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230 Chapter 14: Troubleshooting
5.
Click Yes to confirm that you want to delete the file.
Another alert appears, warning that you are deleting a special file and asking if you want
to proceed.
6.
Click Yes to confirm that you want to delete the file.
Contribute deletes the lock file and displays the last page you viewed.
Using Contribute with dynamic pages
Contribute is designed to edit HTML content on your website. It is not, however, designed to
edit dynamic content stored in a database or to add or edit dynamic tags. Contribute works
around your dynamic document code, and provides tools to protect those parts of your web pages
and your website that should not be edited by Contribute users.
The Contribute browser is a full-featured web browser that lets users view dynamic pages, enter
data into forms, and submit those forms.
Contribute also supports new pages and templates that include dynamic elements. For example,
you can create a template that includes ColdFusion tags for initialization, includes, counters, and
dynamic data elements. Users can also copy existing dynamic pages. In either case, as the
Contribute website administrator, you must ensure that your website’s code is protected.
Preventing users from editing dynamic pages
To prevent Contribute users from editing dynamic elements on pages, consider the following
precautions:
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Restrict editing to specific folders.
Using the Contribute permission groups, you can limit folder access. For example, if your
website includes a dynamic job-listings page, put the page in its own folder and exclude the
folder from the list of editable folders in the website. When a Contribute user browses to the
folder, the Edit Page button is disabled.
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Lock pages you want to protect by using the server’s file-access tools.
Set the file permissions for dynamic pages to read-only. When Contribute users view a
dynamic page and click
Edit Page , they see a message stating that the page is read-only and is
not editable.
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Select Protect scripts and forms in the Contribute administration settings.