Will Contributors Submit Native Documents?

In addition to using Contributor to add and edit content stored in Site Studio data files, contributors can also add native documents (created from applications like Microsoft Word, Excel, or PowerPoint) to the site. These documents are be converted into web-viewable renditions using Dynamic Converter.

Contributors can add new and existing native documents directly to the Web site (for example, by assigning one to a region, using the link wizard, or adding one to a dynamic list). They can also use existing methods in the content server to check in the document (the Content Server's content check-in, Desktop Integration Suite client, Content Server's folders functionality, and so forth).

Contributors can also edit the native documents directly from the Web site (using the "Check Out and Open" option on the menu icon of the contribution graphic and the edit document features in Contributor).

Native documents are displayed on a web page, and not in reusable chunks as the case with a contributor data file.

If you allow contributors to submit native documents to the Web site (and again, you control this in a contribution region, an element, and a list fragment), you should educate them on how they should use the native document and any style guidelines you may be enforcing.