ADOBE CONTRIBUTE CS3
User Guide
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In general, you shouldn’t need to create too many roles for a website. If you are deploying Contribute in a large
organization that uses many internal websites to communicate information, consider creating connections to
Contribute from the individual websites and sending appropriate roles to the users who are responsible for each
site’s content.
Settings for user roles
Contribute lets you define the following categories of permissions and website settings in the Edit
Role Name
Settings 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 general role settings, see Contribute Help.
Folder/File Access
limits a role’s access to the selected folder (or folders) and any subfolders they contain. For more
information about folder and file access settings, see Contribute Help.
Editing
lets you specify what content users can modify and determine how Contribute processes paragraphs, line
spacing, and accessibility options. Select the Allow HTML Snippet Insertion option for a user role to enable users to
insert HTML code snippets in Contribute pages. For more information about page-editing, paragraph settings, and
inserting HTML code snippets see Contribute Help.
Styles and Fonts
specifies which font sets users have access to, and which users can apply style and formatting to
text. For more information about style and font settings, see Contribute Help.
New Pages
specifies whether Contribute users can create blank pages, and which (if any) Dreamweaver MX
templates they can use to create pages. You can also specify which pages, if any, the user can copy. The options in
this category determine what options users see in the New Page dialog box. For more information about setting new
web page preferences, see Contribute Help.
File Placement
lets you specify folder locations for files based on the file extension used to identify the file type. You
can also specify that Contribute not allow files of a certain size to be uploaded to the web server. For more infor-
mation about setting options for file placement, see Contribute Help.
Shared Assets
lets you create a library of assets (such as images, Adobe® Flash® Player 9 content, or Dreamweaver
from Adobe library items) that users can add to web pages. You can restrict access to shared assets to specific users
or let any Contribute user accessing the website add the assets to their pages. For more information about setting
options for shared assets, see Contribute Help.
New Images
lets you specify a maximum file size, width, and height for images. You can also restrict users so that
they can use images only from a shared asset library that you create, or you can allow them to add any image to a
web page. For more information about setting options for new images, see Contribute Help.
Example role assignments
As an example of roles you might create, consider an online magazine. The job functions associated with producing
a magazine include a publisher, managing editor, copy editor, writer, and web designer. In addition, Contribute
adds an administrator to maintain the magazine’s website. Each role reflects separate access to article creation,
approval, editing and deletion, page design, and site maintenance.
The following table describes the roles and privileges related to Contribute:
