Editing Static Content In Dynamic Pages - MACROMEDIA CONTRIBUTE-USING CONTRIBUTE Use Manual

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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 of the

tags of a page. This protects initialization scripts and include files from being edited. To

<title>

protect dynamic elements within 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

ASP), 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 will only be able to edit within

the editable regions specified.

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 "Setting permissions for new web pages" on page 177.

•

By default, Contribute prevents users from deleting code. This is an option in the Editing

category of the Permission Group dialog box, that you can select if you want to allow users to

delete code. For all pages not already protected by templates, this prevents the selection and

deletion of any common web server tags, such as

ColdFusion, and PHP. It also protects any tag with a non-text character in the tag name, such

. However, it may not be able to recognize and protect custom tags, such as

ASP:MyTag

, and the data elements between ColdFusion

myCustomTag

Users are able to edit plain HTML enclosed in conditional tags (such as the content between

and

CFIF

CFELSE,

For more information, see "Setting page editing and paragraph permissions" on page 173.

•

Limit editing to text-only. This is an option in the Editing category of the Permission Group

dialog box, that you can select to limit users to only editing and formatting text. For any page

not protected by a template, users will only be able to edit text and common text formatting

tags (such as

HTML content between tags may be editable.

For more information, see "Setting page editing and paragraph permissions" on page 173.

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and other HTML container tags such as

and so on.). No other tags can be selected or deleted. However,

font

span,

in ColdFusion, or repeating

CFLOOP

tags, server-side includes, ASP, JSP,

SCRIPT

tags such as

CFOUTPUT

and

<body>

#...#

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