User Guide

Deployment tasks 7
These roles vary from organization to organization. In smaller organizations and workgroups, a
single person may handle the job of administering Contribute and determining the design of the
website. Larger workgroups and departments may have a team of people involved in maintaining
their website.
Deployment tasks
The following table describes the tasks you need to perform to successfully deploy Contribute.
Web developer Develops web-based applications, such as for absence reporting and
financial reporting, distributed to users over the web.
Contribute user Contribute users range widely in their job tasks and computer experience.
What they have is common is the need to update web page content
quickly and easily. Using Contribute, they can easily connect to a website
and safely update its content without inadvertently introducing
malfunctions.
Task Description
Gather website
information
Gather information about your website’s infrastructure. You’ll need this
information to properly install and configure Contribute.
For more information, see “Information about your website” on page 8.
Configure network and
server permissions
Ensure that the network and server permissions allow read, write, and
modify access so that Contribute users can connect to the site and
update pages.
For more information, see “Understanding network and server
permissions” on page 9.
Install Contribute Install Contribute on the computer from which you’ll administer the site,
create a connection to the website using Contribute, and establish
yourself as the Contribute administrator for the site.
To learn more about creating an administrative connection, see
“Contribute administrative connections” on page 9.
Install Contribute
Publishing Services
(optional)
Contribute Publishing Services (CPS) is a suite of Java server
applications that lets you integrate Contribute with Lightweight Directory
Access Protocol (LDAP) or Active Directory services, and implement e-
mail notifications to keep Contribute users informed about the status of
their drafts in progress.
If you want to use the CPS, you must install and configure the Publishing
Service server on a Java application server.
For more information, see “Contribute Publishing Services” on page 29.
Configure Contribute to
work with your website
After you establish yourself as an administrator of a site, you can
configure the administrative settings so that Contribute works more
efficiently with your website.
For more information, see “About Contribute administrative settings”
on page 10.
Role Function