TeamSite and Macromedia Contribute

Hello, does anyone have any experience using Macromedia Contribute as a front - end editor for TeamSite, having users create and edit content using Contribute and managing/deploying the content with TeamSite?

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wdwoolwi

There are a couple of solutions for you: you can configure TS to use contribute as your editor - simply login to your webdeskpro interface and edit your launchpad settings.
Furthermore, you can integrate dreamweaver (and therefor contribute) into TS using the webdav plugin for Apache. Unfortunatly, having done this, I was very disapointed with the results. When you check a file out using DW, TS doesn't register it as checked out, and vice versa. Hope this helps a little.

Wade

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jag1309

thanks for your reply. I do not see a problem associating Contribute to TeamSite using the Local File Manager. What I have been told so far is that after you do this, any changes you make via Contribute will not be recognized via TeamSite - as Contribute edits directly on the production site. Something about how the current version of Contribute won't accept the launch argument from TeamSite. Will the fact we're using IIS instead of Apache not allow us to use the webdav plugin?
thanks again,
Jerome

wdwoolwi

I see what you are saying. It doesn't look like there's an easy way to get that to work. I went as far as trying to setup contribute to look at the TS "preview" website and link back using a mapped drive to the Y: on the server, but no good results there.
RE: webdav. I wasn't aware there was a way to run TS on a win32 machine without using Apache. TS does some proxying between Apache and IIS...to summarise, IIS receives the commands and with the help of the iwrewrite ISAPI filter, it routes the information to the apache service for processing.
I have successfully implemented the webdav plugin with TS 6.0 and would be happy to provide you with the steps I took to get there. Let me know.

Thanks,
Wade

Migrateduser

We also are experimenting with Contribute in conjunction with TeamSite. I set up Contribute to point into a TeamSite workarea for its 'Surf and Edit' capabilities. This seems to work fine, but it's still necessary for log into TeamSite, gather the updates into a workflow job and then run the job to move the files into production.

With this configuration, and depending on how Contribute is set up, there are a number of configuration files that are written into the TeamSite workarea. I've privatized them as to not be considered in compares and submits.

I'm looking at ways to automate the publication of the changes made by a Contribute session. Anyone have ideas on this one?

Wally Box
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Hamjam

With TeamSite templating why would anyone use Dreamweaver to edit content

I did try the teamsite templating plugin for dreamweaver and its good for new ppl. starting work on templating.

HAM