User Guide

54 Chapter 4: Working with Pages
3. In the external application, make changes as necessary, and then save your changes and close the
file or application.
Warning: Be careful when you edit web page source—you can easily alter style and formatting and
get unexpected results. If you are unsure about editing the source directly, talk to your Contribute
administrator.
4. In Contribute, do one of the following:
■ Click the Edit in Contribute link on the External Application Editing page to reload the
draft in Contribute.
This option enables you to see your changes and resume editing.
Note: If Contribute warns you that you must save and close the file in the external application,
click OK.
■ Click the Launch link on the External Application Editing page to reopen the content in
the external editor.
This option enables you to make additional changes, and provides a convenient way to
switch back and forth between Contribute and the external editing application.
■ Click the Publish button in the toolbar to publish your changes to the website.
■ Click the Send for Review button to send the draft to another user to review your changes.
■ Click Cancel if you are unhappy with the results of editing in an external application.
This options discards all changes you’ve made in Contribute or in the external application
since you started editing this draft.
Related topics
• “Editing web page content in an external application” on page 52
Canceling a draft or new page
When you are editing a draft of an existing page, you can decide to discard all changes and retain
the currently published version of the page. When you are editing a new page that you created,
you can discard the new page.
Also, depending on your role, you might be able to delete pages that are published on your
website. For more information, see “Deleting a web page” on page 55.
To cancel changes to a draft of a published page:
• In your draft, click the Cancel button in the toolbar.
The published version of the page appears in the Contribute browser, without any edits.
To cancel a new page:
• In the new page draft, click the Cancel button in the toolbar.
Contribute discards the new page.