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Deploying Contribute to Departments and Enterprises
Example role assignments
As an example of roles you might create, consider an online magazine. The job functions
associated with producing a magazine include a publisher, managing editor, copy editor, writer,
and web designer. In addition, Contribute adds an administrator to maintain the magazine’s
website. Each role reflects separate access to article creation, approval, editing and deletion, page
design, and site maintenance.
The following table describes the roles and privileges related to Contribute.
To learn more about creating roles, and the settings that you can use to define a role, see
“Managing Users and Roles” in Macromedia Contribute Help.
Contribute and website security
As an administrator, one of your primary concerns is in maintaining the integrity of your IT
infrastructure. Contribute works within the security parameters of your network and server
operating systems, ensuring that those system’s safeguards take precedence over any access rights
granted within Contribute.
This section documents security issues that are specific to Contribute. For best practices on
securing your website, see to the documentation provided with both your server’s operating
system and web server software.
Job Title
Contribute Role Privileges
System
administrator
Administrator
Installs Contribute, creates connections to the website, and
defines Contribute roles appropriate to the magazine’s job
functions.
The system administrator consults the designer on how to set
up role settings so that other members of the magazine’s staff
have appropriate editing privileges within their area.
Publisher
Publish
Gives final approval to all articles on the website and can
publish final drafts of pages or send them back for additional
editing or writing.
Managing editor
Publish
Monitors drafts as they go from writers to copy editors and
keeps track of who is working on what article. The managing
editor approves articles before sending them to the publisher
for final approval and publication to the website.
Copy editor
Writer
Can edit any unlocked text on a page. The copy editor cannot
publish pages to the site; they send the edited articles to the
managing editor for approval.
Writer
Writer
Can edit any unlocked text on a page, insert images, and
apply pre-defined styles to text.
Web designer
Administrator
The designer creates new CSS styles and web page
templates to accommodate changing site designs, inserts
images and Flash content into pages, and adds assets to the
shared asset library for writers to insert into pages.
