New Feature Proposals

Proposals that have a committed owner (the ones without a committed developer are not covered by the formal release process and 14-days rule.

Note that the 14-days rule clock start ticking when a proposal has a committed developer and it stops when anyone that are registered as a user on Foswiki.org raises any concern.

Proposals where 14-day rule applies

Topic	Summary	Committed	Developer	Release
AddHideOptionToSTARTSECTION	Add a hide option to STARTSECTION	11 Feb 2018	GeorgeClark
CleanUpFoswikiLocales	Provide relevant locale support in pure Foswiki code and eliminate perl/OS locale	14 Mar 2016	JulianLevens

Proposals with concern raised (14 day rule does not apply)

Uncommitted proposals

These are FeatureProposals that require a committed developer. See also ParkedFeatureProposals.

Topic	Summary	Release	Edited
MicrosoftTeamsIntegrationOfFoswiki	Microsoft Teams Integration of Foswiki		05 Feb 2021 - 14:27
OfficeConnector	Provide an Office Connector like in Confluence		09 Jan 2019 - 14:49
OfferAnOpenSearchPlugin	Offer an OpenSearch plugin		05 Oct 2018 - 14:56
UpdateEnhanceWYSIWYGEditor	Update / Enhance WYSIWYG Editor		09 Mar 2018 - 12:21
UseRefererForRPC	Use of Referer HTTP header as a source of default web.topic for RPC calls		13 Jan 2018 - 15:49
GuardAgainstCopyrightInfringement	Add controls and documentation to reduce infringing topics.		04 Sep 2017 - 13:39
ManagingApplications	Manage and deploy Applications		17 Oct 2016 - 10:41
EnhancementToWebMacro	Suggested Enhancement to WEB Variable		17 Feb 2016 - 08:46
AddDKIMEmailSigning	Add code to sign emails with DKIM		13 Feb 2016 - 18:04
AddFurtherTopicNameControls	Add optional controls on valid topic names		20 Jan 2016 - 08:03
RequirePerl510From2017x03	Ongoing upgrade of minimum perl version		07 Jan 2016 - 22:46
WantedPages	Want to view a page that lists all internal links that don't yet have a created wiki page.		19 Nov 2015 - 20:39
PluginOrderShouldSpecifyLastPlugins	Allow PluginOrder setting to also specify the last plugins to process	3.0	03 Nov 2015 - 16:34
DIsplayBrokenuserLinksBetter	Display broken user links better		03 Nov 2015 - 15:57
GroupNamesShouldBeLanguageIndependent	Group names should be language independent		10 Sep 2015 - 06:02
FeatureRequestTopicTemplate			27 Jul 2015 - 12:53
TextEditModePreviewWindow	Preveiw Window does not remember size		22 Jun 2015 - 14:21
AllowFootNotePluginDeactivation	FootNotePlugin should have an option for topic specific deactivation		10 Apr 2015 - 16:55
ReplacementForChili	Replacement for chili syntax highlighter		09 Feb 2015 - 15:29
TasksWebFacelift	Tasks web could really use a facelift		28 Sep 2014 - 15:39
SynchroniseInlineAndMetaPrefs	In-line * Set preferences should always match META:PREFERENCE, and vice versa		02 Jun 2014 - 00:03
WebAdminPages	Default topics that handle admin topics		06 Apr 2014 - 00:01
ImproveAttachmentHandling	Attachments need better tools for searching, tagging, viewing and file handling		07 Mar 2014 - 20:12
SupportDITA	It would be really neat if Foswiki could fully support DITA publishing		17 Feb 2014 - 08:24
FormattedSearchReturnPatternAndCountInContext	Feature Proposal: Enhance Formatted Search to return pattern and count in context		18 Nov 2013 - 16:16
AddListOperationsToFORMAT	Add list operations to FORMAT		17 Oct 2013 - 09:31
WriteAQueryCookbook	A query cookbook is essential to help new users		23 Apr 2013 - 07:55
SimpleChecklistSupport	Support simple checklists as inspired by Evernote		31 Oct 2012 - 15:57
EncodeMacroOutputForJavaScript	ENCODE macro should have a mode for outputting JavaScript string constants		24 Oct 2012 - 09:28
CertificatedStatisticsUpdate	Add certifiable statistics update script		07 Oct 2012 - 18:25
MovingConfigIntoFile	Moving hash based configuration into external file		29 May 2012 - 06:43
ConsolidateTablesWithData	Present and edit data forms using table editors		21 May 2012 - 10:43
BorrowXwikisIncludeMechanism	It should be possible to include topic sections in wiki table cells		16 May 2012 - 09:54
ClientSiteEditorInNatEditPluggable	Make the client side editor in NatEdit pluggable		25 Apr 2012 - 15:00
DateAsAQueryHint	Add date() as a query function		25 Apr 2012 - 06:41
FormaliseTheProgrammingLanguage	Formalise the topic Programming Language		22 Apr 2012 - 01:01
MissingInsteadOfUndefined	Add missing as an alternative to undefined in QUERY		23 Mar 2012 - 09:18
SectionalTransforms	Enhance STARTSECTION - improve common usages for defining re-usable markup snippets		19 Mar 2012 - 11:20
SupportMultiKeySorting	Support multi-key sorting in SEARCH		27 Feb 2012 - 23:45
RelayAlertsToTopicTop	Relay Alerts to the top of the view page		24 Feb 2012 - 10:56
GeneralisedCHARTdefinition	Standardise the CHART macro definition		24 Feb 2012 - 08:40
SecurityChecklists	Security checklists for the uninitiated		23 Feb 2012 - 19:16
TrimAllSpaces	Variation on TRIM to remove all spaces		23 Feb 2012 - 05:14
EnhancedShowPreference	A full record of all Preferences across all webs would help in site consistency		17 Feb 2012 - 11:29
SearchResultsWithHeadingLinks	It would be really neat if search results contained links to headings, à la Google (or à la Bing/Yahoo)		04 Feb 2012 - 00:42
SyntaxForDelayingMacrosAndFormatTokens	Eliminate $dollar etc hell. Also see older UseSyntaxToChangeEvaluationOrder		01 Jan 2012 - 11:36
AutoincFormfieldPlugin	AutoincFormfieldPlugin		25 Oct 2011 - 11:53
KinoSearchThroughTagMeTags	It would be really nice if KinoSearch could go through the tags created with TagMe plugin		12 Oct 2011 - 12:19
DataFormInheritance	Proposed feature for inheritance of DataForm fields		12 Aug 2011 - 14:04
SupportDynamicGeneratedAttachments	Support dynamic or generated attachments		14 Jun 2011 - 12:23
EnhanceInsertEditLinkDialog	It would be nice if TinyMCE's Insert/Edit link dialog had a possibility to search through all topic names		23 Mar 2011 - 08:09
FormPluginTopicDefnition	It would be nice to be able to set the topic using form data variable substitution		19 Mar 2011 - 22:20
FuncMoveTopicIgnorePermissions	It would be great if moveTopic would have an ignorepermissions option		09 Mar 2011 - 17:03
MakeWEBFORMSMoreUsable	WEBFORMS is a PITA		22 Jan 2011 - 00:40
CachedIncludes	Improve performance of nested sectional includes		12 Nov 2010 - 05:26
QueryCustomCollections	Query links and backlinks		07 Nov 2010 - 23:56
QueryAccessControls	It should be easier to get a definitive overview of the Access Controls present on a given topic.		07 Nov 2010 - 23:50
DynamicViewEditHandling	I'd like FW to dynamically decide whether an edit page is needed.		07 Nov 2010 - 11:51
RevCommentsTopicDelete	When deleting a Topic to Trash, have the ability to enter a descriptive revision comment		30 Oct 2010 - 08:40
MailInContribAdditionalEmailSendTo	Currently if set to "reply" on error, just the email originator is sent an email message with the error. It would be good to nominate a "CC" email address say to the foswiki admin or whoever.		25 Oct 2010 - 11:20
ParentTopicMailInContrib	Specifying both topic name and parent name would be useful		25 Oct 2010 - 10:27
ImproveVirtualHostSupportInApacheConfigGenerator	Let's get virtual hosting sorted out		01 Oct 2010 - 20:34
DataFormFieldPermissions	Set permissions for DataForm fields		21 Sep 2010 - 14:05
DefineOtherMacroExpansionTypes	Define Other Macro Expansion Types		17 Sep 2010 - 01:39
AddSortingBehaviourToSearch	Add different sorting behaviour(s) to search output		08 Jul 2010 - 08:17
EasierNestedSearch	Reduce $dollar		08 Jul 2010 - 06:20
MoveFoswikiCodeIntoCPAN	migrate foswiki into CPAN		16 Jun 2010 - 08:05
CreoleSupport	Why wouldn't FosWiki support Creole markup ?		05 May 2010 - 06:59
DeKiAlikeWYSIWYG	DeKi-alike WYSIWYG		19 Mar 2010 - 02:51
FixDelete	Fix brain-dead delete		17 Mar 2010 - 22:58
FoswikiBookProposal	A community-written book		16 Mar 2010 - 12:42
TopicsShouldGetTypesFromFormsNotNames	Topics should get types from forms (or other method) not from names (Bogus forms and templates)		15 Mar 2010 - 19:27
LimitCreationOfSubWebs	Limit the creation of sub webs separately		24 Feb 2010 - 14:13
SyntaxHighlightingEditor	Syntax Highlighting Editor		30 Dec 2009 - 14:09
EditChapterPluginChildSections	EditChapter should always show body of a chapter, not just a title.		24 Dec 2009 - 16:58
SupportXMLGeneration	Support an XML schema for webs/topics		05 Dec 2009 - 15:16
InterfacingWithValidationMethods	Strikeone and friends need a cleaner API		19 Nov 2009 - 09:02
TopicObjectModel	Topic Object Model (TOM)		06 Nov 2009 - 06:26
SearchBySection	SEARCH should be able to search in a specified section		06 Nov 2009 - 06:06
RedesignAdminToolsCategory	Redesign AdminToolsCategory		19 Sep 2009 - 10:59
CronWizardFunctionalityInEachRelavantPlugin	Better Crontab documentation in each plugin		03 Jul 2009 - 07:01
MailerContribShouldOptionallyExcludeCertainAuthors	MailerContrib should not notify on changes by certain authors (incl. $MYSELF)		23 Jun 2009 - 11:04
OneTimeNotification	One Time Notification for Topic Creation		20 Mar 2009 - 23:58
SupportHorizontalMenusThroughRenderListPlugin	Define a horizontal menu with alt and title tags using a bulleted list		11 Mar 2009 - 11:04
AllowTopicAccessWhenFormRestricted	The access rights of a form overrule the access rights of the topic to which it is attached		24 Nov 2008 - 10:35