The Contributors Role Oracle Fusion Middleware Online Documentation Library

1-2 Oracle Fusion Middleware Users Guide for Site Studio Contributor The Site Studio Contributor application enables assigned individuals within an organization the contributors to add and update content on the Web site whenever they want using an inline editing environment that can be called directly from the Web site. Contributors are usually non-technical users and might be members of a marketing team or sales team. The separation of Site Studio users into site designers, managers, and contributors yields numerous benefits. First, site designers do not have to be bothered if content or navigation on the site must be updated. They use Site Studio Designer to create reusable site assets templates, fragments, and the like and combine these assets to build a site, and then they are done. Second, site managers can add entirely new sections to the Web site without needing the design team. They can simply reuse the assets that the designer created and then add new sections to the Web site or rearrange existing ones. Finally, contributors do not have to know HTML at all to create highly complex and attractive web pages. They can add content with native applications such as Microsoft Word or with Site Studio Contributor. The latter is a web-based HTML editor that gives contributors an advanced editing environment for creating and updating content. The site designer can still enforce a consistent look and feel by limiting what editing options are available; for example, allowing site contributors to select only from a list of approved fonts, colors, and styles. In addition to these three Site Studio roles, there may also be separate site administrators , who could take on responsibility for assigning web addresses to the site, backing up the site, replicating the site, and so on. All these administrative tasks are performed on the content server.

1.2 The Contributors Role

As a site contributor, your role is to add content to the Web site and update it, as necessary. You might be updating a portion of a web page, several web pages, a section, or the entire site. Once the site is created, the designer or manager will notify you of the web pages that must be updated possibly by using e-mail notifications or workflows. Before you begin, you should learn as much as possible about the Web site that you are contributing to. For example, you should: ■ Become familiar with the site. Is it a departmental site, an internal site, a public site? How is the site structured? Where are things located? ■ Learn about the current style and formatting choices for the site. Does your organization use a style guide to enforce consistency with word use, sentence structure, and the like? ■ Find out what part of the site you are responsible for and see if you will be sharing that responsibility with other contributors. Your organization may choose to implement workflow functionality to assist with this process. ■ Find out what type of content is used on the site. Does the site consist of Site Studio data files, native documents, images, and video? You edit data files with Contributor, and you edit native documents with the application used to create those files for example, Microsoft Word for files with the .doc extension. Note: One person may have multiple roles, depending on the organizations size and structure. Introduction 1-3 You can then start making changes directly to the site using Site Studio Contributor. You can make changes and preview those changes before updating the site. Your changes are saved in a file called a contributor data file that is stored on the content server see Chapter 2, Getting Started With Contributor and Chapter 3, Editing Web Pages in Contributor . Alternatively, you can create and edit native documents such as Microsoft Word files, which are converted into web pages that appear on the Web site see Chapter 10, Working With Native Documents .

1.3 The Contributor Editor