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What’s new?

Workflow enhancements
Assign predefined workflows to templates in Adobe® Contribute® CS4 to enforce a disciplined author-centric publishing process. Web pages created using a template follow the workflow assigned to the template. In all other cases, a default workflow, Author > Publish, is assigned to web pages. The following four workflows can be assigned to templates:

  • Author > Publish

  • Author > Review > Publish

  • Author > Approve > Publish

  • Author > Review > Approve > Publish

The toolbar changes dynamically to display buttons for only those actions that are available to the user at the given stage of the publishing cycle.

Edit web pages in your favorite web browser
Edit a web page or blog in your favorite browser directly without opening Contribute. The in-browser editor honors the site connection settings, permissions, and workflow settings in Contribute. The in-browser editor supports Firefox® 2, Internet Explorer® 6, and their later versions.

Support for dynamic websites that use blog protocols
Use Contribute to edit content in dynamic sites that use the MetaWeblog, and Atom blog protocols. In dynamic sites, the contents of an entire page, or parts of it, are stored in a database. Changes to the content in the database are reflected in the corresponding portions of the page.

Dreamweaver CS4 and Flash CS4 support
Insert Flash® CS4 files into web pages or blog entries created in Contribute. Contribute CS4 works with Dreamweaver® templates, which offer editable regions within an over-all protected design. Contribute users can easily edit advanced layout components like Spry widgets, or access in-context editing areas introduced in Dreamweaver CS4

Review web pages using commenting options
Reviewers can use the commenting features in Contribute CS4 to review a web page. The author can view comments posted by reviewers and sort them using the available options.

Expire and delete outdated pages
Keep website content fresh with the new expiry notification feature in Contribute CS4. Set the expiry meta tag value for a single Contribute page or a set of pages to a future date, and send notifications to designated content contributors when pages are close to getting expired.

Specify site-root-relative paths for links
Choose to set the path for links relative to the site root or to the web page. Setting the links to the site-root-relative path helps administrators shuffle documents within the website without worrying about the links being affected.

Auto save documents
Prevent data loss resulting from unforeseen circumstances using the option to save documents automatically at specified time intervals. Define the AutoSave frequency once and Contribute automatically stores the updated drafts when specified. Content remains in draft format until the review and publish process is initiated.

Inline spell checker
Minimize spelling errors when typing using the inline spell checker in Contribute. Any spelling errors are flagged, and the correct options are displayed in the right-click pop-up menu.