MACROMEDIA CONTRIBUTE 3 - USING AND ADMINISTERING CONTRIBUTE Use Manual page 231

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Editing static content in dynamic pages
You can allow users to edit static content within dynamic pages and protect only the dynamic
portions of the page.
Contribute users cannot edit source code, nor can they edit anything outside the
tags of a page. This protects initialization scripts and include files from being edited. To
<title>
protect dynamic elements in the body of your page, consider the following precautions:
Use templates to block off dynamic parts of your page. For example, if you have a page that
incorporates dynamically generated content (such as
you can make that page into a template, ensure that those regions of the template are locked,
and create an instance of the template. Contribute users can edit only within the specified
regions.
You may not want users to create new pages from these templates, or copy those pages. To
learn how to restrict users from creating new pages from your templates or copying those
pages, see
"Settings for new web pages" on page
By default, Contribute is set to allow unrestricted editing of non-template pages and to protect
scripts and forms from being edited. If you deselect the option that protects forms and scripts,
users can modify code embedded in your pages, such as
JSP, ColdFusion, and PHP. This option also protects any tag with a nontext character in the
tag name, such as
custom tags, such as
such as
#...#
Users are able to edit plain HTML enclosed in conditional tags (such as the content between
and
CFIF
CFELSE,
For more information, see
Limit editing to text-only. Select this option in the Editing category of the Edit Role Name
settings dialog box to limit users to only editing and formatting text. For any page not
protected by a template, users can edit only text and common text formatting tags (such as
,
and so on.). No other tags can be selected or deleted. However, HTML content
font
span,
between tags may be editable.
For more information, see
. However, Contribute may not be able to recognize and protect
ASP:MyTag
, and the data elements between ColdFusion
myCustomTag
.
and other HTML container tags such as
"Setting page-editing and paragraph settings" on page
"Setting page-editing and paragraph settings" on page
in ColdFusion or repeating ASP),
CFLOOP
210.
tags, server-side includes, ASP,
SCRIPT
CFOUTPUT
Using Contribute with dynamic pages
and
<body>
tags
CFOUTPUT
).
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