Production and Test environments

[Squiggilywiggily]

I'm interested in getting copies of Contribute for our site managers. Currently
they use Dreamweaver and connect to a test server to make changes before
posting to the production server.

Can Contribute be used in the same way? In other words, can a user make and
test changes in a test environment then post to production. From what I've seen
it looks like the user connects to the site and makes the changes live. Am I
missing something?

[jnosal3]

Squiggilywiggily,

There are a couple of things you could do in this situation.

1) Use the Send for Review option. This would allow you to have all the non
admins set to be writters and only be able to send for review. Then the admins
could review the changes and then publish the approved file.

2) Have the users only work on the test server and publish as though they were
live. Then the Admins could locate all the changed files and put them via
Dreamweaver.

3) Review this documents for more info...

[url]http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/contribute/articles/new_cps_features_03.html[/url]

[url]http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/contribute/articles/cps_autodeploy.html[/url]