User Guide

Using Contribute with dynamic pages 231

Editing static content in dynamic pages

You can allow users to edit static content within dynamic pages and protect only the dynamic

portions of the page.

Contribute users cannot edit source code, nor can they edit anything outside the

<body> and

<title> tags of a page. This protects initialization scripts and include files from being edited. To

protect dynamic elements in the body of your page, consider the following precautions:

• Use templates to block off dynamic parts of your page. For example, if you have a page that

incorporates dynamically generated content (such as

CFLOOP in ColdFusion or repeating ASP),

you can make that page into a template, ensure that those regions of the template are locked,

and create an instance of the template. Contribute users can edit only within the specified

regions.

You may not want users to create new pages from these templates, or copy those pages. To

learn how to restrict users from creating new pages from your templates or copying those

pages, see “Settings for new web pages” on page 210.

• By default, Contribute is set to allow unrestricted editing of non-template pages and to protect

scripts and forms from being edited. If you deselect the option that protects forms and scripts,

users can modify code embedded in your pages, such as

SCRIPT tags, server-side includes, ASP,

JSP, ColdFusion, and PHP. This option also protects any tag with a nontext character in the

tag name, such as

ASP:MyTag. However, Contribute may not be able to recognize and protect

custom tags, such as

myCustomTag, and the data elements between ColdFusion CFOUTPUT tags

such as

#...#.

Users are able to edit plain HTML enclosed in conditional tags (such as the content between

CFIF and CFELSE, and other HTML container tags such as CFOUTPUT).

For more information, see “Setting page-editing and paragraph settings” on page 207.

• Limit editing to text-only. Select this option in the Editing category of the Edit Role Name

settings dialog box to limit users to only editing and formatting text. For any page not

protected by a template, users can edit only text and common text formatting tags (such as

font, span, and so on.). No other tags can be selected or deleted. However, HTML content

between tags may be editable.

For more information, see “Setting page-editing and paragraph settings” on page 207.