Chapter 11: Publishing Your Page; About The Rollback Feature; Previewing A Page In Your Default Browser; Publishing A Page To Your Website - MACROMEDIA CONTRIBUTE 3 - USING AND ADMINISTERING CONTRIBUTE Use Manual

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About the Rollback feature

You can use the Rollback feature to revert to a previous version of any published page. You do not

have to roll back to the last published version; you can select any version that Contribute has

saved as a rollback file.

When you roll back to a previous version of a page, Contribute reverts to the previous text

contained in the version of the page you select. However, any assets imported into the page may

or may not be recovered. For example, suppose you update an image file outside of Contribute

and then replace the original image with another image using the same filename. In this case,

Contribute cannot roll back to the previous version of the image because Contribute does not

manage assets outside the web pages it creates.

Contribute does, however, maintain the older version of an image if you use Contribute to edit

the image in an external application. Contribute considers images, Microsoft Word documents,

and other content that you edit in an external application as assets. You can roll back assets that

you've edited through Contribute the same way that you roll back pages.

For example, suppose you roll back from version C of a page to version A, and you used

Contribute to edit an image in version B. When you roll back to version A, you will not see the

current version of the image. You need to also roll back the image, independently of the page

rollback.

Previewing a page in your default browser

When you edit a draft in Contribute you can easily view your changes in a browser at any time, to

ensure that your changes appear as you intend in the browser. Previewing your page also gives you

an opportunity to test your links before you publish the page.

Tip: You can view the source code for a page when you preview it in the browser.

Note: If the Contribute administrator assigned you to a role that cannot publish, you cannot use the

Preview in Browser feature.

To preview a page in your browser, do one of the following:

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Select File > Preview in Browser.

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Press the F12 key.

Publishing a page to your website

After you finish editing and reviewing a draft, you are ready to publish it to your website. When

you publish a draft, Contribute makes it live on your website—and, if the page was previously

published, Contribute replaces the existing page with the updated page.

Note: Depending on the role the Contribute administrator assigned you, you might not be able to

publish.

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