FitNesse pages can have attributes that alter the way the pages are displayed, and how they behave. These can be enabled or disabled for a page by hitting the Properties menu item.
Page Type
Static: This is just a content page.
Test: This property instructs FitNesse to treat the page as a fitnesse test page:
It enables the Test button, which submits the page to Fit to process all of the page's test tables.
Pages with the Test property enabled will have the SetUp and TearDown text applied to them. See<UserGuide.AcceptanceTests.SpecialPages.
SetUp will be prepended to the page, just after the PageHeader (if any).
TearDown will be appended to the page, just before the PageFooter page (if any).
Pages with this property will be included in test suite runs.
Suite: Pages with this property are test suites. All sub pages are considered part of the suite. Any sub page with the Testproperty set is considered a test within the suite.
The Test Suite button is enabled by this property.
A test suite run is activated by hitting the Test Suite button. All tests within the suite are run and their results reported.
Implicit Page Attributes
Pages that begin or end with "Test" or "Example" will automatically have the Test property set.
Pages that begin or end with "Suite" or end with "Examples" will automatically have the Suite property set.
Once these pages are created, you can set or clear these properties as usual.
Actions
Edit: When set, this property causes the Edit button to be displayed. This is a poor man's read-only switch. If you clear this checkbox then users will not have a convenient way to edit the page. Of course they can always edit it by typing the page?edit URL but we don't have to tell them how to do that, do we?
Search: This property enables or disables the Search button. There's no real good reason to disable this button, but we put the ability in just for symmetry.
Versions: Enables the Versions button. Hitting this button brings up a list of old versions of the page. If this property is not set, then the button will not be displayed, but versions will still be tracked.
Properties: Enables the Properties button. Hitting this button brings up a pages that allows you to edit all page properties mentioned here. If you disable this property users will not have a convenient way to change the properties of a page. (Of course they can always use the page?properties URL.)
Navigation
The following entries are shown in the Tools menu, if enabled