User Guide

Creating Contribute roles 207

Setting file-deletion settings

You can allow users to delete pages from the web server. When determining whether users should

be able to remove a page from the website, carefully consider whether you want to maintain a

backup copy of deleted pages.

If you do want to maintain backup copies, you must make sure that the Contribute rollback

feature is enabled. To learn more about web page rollbacks, see “Enabling and disabling rollbacks”

on page 179.

To let users delete files from the web server:

Open the Edit Role Name Settings dialog box, if it’s not already open. (See “Editing a role’s

settings” on page 201.)

Click the Folder/File Access category on the left side of the dialog box.

Select Allow users to delete files they have permission to edit.

You can also choose to remove any rollback files associated with a page by selecting Remove

rollback versions on delete. Carefully consider whether you want to maintain backup copies of

web pages before allowing users to delete both an active web page and any rollbacks versions of

that page.

Select another settings category to modify, or click OK to apply your changes.

Tip: If a user deletes a file, but not the rollback copies of the file, the file can be recovered from the

rollback copy. For more information, see “Rolling back to a previous version of a page” on page 160.