User Guide

22 Preparing Your Network and Installing Contribute
This figure shows the main folders and files that are created when you enable the draft review
process for a given site and a user sends a page for review. The following folders are created:
_mm/ct2004/messaging/users contains a folder for each user for whom the draft review
process is enabled. Each user folder is populated with a series of XML files that identify what
drafts the user has in the system. In the previous example, the file notifyWIP.jr615v2v4p.csi
indicates that notification has been sent to one or more users that there is a page that needs
review.
WIPMetaData contains a series of files that maintain the draft history and the current state and
location of the draft in the draft review process. The files contained in this folder include an XML
file (wipMeta.mje1d0lzk4vxc.csi in this example) that serves as a pointer to files in the draft
review process and also include contact information for the sender and recipient of the draft. A
corresponding file with the extension .fre indicates that the file is free (available for review).
MMWIP stores drafts in progress. For each file in the draft review process, a random folder name
and filename are generated. In the preceding example, the actual filename is myPage.htm.
Contribute generates the folder name 8eba150d and the filename 3629c837.htm.mno to
represent the file as it progresses through the draft review process.
When the recipient of the page requiring review chooses to view it, Contribute creates a LCK
(lock) file for the page in the website, and a CHK (checkout) file in the WIPMetaData folder.
These files indicate that the file is in use by the recipient and tracks changes made to the file.
The filename extensions (.mno and .csi) used by the draft review process help to prevent interim
drafts of web pages and their associated XML messaging files from being served by your web
server. This helps to prevent users from inadvertently sending a link to a draft of a file or from
using a web browser to view files in the draft review process. In addition, Contribute places a
guard page in each of the folders used to store files for review. The guard page (labeled index.html
in the previous example) redirects users to the website’s home page.
Planning your Contribute site structure and connection path
The connection you create to a website with Contribute determines the network protocol to use
when accessing the site, the web address (URL) of the site, and the degree to which the site’s
structure is accessible to content contributors. Before creating a connection to a website, carefully
consider how users will access the site and what areas of the site they must access.
This section covers the following topics:
• “Understanding Contribute connection paths” on page 22
• “Understanding subsites and overlapping website connections” on page 23
• “Understanding Contribute network connection types” on page 26
• “Network paths and web addresses (URLs)” on page 30
Understanding Contribute connection paths
A Contribute website is defined when you create an administrative connection and select the
website folder to connect to. All folders from the folder you connect to and below make up the
the Contribute site.