MACROMEDIA CONTRIBUTE 3 - USING AND ADMINISTERING CONTRIBUTE Use Manual page 207

Setting file-deletion settings
You can allow users to delete pages from the web server. When determining whether users should
be able to remove a page from the website, carefully consider whether you want to maintain a
backup copy of deleted pages.
If you do want to maintain backup copies, you must make sure that the Contribute rollback
feature is enabled. To learn more about web page rollbacks, see
on page 179.
To let users delete files from the web server:
Open the Edit Role Name Settings dialog box, if it's not already open. (See
1.
settings" on page
Click the Folder/File Access category on the left side of the dialog box.
2.
Select Allow users to delete files they have permission to edit.
3.
You can also choose to remove any rollback files associated with a page by selecting Remove
4.
rollback versions on delete. Carefully consider whether you want to maintain backup copies of
web pages before allowing users to delete both an active web page and any rollbacks versions of
that page.
Select another settings category to modify, or click OK to apply your changes.
5.
Tip: If a user deletes a file, but not the rollback copies of the file, the file can be recovered from the
rollback copy. For more information, see
Related topics
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"Setting folder access settings" on page 205
Setting page-editing and paragraph settings
The Editing category lets you specify what kinds of changes users can make to the website's web
pages and how Contribute treats paragraphs and typographic elements.
201.)
"Rolling back to a previous version of a page" on page
"Enabling and disabling rollbacks"
"Editing a role's
Creating Contribute roles
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