Web Technology Services: Deleting a Page

Overview

Contribute offers a restrictive"Delete Pages' feature that can be limited depending on a web page manager's status.  Contribute has three roles for content managers: Administrator, Publisher and Writer.  Web page deletion rights should be restricted to Administrators only, so as to maintain the integrity of a site.

Setup Administrator Rights to Delete:

  1. Open Contribute and Edit > Administer Websites > 'Your Web site'
  2. Choose Users and Roles from the left-pane navigation if it is not already chosen, then click Administrator in the main list under 'Users who have connected:,' then click Edit Role Settings. ..
  3. Now choose Folder/File Access from the left-pane navigation, then find File deletion in the main navigation.  Make sure that 'Allow users to delete files they have permission to edit' is CHECKED and that 'Remove rollback versions to delete' is UNCHECKED, then click OK.
  4. Now click Close in the Administer Website popup and choose Yes when asked to leave the password blank.

Deletion steps:

  1. Browse to the page that needs to be deleted, then go to File > Action > Delete Page
  2. Contribute will ask for confirmation before deletion. So, be sure that this is the web page that you want to delete.  If so, click Yes.
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