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Chapter 2: Basics for Contributors

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In This Chapter

Connecting to a site

Opening an existing page for editing

Creating a new page

Working with text and tables

Adding images, links, and more

Previewing your work

Uploading (publishing) a page

Collaborating

T he new and improved Macromedia Contribute, bearing the daringly

Original title “Contribute 2,” is a remarkably easy-to-use tool for editing

Existing Web pages on — or adding new pages to — a Web site. As with the

Original version of Contribute, many of the things you need to do to add or

Replace content on a page (or build a page based on an existing design) take

Little more than a click. And you don’t have to know a thing about HTML.

With Contribute 2, Macromedia has improved upon the original version

Of the application while keeping it simple enough for nontechnical users —

No small task. This chapter is all about how using the Contribute 2 tools can

Make modifying or creating a basic Web page easier. If you need to know

About things like setting yourself up as a site administrator or sending a

Connection key to a fellow site contributor, see Book VII, Chapter 3.

Connecting to a Site

In order to put Contribute 2 to use when working on a Web site, you must

Be connected to that site. Being connected means establishing an FTP (File

Transfer Protocol) connection between your computer and the remote server

That your site lives on. If that sounds complicated, don’t worry. It’s actually

Pretty simple.

You can connect in two ways:

✦ By using a connection key that the site administrator has e-mailed to you

✦ By entering information in the Connection WizardConnecting to a Site 748

Both ways are pretty simple, but you’ll need some information about your

Web server to employ the latter method. If you’ve been sent a connection

Key, read the next section to find out how to use it. If you need to connect to

A site but don’t have a key, skip ahead to the “Connecting to a site with the

Connection Wizard” section.

Connecting to a site with the connection key

A connection key is an encrypted file that contains nearly all the information

Contribute needs to connect your copy of Contribute to the Web site you’ll

Be updating. (You also need to get a password from your administrator.) You

Might receive a connection key

✦ Via e-mail sent to you by the site administrator

✦ By downloading it from your local network

Most likely, you’ll get your connection key via e-mail, but it works the same

Either way (just skip Step 2 below). To open a connection to the Web site

You’ll be working on, just follow these simple steps:

1. Open the e-mail from your site administrator that contains the con -

Nection key.

The connection key shows up as an attachment (see Figure 2-1). The

Body of the e-mail contains instructions on using the key. The name of

The connection key is based on the name the site administrator has

Given the site connection in Contribute.

2. Double-click the connection key.

Contribute starts up (if it’s not already open), and the Import

Connection Key dialog box opens.

3. If your name is not already there, click in the What Is Your Name? text

Field and type your name. Press Tab or click in the E-mail text field.

4. If your e-mail address is not already there, type your e-mail address

In the next field. Press Tab or click in the next text field.

If you already have a connection to another Web site, your e-mail

Address may already be entered in the field.

5. In the What Is the Connection Key Password? text field, type the pass -

Word given to you by the site administrator.

The password may have been sent in a separate e-mail or told to you

On the phone. If you don’t yet know the password, check with the site

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6. Click OK.

The Contribute Browser loads the site’s home page.

The connection key should have all the FTP information that allows you to

Connect to your Web server. In some cases, you may have to input the FTP

Information manually. The next section tells you how.

Connecting to a site with the Connection Wizard

Contribute saves you the trouble of having to use an FTP client to move Web

Pages back and forth between your computer and the server that hosts your

Web site. When you click the Edit button in the Browser, Contribute auto -

Matically gets (downloads) the page for editing. When you click the Publish

Button, Contribute puts (uploads) the page to the Web server. After you’ve

Set up a connection, Contribute handles all the getting and putting of files

Seamlessly.

The Connection Wizard makes connecting to a remote Web server a snap, if

You have the login information at hand. Just follow these steps to set up a

Connection, after you have opened Contribute:

Connection key

Figure 2-1:

The

Connection

Key is at the

Bottom of

This e-mail. Connecting to a Site 750

1. Type or paste the URL for your site (for example, http://www.

Mysite. com) into the Address field of the Contribute Browser and

Either press Enter or click the Go button.

The Contribute Browser takes you right to your site.

You can use the Contribute Browser to view any site on the Web, but

You can only set up a connection to a site if you have FTP information

For that site.

2. Click the Create Connection button at the top left of the Browser.

The Connection Wizard opens to its Welcome screen.

3. We’re assuming you don’t have a connection key, so click the Next

Button at the bottom of the wizard.

The User Information screen appears.

4. Enter your name in the What Is Your Name? text field.

Your name may already appear. The name in this field will identify you

To other contributors to your site, if there are any.

5. If it’s not already there, enter your e-mail address in the What Is Your

E-mail Address? text field, and then click Next.

The Website Home Page screen appears.

6. Enter the URL (http://www. mysite. com, for example) for the Web

Site you’ll be editing into the text field, and then click Next.

You can also click the Browse button, which will open a browser

Window you can use to navigate to the site.

When you click Next, the Connection Information screen appears in the

Wizard.

7. Select a connection method from the drop-down list.

You have the following options: FTP, Secure FTP (SFTP), and Local/

Network. If you’re not sure what to select, check with your IT person or

Site administrator. Depending on what you choose, different text fields

Appear below the drop-down list. As you can see in Figure 2-2, we’ve

Entered FTP.

8a. If you selected FTP or SFTP, enter the FTP server name (for example,

Ftp. earlsbowlateria. com), the FTP login (sometimes called the

Username), and the FTP password in the respective text fields. Click

Next.

If the site already has an administrator, the Group Information screen

Appears (go to Step 9a). If the site doesn’t yet have an administrator,

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8b. If you selected Local/Network, enter the network path (for example,

\\mynetwork\mydepartment\site) by typing or pasting it in, or by

Clicking the Choose Folder button and browsing in your network to

The folder that contains your site. Click Next.

If the site already has an administrator, the Group Information screen

Appears (go to Step 9a). If the site doesn’t yet have an administrator,

The Administrator Information screen appears (go to Step 9b).

9a. If you plan to be the site administrator, click Administrator. Otherwise,

Click User. If your administrator has given you a different group name

To use, it should appear in the list on the left, where you should click

It. Then click Next.

Contribute has two default categories for contributors: Users, who

Can perform basic page editing tasks, and Administrators, who can do

Everything Users can do and also perform additional tasks (like decid -

Ing whether other contributors are Users or Administrators). If you are

Going to be an administrator, go to step 9b.

9b. Enter a password in the top text field on the Administrator Information

Screen. Then re-enter the password in the text field below, exactly as

You typed it above. Click Next.

You can use any combination of numbers and letters for your password.

The password is case-sensitive (so as far as the password is concerned,

A big “S” and a small “s” are different characters). Only contributors

Who know that password will be able to perform administrator func -

Tions on the site. For more information on Administrator functions,

See Book VII, Chapter 3.

10. Congratulations! You’ve made it to the Summary screen. Make sure

The information is correct. If it isn’t, use the Back button to go to the

Screen with incorrect info and fix the mistake; then use the Next

Button to return to the Summary screen. Click Done.

Figure 2-2:

FTP

Information

Entered

In the

Connection

Information

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Unless any of the information you put in the Connection Wizard changes,

You never have to think about it again — from here on in, you can just get

Straight to work making changes to your site.

Opening an Existing Page for Editing

After you’ve established a connection to your site, you’re ready to start

Making changes to existing pages and even creating new ones. Downloading

A page to edit is extremely easy — just follow these steps:

1. Type or paste the URL of the page you want to edit (for example,

Http://www. mysite. com) into the Address field of the Contribute

Browser and either press Enter or click the Go button.

The Browser loads your page, and the Edit Page and New Page buttons

Appear at the top left of the Browser. If the page is not available for edit -

Ing, the warning You are viewing a page on a Web site that you

Haven’t created a connection toappears under the Address field in

The Browser.

2. Click the Edit Page button.

The Browser switches to Edit mode, and the page appears as a draft in

The Browser. The Browser’s toolbar at the top changes to show buttons

For inserting links, images, tables, and text, as shown in Figure 2-3.

Figure 2-3:

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Creating a New Page

If opening a page for editing is a snap, creating a new page is maybe

Three snaps. To create a new page for your site, follow these simple

Steps:

1. If you have connections to more than one Web site, use the Contribute

Browser to browse to the site to which you want to add a page. Other -

Wise, skip to Step 2.

The Browser loads your page, and the Edit Page and New Page buttons

Appear at the top left of the Browser. If the site is not available for edit -

Ing, the warning You are viewing a page on a Web site that you

Haven’t created a connection to appears under the Address field

In the Browser.

2. Click the New Page button, or choose File➪New Page.

The New Page dialog box appears.

3a. If you want the new page to have the same basic appearance and

Structure (for example, to have the same navigation items and basic

Layout) as the page currently showing in your browser, click the Copy

Of Current Page option in the Create New Page From pane of the New

Page dialog box.

3b. If you want to create a page from a Dreamweaver MX 2004 template,

Click the template name in the Create New Page From pane.

If the templates are in a folder and you don’t see them, click the plus (+)

Sign next to the folder that holds the templates; the contents of the

Folder will appear. A preview of the template appears in the Preview

Pane, as shown in Figure 2-4.

3c. If you want to start the page from scratch, skip to Step 4. (Blank Web

Page is selected by default.)

The Blank Web Page option may not be available to you, depending on

How the administrator has set up your connection.

4. Type or paste a page title in the Page Title text field. Click OK.

Your new page opens in the Browser, as a draft ready for editing.

The page title will appear at the top of the Web browser’s window when

People view your Web site.

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Working with Text

Text is often the most abundant element on a Web site. Contribute makes

Adding, formatting, and deleting text a piece of cake.

Adding text

To add text to a draft (that is, to a page that’s ready for editing; see the pre -

Vious sections, “Opening an Existing Page for Editing” or “Creating a New

Page”), just follow these easy steps:

1. Click the place in the draft where you want to insert text.

A cursor blinks in the spot you selected.

2. Type or paste the text.

You may need to format the text. See the “Formatting Text” section for

The low-down.

Formatting text

Text formatting entails everything from setting a font face and font size to

Emphasizing words or phrases by making them bold or italic, to creating

Numbered or bulleted lists. It’s all as easy as clicking a button in Contribute.

You can format text either before or after you insert it on a page. If you’re

Working from a template, text areas may be preformatted for things like font

Figure 2-4:

The New

Page dialog

Box allows

You to

Select a

Template on

Which to

Base your

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Size, color, and font face. If not, the text you insert will conform to the set -

Tings in the text toolbar (the second row of the Browser).

Setting a text style

To set the font style, choose a style from the Style drop-down list at the top

Left. If you have CSS styles attached to your page, they will appear in the

Menu; otherwise, your choices are Normal and Heading 1 (largest) through

Heading 6 (smallest).

Setting a text face

To set a face for your font (for example, Arial, Verdana, and so on), choose

One from the Font drop-down list to the right of the Style list. If you leave the

Setting at “Default,” the text’s appearance will be determined by the browser

Settings of a visitor to your site.

Setting a text size

Choose a text size from the Size drop-down list. The smallest is 8 (too small

For anything but the proverbial “fine print”), and the largest is 36. If you

Select “Default,” the text’s size will be determined by the browser settings

Of a visitor to your site. Figure 2-5 shows just some of the ways you can

Format text.

Figure 2-5:

You can

Format text

In many

Different

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Selecting text

To select text, click and drag over the text you want to select. The selected

Text is highlighted. If you change the text style, font face, size, color, or back -

Ground color settings while text in your draft is selected, the selected text

(and only the selected text) will change to reflect the new settings.

Aligning text

Contribute allows you to align text to the left, center, or right, or to justify

The text at the left and right (though the latter is extremely rare on the Web).

To align text, place the cursor anywhere in the block of text you want to align

(or select a block of text by clicking and dragging) and click an Align button

(from left to right, the Align buttons are Align Left, Align Center, Align Right,

And Justify).

Adding boldness to your text

To make some text bold, follow these steps:

1. Select the text by clicking and dragging until all the text you want

Bold is highlighted.

2. Click the Bold button or use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+B.

The selected text becomes bold.

You can remove the bold formatting from text by following the same steps.

Italicizing your text

To italicize some text, follow these steps:

1. Select the text by clicking and dragging until all the text you want

Changed is highlighted.

2. Click the Italic button or use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+I.

The selected text becomes italicized.

You can remove the italic formatting from text by following the same steps.

Changing the text color

Web text is typically black by default but can be set to default to other

Colors. If you’re working with CSS styles or Dreamweaver templates, default

Text colors may be set for you already.

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1. Select the text by clicking and dragging until all the text you want

Changed is highlighted.

2. Click the Text Color button in the Browser’s Text toolbar.

The Text Color button is the one on the second row toward the right

With a capital A on it. When you click it, the Color Picker pops up.

3. Click on a cube of color with the eyedropper to make the selected

Text that color.

For details on how to use the advanced features of the Color Picker, see

The section on adding color in Book III, Chapter 3.

Changing the text background color

When you change the text background color, you’re changing just that: the

Background of each chunk of text, be it letters or numbers.

To change the text background color of some text, follow these simple steps:

1. Select the text by clicking and dragging until all the text you want

Changed is highlighted.

2. Click the Highlight Color button in the Browser’s Text toolbar, as

Shown in Figure 2-6.

The Highlight Color button is the one with the highlighter marker; it’s

Just to the right of the Text Color button. When you click on the

Highlight Color button, the Color Picker pops up.

3. Click on a cube of color with the eyedropper to make the background

Of selected text that color.

For details on how to use the advanced features of the Color Picker, see

The section on adding color in Book III, Chapter 3.

Figure 2-6:

The text

Background

Color acts

Like a

Highlighter

Marker. Working with Text 758

Creating a numbered list

You can create a numbered list the fancy way, with complicated tables and

Such, or you can do it the easy way, using the numbered list convention

Built into HTML. Contribute makes the easy way even easier. To create a

Numbered list, just follow these steps:

1. Click the Numbered List button in the Browser’s toolbar, as shown in

Figure 2-7.

The indented number 1 appears, followed by a period, a space and a

Blinking cursor.

2. Type the first item in your numbered list. Press Enter when you’re

Finished.

The number 2 automatically appears on the next line, followed by a

Period, a space, and a blinking cursor.

3. Type the second item in your numbered list, press Enter, and con -

Tinue to enter items until you have completed your list.

Leave the extra number you don’t have an item for.

4. Click the Numbered List button to deactivate the numbering.

The last (extra) number disappears, and the cursor goes to its non -

Indented position below the list.

Numbered List button

Bulleted List button

Figure 2-7:

Contribute

Allows you

To create

Numbered

And bulleted

Lists easily. Book VII

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Creating a bulleted list

HTML has a specification for bulleted lists just as it does for numbered lists.

Contribute knows the specification so you don’t have to.

To create a bulleted list, simply follow these steps:

1. Click the Bulleted List button in the Browser’s toolbar.

An indented bullet appears, followed by a little space and a blinking

Cursor.

2. Type the first bullet item and press the Enter key.

A bullet appears on the next line, followed by a little space and a blink -

Ing cursor.

3. Type the second bullet item, press the Enter key, and repeat the

Process until you have completed your list.

An extra bullet remains temporarily at the bottom of your list.

4. Click the Bulleted List button to deactivate the bulleting.

The last (extra) bullet disappears, and the cursor goes to its non -

Indented position below the list.

Working with Tables

You might use tables on a Web page in two basic ways:

✦ To display tabular information, such as a spreadsheet

✦ To control page layout

No matter which function you want the table to have, you can add, modify,

And delete the table using the same simple methods. Tables are made up

Of cells, arranged in rows and columns. Picture a basic tic-tac-toe game. It’s

Played on a kind of table, with nine cells arranged in three rows and three

Columns. If you can draw a tic-tac-toe game, you can make a table on a Web

Page.

Inserting a table

To insert a table into your page, just follow these steps:

1. Click the spot in your draft where you want the top-left corner of the

Table to go.

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2. Click the Insert Table button in the top row of the Browser toolbar.

The Insert Table dialog box appears, as shown in Figure 2-8.

3. Enter the number of rows you want the table to have into the Number

Of Rows field.

You can always add more rows or delete extra rows later, if you need to.

4. In the Number of Columns field, enter the number of columns you

Want the table to have.

You can always add more columns or delete extra columns later.

5a. If it doesn’t matter how wide the table is, leave the Default Width set -

Ting as is and skip to Step 6.

5b. If you have a particular width you want the table to be, select the

Specific Width radio button, enter a number for the width of your

Table, and then choose either Pixels or Percent from the drop-down

List to the right.

If you choose Pixels, the table will be the number of pixels wide that you

Specified. If you choose Percent, you must choose a numeral between 1

And 100; the table’s width will vary according to the overall page layout,

And it may vary according to the width of the browser window of a visi -

Tor to your site.

6. In the Border Thickness field, enter a number for how many pixels

Thick you want the border of your table to be.

If you don’t want the table border to show (which you probably don’t if

You’re using the table for page layout purposes), enter 0 (zero).

Figure 2-8:

The Insert

Table dialog

Box asks for

Enough

Information

To create a

Basic HTML

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7. In the Cell Padding field, enter a number for the amount of pixels you

Want between the border of the cell and the text or object inside the

Cell.

The cell padding applies to the top, bottom, left, and right of the inside

Of each and every cell.

8. In the Cell Spacing field, enter a number for the amount of pixels you

Want between the cells.

The cell spacing applies to the whole table; you can’t have different cell

Spacing for individual rows or columns.

9. If your table has a header row or header column (or both), click the

Icon that represents the header structure of your table.

Figure 2-9 shows a table with a single header row. The text in that row is

Automatically bold and center-aligned in the cells.

10. Click OK.

The Insert Table dialog box closes, and an empty table appears in your

Draft, built to your specifications and ready to be filled with content.

Adding information to a table

Adding text and images to a table is pretty much the same as adding them

Anywhere else on a draft. To add text to a table, follow these steps:

1. Click in the cell where you want to put the text.

A cursor blinks in the cell.

Figure 2-9:

A small

Table, built

According

To the

Specifica -

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2. Type or paste in the text.

The cell expands downwards. In some cases, the cell also expands to

The right, depending on the width of the cell and the nature of the text.

For example, a long e-mail address, which is made of many characters

Strung together without a space, can stretch a cell. (Refer to Figure 2-9.)

The other cells may become narrower to compensate.

3. Click in another cell or outside the table if you want to add more

Information to the table or elsewhere on the draft.

To add an image or other object to a cell, click in the cell and then follow the

Directions in the “Adding Images, Links, and More” section, later in this

Chapter.

Modifying a table

You can modify many properties of an existing table quickly and easily. In

Some cases, you can make the changes by clicking and dragging table or cell

Borders; in other cases, you can enter new settings in the Table Properties

Dialog box.

Changing the whole table using the Table Properties dialog box

To make changes to the entire table at once, follow these steps:

1. Select the table by placing your cursor over the top-left or bottom-left

Corner of the table until the cursor changes into a four-pointed arrow

And clicking.

The border of the table highlights.

2. Click the Table button on the Browser toolbar.

Yes, it’s the same button you click to insert a table, but when you’ve

Selected a table that’s already there, the button opens the Table

Properties dialog box. The dialog box has two tabs: the Table tab and

The Row and Column tab. (The default view opens to the Table tab, as

Shown in Figure 2-10.)

3. Select an alignment for the table from the Table Alignment drop -

Down list.

A table can be justified left, center, or right.

4. Change the table width, border thickness, cell padding, and cell spac -

Ing as needed.

For more information on those table properties, see the “Inserting a

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5. To change the color of the table border, click the Border Color icon

And use the Color Picker to choose a color.

For details on how to use the advanced features of the Color Picker, see

The section on adding color in Book III, Chapter 3.

6. To change the color of the table’s background, click the Background

Color icon and use the Color Picker to choose a color.

Book III, Chapter 3 gives details on how to use the advanced features of

The Color Picker.

7. To change other properties of the table, click the Row and Column

Tab at the top of the dialog box.

The Row and Column options appear. If you have selected only a row

And not the whole table, the tab will say only Row. Likewise, if you have

Selected only a column and not the whole table, the tab will read Column.

8. To change the horizontal alignment of the elements in each cell,

Select an option from the Horizontal Alignment drop-down list.

Your options are Default, Left, Center, and Right. Choosing Default

Allows the visitor’s browser to set how the elements in the cells are

Aligned.

9. To change the vertical alignment of elements in each cell, select an

Option from the Vertical Alignment drop-down list.

Your options are Default, Top, Middle, and Bottom. Choosing Default

Allows the visitor’s browser to set how the elements in the cells are

Aligned.

10. To change the background color for the cells in the table, click the

Background Color icon and use the Color Picker to choose a color.

See Book III, Chapter 3 for details on how to use the Color Picker.

Figure 2-10:

Change

The table’s

Alignment,

Width, and

Other

Properties

In the Table

Properties

Dialog box. Working with Tables 764

11. If you want the table’s column width to be allotted automatically,

Select the Fit to Contents radio button. If you want to set the column

Widths to a specific number of pixels or percentage of the overall

Table width, select the radio button underneath the Fit to Contents

Radio button, enter a number in the text field, and select either Pixels

Or Percent from the drop-down list.

If you insert something in a cell that is wider than you have set the

Column to handle, the cell will override your column width setting to

Accommodate the element, be it an image or a long string of text.

12. If you want to keep all the text on a single line within the cells, dese -

Lect the Wrap Text check box. Otherwise, leave the Wrap Text check

Box selected.

If all the text in a cell won’t fit on a single line and the Wrap Text box is

Checked, the text will be split into as many lines as are necessary, given

The width of the cell. The line breaks come at spaces, dashes, and car -

Riage returns. Deselecting the Wrap Text option may increase the width

Of your table.

13. If you’ve selected the entire table, leave the Header Row check box

Alone.

If you’ve selected a row, you can make it a header row by selecting the

Header Row check box, or removing its header row formatting by dese -

Lecting the Header Row check box.

14. If you want the row heights in your table to be determined by the

Content in the rows (each row is only as large as the biggest cell in

That row), select the Fit to Contents radio button next to the Row

Height section. If you want to set a row height in pixels, select the

Radio button below the Fit to Contents radio button and enter a

Number for the height you want the row to be in pixels.

15. When you’ve made all the changes you want, click OK.

At any time while you are changing settings, you can click the Apply

Button to see the effect of the changes before moving on to the next

Property.

Changing rows, columns, or individual cells

Using the Table Properties dialog box

There may be times when you want to change the text alignment in some

Cells but not others, or you want to perform some other task that applies

Only to a particular row or column. In those circumstances, you need to

Select only the cells you want to affect; then you can make the changes

Using the Table Properties dialog box. Book VII

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Selecting a row

To select a row, place your cursor on the table border at the left of the row

You want to select and click when the cursor becomes a bold right-pointing

Arrow, as shown on the top in Figure 2-11. The row will highlight.

Selecting a column

To select a column, place your cursor on the table border at the top of

The column you want to select and click when the cursor becomes a bold

Down-pointing arrow, a shown in the middle in Figure 2-11. The column will

Highlight.

Selecting an individual cell or group of cells

To select an individual cell, triple-click the cell. The cell will highlight. To

Select multiple cells, click in one cell, hold the Shift key, and click three

Times in another cell. The two cells you clicked in and every cell between

Highlights.

After you’ve made your selection, click the Table button to open the Table

Properties dialog box and make the changes just as outlined in the “Changing

The whole table using the Table Properties dialog box” section, earlier in this

Chapter. If you have selected a row, the Rows and Columns tab will say only

Row, and if you have selected a column, the Rows and Columns tab will

Reflect that by saying only Column.

Figure 2-11:

Selecting a

Row (top),

A column

(middle),

And a group

Of adjacent

Cells

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Adding Images, Links, and More

Adding images to a page is a snap with Contribute. In a way, it’s easier than

Adding a table, because there are fewer properties you need to set. Same

Goes for adding Flash movies to a page.

Inserting an image

If the image you want to insert in your page is on your computer’s hard

Drive, just follow these steps to insert it:

1. Place your cursor in the draft and click where you want to add the

Image.

The cursor blinks where the top-left corner of your image will appear on

The page. You can insert an image in a table cell or anywhere else on the

Page.

2. Choose Insert➪Image➪From My Computer or use the keyboard short -

Cut Ctrl+Alt+I.

The Select Image dialog box appears.

3. Navigate to the folder the image is in, and then either double-click the

Image’s file name, or click the filename and click Select.

The image is placed in your draft. When you publish the page, Contribute

Automatically uploads the image. Your site administrator can set a maxi -

Mum file size for any image uploaded to your site. If you get an error

Message saying your image is too big, see your site administrator or

Re-export the image from Fireworks at a smaller file size.

Inserting a Flash movie

Adding a Flash movie to your page from your computer’s hard drive is easy.

Just follow these steps:

1. Place your cursor in the draft and click where you want to add the

Flash movie.

The cursor blinks where the top left of your movie will appear on the

Page. You can insert movie in a table cell or anywhere else on the page.

2. Select Insert➪Flash Movie➪From My Computer.

The Open dialog box appears.

3. Navigate to the folder the movie is in, and then either double-click

The Flash movie’s file name, or click the filename and click Open.

The Flash movie is placed in your draft. When you publish the page,

Contribute automatically uploads the. swf file. Book VII

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Flash movies have parameters that can be set on a Web page that will affect

How the movies appear and function, but Contribute only gives you access

To a couple of them. To make these (limited) changes, select the movie

By clicking it and then select Format➪Flash Movie Properties to open the

Flash Movie Properties dialog box and set the Play on Page Load and Loop

Properties.

Inserting a link

Links (short for hyperlinks) are what the Web is all about, so naturally

Contribute allows you to add links to your pages. You can link from both text

And images, and you can link to other pages on your site, other pages on the

Web, e-mail addresses, and things like PDF files.

Linking to a Web page

To add a link from text or an image to a page on your Web site or any other

Web site, just follow these steps:

1. Click an image or click and drag to select some text that you want to

Link to another page on the Web.

The image or text highlights.

2. Select Insert➪Link➪Browse to Web Page.

The Insert Link dialog box opens, with Browse to Web Page selected at

The top, as shown in Figure 2-12.

Figure 2-12:

The Insert

Link dialog

Box varies

Slightly in

Appearance,

Depending

On what

Type of link

You’re

Creating. Adding Images, Links, and More 768

3. Enter a URL (for example, http://www. mysite. com/contactus. htm)

In the Web Address text field, or click the Browse button to browse to

The page you want to link to.

Browsing to the page is often the best way to ensure that you link to the

Correct page. The page you browsed to appears in the Preview area on

The right.

4. Click OK.

You’ve just created a hyperlink.

Linking to an e-mail address

When you link to an e-mail address, the link on your Web page opens up a

New e-mail message in your visitor’s e-mail program. The e-mail is automati -

Cally addressed to the e-mail address you specify in the link.

To add an e-mail link to some text or an image:

1. Click and drag to select some text or click on an image that you want

To link to an e-mail address.

The image or text highlights.

2. Select Insert➪Link➪E-mail Address.

The Insert Link dialog box opens, with E-mail Address selected at the top.

3. Enter the e-mail address in the E-mail Address text field.

4. Click OK.

The selected text or image links to the e-mail address.

Linking to an e-mail address will open the visitor’s e-mail program only if the

Visitor’s e-mail program is set up to open when such a link is clicked. Most

Current e-mail programs are set up by default to handle an e-mail link.

You can also link to other drafts, to new pages, and to files on your computer

(like Word documents and PDF files). See Contribute’s Help files for details

On how to perform those tasks, or check out Macromedia Contribute For

Dummies, by Janine Warner and Frank Vera (published by Wiley Publishing,

Inc.), which has many details that we can’t fit into this minibook.

Inserting a Document as FlashPaper

Contribute 2 owners with Windows 2000 or Windows XP operating systems

Have access to a special utility: the FlashPaper Printer. No, it doesn’t print

Flash movies. What it does is convert your Office documents (Word files, Book VII

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Excel spreadsheets, even PowerPoint presentations) into compact. swf files

(Flash movies) that can be displayed on your Web page and viewed by any -

One with the Flash plug-in in their browser (which is almost everyone!).

To insert an Office document into your draft as a Flash movie, just follow

These steps:

1. Place your cursor in the draft and click where you want to add the

Document.

The cursor blinks where the top left of your image will appear on the

Page. You can insert an image in a table cell or anywhere else on the

Page.

2. Choose Insert➪Document as FlashPaper.

The Open dialog box appears.

3. Navigate to the folder the document is in, and then either double -

Click the document’s file name, or click the filename once and click

Open.

The FlashPaper Options dialog box appears, as shown in Figure 2-13.

4. Choose either Portrait (vertical) or Landscape (horizontal) for the

Page orientation, and then either select a standard printed document

Size from the Standard drop-down list or select the Custom radio

Button and enter a custom size (width, height, and, from the drop -

Down list, either inches or millimeters).

The Converting to FlashPaper dialog box appears while the conversion

Takes place. Then the Flash SWF movie is placed in your draft. When

You publish the page, Contribute automatically uploads the. swf file.

You can also use the standalone FlashPaper Printer outside of Contribute if

You want. See the Help files in Contribute for details.

Figure 2-13:

The

FlashPaper

Options

Dialog box

Includes a

Couple of

Very basic

Display

Options. Previewing Your Work 770

You can’t edit a FlashPaper movie. If you want to change a FlashPaper

Movie, you must go back and change the document it was made from and

Convert the updated document.

Previewing Your Work

If you make minor text changes to a page, you may not need to see it in a

Browser like Internet Explorer or Opera before you put it on your Web site

For the whole world to see. But if you make extensive changes, or if you’ve

Created a new page, you may wish to check out how it looks in your regular

Web browser before you publish it to your site.

To preview a draft in your regular Web browser, select File➪Preview or use

The keyboard shortcut F12. Your regular Web browser (such as Internet

Explorer) opens and displays the page you’re editing.

Uploading (Publishing) a Page

When you’ve finished editing a page or creating a new one, you’ll want to

Put it on your Web site where people can browse to it — that is, if you don’t

Want to preview the page (see the preceding section, “Previewing Your Work”)

And you don’t need approval to post the page (see “Collaborating,” the next

Section in this chapter). In Contribute, uploading the page to your Web

Server, where it can be seen by any visitor who goes to the right URL, is

Known as publishing a draft.

Publishing a draft is incredibly simple: Just click the Publish button at the

Top left of Contribute’s Browser. The page and any images or Flash movies

You’ve added to it are uploaded to the server, and Contribute’s Browser

Automatically switches to Browse mode to display the uploaded page as it

Will appear to visitors to your site.

Collaborating

Contribute has several features that make collaborating on a site easy. For

Example, when you edit a page, Contribute prevents anyone else from edit -

Ing the page at the same time. That way, you’ll never accidentally overwrite

Someone else’s changes — and they’ll never overwrite yours!

Contribute also has a special feature that comes in very handy if someone

Else needs to check your work before you publish it to your site: E-mail

Review. Book VII

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To make a preview of your draft and send an e-mail to a colleague with a link

To the preview, just follow these steps:

1. While you’re in Edit mode on the page you want to show to your col -

League, select File➪E-mail Review.

An informational Contribute window appears, unless you selected

The “Don’t show this window again” check box earlier. If the window

Appears, click OK. Then an e-mail opens with a link to the page and a

Brief request for review.

2. Edit the e-mail if necessary and send it.

3. If you think you may have to wait awhile for approval, save the draft

By clicking the Save for Later button at the top of the Browser.

The draft will appear in the Pages panel.

4. When you have approval, click the draft’s name in the Pages panel.

The Browser switches to Edit mode and loads the draft in the Browser.

5. Click Publish.

The Browser switches to Browse mode and displays the published page

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Chapter 3: Contribute 2 Administration

Posted: July 15th, 2010 | Author: admin | Filed under: Book VII Contribute 2 | Comments Off

In This Chapter

Making yourself a site administrator

Creating sitewide settings, including rollbacks

Working with groups

Granting group access

Creating connection keys

I f you’re set up to be a Contribute 2 site administrator, you can do every -

Thing a regular user can do — edit existing pages and make new ones —

But you can also control who the regular users are, what access they have

To a site, and more.

A site may have multiple administrators as well as multiple users. All admin -

Istrators have the same privileges, including the privilege to set up groups

Of users with distinct privileges. If reading that last sentence makes you feel

Like you’ve just stumbled into a hall of mirrors, don’t worry. Read on, and

You’ll be a site administrator in no time.

Setting Yourself Up as Site Administrator

You can set yourself up as an administrator, or you can set someone else up

As an administrator. But first things first: If you want to make site adminis -

Trators of your colleagues, you have to make yourself a site administrator

First. By the way, if you want to be an administrator on a site that already

Has one, you’ll need that site’s administrator to set you up with administra -

Tor privileges.

Though you may be able to set yourself up as site administrator at any time

By editing your settings, we assume for the purposes of this book that you

Are setting yourself up as an administrator at the same time you are making

Your first connection to the site in Contribute, and that nobody else has yet

Done so. To set yourself up as an administrator, just follow these steps:Setting Yourself Up as Site Administrator 774

1. Browse to the site to which you want to connect via Contribute’s

Browser by typing or pasting a URL (for example, http://www.

Mysite. com) into the Address text field and pressing Enter or

Clicking the Go button.

You can use Contribute’s Browser to view any site on the Web, but you

Can only set up a connection to a site if you have FTP information for

That site.

2. Click the Create Connection button at the top left of the Browser, as

Shown in Figure 3-1.

The Connection Wizard opens to its Welcome screen.

3. We’re assuming you don’t have a connection key, so click the Next

Button at the bottom of the wizard.

The User Information screen appears. For more information about con -

Nection keys, see the “Creating Connection Keys to Provide Access to

Contributors” section, later in this chapter.

4. Enter your name in the What Is Your Name? text field.

Your name may already appear. The name in this field will identify you

To other contributors to your site, if there are any.

5. If it’s not already there, enter your e-mail address in the What Is Your

E-mail Address? text field and click Next.

The Website Home Page screen appears.

Figure 3-1:

Getting

Ready to

Connect to

A Web site. Book VII

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6. If necessary, enter the URL (http://www. mysite. com, for example)

For the Web site you’ll be editing by typing it or pasting it into the

Text field. Click Next.

The URL should be there already, because you browsed to the site to

Start the connection process. When you click Next, the Connection

Information screen appears in the wizard.

7. Select a connection method from the drop-down list.

You have the following options: FTP, Secure FTP (SFTP), and Local/

Network. Depending on what you choose, different text fields appear

Below the drop-down list. As you can see in Figure 3-2, we entered SFTP.

8a. If you selected FTP or SFTP, enter the FTP server name (such as

Sftp. earlsbowlateria. com), the ftp login (sometimes called the

Username), and the ftp password in the respective text fields. Click

Next.

When you click Next, the Administrator Information screen appears

(go to Step 9).

8b. If you selected Local/Network, enter the network path (for example,

\\mynetwork\mydepartment\site) by typing or pasting it in, or by

Clicking the Choose Folder button and browsing in your network to

The folder that contains your site. Click Next.

When you click Next, the Administrator Information screen appears.

9. Select the Yes, I Want to Be the Administrator option.

Two password text fields appear on the screen.

Figure 3-2:

FTP

Information

Entered

In the

Connection

Information

Screen. Changing Settings in the Connection Wizard 776

10. Enter a password in the top text field on the Administrator

Information screen. Then re-enter the password in the text field

Below, exactly as you typed it above. Click Next.

You can use any combination of numbers and letters for your password.

The password is case-sensitive (so as far as the password is concerned,

A big “S” and a small “s” are different characters). Only contributors

Who know that password will be able to perform administrator func -

Tions on the site. When you click Next, the Summary screen appears.

11. Make sure the information is correct. If it isn’t, use the Back button to

Go to the screen with incorrect info and fix the mistake; then use the

Next button to return to the Summary screen. Click Done.

Your connection is set. When you click Done, a dialog box pops up that

Says, “Would you like to change the Contribute administration settings

For this Web site? To change these settings later, select Edit➪Administer

Websites.” You can click Yes and go to Step 2 in the following section,

“Changing Settings in the Connection Wizard,” or you can click No and

Proceed to follow the instructions in that section from Step 1.

Changing Settings in the Connection Wizard

If you didn’t set yourself up as an administrator when you made your origi -

Nal connection to a site, you can make yourself an administrator later by

Changing some settings in the Connection Wizard. To do so, just follow

These steps:

1. Choose Edit➪My Connections.

The My Connections dialog box appears, as shown in Figure 3-3.

2. Double-click the line that shows the name of the site you want to

Administer.

The Connection Wizard appears.

3. Click the Next button a few times until you see the Administrator

Information screen.

4. Select the Yes, I Want to Be an Administrator option.

Text fields for a password appear.

5. Enter a password in the top text field. Then re-enter the password in

The text field below, exactly as you typed it above. Click Next.

You can use any combination of numbers and letters for your password.

Again, the password is case-sensitive. Only contributors who know that

Password will be able to perform administrator functions on the site.

When you click Next, the Summary screen appears. Book VII

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6. Make sure the information is correct. If it isn’t, use the Back button to

Go to the screen with incorrect info and fix the mistake; then use the

Next button to return to the Summary screen. Click Done.

Your connection is set. When you click Done, a dialog box pops up that

Says, “Would you like to change the Contribute administration settings

For this Web site? To change these settings later, select Edit➪Administer

Websites.”

Creating Sitewide Settings

Sitewide settings apply to all contributors to the site, regardless of any group

Settings you may make. Using the Sitewide Settings dialog box, shown in

Figure 3-4, you can

✦ Change the administrator’s e-mail address

✦ Change the administrator’s password

✦ Enable rollbacks and customize rollback settings

✦ Set up index and URL mapping

✦ Delete all permissions and settings at once

We discuss each of those settings in the following subsections.

Changing the administrator’s e-mail address

To change the administrator’s e-mail address, just follow these steps:

1. Choose Edit➪Administer Websites➪Name of Site, where Name of Site

Is the name of the site you want to administer.

The Administrator Password dialog box appears.

Figure 3-3:

The My

Connections

Dialog box

Allows you

To pick one

From all

Of your

Connections. Creating Sitewide Settings 778

2. Enter your password and click OK or press Enter.

The Administer Website dialog box appears.

3. Click the Sitewide Settings button in the Sitewide Settings section at

The top of the Administer Website dialog box.

The Sitewide Settings dialog box appears.

4. The existing administrator e-mail address should be highlighted. If it

Isn’t, select it by clicking and dragging until the address is high -

Lighted.

5. Enter a new address by pasting or typing it into the Administrator

Contact E-mail text field.

6. Click OK.

The Sitewide Settings dialog box disappears, and the new e-mail address

Is set.

Changing the Administrator password

To change the Administrator password, follow Steps 1 through 3 in the pre -

Vious section, and then do the following:

1. Click the Change Password button.

The Change Password dialog box appears.

2. In the first (top) field, enter your current Administrator password.

Press the Tab key or click in the second field and enter the new pass -

Word you would like to use. Press the Tab key or click in the third

Field and re-enter the new password exactly as you entered it in the

Second field.

Figure 3-4:

The

Sitewide

Settings

Dialog box

Shows

We’re not

Using the

Rollback

Feature for

The Argyll

Adventure

Tree site. Book VII

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3. Click OK.

The Change Administrator Password dialog box closes. If you wish to

Make changes to other Sitewide Settings, do so. Otherwise, click OK to

Close the Sitewide Settings dialog box and OK to close the Administer

Website dialog box and save your changes.

Using the Rollback feature to save file backups

Contribute’s Rollback feature allows contributors to “roll back” to a previ -

Ously published version of a page — sometimes reverting back to a prior

State of things is the best way out of a jam. In order to make it possible to

Roll back, Contribute keeps backup copies of edited pages on the Web

Server. Administrators can specify how many versions Contribute backs

Up. Administrators can also disable the Rollback feature.

The main advantage to the rollback feature is pretty obvious: Backups can

Help you recover quickly if a newly published version of a page has multiple

Errors. Rather than having to scramble to fix the errors while the faulty page

Is up on your site for the world to see, you can just roll back almost instan -

Taneously to the previously published version of the page.

The major disadvantage of the rollback feature, particularly for large sites, is

That backups take up space on the Web server. If you have Contribute set to

Save three versions of each page, by the time your colleagues have published

Changes to a hundred pages three times each, three hundred backup pages

Have been created and stored in the _baks directory Contribute has placed

On the Web server that contains your site.

To activate and customize the Rollback feature for a site, just follow these

Steps:

1. Choose Edit➪Administer Websites➪Name of Site where Name of Site

Is the name of the site you want to administer.

The Administrator Password dialog box appears.

2. Enter your password and click OK or press Enter.

The Administer Website dialog box appears.

3. Click the Sitewide Settings button in the Sitewide Settings section at

The top of the Administer Website dialog box.

The Sitewide Settings dialog box appears.

4. Click the Enable Rollbacks check box.

A check appears in the check box, and the text field below is no longer

Grayed out. Creating Sitewide Settings 780

5. Use the toggle buttons at the right of the text field to increase the

Number of backups from 0, or double-click the 0 and enter a whole

Number between 1 and 99.

Though you may elect to keep up to 99 versions of each page, you’re

Probably better off limiting the number to 2 or 3 to conserve space on

Your Web server.

6. Click OK to close the Sitewide Settings dialog box, or make any other

Changes you wish to make to Sitewide Settings, and click OK in the

Administer Website dialog box.

To disable rollbacks, follow Steps 1 through 4 above, and then skip to Step 6.

Disabling rollbacks will not remove existing backups. To remove existing

Backups, disable rollbacks, and then use Dreamweaver or your favorite FTP

Client to delete the files. Do not delete the _baks folder.

Setting up index and URL mapping

In some cases, the way your Web server is configured to retrieve index

Pages may require you to adjust some settings in Contribute to get your

Connections between Contribute and the server working properly. The

Advanced Options section of the Sitewide Settings dialog box includes the

Index and URL Mapping button, which allows you to open a dialog box in

Which you can customize index page and URL mapping.

Mapping to index files

If your server is configured to default to home pages in a non-standard way

(if, for example, the server first checks a directory for start. cfm and then

Looks for index. htm if it doesn’t find start. cfm), you can set up

Contribute to mirror that configuration.

Contribute has 30 possible index page file names listed (index and default,

For each of 15 extensions). If your server is configured to look for a page

With a different filename (such as start. cfm or main. html), you need to

Add that filename to the list.

To add a filename to the list, just follow these steps:

1. Choose Edit➪Administer Websites➪Name of Site, where Name of Site

Is the name of the site you want to administer.

The Administrator Password dialog box appears.

2. Enter your password and click OK or press Enter.

The Administer Website dialog box appears. Book VII

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3. Click the Sitewide Settings button in the Sitewide Settings section at

The top of the Administer Websites dialog box.

The Sitewide Settings dialog box appears.

4. Select the Index and URL Mapping button in the Advanced options

Section.

The Index and URL Mapping dialog box appears.

5. Click the Add button in the Index Files section.

The Add or Edit Index Filename dialog box appears.

6. Enter the filename in the Index Filename text field.

7. Click OK.

The Add or Edit Index Filename dialog box disappears, and the new file -

Name appears at the bottom of the list in the Index and URL Mapping

Dialog box.

8. Use the arrow buttons at the right to move the new filename to the

Spot in the list that reflects the order the server uses.

For example, if the server checks index. cfm first, that filename should

Be at the top of the list (as it appears in Figure 3-5). Each time you click

The up-arrow button, the selected name moves up one spot in the list.

9. Make any other changes to the Index and URL Mapping settings, if

Necessary, and click OK. Then click OK in the Administer Website

Dialog box to save your settings.

Figure 3-5:

Contribute

Looks for

Pages on

The server in

The order in

Which the

Filenames

Appear in

The Index

Files list. Creating Sitewide Settings 782

To edit or remove a filename from the list, just follow these steps:

1. Open the Index and URL Mapping dialog box, as shown in Steps 1

Through 4 in the previous list.

2. Click the filename you want to edit or remove.

The filename is highlighted.

• To edit the filename, click the Edit button. The Add or Edit Filename

Dialog box appears, with the current filename highlighted. Type a

New filename and click OK. The Add or Edit Index Filename dialog

Box closes, and the edited filename appears in the list.

• To remove the filename from the list, click the Remove button.

The filename disappears from the list.

3. Make any other changes to the Index and URL Mapping settings, if

Necessary, and click OK. Then click OK in the Administer Website

Dialog box to save your settings.

Mapping to alternate Web site addresses

If you have multiple DNS entries pointing toward a single IP address (if

Http://www. earlsbowlateria. comand http://www. earls-bowlateria.

Com, for example, both point to the same Web server), or if your contribu -

Tors will be accessing your Web server using different addresses (from the

Web and from your internal network, for example), you need to set up

Contribute to recognize the additional addresses. Luckily, doing so is

Simple.

To map Contribute to an alternate Web site address, just follow these steps:

1. Choose Edit➪Administer Websites➪Name of Site, where Name of Site

Is the name of the site you want to administer.

The Administrator Password dialog box appears.

2. Enter your password and click OK or press Enter.

The Administer Website dialog box appears.

3. Click the Sitewide Settings button in the Sitewide Settings section at

The top of the Administer Websites dialog box.

The Sitewide Settings dialog box appears.

4. Select the Index and URL Mapping button in the Advanced options

Section.

The Index and URL Mapping dialog box appears. Book VII

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5. Click the Add button in the Alternate Website Addresses section.

The Add or Edit Alternate Address dialog box appears.

6. Enter the URL in the Alternate Website Address text field.

7. Click OK.

The Add or Edit Alternate Address dialog box disappears, and the addi -

Tional address appears at the bottom of the list, highlighted (refer to

Figure 3-5, in which the address http://www. argyll-adventure-tree.

Comhas been added).

8. Make any other changes to the Index and URL Mapping settings, if

Necessary, and click OK. Then click OK in the Administer Website

Dialog box to save your settings.

To edit or delete an alternate Web site address, do the following:

1. Follow Steps 1 through 4 in the previous list to open the Index and

URL Mapping dialog box.

2. Click the address you want to edit or delete.

The address is highlighted.

• To edit the address, click the Edit button. The Add or Edit Alternate

Address dialog box appears, with the address highlighted. Edit the

Address (URL) in the Alternate Website Address text field and click

OK to close the Add or Edit Alternate Address dialog box.

• To delete the address, click the Remove button. The address disap -

Pears from the dialog box.

3. Make any other changes to the Index and URL Mapping settings, if

Necessary, and click OK. Then click OK in the Administer Website

Dialog box to save your settings.

Deleting all permissions and settings at once

The Sitewide Settings dialog box includes a button that allows you to delete

All your custom sitewide settings and permission groups with a single click.

You might find it efficient to delete all the settings at once if your company

Or your Web site has just gone through a massive reorganization.

If you click this button, then you nullify all restrictions you may have placed

On any of your contributors. This means that all contributors will have stan -

Dard user access to all files on your site. It also means if you have an elabo -

Rate array of restrictions and permission groups and you change your mind

The next day, you’ll have to recreate all those settings from scratch. Setting Up Groups 784

To delete all your sitewide settings and permission groups, simply click

The Remove Administration button in the Advanced Options section of the

Sitewide Settings dialog box. A Warning dialog box appears to give you a

Chance to back out. If you’re sure you want to delete the settings, click Yes.

Then click OK in the Sitewide Settings dialog box and click OK in the

Administer Website dialog box.

Setting Up Groups

After you have designated yourself an administrator, you have access to the

Administer Website dialog box, in which you can do things like configure

Sitewide settings, send connection keys, and more.

When you set up a connection, Contribute automatically creates two default

Groups of contributors: Administrators and Users. You can set up as many

Additional groups as you like; each group might have different new page cre -

Ation permissions or access to different directories on the site, or other dif -

Ferent settings and permissions.

Opening the Administer Website dialog box

To open the Administer Website dialog box for a site to which you have

Administrator access, simply do the following:

1. Choose Edit➪Administer Websites➪Name of Site, where Name of Site

Is the name of the site you want to administer.

The Administrator Password dialog box appears.

2. Enter your password and click OK or press Enter.

The Administer Website dialog box appears.

Setting up a new group

If you don’t need more than one group of users and one group of administra -

Tors, you can skip this section. If you want to create a new group, you can do

It one of two ways:

✦ By creating a new group from scratch

✦ By duplicating an existing group and modifying the duplicated group’s

Settings

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1. Open the Administer Website dialog box by following the steps

Described in the previous section, “Opening the Administer Website

Dialog box.”

2. Click the New button in the Permission Groups section of the

Administer Website dialog box.

The Permission Group Name dialog box appears.

3. Enter a name for the new group in the New Permission Group Name

Field and click OK or press Enter.

The Permission Group Name dialog box closes. The new group’s name

Is highlighted in the Administer Website dialog box, as shown in Figure

3-6, where we added a group called, “Communications Dept.”

If you’re creating a new group whose settings largely overlap with an existing

Group’s, you can duplicate the existing group, and then edit the duplicated

Group’s settings as necessary. To create a new group by duplicating an exist -

Ing group, just follow these steps:

1. Open the Administer Website dialog box by following the steps

Described in the earlier section, “Opening the Administer Website

Dialog box.”

2. Click the Duplicate button in the Permission Groups section of the

Administer Website dialog box.

The Permission Group Name dialog box appears.

Figure 3-6:

The new

Group

“Communi -

Cations

Dept.” is

Highlighted

In the

Administer

Website

Dialog box. Granting Group Permissions 786

3. Enter a name for the new group in the New Permission Group Name

Field and click OK or press Enter.

The Permission Group Name dialog box closes. The new group’s name

Is highlighted in the Administer Website dialog box. If you want to edit

That group’s settings, just click the Edit Group button. The “Granting

Group Permissions” section, later in this chapter, details the settings

You can make.

Deleting groups

Deleting a group is easy. Simply follow these steps:

1. Open the Administer Website dialog box by following the steps

Described in the earlier section, “Opening the Administer Website

Dialog box.”

2. In the Permission Groups section of the Administer Website dialog

Box, click the name of the group you want to delete.

The group name highlights.

3. Click the Delete button.

A dialog box pops up, warning you that you are about to delete a group.

4. Click Yes to delete the group.

The Warning dialog box closes and the group’s name disappears from

The Administer Website dialog box.

Granting Group Permissions

After you’ve created a group (or decided to go with the default groups,

Administrators and Users), you can adjust the permissions granted to the

Group. Permissions may be wholesale (contributors in the Users group may

Upload any images) or conditional (Users may upload images, but only if the

Image’s file sizes are smaller than 32 kilobytes, for example).

Unlike sitewide settings, group permissions apply only to individual groups,

Not to all groups. Each group may have its own permissions or settings in

The following areas:

✦ General

✦ Folder/File Access

✦ Editing

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✦ New Pages

✦ New Images

We discuss each of the areas in detail in the following subsections.

Making general settings

When you open the Permission Group dialog box, you see the General screen

By default. The General options allow you to make two settings for a group:

✦ Group Description: A sentence or two that describes the group. The

Group Description is what people will see when they click the group

Name in the Connection Wizard.

✦ Group Home Page: The page that will load when members of the group

Connect to the Web site in Contribute.

To create a group description, follow these simple steps:

1. Choose Edit➪Administer Websites➪Name of Site, where Name of Site

Is the name of the site you want to administer.

The Administrator Password dialog box appears.

2. Enter your password and click OK or press Enter.

The Administer Website dialog box appears.

3. In the Permission Groups section of the Administer Website dialog

Box, click the name of the group whose settings you want to edit and

Click the Edit button on the right, or double-click the group name.

The Permission Group dialog box appears, opened to the General

Screen, with the text in the Group Description field highlighted, as

Shown in Figure 3-7.

4. Enter a group description by typing or pasting it into the Group

Description text field.

5. Click OK to save your changes and close the dialog box, or make other

Changes to the group’s permissions as needed before you click OK.

If your Web site has several directories, each of which is maintained by a

Different department, you can make a group for each department and set a

Default home page for each group. For example, members of the Communi -

Cations Department, who are responsible only for updating press releases,

Might have http://www. mycompany. com/news/index. htm as their home

Page. Granting Group Permissions 788

To specify a special home page for a group, follow these steps:

1. Open the Permission Group dialog box by following Steps 1 through

3 in the previous list.

The Group Home Page field includes the name of the site’s default home

Page.

2. Click and drag to select the current group home page and enter a

New URL by typing or pasting the URL into the Group Home Page text

Field. Alternatively, you can click the Choose button at the right and

Navigate to the page in the Choose File on Website dialog box.

One advantage of navigating via the Choose File on Website dialog box

Is that you avoid the possibility of misspelling the URL.

3. Click OK to save your changes and close the dialog box, or make other

Changes to the group’s permissions as needed before clicking OK.

Figure 3-8 shows a detail of the General screen with customized description

And home page for a group called “Communications Dept.” The description

Is not fully visible in Figure 3-8; the full text reads, “This group has access

To the News directory only, and may create new pages only from the News

Template.”

Granting access to folders and files

You may wish to restrict certain groups of contributors from editing particu -

Lar files on your site. For example, you may want the members of your

Figure 3-7:

The General

Screen

Shows by

Default

When you

Open the

Permission

Group

Dialog box. Book VII

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Communications Department to be able to update the News section of your

Site but not have access to the Products section. Contribute allows you to

Specify which folders (directories) a group may access to edit the files

Within.

To grant a group access to the files in a particular folder that already exists

On your site, just follow these steps:

1. If you have the Permissions Group dialog box open already, skip to

Step 5. Otherwise, continue with Step 2.

2. Choose Edit➪Administer Websites➪Name of Site, where Name of Site

Is the name of the site you want to administer.

The Administrator Password dialog box appears.

3. Enter your password and click OK or press Enter.

The Administer Website dialog box appears.

4. In the Permission Groups section of the Administer Website dialog

Box, click the name of the group whose settings you want to edit and

Click the Edit button on the right, or double-click the group name.

The Permission Group dialog box appears, showing the General

Options, with the text in the Group Description field highlighted (refer

To Figure 3-7).

5. Click Folder/File Access in the list on the left.

The Folder/File Access screen appears, replacing the General screen.

Figure 3-8:

The

Communica -

Tions Dept.

Group’s

General

Permissions

Settings. Granting Group Permissions 790

6. Select the Only Allow Editing within These Folders option.

The text field below becomes editable.

7. Click the Add Folder button.

The Choose Folder dialog box appears, with your site’s directory struc -

Ture represented on the left, as shown in Figure 3-9.

8. Double-click the folder you want the group to be able to edit, and

Then click Select folder name where folder name is the name of the

Folder.

The Choose Folder dialog box disappears, and the URL for the folder

You selected appears in the Folder access text field, highlighted.

9. Click OK to save your changes and close the dialog box, or make other

Changes to the group’s permissions as needed before clicking OK.

Extending file deletion privileges

The Folder/File Access screen in the Permission Group dialog box also allows

You to choose whether or not a group will be permitted to delete files from

The site. Members of the group may only delete files that they have permis -

Sion to edit.

To allow users to delete files from a site, follow these simple steps:

1. If the Folder/File Access screen in the Permission Group dialog box

Is not already showing, open it by following Steps 2 through 5 in the

Previous list. Otherwise, skip to Step 2.

2. Select the Allow Users to Delete Files They Have Permission to Edit

Check box at the top of the File Deletion section of the dialog box.

The Remove Rollback Versions on Delete check box becomes available.

Figure 3-9:

Restricting

A group’s

Permissions

To editing

Files only in

A specified

Folder. Book VII

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3. (Optional) If you want rollback files for a page to be deleted when

That page is deleted, select the Remove Rollback Versions on Delete

Check box.

4. Click OK to save your changes and close the dialog box, or make other

Changes to the group’s permissions as needed before clicking OK.

Customizing editing settings

The Editing options in the Permission Group dialog box, shown in Figure 3-10,

Allow you to set what aspects of a page’s underlying HTML code can be edited

By a group member. It also allows you to specify how Contribute will write

Some basic HTML formatting code.

Setting non-template page editing options

Dreamweaver templates “lock” certain chunks of code so that people editing

Pages based on those templates cannot change certain aspects of the way

The page is built to preserve the structure and look of the page. (For details

On creating Dreamweaver templates, see Book II, Chapter 7).

If you’re not using Dreamweaver templates but you still want to protect any

Specialized code (ColdFusion markup, for example) from being edited, select

The Protect Scripts and Forms check box in the Non-Template Pages section.

(The Allow Unrestricted Editing option is selected by default; if you want to

Allow everything on the page to be edited except scripts and forms, the

Allow Unrestricted Editing option must be selected before the Protect Scripts

And Forms check box can be selected).

Figure 3-10:

The Editing

Options

Make it easy

To customize

Editing

Settings. Granting Group Permissions 792

If you want members of a group to be able to edit and format text only,

Select the Only Allow Text Editing and Formatting option.

Setting the Paragraph Spacing option

When you’re writing text in a regular word processing program (such as

Microsoft Word) and you press the Enter key on your keyboard, your

Cursor goes to the next line, just as a carriage return works on a typewriter.

When you press Enter to go to a new line in a WYSIWYG HTML editor like

Dreamweaver, a blank line is inserted between the previous line you were on

And the new line. You can set up Contribute to function either like a word

Processor or like Dreamweaver when a contributor presses the Enter key.

It’s not just Contribute’s behavior that changes when you change this set -

Ting, it’s also the underlying HTML code Contribute generates. When you

Select the One Line option in the Paragraph Spacing section, Contribute gen -

Erates an inline CSS style to create the line break. When you select the Two

Lines option, Contribute uses the standard HTML paragraph tag <P> to

Create the line break.

To set up Contribute to start a new line of text directly under the old one

When a contributor presses the Enter key, select the One Line, As in Standard

Word Processors (Uses Inline CSS Styles) option.

To set Contribute to start a new line of text two lines down from the old line,

Leaving a space in between, select the Two Lines, As in Web Page Editors

(Uses Standard <P> Tags) option.

Setting other editing options

In the Other Editing Options section of the Editing screen, the Allow Multiple

Consecutive Spaces (Uses &nbsp;) option is selected by default. Deselect

This option only if you want to prevent contributors from creating vertical

Space in a page by inserting multiple spaces.

Select the Enforce Accessibility Options (Such As ALT Text for Images)

Option if you want Contribute to prompt contributors to include information

That makes the page more accessible to visitors to your site who might have

Disabilities.

Leave the Use <STRONG> and <EM> in Place of <B> and <I> option selected if

You want Contribute to use the latest HTML tags for bold and italic format -

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To choose a line break type for the underlying code (not the text as it appears

In a browser), select one from the Line Break Type drop-down list. In most

Cases, you may leave this at its default setting; if the people working directly

On the HTML use a particular type of computer, you may wish to select the

Line break type accordingly. “CR” stands for “Carriage Return,” and “LF” is

Short for “Line Feed.” Contribute offers the following line break types:

✦ Windows (CR LF)

✦ Mac (CR)

✦ Unix (LF)

Granting styles and fonts permissions

To change the permissions for a group’s ability to format text on Web pages,

Click Styles and Fonts in the list on the left side of the Permission Group

Dialog box (see Figure 3-11). Formatting text is usually one of the main

Responsibilities of anybody maintaining a Web site. Contribute makes for -

Matting text easy as it is; setting styles and fonts permissions can make for -

Matting text even easier for contributors by taking away options that might

Lead to incorrect formatting.

Setting styles options

By default, contributors are permitted to apply CSS styles and HTML para -

Graph and heading styles to text on pages they have permission to edit. By

Figure 3-11:

The Styles

And Fonts

Screen of

The

Permissions

Group

Dialog box

Allows you

To limit text

Formatting

Options by

Removing

Menus from

Contribute’s

Browser. Granting Group Permissions 794

Deselecting the Allow Users to Apply Styles (Displays the Style Menu on the

Toolbar) check box, you can prevent users from being able to apply HTML

And CSS styles by removing the Style menu from the Contribute Browser’s

Toolbar. If you deselect that check box, the other two boxes in the Styles

Section become grayed out, because if there’s no Styles menu on the tool -

Bar, there’s no way to apply HTML or CSS styles.

If you don’t want contributors to be able to apply CSS styles but you do

Want them to be able to apply styles to <P> tags and to insert header tags

(<H1>, <H2>, and so on), deselect the Include CSS Styles in the Style Menu

Check box, but leave the other two check boxes selected.

If, on the other hand, you have set up a thorough CSS style sheet and don’t

Want contributors using generic HTML paragraph and heading styles to

Format text, deselect the Include HTML Paragraph and Heading Styles (<P>,

<H1>, . . .) in the Style Menu check box, but leave the other two check boxes

Selected.

Setting fonts options

When the Allow Users to Apply Fonts and Sizes (Displays the Font and Size

Menus on the Toolbar) check box is selected, as it is by default, contribu -

Tors can format text by choosing a font face and font size from drop-down

Lists on the Contribute Browser’s toolbar.

If you’re using a CSS style sheet that includes font face, size, color, and other

Attributes for all text on your site, deselect the Allow Users to Apply Fonts

And Sizes check box and make sure the Include CSS Styles in the Style Menu

Check box is selected above.

If you want to allow contributors to apply text formatting, and you want

Contribute to generate basic HTML <FONT> tags, just follow these steps

(assuming you have the Styles and Fonts options of the Permission Group

Dialog box showing):

1. Select the Allow Users to Apply Fonts and Sizes check box, if it isn’t

Already selected.

This box is selected by default.

2. Select the HTML Tags option under the Apply Fonts Using heading.

3. Click OK to save your changes and close the dialog box, or make other

Changes to the group’s permissions as needed before clicking OK.

If you want to allow contributors to apply text formatting, but you want

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Follow these steps (assuming you have the Styles and Fonts options of the

Permission Group dialog box showing):

1. Select the Allow Users to Apply Fonts and Sizes check box, if it isn’t

Already selected.

This box is selected by default.

2. Under the Apply Fonts Using heading, select the Inline CSS Styles

Option.

The Apply Sizes Using drop-down list becomes active.

3. Select a unit of font measurement from the Apply Sizes Using drop -

Down list.

The choices are Pixels, Points, or Ems. Whichever you choose will be

Available from a drop-down list in the Contribute Browser.

For information about the relative advantages and disadvantages of

Using each of the units of font measurement, browse to Mulder’s style

Sheet tutorial at the Webmonkey Web site (hotwired. lycos. com/

Webmonkey/98/35/index2a. html? tw=authoring).

4. Click OK to save your changes and close the dialog box, or make other

Changes to the group’s permissions as needed before clicking OK.

Granting permission to create new pages

Chances are, your contributors are going to need to create new pages for

Your Web site. If your company paid good money to have the site profes -

Sionally designed, however, you probably don’t want the people maintaining

Your site to fashion pages that diverge from the approved design.

Contribute gives Administrators a way to force contributors to use

Dreamweaver templates (the safest bet) or to use existing pages to create

New ones. That helps keep the site design uniform and saves time for the

People maintaining the site, as well.

To control the types of Web pages contributors can create, just follow these

Steps:

1. If you don’t already have the Permission Group dialog box open,

Choose Edit➪Administer Websites➪Name of Site, where Name of Site

Is the name of the site you want to administer.

The Administrator Password dialog box appears.

2. Enter your password and click OK or press Enter.

The Administer Website dialog box appears. Granting Group Permissions 796

3. In the Permission Groups section of the Administer Website dialog

Box, click the name of the group whose settings you want to edit and

Click the Edit button on the right, or double-click the group name.

The Permission Group dialog box appears, opened to show the General

Screen, with the text in the Group Description field highlighted (refer to

Figure 3-7).

4. Click New Pages in the list on the left.

The New Pages screen replaces the General screen, as shown in

Figure 3-12.

5. If you want group members to have the option of creating a page

From scratch, select the Create a Blank Page check box. (This check

Box is selected by default.)

If you don’t want users to be able to create a page from scratch, deselect

The check box.

6. If you want group members to be able to create new pages based on

Contribute’s sample pages, select the Use Built-In Sample Pages box

(This check box is selected by default.)

If you don’t want group members to be able to create a page from one of

Contribute’s sample pages, deselect the check box.

7. If you want group members to be able to use any page on your Web

Site as a basis for a new page, select the Create a New Page by Copying

Any Page on the Website check box — this check box is selected by

Figure 3-12:

Setting the

Permissions

For a group’s

Ability to

Create new

Web pages. Book VII

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Default — and skip to Step 9a. If you want contributors to be able to

Use only specific existing pages on the site to create new ones, make

Sure this check box is deselected and proceed to Step 8a.

If you don’t want group members to be able to base a new page on any

Page on your site, deselect the Create a New Page by Copying Any Page

On the Website check box.

8a. If you want group members to be able to create a new page based on

A specific page (or set of pages) on your site, select the Create a New

Page by Copying a Page from This List check box. (If you do not want

Group members to be able to create a new page based on a specific

Page, skip to Step 9a.)

The Add and Remove buttons become active.

8b. Click the Add button.

The Choose File dialog box appears, with the directory structure of

Your site on the left.

8c. Click the page you want contributors to be able to model a new page

On. If the page is in a folder, double-click the folder to open it in the

Dialog box, and then click the page.

The preview section on the right displays the page you selected.

8d. Click OK.

The Choose File dialog box disappears, and the selected page appears

In the list. Repeat Steps 8a through 8d if you want to add more pages.

These pages will appear as choices when the group member tries to

Create a new page.

9a. If you want group members to work from a Dreamweaver template

When creating a new page, select the Use Dreamweaver Templates

Check box and continue with Step 9b. Otherwise, skip to Step 10.

When the Use Dreamweaver Templates box is selected, the Use

Dreamweaver Templates section of the dialog box becomes active.

9b. If you want group members to be able to base a new page on any

Dreamweaver template on your site, select the Show Users All

Templates option and proceed to Step 10. If you want group members

To be able to base a new page only on a specific template (or set of

Templates), select the Only Show Users These Templates option and

Proceed to Step 9c.

9c. Double-click the name of the template (or names of the templates) in

The Hidden Templates field, or click the name of the template, and

Then click the Show button.

The name of any template that group members will see when they try to

Create a new page is listed in the Only Show Users These Templates fieldGranting Group Permissions 798

On the left. Figure 3-12 shows that we only want the Communications

Dept. group to be able to create new pages from the News template.

10. Click OK to save your changes and close the dialog box, or make

Other changes to the group’s permissions as needed before clicking

OK. Then click OK in the Administer Website dialog box to save the

Changes.

Customizing options for adding new images

As an administrator, you can set a file size limit for images; Contribute won’t

Allow a group member to add an image with a file size greater than the maxi -

Mum you set. By default, there’s no limit.

If you want to set a maximum image file size, just follow these steps:

1. If you don’t already have the Permission Group dialog box open,

Choose Edit➪Administer Websites➪Name of Site, where Name of Site

Is the name of the site you want to administer.

The Administrator Password dialog box appears.

2. Enter your password and click OK or press Enter.

The Administer Website dialog box appears.

3. In the Permission Groups section of the Administer Website dialog

Box, click the name of the group whose settings you want to edit and

Click the Edit button on the right, or double-click the group name.

The Permission Group dialog box appears, opened to show the General

Options, with the text in the Group Description field highlighted (refer to

Figure 3-7).

4. Click New Images in the list on the left.

The New Images options in the Permission Group dialog box, as shown

In Figure 3-13, replaces the General options.

5. Select the Limited to Kilobytes option.

The Limited to Kilobytes text field, with its default value of 64, becomes

Editable.

6. Double-click or click and drag to highlight the default value and enter

A new number.

If you want the maximum file size to be 64 kilobytes, you can skip this

Step, of course.

7. Click OK to save your changes and close the dialog box, or make other

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Creating Connection Keys to Provide

Access to Contributors

Connection keys are password-protected, encrypted text files that contain

The data Contribute needs to establish a connection with a Web site. When

You send a connection key to a group member, all the member needs to do to

Establish a connection is double-click the key (and enter a password). That

Can be pretty handy if you have several people in a group, since you can

E-mail the same key to all of them, or post the key on your internal network.

You don’t have to go to each member’s machine to set up the connection,

Nor do you have to worry about providing tech support if you’ve decided to

Let people establish their own connections. Best of all, connection keys are

Specific to groups, so you don’t have to worry that a contributor will choose

To be in the wrong group.

To create a connection key, follow these steps:

1. Choose Edit➪Administer Websites➪Name of Site, where Name of Site

Is the name of the site you want to administer.

The Administrator Password dialog box appears.

2. Enter your password and click OK or press Enter.

The Administer Website dialog box appears.

Figure 3-13:

The New

Images

Screen

Offers only

Two options. Creating Connection Keys to Provide Access to Contributors 800

3. Click the Send Connection Key button.

The Export Wizard’s Welcome screen appears, as shown in Figure 3-14.

4a. If the group members will connect to your Web server in the same

Way as you do, leave the Yes option selected under the question,

Would You Like to Send Your Current Connection Settings? If not,

Skip to Step 4c.

Proceed to Step 4b.

4b. If you want to include FTP or SFTP login information in the connec -

Tion key, make sure that the Include My FTP Login and Password

Check box is selected (if your connection to the site is Local/Network,

The box will be grayed out). Click Next and skip to Step 6.

When you click Next, the Group Information screen appears.

4c. If group members will be connecting to the site in a different way

Than you do, select the No, I Would Like to Customize the Connection

Settings for Other Users option. Then click Next and go to Step 5.

If group members will be connecting via the Web while you connect via

Your network, you’ll need to customize the connection settings for the

Group members. When you click Next, the Connection Information

Screen appears.

5. Enter the information to set up a connection and click Next.

For information about the Connection Information screen, see the sec -

Tion on connecting to a site with the Connection Wizard in Book VII,

Chapter 2. When you click Next, the Group Information screen appears.

Figure 3-14:

The Export

Wizard’s

Welcome

Screen

Starts you

Off with a

Basic Yes or

No question. Book VII

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6. In the Select a Group area, click the name of the group of users who

Will use the connection key you’re creating. Click Next.

When you click the group name, the group’s description appears at the

Right, as shown in Figure 3-15. When you click Next, the Connection Key

Information screen appears.

7. To answer the question, How Would You Like to Export the Connection

Key File? select either the Send in E-mail or the Save to Local Machine

Option.

Macromedia recommends you not send the key via Web-based e-mail

(like Hotmail or Yahoo!) because, even though the key is encrypted, it

Contains sensitive information that should never be sent via inherently

Less secure Web-based e-mail.

8. In the top text field, enter a password that will enable group members

To use the key. Press the Tab key or click in the bottom text field.

A contributor must have the password in order to use the key. The

Password may contain spaces, numbers, and letters and be up to thirty

Characters long; the password is case-sensitive. If you send the key in an

E-mail, it’s safest not to include the password in the same e-mail. Instead,

Send the password in a separate e-mail or, better yet, reveal the pass -

Word verbally to group members.

9. Re-enter the password exactly as you entered it in the above text field

And click Next.

The Summary screen appears, as shown in Figure 3-16.

Figure 3-15:

When a

Group is

Selected,

The group’s

Description

Appears at

The right. Creating Connection Keys to Provide Access to Contributors 802

10. Carefully check the information on the Summary screen to make

Sure it is correct. If it isn’t, use the Back button to go back and correct

Any information on previous screens and click Next to return to the

Summary screen. If the information is correct, click Done.

If you selected the Send in E-mail option, a new e-mail with the connec -

Tion key attached will open automatically in your e-mail program.

Customize the e-mail as necessary, add a recipient or recipients, and

Send the message. If you selected the Save to Local Machine option, the

Export Connection Key dialog box opens. Navigate to the folder on the

Local machine or on your network where you want to place the key and

Click Save.

Figure 3-16:

The Export

Wizard’s

Summary

Screen

Shows the

Connection

Key settings

At a glance.


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Contents at a Glance

Chapter 1: Introduction to Contribute 2 ………………………………………………………………..733

Chapter 2: Basics for Contributors……………………………………………………………………….747

Chapter 3: Contribute 2 Administration………………………………………………………………..773

Chapter 4: Contribute 2 and Other Macromedia Products……………………………………..803