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Contribute Publishing Services

Contribute includes a suite of optional service applications that let you add functionality to your
website. Using these applications, you can more easily manage Contribute as well as provide
additional functionality for Contribute users. The applications are as follows:
User Directory service
or create a file-based user directory so you can easily manage users and their access to websites.
By integrating Contribute with a directory service such as LDAP or Active Directory, you can
easily assign users to roles, and provide them with easy-to-access connections to websites. All the
connection information and role assignments for users is stored on the Publishing Services server,
which you install on a centrally accessible Java application server within your computing
environment. Publishing Services then controls who has access to what websites and a specific
user's role within the website.
Log service records all events within a specified Contribute site to a log file that you can use to
troubleshoot potential problems with the website. You can specify how many log files to archive
for reference.
E-mail notification service
without requiring the user to start Contribute. The service sends e-mail to users whenever
someone sends them a draft requiring their attention and keeps them informed about the status
of drafts they've sent, such as when a page is published to the site.
To use Contribute Publishing Services, you must install the Publishing Services server. The
Publishing Services server is a Java application that runs within a J2EE application server. To learn
more about Contribute Publishing Services, including how to install and configure a Publishing
Services server, see the Contribute Publishing Services website at www.macromedia.com/go/cps.

Contribute case studies

Now that you know how shared settings work and how an administrator can set up specific roles
to limit user access, you can consider various scenarios for setting up Contribute for large or
multi-team organizations.
This section describes three primary configurations for you to consider as you set up a Contribute
site. Remember the following issues to successfully set up multiple users:
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Determining where the shared settings file is stored
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Preventing connection paths from overlapping
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Sending connections to users
Depending on how your website is structured, you need to use separate strategies for setting up
access for various groups of users.
lets you integrate Contribute with an LDAP or Active Directory service,
keeps users informed about the status of drafts they are working on

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