Can't restrict Contribute from modifying anything andeverything

kkaste · kkaste

I am hand coding a website for a client. I don't use Dreamweaver. The client
wants to be able to modify text content on the home page and a few other pages.
Contribute seems like the perfect choice. The content on the home page that the
client wants to modify is contained in the cell of a table. Based on what I
understood from a previous job, I thought I could make this happen by encasing
the modifiable text with the following tags:  modifiable content . The problem
is that Contribute allows me to edit any part of the page including the table
cell widths and heights.

Even more alarming is that I can use Contribute to edit any web page on the
site even though there are no Dreamweaver or Contribute tags to allow that to
happen. How do I restrict Contribute to edit only the areas where I want to
allow editing? Am I using the wrong Dreamweaver tags? How can Contribute modify
pages where it has no tags allowing it to do so?

Thanks to anyone who can shed light on this.

radsraman · radsraman

Hi,

Any editable regions inserted using dreamweaver would be editable in
contribute. Other regions are non-editable.

it would be of this form
EditRegion1

Thank

kkaste · kkaste

Thanks for your response. However, my version of Contribute can edit all pages
on the site whether or not they have the TemplatesBeginEditable tag. This
cannot be the intended function of Contribute. I don't want the client to have
the freedom to edit everything. I want to restrict his access. But at this
point he can bring any web page from his site into Contribute and screw it up.
You should only be able to edit content enclosed by the TemplatesBeginEditable
tag. Contribute is behaving as if the whole site was enclosed in this tag. How
can I restrict it?
Thanks!

ThinkInk · ThinkInk

Maybe this will help you.

The basic template code in Dreamweaver 8 looks like this:
---
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

<title>Untitled Document</title>



</head>

<body>
EditRegion3
</body>
</html>
---

When you create a page from a template in Dreamweaver 8 it looks like this:
---
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

<title>Untitled Document</title>



</head>

<body>
EditRegion3
</body>
</html>

kkaste · kkaste

Thanks ThinkInk.

Your second html file with the tag  makes
my page work. I can even leave out the attribute
'template="/Templates/template2.dwt"' and it still works fine.

Much appreciated!

scr · scr

For a finer degree of control, I recommend the following:

1. Link every page to two style sheets - one that contains only the styles you
want the user to have access to, and one that contains everything else. Limit
the user to stylesheet #1. Turn off all other coding options - font selection,
background colors, etc.

2. Put your editable areas inside your markup. For example, don't just create
a big editable area in the center of the page. Instead create the page title,
let's say H1, and put the editable region inside of the tag:
<h1>This is the Title</h1>

Do the same for the body copy, footer, etc. Dreamweaver doesn't especially
like this and will usually pop up some sort of warning, that you can just
ignore. This is the only way I have found to give users write access but force
them to use the site's pre-defined formatting.

Unregistered · Unregistered

I tried the above but it is not working. Even though i added the InstanceBeginEditable, the page is allowing me to edit completely.

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