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Adobe Contribute CS5 Tutorials
Users / Roles pt. 1
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In this movie, let's talk about User Roles. When you use Contribute software, you have the ability to manage your users rights. You can allow them to just update text only, you could allow to them delete pages, you could let them put images in, or take images out. You could allow them to make certain kinds of brand new pages, or you can just give them full control completely to do just about anything that there is to do in Contribute with a website page. Now you give out these rights by assigning users to specific roles, and we've briefly seen these roles. The roles I've had on my sites is of course administrator, so I've been able to do anything up to this point. Now there are three basic roles in Contribute. There's administrator, publisher, and writer. They have some basic default settings, but you can adjust those if you want to. Give them varying rights even though you maybe you have two publishers, you could vary those rights between the publishers. So let's take a look at this. Let's go up to Edit and My Connections. Notice I am connected to this website, and then I'm going to click Administer. So you go to Edit, My Connections, and then Administer. Notice on my Title Bar, that's where I'm at, Administer Website, and it gives you the website specifically. And then users and roles, we've seen that before when we briefly looked at this. Now we're going to actually look at some of the specifics for this. So we have an Administrator, those are users that can pretty much do anything. They have all the power. Publishers they can create and edit pages, and they can even publish pages to the website. Writers, now they can create and edit pages, but they can't actually publish. They have to send their pages that they create to a Publisher or an Administrator so they can review it. Then that Publisher or Administrator can either send it back to the Writer to do additional work on it or fixes, or they can actually just go ahead and publish it for the Writer right there. So if they like what the Writer did, they can just accept it and publish it and make it live immediately. Now there's several different permissions you can do with these roles, so let's take a look at the Publisher. Let's go to Edit Role Settings, right here notice it says Edit Publisher Settings, so you notice that, that's how I can tell to make sure I got the right thing, always double check yourself. But here are our different elements, the general one, allow user to publish files, and then it tells you if they can't publish, they have to send them for review. Right here is the Roles description, I can change that, I can add other things if I need to, to make it more specific for my company's site. And the home page for that user. Typically the home page is the home page of the site, but if that Publisher only needs the services area or the about area, I can go choose just that site and not allow them in the whole website. I could choose just maybe the portfolio area, and only allow them to edit pages in there. So you can really lock this down well, for certain roles. Folder and file access, this obviously tells you which files can we allow them into. And do we want to allow them to get rid of those files if they feel like that file is no longer needed for the website. So right now the Publisher can do any files in any folder, we can allow them to only do certain folders. Now here it tells you some more information, one of the file placement rules uses a folder where users can't publish pages. Would you like Contribute to automatically add this folder? And yes or no, we'll go and click OK, and we can add another folder, we'll let him have the portfolio one. Notice we can remove, maybe I changed my mind, remove that one, it's gone. I'm going to go back and allow them to do any. Right here, allow users to delete files when they have permission to edit that page, so they can't just delete a file that they don't have permission to. So if I had several folders in here that they can edit, and they want to go delete a file that they don't have in here, they cannot do that. And we can remove roll back versions on delete also. OK, let's stop here, and in the next movie we'll pick it up with the rest of those options.
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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