Creating Contribute permission groups
When Contribute users connect to a website, they are prompted to indicate which group they belong to. For example, a Contribute user from the marketing team might choose the marketing group in their website Connection Wizard. Thereafter, while connected to that website, that user has whatever permissions you have configured for the marketing group.
To create a permission group:
- Select Edit > Administer Websites (Windows) or Contribute > Administer Websites (Macintosh) and select the website you want to administer from the submenu.
- Do one of the following:
- If the Administrator Password dialog box appears, enter the administrator password and click OK.
- If the site has no administrator, a dialog box asks whether you want to become the website administrator. Click Yes; then enter and confirm an administrator password for the website and click OK.
The Administer Website dialog box appears.

By default, Contribute creates two permission groups: Administrator and Users.
- Click the New button in the Permission groups section of the dialog box.
The Permission Group Name dialog box appears.
- Enter a name for the group you want to create in the New permission group name text box and click OK.
- To create additional groups, repeat steps 3 and 4 for each group you want to add.
- At this point you can either choose to send a Contribute connection key to the group you have created or you can modify the website permissions for any group.
Note: You can modify group permissions at any time, even after you have distributed a connection key. Connection information and website permissions are maintained separately.
- To modify permissions assigned to the groups you have created, select the group whose permissions you want to modify and click the Edit Group button. The Permission Group dialog box appears. To learn more about the permissions you can modify, see Accessing the Permission Group dialog box.
- To send the connection key to the users that make up the group, click the Send Connection Key button. The Export Connection Wizard appears. To learn how to export a connection key, see Sharing Website Connections.
- When you are satisfied with the groups you have created and have sent a connection key to the users in the group, click OK.