The Edit button is disabled
There are several reasons why the Edit button may be disabled for a certain page:
- When you browse to a page, Contribute checks whether you have permission to edit that page in the website. Depending on network traffic and server response, this can take a few moments (during this time the Edit Page button is dimmed).
- The page may be locked for editing by another user. Contribute should display a message that the file is locked and provide the contact information for the user who is editing the file.
In some instances you may need to remove a lock file to allow access to the page. For more information, see Overriding a file checkout in Contribute.
- The user may not have write permission to either the server itself, the folder containing the web page, or the page itself. To learn how to check the servers folder permissions, refer to the documentation supplied with the server operating system.
- The specified URL may point to a directory listing, and not a specific page. Click a page to display it and navigate to the page you want to edit.
- When you go to a website, Contribute will list the directorys contents if there is no index file. Click a page to display it and navigate to the page you want to edit.
- The file type may not be editable by Contribute.
- The page may not exist, either because it has been deleted or because the user entered the wrong page filename.
- The path to the file may exceed the systems maximum character length.
- The correct Contribute Startup password was not entered.
- On Macintosh, the server volume is not mounted on the computer desktop.