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Chapter 13: Managing Users and Roles
Adobe® Contribute® CS3 lets you control the extent to which users can alter a website. To do so, you create roles for
each website and define permissions for each role. After a website’s permissions are defined, Contribute creates a
folder labeled _mm at the root of the website and places a
shared settings file in this folder. The shared settings file
contains all the website settings and permissions for Contribute website connections that you create. All Contribute
users who connect to the website automatically inherit the settings defined for their assigned role.
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“Understanding roles” on page 211
• “Creating Contribute roles” on page 212
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“Editing a role’s settings” on page 214
• “Managing drafts sent for review” on page 228
Understanding roles
Contribute lets you define a set of user permissions, ranging from file access to the level of typographic control, as a
role . You assign the roles you create to Contribute users, which determines the degree to which a specific user can
modify a site’s content.
Contribute has three default roles that you can assign to users “as-is,” or modify further to meet the content editing
needs of your website. The default Contribute roles are:
Administrator
Users with this role are administrators of this website.
Publisher
Users with this role can create and edit pages as well as publish pages to the website.
Writer
Users with this role can create and edit pages but cannot publish pages to the website. To publish new pages
or page modifications to a site, users in this role must send their updates to a user in the publisher role for review.
The publisher can then choose to publish the page to the site or send it back to the writer for additional editing.
In most cases you can use the default settings specified for these roles. However, if your website has certain design
features that need to be preserved, you can configure Contribute to work with those design considerations.
If you are not familiar with such web page design elements as font and paragraph usage, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
styles, and image file formats and size limitations, consult a web page designer or other web professional who is
knowledgeable about your organization’s website.
About role settings
Contribute lets you define the following categories of permissions and website settings in the Role dialog box:
General
lets you select a starting (home) page that users in the selected role see when they enter the website. For
more information, see “Setting general role settings” on page 217.
Folder/File Access
limits a role’s access to the selected folder (or folders) and any subfolders they contain. For more
information, see “Setting folder and file access settings” on page 218.