This page lets you change various settings for a topic. These are:

• Topic is read-only: only the snapshot (if any) will be visible, except to local clients and administrators

• Use private snapshot header and footer: this will use the pages ‘*snap-header’ and ‘*snap-footer’ as the header and footer for each snapshot page (if they exist – it is not required that there be a header or footer). By default, MemoWiki will provide a standard header and footer for each snapshot page. If you provide a private header it should normally include a link to the default MemoWiki style sheet (see Style Sheets). Note that if you change this setting the current snapshot (if any) will be deleted.

• Flag remote links (»): this requests that links in a topic page or reference that take the user outside the topic be flagged. This is the default (if not checked, remote links appear like page links). Note that if you change this setting the current snapshot (if any) will be deleted.

• Open remote links in a new window: this requests that links in a topic page or reference that take the user outside the topic be opened in a new window. This is the default (if not checked, remote links open in the same way as page links). Note that if you change this setting the current snapshot (if any) will be deleted.

• Clean deleted files on publish: if set, publishing a static snapshot will delete files which are on the server but not known to MemoWiki. This should only be used if a site is entirely maintained using MemoWiki, as otherwise it may delete files that have been placed manually. Also, some older ISP web servers may report errors if this option is set.

• Force rewrite of all files on publish: if set, publishing a static snapshot will rewrite all the files which are known to MemoWiki. By default, only changed (younger) files are written to the server; this option allows a refresh of all files (for example, if it is suspected that some files on the server are corrupted).

• Days of history to keep: sets the number of days of editing history to keep. MemoWiki saves all changes in the past 24 hours, plus the most recent version for n days of edits; this sets n, which may be zero (the default is 3). Choose ‘All’ to keep one per edit day indefinitely.

• GPS datum (geographic model) to use for GPS links: this sets the default geographic model to use for GPS links. The following models are supported:

  WGS84 is the World Geodetic System », 1984

  EUR50 is the European 1950 system used for Spanish maps

  EUR79 is the European 1979 system used on many other European maps

  The chosen model is used to adjust any GPS links in the topic that do not explicitly specify a GPS datum.

• Style Sheet: A user style sheet may be specified to change the formatting of pages. The style sheet is an uploaded file (that is, a file in the /files directory of the topic); if only a name is specified then the extension .css is added. If the file is not present then the style sheet setting is ignored and default styling is used. For more detail, see Style Sheets.

• Comment: Topics may have a comment that will be shown on the Topics list; you can add, edit or delete the comment here; use MemoWiki notation for accented characters, etc.

Web publishing

If you are an administrator (or on the server’s machine), you can also choose to make the static snapshot of a topic publishable (typically using an Internet Service Provider’s web service). You will be offered the following four fields to fill in (if you don’t know what to fill in for any of these, contact your ISP):

• FTP server: enter the name or IP address of the FTP server that pages will be uploaded to (e.g., pages.myisp.com)

• Directory path: enter the directory path on the FTP server that defines where the HTML pages from the static snapshot will be placed (e.g., /pub/www)

• FTP userid: your login name (e.g., fred)

• FTP password: your login password (one word, case-sensitive).

Once all four of these have been set you can then publish a snapshot by creating (or updating) the topic’s static snapshot and then clicking the Publish button.

If the topic does not have a page called ‘index’ then a fifth field is offered:

• Index page: (optional) enter here the name of the page that will be used as the web index page (index.html). If no page name is entered then the topic home page will be used (see Help for Snapshot for more details).

The final field on the settings page is:

• Check page URL: (optional) enter here the URL of a page that you might want to check before or after publishing the topic to the internet; if a URL is provided here than a link to the check page will be included on the update and published pages.

If the Check page URL does not include a protocol (e.g., http://) then http:// will be prefixed by MemoWiki.