Working Offline In The Contribute Editor; Switching Between Working Online And Working Offline - MACROMEDIA CONTRIBUTE-USING CONTRIBUTE Use Manual

To launch Contribute to work offline:
Start Contribute without a network connection.
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The Connection Failure dialog box appears.
Select Work Offline.
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Click OK.
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The Contribute browser displays the Working offline page. Click a draft title in the Pages
panel to start editing.

Working offline in the Contribute editor

When you're working offline, the Contribute browser displays information about what you can
do offline. You cannot browse to other pages or websites when you are offline.
You can edit current drafts in the Pages panel or create new pages while you're offline. Not all of
the Contribute editor functions are available when you're offline. For example, you can't publish
pages until you are online again.
Tip: Before you work offline, be sure to save any pages you need as drafts. You cannot access home pages or
recently published pages while you are offline.
To edit a draft while working offline:
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Click a draft or new page title in the Pages panel of the sidebar.
The draft opens in the Contribute editor.
To create a new page while working offline:
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Select File > New Page.
The new page opens in the Contribute editor and its title appears in the Pages panel.
To delete a new page while working offline
Open any new page that you created while working offline.
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Note: You can only delete pages that you created while working offline. You cannot cancel changes to a draft
while working offline.
Click the Cancel button in the toolbar or select File > Cancel Draft.
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Contribute removes the new page from the Pages panel and opens the Contribute Working
offline page.

Switching between working online and working offline

If you start Contribute offline without a server connection, or switch from online to offline while
you are using Contribute, then you can switch to working online whenever you establish a server
connection.
Note: Contribute does not reestablish the connection to your web server. You must connect to the server before
you switch to working online in Contribute.
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