Adobe 65015459 User Guide - Page 247

ADOBE CONTRIBUTE CS3 241 User Guide Using the Contribute permission groups, you can limit folder access. For example, if your website includes a dynamic job-listings page, put the page in its own folder and exclude the folder from the list of editable folders on the website. When a Contribute user browses to the folder, the Edit Page button is disabled. • Lock pages you want to protect by using the server's file-access tools. Set the file permissions for dynamic pages to read-only. When Contribute users view a dynamic page and click Edit Page, they see a message stating that the page is read-only and is not editable. • Select Protect scripts and forms in the Contribute administration settings. Editing static content in dynamic pages You can allow users to edit static content within dynamic pages and protect only the dynamic portions of the page. Contribute users cannot edit source code, nor can they edit anything outside the and tags of a page. This protects initialization scripts and include files from being edited. To protect dynamic elements in the body of your page, consider the following precautions: • Use templates to block off dynamic parts of your page. For example, if you have a page that incorporates dynam- ically generated content (such as CFLOOP in ColdFusion or repeating ASP), you can make that page into a template, ensure that those regions of the template are locked, and create an instance of the template. Contribute users can edit only within the specified regions. You may not want users to create pages from these templates, or copy those pages. To learn how to restrict users from creating pages from your templates or copying those pages, see "Settings for new web pages" on page 223. • By default, Contribute is set to allow unrestricted editing of non-template pages and to protect scripts and forms from being edited. If you deselect the option that protects forms and scripts, users can modify code embedded in your pages, such as SCRIPT tags, server-side includes, ASP, JSP, ColdFusion, and PHP. This option also protects any tag with a nontext character in the tag name, such as ASP:MyTag. However, Contribute may not be able to recognize and protect custom tags, such as myCustomTag, and the data elements between ColdFusion CFOUTPUT tags such as #...#. Users are able to edit plain HTML enclosed in conditional tags (such as the content between CFIF and CFELSE, and other HTML container tags such as CFOUTPUT). For more information, see "Setting page-editing and paragraph settings" on page 220. • Limit editing to text-only. Select this option in the Editing category of the Edit Role Name settings dialog box to limit users to only editing and formatting text. For any page not protected by a template, users can edit only text and common text formatting tags (such as b, font, span, and so on.). No other tags can be selected or deleted. However, HTML content between tags may be editable. For more information, see "Setting page-editing and paragraph settings" on page 220. Problems with configuring Contribute in RSS aggregators The following section describes the problems you might encounter when you configure Contribute in RSS aggregators.