Getting Started With Contributor 2-3
temporarily unavailable. You can return to the web browser when you close the Contributor editor.
Once you are done editing and save the contributor data file, the Web site is automatically updated to reflect the changes.
2.3 Design Mode
Design mode is used to allow some functions of Site Studio Designer to be accessible through Contributor. Since design mode is only made available for certain, specific
roles, it is not typically used or accessible by contributors.
Design mode does not allow you to edit the data file. Design mode does let the user edit, add, and delete placeholders, region templates and subtemplates, data files, and
even placeholder definitions. A designer can set up a contributor to change the region template or data file, but in those cases the contributor is limited to the templates and
data files determined by the designer. Those users with design mode access can select site assets without being limited in the search. It is also possible to work with the
replaceable regions while in design mode.
Users in design mode cannot edit or modify site assets. Changes to the data file itself cannot be made; that is done in contribution mode. Additionally, the region templates,
placeholder definitions, and other site assets themselves cannot have any of their properties changed via design mode; they can only be added, replaced or removed.
Placeholders can be modified, however.
For more information on design mode, see the Users Guide for Site Studio Designer.
2.4 Contribution Graphic
With a web page in contribution mode see Contribution Mode
on page 2-2, each editable contribution region on the page has a contribution graphic
Figure 2–3 .
Figure 2–3 Contribution Graphic
The contribution graphic shows from left to right the name of the contribution region, a statusedit icon, and a menu icon. If you hover your mouse cursor over a
contribution graphic, its associated contribution region is marked in a yellow box. This is the content that can be edited using the selected contribution graphic.
The contribution graphic may include the following icons, depending on the status of its associated contribution region:
Important: The Contributor editor may show more editable data
segments than are actually displayed in the contribution region being edited. This is because the current display definition for the
contribution region may have been set up to use only a portion of the data file associated with it. The other information may be used
elsewhere on the Web site, so editing that information may affect other pages on the site.
2-4 Oracle Fusion Middleware Users Guide for Site Studio Contributor
2.5 Contributor Editor Window
