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Improving application performance by disabling websites
Under certain conditions, you might want to disable a Contribute website. This prevents Contribute from accessing
that website, and potentially hindering the application’s performance. You might want to disable a website for any of
the following reasons:
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The Contribute application has several websites defined, but only one or two websites are updated regularly.
When you start Contribute, it establishes a connection to each website connection you have defined and maintains
an open and active connection during the time the application is running. If you have many websites defined (for
example, six or more) but are actively working with only one or two, you may improve application performance by
disabling the other websites.
• You’re using a dial-up network that authenticates open connections and disables them after a specified time
period.
Many corporate networks terminate connections that remain inactive for extended periods of time. If you have
Contribute websites defined that you are not actively working with, you may need to disable these websites to avoid
website unavailable errors.
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The website is offline.
If a Contribute website is offline or otherwise unavailable, you may improve performance by disabling the website.
When Contribute encounters a website that is unavailable, it displays the error message: “The server
serverName is
not responding. Contact your system administrator.”
You can retry the connection by clicking the Retry Connection button in the browser toolbar.
• The user’s permission group has been removed.
If a user was a member of a permission group that has been removed, Contribute reports an error when it attempts
to load the website.
• You are attempting to connect to websites outside of their firewalls, so some websites connect and others do not.
For more information, see “Disabling website and blog connections” on page 208.
You need to remove a single user from a role
If you are using Contribute Publishing Server (CPS) to manage users, you can remove an individual user from a role
or you can reassign that user to a different role.
To learn more, see “Removing users from sites that CPS manages” on page 203.
If you are not using CPS to manage users, Contribute does not support the removal of a single user from a role. To
remove a single user from a role, do the following:
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Delete that user’s connection from their personal copy of Contribute. As an added measure, your organizations’s
network authentication can be configured to prevent the user from having read/write access to the website.
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Rename the role and redistribute it to the users you want to include, and then delete the old role.
To learn more, see “Creating Contribute roles” on page 212.
You need to override a file checkout
If a user has a page open for editing, Contribute creates a lock file (identified by a .lck extension) that prevents other
users from editing that page. In the following instances, you may need to delete a lock file to allow another user to
edit such a page: