How to disable the "Format Table" menu item?

[abna]

I have my site set up to disallow users to specify fonts and background colors,
and yet in the "Table" menu, they can access the "Format Table" option which
lets user pick from some Contribute-predefined table styles with background
colors. Why is this not also disabled?

[Alan Musselman]

Hmm, I'm not sure how to do it via roles, however, I can tell you where to find
that menu item in Contribute so you can remove it from the clients machine.

In C:\Program Files\Macromedia\Contribute 3\Configuration\Menus, you'll find
ccmenus.xml

Do a search for "Format Table..."

Remove line:

<menuitem name="_Format Table..." file="Commands/ccFormatTable.htm"
id="DWMenu_Table_FormatTable" />

I'll research to see if its possible to disable the menuitem via roles.

[Chefpraktikant]

Hi Alan,

interesting option. Is there a documentation or do you know any websites about
altering/editing Contribute behaviour by editing xml- and js-files? I'd like to
remove the "indent" button as it opposes webstandards. And maybe it would even
be possible to add a functionality for <abbr> and <acronym>-tags as well as
title-attirbutes for images?

As you seem to be a macromedia offical: Are there any plans for a Contribute
version (maybe Contribute 4.0) to support web standards and accessibility? Or
at least a version parallel to the regular Contribute like the Contribute
ebay-version? This would be really important to our web agency as we switch to
development of standard compliant websites but still would like to offer our
customers Contribute?!

Thanks
Jan