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CHAPTER 1
Using Contribute Publishing Server
Macromedia Contribute Publishing Server (CPS) is a user management and publishing solution
that lets Contribute administrators manage large groups of Contribute users and monitor what
those users do on the website.
CPS has an administration console that enables you to view settings for the User Directory, Log,
and E-mail services, and to view settings for each website you’ve enabled CPS for.
CPS also has the Simple File Deployment and RSS Activity Feed services, which are not available
through the console, but you can use them as they are or extend to meet your needs.
This chapter contains the following sections:
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“Accessing the Contribute Publishing Server Console” on page 5
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“Enabling or disabling E-mail and Log services for a website” on page 7
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“Using the Simple File Deployment service” on page 8
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“Using the RSS Activity Feed service” on page 10
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“Viewing the events log for a website” on page 12
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“Changing your CPS Console password” on page 13
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“Forwarding website events to a custom service” on page 14
Accessing the Contribute Publishing Server Console
The Contribute Publishing Server (CPS) Console enables you to configure the User Directory
service, specify an SMTP mail server to use with the E-mail Notification service, and configure
the Log service settings. You can also use the console to configure your CPS settings for your
website.
You can access the console from Contribute, or from an external web browser.
Note:
The CPS Console requires that you have Flash Player 7 installed on your computer.
