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Contribute from Adobe
Understanding roles in Contribute Contribute lets you define a set of user permissions, ranging from file access to the level of typographic control, as a role. You assign the roles you create to Contribute users, which determines the degree to which a specific user can modify a site’s content.
Contribute has three default roles that you can assign to users "as-is," or modify further to meet the content editing needs of your web site. The default Contribute roles are:
Administrator Users with this role are administrators of this web site.
Publisher Users with this role can create and edit pages as well as publish pages to the web site.
Writer Users with this role can create and edit pages but cannot publish pages to the web site. To publish new pages or page modifications to a site, users in this role must send their updates to a user in the publisher role for review. The publisher can then choose to publish the page to the site or send it back to the writer for additional editing.
In most cases you can use the default settings specified for these roles. However, if your web site. has certain design features that need to be preserved, you can configure Contribute to work with those design considerations.
If you are not familiar with such web page design elements as font and paragraph usage, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) styles, and image file formats and size limitations, consult a web page designer or other web professional who is knowledgeable about your organization’s web site.
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1Writer Users can create and edit pages but cannot publish pages to the web site. To publish new pages or page modifications to a site, users in this role must send their updates to a user in the publisher role (Grindle) for review. The publisher can then choose to publish the page to the site or send it back to the writer for additional editing.
2Publisher Users with this role can create and edit pages as well as publish pages to the web site.