User Guide

Creating and Managing Website Connections 163
Disabling a website connection
When Contribute starts, it verifies all of the connections defined in the My Connections dialog
box and opens a connection to each of the defined websites. If one or more of the websites are
unavailable for any reason, Contribute is unable to open connections to those websites. To avoid
such problems, you can disable a connection when a website is unavailable.
Note: If Contribute is unable to connect to a website, Contribute may automatically disable the connection to that
website.
Another reason to disable a site is that when you have many sites defined, Contribute may run
slowly due to maintaining multiple network connections over an extended period. To alleviate
such performance problems, you can disable sites that you don’t frequently need to update.
To disable a Contribute website connection:
1 Choose Edit > My Connections.
The My Connections dialog box appears.
2 Select the website connection you want to disable from the list of connections.
3 Click the Disable button.
A dialog box appears informing you that the connection has been disabled. Click OK to verify
that this is the connection you want to disable. If you have inadvertently disabled the wrong
connection, you can re-enable the connection; for more information, see “Enabling a website
connection” on page 163.
4 Click Close to save your changes and close the My Connections dialog box.
Enabling a website connection
If you disable a website connection, or if Contribute automatically disables it because it can’t
connect to the website, you can later re-enable it.
To enable the current website connection:
• Click the Retry Connection button in the toolbar.
To enable any website connection:
1 Choose Edit > My Connections.
The My Connections dialog box appears.
2 Select the website connection you want to enable from the list of connections. (Disabled
connections are marked with a red slash.)
3 Click the Enable button.
4 Click Close to save your changes and close the My Connections dialog box.