Adobe Contribute CS5 Tutorials
Overview of Websites in Contribute / Connection Keys pt. 2
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In this movie, let's continue looking at those Connection Keys, remember Connection Keys are just embedded information into a file so other users can easily connect to your website. So let's go up here and go up to Edit My Connections again and again you see the role of Administrator let's select mytechrelief.com, you'll notice it says Administer now. Prior to that, notice it says Configure because I was on one that's not configured yet, so I'll select Administer and here I'm connected. This time let's select Writer Ed; let's get him a Connection Key sent. And let's Customize the Connection and right here is where you put your new username and password, right now I'm just going to leave the one that I have there but I could give them a special FTP username and password, that way they're not logging in with mine. So I'll click Next and I'm going to choose Writer Ed, he can Edit pages but Cannot Publish. And I'm going to Save this one to the local machine and right here I'm going this Encrypt this Connection Key. Now I might save this to a local machine because I just need to put it on my web server or a server at work and then I'm just going to access that same file when I get to his computer or maybe I'm just going to call him and say, hey on such and such a server in this folder, there's your Connection Key, grab a hold of it. I'll click Next again there's the information that's going to be included in the key, and it does say the new Method is Save it to Disk, I'll click Done and here it's asking me where do I want to Save this and here's the File Name notice the type has an extension of STC, that's the Connection Key Extension. I'm going to Save that to my Desktop, so I'll click Save and then I'm going to click Save and Close and close out of my connections. Now right here on my desktop is that STC file, we can Right-click on it we can look at its Properties and you can see it shows you it what it opens with. We could look at its summary nothing too exciting there; we could also open it with a specific maybe text editor if we wanted to, go down here and open it with Notepad. There's not a whole lot of information in here but it does say you'll notice the web address that it's going to and then there's all types of encryption information all these letters and numbers, so it is highly encrypted so you're safe with sending that or telling people where to access it. Now these Encryption Keys, they're encrypted with a password so any FTP information you're sending in here is going to be secure, it can only be accessed within Contribute they've got to have that key. Connection Keys are not available for blogs, it's just for websites. And the reason we have these keys and we give them to users is so that when they're editing pages only one person can edit a page at a time that way they don't overwrite each other, So if I'm editing a page, Angie over there can edit at the same time and then I publish it and all of a sudden a little bit later I notice a whole bunch of my stuff is gone, it's because she was editing at the same time, so Connection Keys are great for that. So what I want you to do is go in to your Connections, you go up to Edit My Connections or if you're in a Mac you do Contribute My Connections, make sure you're an Administrator of one of your sites, see if you can send a Connection Key and take a look at it, see if you can Create that File for your users.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Adobe Contribute CS5 |
| Author: | Melanie Hedgespeth |
| SKU: | 34192 |
| ISBN: | 1-936334-73-9 |
| Release Date: | 2011-01-18 |
| Duration: | 8 hrs / 133 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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