Chapter 13: Managing Users And Roles; Understanding Roles - MACROMEDIA CONTRIBUTE 3 - USING AND ADMINISTERING CONTRIBUTE Use Manual

Macromedia Contribute lets you control the extent to which users can alter a website. To do so,
you create roles for each website and define permissions for each role. After a website's
permissions are defined, Contribute creates a folder labeled _mm at the root of the website and
places a shared settings file in this folder. The shared settings file contains all the website settings
and permissions for Contribute website connections that you create. All Contribute users who
connect to the website automatically inherit the settings defined for their assigned role.
This chapter contains the following sections:
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"Understanding roles" on page 197
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"Creating Contribute roles" on page 199
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"Editing a role's settings" on page 201
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"Managing drafts sent for review" on page 216

Understanding roles

Contribute lets you define a set of user permissions, ranging from file access to the level of
typographic control, as a role. You assign the roles you create to Contribute users, which
determines the degree to which a specific user can modify a site's content.
Contribute has three default roles that you can assign to users "as-is," or modify further to meet
the content editing needs of your website. The default Contribute roles are:
Administrator
Publisher Users with this role can create and edit pages as well as publish pages to the website.
Writer Users with this role can create and edit pages but cannot publish pages to the website. To
publish new pages or page modifications to a site, users in this role must send their updates to a
user in the publisher role for review. The publisher can then choose to publish the page to the site
or send it back to the writer for additional editing.
In most cases you can use the default settings specified for these roles. However, if your website
has certain design features that need to be preserved, you can configure Contribute to work with
those design considerations.
Users with this role are administrators of this website.
Managing Users and Roles
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