed by others. For example, DTML code could delete other zope objects to which it has access (restricted to the lowest of the page owner and the page viewer's privileges).

Tips: make the wiki folder's owner a low-privileged user, set the standard_page_type folder property to a non-DTML page type, remove or disable editing on any DTML-enabled pages, deny Zwiki: Change page types permission. Decide for yourself whether these steps are necessary, or keeping backups will suffice, or YAGNI applies.