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Configuring Contribute and Contribute Publishing Server to work with your website
The following table describes the roles and privileges related to Contribute.
Creating Contribute roles
You can create
roles
for users to determine their level of access in a website.
For more information about Contribute default user roles and settings, see
“About Contribute
user roles and settings” on page 50
.
When Contribute users connect to a website, they are prompted to indicate which role they
belong to (this is not true for CPS-managed sites). For example, a Contribute user might choose
or be assigned to the Writer role. Thereafter, while connected to that website, that user has
whatever permissions you have configured for the Writer role.
To create a new role:
1.
Select
Edit > Administer Websites
(Windows) or
Contribute > Administer Websites
(Macintosh), and then select the website you want to administer from the submenu.
If the website has no administrator, click
Yes
when
a dialog box asks whether you want to
become the website administrator. Then enter and confirm an administrator password for the
website, and click
OK
.
The
Administer Website
dialog box appears.
Job Title
Contribute Role Privileges
System
administrator
Administrator
Installs Contribute, creates connections to the website, and
defines Contribute roles appropriate to the magazine’s job
functions.
The system administrator consults the designer on how to set
up role settings so that other members of the magazine’s staff
have appropriate editing privileges within their area.
Publisher
Publish
Gives final approval to all articles on the website and can
publish final drafts of pages or send them back for additional
editing or writing.
Managing editor
Publish
Monitors drafts as they go from writers to copy editors and
keeps track of who is working on what article. The managing
editor approves articles before sending them to the publisher
for final approval and publication to the website.
Copy editor
Writer
Can edit any unlocked text on a page. The copy editor cannot
publish pages to the site; they send the edited articles to the
managing editor for approval.
Writer
Writer
Can edit any unlocked text on a page, insert images, and
apply pre-defined styles to text.
Web designer
Administrator
The designer creates new CSS styles and web page
templates to accommodate changing site designs, inserts
images and Flash content into pages, and adds assets to the
shared asset library for writers to insert into pages.
