Design and Deploy web sites with Macromedia® Dreamweaver® MX 2004 and Contribute® 3: Training from the Source

Chapter 11. Defining Contributor Roles

In the workaday world of organizations, people's jobs are broadly defined through a combination of their responsibilities and limitations. For example, a technical writer might be responsible for drafting the help documentation for a new company product, but is prohibited from publishing that documentation until it has been approved by the product manager. The product manager, in turn, has the power to approve technical specifications, but must defer any promotional copy to the marketing manager. Each of these people has a specific role in the organization.

In Macromedia Contribute, roles are a compilation of settings that determine what a contributor can and cannot do on a given Web site. Contribute roles ...