Determining Your Role

The workflow features of Content Server can be used with Site Studio Contributor to enable contributors to review and approve the content of your Web site.

There are two kinds of workflows. Typically, your organization uses what is called criteria workflows, in which you are assigned one of two roles:

• Reviewer: you can approve or reject the content item, but not edit it.

• Reviewer/contributor: you can approve or reject the content item, and also edit it.

These roles are defined in Content Server, when the site designer or manager sets up the workflow, and in Designer, when the designer creates a contribution region. Thus, the designer determines which contribution regions are part of a workflow and who has access to those areas.

You can easily tell which role you have been assigned by the options available when you click the menu icon in the contribution graphic of a contribution region included in a workflow. If the Edit command is available, then you are a reviewer/contributor. Otherwise, you have reviewer rights only and cannot change the content. You may also see Accept Document or Reject Document options, depending on how the workflow was set up.

If you are using a basic workflow, you may also be assigned the Contribution role, which is the initial workflow step.