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Sending Connection Keys to Contribute Users

After you set up connections to Web sites, you can distribute site connection information to the designated Contribute users. Contribute embeds such information in a connection key, which includes and encrypts password, network, and/or File Transfer Protocol (FTP) log-in information. You can email the connection key (with the file extension .stc) to the appropriate users, or save it onto the network for users to download. All the user has to do is double-click the connection key file, and Contribute will start up and import the connection automatically.

In this section, you'll learn how to create and send the connection key to the dante site's Contribute administrator. For the sake of this book, you will role-play both administrator and end-user, so that you can work through the entire process of sending and receiving keys as well as editing a page in Contribute. In a normal workflow, of course, you may decide to opt out of either or both of these roles, depending on your team's needs.

This button opens the Send Connection Key Wizard (Windows) or Export Connection Key Assistant (Macintosh).

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The step confirms that the connection key is issued and sent to the user.

This confirms the designated user as a Contribute site administrator.

Because Contribute will prompt your users for the password before they import the connection key, you'll need to write down the password you enter in this screen and give it to your users.

Note

Do not include the password in the email message, because that would defeat the purpose of password-protecting the connection key! Anyone with this key and its password becomes a full administrator of your Web site. Send the connection key using a different medium, such as a hand-written note or a phone call.

Before you click the Done button, carefully verify the settings in the Summary page. Contribute now creates a new connection key for the user, assigning him the role of administrator.

Your e-mail client sends the message with the connection key attachment to the user (that is, you; check your email to make sure it arrived).

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This completes the process of creating and sending the connection key to the Contribute user.