Future of Contribute

Our company has worked with Contribute for a long time so
long and so far we are very satisfied with the eas-of-use of the
product. Now there are rumours around that Adobe won't develop
Contribute further on. Rumours are ... rumours. But we have to
notice objectivly that development of Contribute has been slowed
down or already stopped since the release 3.02.
So does anybody know more about the plans of Adobe concerning
Contribute?
Thanks a lot for your help.

Hi,
Guess I got to eat humble pie here. I was wrong.
That is not to deny that support on this forum is very poor.
Although I still support a few schools that I installed
Contribute in, I use
a different CMS now for new sites.
One bug I found took me through escalating levels of support
in the UK
through to Bill in the US only to find two years later that
it has not been
addressed.
Contribute remains one of the better cm solutions undermined
by appalling
customer support
I often look on here to see if I can help but the nature of
the issues is
complex and at times, baffling.
Some technical support here from adobe would allay
frustration rather than
future promises.
However,
apologies for denying Riteesh
joe
"Shane T - Adobe TS" <[email protected]>
wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
: Hi Everyone,
: I know that this is a frustrating time for you. Normally,
Adobe doesn't
: comment on unannounced or unreleased products. But with the
former
Macromedia
: products transitioning over valid questions have been
raised.
What I can say:
: Adobe is continuing the development of Contribute. The
product team is in
: place. If you want to have someone's ear, they have replied
to the thread
: already. Adobe is moving forward with the next release.
What I can't say:
: When we will be shipping (Unless Ritesh tells me I can)
: What will be in the new version
: What bugs we have fixed (well, except for the note below)
: As for the Active Content issue that Ian raised. It is
already fixed in
the
: next release and has been for a while. At the time, the
team looked at the
: schedule and decided whether or not we should roll out a
dot release to
fix it
: or if we should just wait since the next version was coming
up. I can't
dictate
: schedule, but if it seems like the next release gets pushed
out for any
reason,
: I will be asking the team to try to find a solution for the
Active Content
: stuff and provide the fix to our customers. The team
understands this as I
said
: the same thing to them during the conference call to talk
about the issue
in
: the beginning.
: This information doesn't answer all of your questions I
know. I am asking
that
: rumors and second guessing should please stop. It doesn't
do anyone any
good.
: Thank you all for your continued support of Contribute.
: Shane
: WW Product Support Manager
: Adobe Contribute

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What will happen to Contribute in the future?

I think Contribute has been discontinued or will not show up in the next CS. Reasons:
In the CS5.5-to-CS6 free upgrade offer, It listed a few products that are not eligible for the upgrade: Acrobat, OnLocation, Flash Builder, Flash Catalyst and Contribute. Among them,
OnLocation cannot be purchased individually (so there should be no real reason for it to show up in the first place). Also, OnLocation is dead.
Acrobat and Flash Builder don't follow the CS release schedule (FB4 was out slight before CS5, close enough but still different).
Flash Catalyst is dead.
Since Contributeis an individual product that follows the CS release schedule, its exclusionmeans either it is excluded from CS in the future, or is outright killed.
In the downloads report found in the Marketing Hub, assets for Ps, Ai, Id, Ic, Fl, Dw, Fw, Pr, Ae, En, Au, ExtendScript, AME, Extension Manager are all found, but not Contribute. Source
But then, the weekly downloads report mentioned the EOL of Device Central and OnLocation, but not Contribute.
And that is leaving me with the question on whether Contribute is still alive, and what is going on there.

AGP_Philly,
I have been using DW CS6 for a couple of weeks on a site where I still have users making updates using Contribute version 3. The "Administrate this site in Contribute" button in the DW CS6 site manager still opens the dialog after which Windows Task manager reports that Contribute.exe in the CS5.1 folder is running. Of course, I have the server set to use "Transition mode" and we do not use the Contribute Publishing Server.
The major difficulties in this environment with old versions of Contribute is the now-antiquated web client in version 3 not being able to display things as regular users see them. Version 5.1 is better, but not perfect. Using the browser plug-in helps some.
I am annoyed to have to reinstall Contribute from the CS5.5 Master Collection and not have it in the CS6 Master Collection. I had been hoping to entirely uninstall CS5.5 from this computer and just run CS6. As a developer, I'm not inclined to purchase my own copy of Contribute separately from CS6 just to be able to send clients screen captures for documentation. Unless Adobe restores Contribute's place alongside Dreamweaver for the CS bundles, I will probably steer future projects toward database-driven content management rather than using contribute. In fact, I have such a decision coming up this month that could go either way...

Updating templates in Contribute - future release?

Hello
I know this question has been asked time and time again, but
I wanted to take the topic a step further.
I know in order to update templates (dwt's) in a
Contribute-based site, you have to:
* Download the site locally if it's a remote site
* Update the pages with the revised template
* Reupload the site to the remote site
There just seems to me that there's got to be an easier way
to do it than this. Honestly, I would have used Server Side
Includes when I switched to using dwt's if I had fully understood
that the site doesn't have some automated way of updating the site
through Contribute. Unfortunately, I didn't realize this until part
way through our redesign implementation, UGH.
I guess my question is, are there any plans in the next
release of Contribute to allow some automated way of updating the
pages through Contribute when a template is changed? To me this is
a REALLY NEEDED feature. It now takes me longer to make template
updates than it did prior to using Contribute/Dreamweaver.
Thank you - Lainie

Before you make any changes, perform a Get (down arrow icon in the Files menu) operation to download any client-updated files first. That way, your local files will be exact duplicates of what the client has placed on the server. After verifying you have the most recent versions, make your change and upload.

How do I allow my users to set the option to save a new timezone for future sessions?

The option to save a newly selected timezone for future sessions has been greyed-out
in the Calendar Client. How can I allow my users to choose this option?
<P>
This is controlled by the settimezone setting on the Calendar Server. By
default, it is set to FALSE. You can change the value to TRUE in the
unison.ini settings. The
Calendar Server must be restarted for the change to take effect.

Hi,
Based my research, OOB SharePoint don’t allow anonymous users to contribute contents(Edit, Upload and Add) into list and library.
This is by design behavior, and it’s a consideration about security in order to help protect your site from potential script injection attacks.
For anonymous users, only the View Item permission is available for libraries.
If you want to know more about this, please refer to
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-sharepoint-services-help/enable-anonymous-access-HA010113018.aspx
Hope this helps
Thanks!
Stanfford

Rather than persists in the future thread...

The point I was making would be for Archs documents to pick up where man pages leave off, but whatever.
If you think I stated Arch must fix man pages, not so. I was intending to show that docs as a whole, leave whole subjects unhandled, Arch could provide the answers in its own docs and come out as a hero.
Or maybe not.
And remember, users who cannot configure ppp cannot get on the internet to get the ppp configuration docs. Or any other docs, for that matter. One failed configuration needing web documents might leave the newbie stranded.
Or maybe not.
I personally think that a lot of configuration has to be made before Linux (Arch or others) will communicate over the internet to a remote website, so as to allow documentation to be visible..... but hey, maybe I missed something? Like the document to get a modem setup? So I could get web based documents? Chicken and egg?
Maybe not, eh?
As for the concept of needing to be an experienced admin - these folks usually do not need any docs. That compares to bad docs to a newbie - essentially no docs. Missing docs and no internet access are also useless. Thus, the newbie without documents needs the only thing which gets anyone else through the issue - the newbie needs experience, because the docs are weak or missing or erroneous. Try as you might, that is an issue I went through. Take, for example, when I needed network assistance. Archs forums were not the first place I went asking for help, believe me; I asked and am still asking. 2 years now, and I'm just getting told Samba. Need I say this is baloney? That issue is not Archs fault, but Arch could have a smashing success on its hands if it were to document a few critical areas as well as 0.2 was documented.
Installing and partitioning... What can I say... apeiro is not mentioning anything I've PM'd him about: secondary hard disks getting reformatted. My pm brought me the answer that most Archers never repartition, so the script was.... well, I guess you could say it was a shot in the dark. Fine, but the PM stated the alternative was something like 'I usually use the commandline stuff and simply reformat the existing partitions'.
Why the **** would an inexperienced newbie set up partitions outside of using the installer?? The Arch docs tells the newbie to use the installer to partition their hard disks! What, exactly, is the newbies idea of an installers purpose? Are you a newbie when you decide what a newbie has for skills? The installer obliterated gigabytes of data, I trusted that it was going to perform safely, and yet nobody ever used it to learn of the glitch? Ooookkaaaaayyyy.
Folks, the docs said to use the installer. Never mentioned possibly partitioning from the command line. Take your pick, the newbie was not at fault for following the docs.
I'll run along, because I cannot possibly be speaking truth. Neither am I telling you where I had problems. This is cannot be feedback, it must be dunbars rantings. Does Arch have a future when feedback is considered trolling or flaming the developers? Lighten up, folks, I had once been trying to offer help and sought to get help.
I know this is a labor of love for you all; in many ways, Linux is a labor of mine as well. Sadly, you are not hearing some issue that could help make Arch the distro that some folks want it to be.

dunbar wrote:Step by step: I mentioned a few weak areas that newbies would not know how to address.
I mentioned that newbie would not necessarily have the skills to get the correct docs from a myriad of websites.
Which appear (and frequently are) obsolete.
Well, then we include the docs and then non-newbies would complain that we are cluttering the filesytem and you would complain because those documents are obsolete. sound familiar? i have seen this argument before and there is not winning it. people bitch about the manpages, docs, etc ALL THE TIME. you must know that. so the best we can do is add your concerns to our own documents and add necessary documents to the files.
When their internet connection was what had failed, the internet doc is not available.
And when they had no Xwindows in which to read HTML documents,
and nothing tells the newbie about CLI browsers.
i would expect that no absolute green newbies would try arch so those newbies that do show up i would assume have some linux experience (one can be a newbie and have some experience) so i would assume that they would know about lynx or links browsers or at least know how to use cat and less.
another point about this is that if a newbie does not even know how to use cat, less, or a cli editor to view files then they would be very very f**ked with arch linux and having self contained documents would be pretty pointless. so again i would ask is it not wise to print out/write down any relevent install/configuration instructions? you do know how to write since you already say you don't have a printer?
okay so if we include install configuration data in the installer will you know how to access it? is it fair to tell the user that it is in such and such directory and you can access it through say vc1-4? should we scrap our online docs altogether and just have them self contained?
The network thing was changed along the way - IPX/SPX was part of the issue, my 5 port switch is another part. I am not berating you, sarah31, nor am I asking anyone to re-write man pages, etc. as several posts seemed to attribute to me. The man pages are the weak spot, Arch docs need to go from there. Never wanted to say more than that.
and all i wanted to know is what apps do we extend our documentation to? all of them? are you saying that all our apps need extended docs? can you point me to one distro that has extended documents of all their applications? besides ppp what would YOU extend? it is fair to ask this of arch developers/users but they really need to know just what manpages are defunct and have no bearing on arch.
i would not expect a request like this would get fulfilled too quickly there are lots of applications' man pages and docs to go through then the developers would have to determine what is needed and what is not.
as for manpages......i used to find them unreliable but to be honest most manpages i have viewed lately have been very clear and concise about how to operate/configure apps. i am not saying this to contradict you but i say it honestly. when i have been unable to find someone to ask on this forum or irc manpages normally do the trick for me. (and don't say it is because i am some expert with linux because i a definitely not)
I'm trying to point out that A] with a presumed goal of gaining Linux users,
B] Arch, being small, uncluttered and likely attractive to newbies (small draws newbies because it is so small (dialup accessible but only one big download at a time) and older systems where XP won't fit on their disks, etc) and also
C] since Arch had very tight documents covering what needed to be done (but might need more topics covered), I felt that was likely going to lead to newbies arriving here in some situations that
D] Arch clearly tries to assume will not need the attentions of forum members (which have the skills) and
E] the newbie does not have the skills.
That would lead to the assumption that Arch was not interested in the users needs.
with respect to this.....well what can i say but you are a complete ***hole. for one thing small does not always attract newbies in fact i know ALOT ALOT ALOT of people that will not even try arch or similar distros because they are small. most people want the choice to kludge up their system if they like but arch is not in this realm yet because we do not offer alot of packages.
i agree we need more stuff covered in our documents and you would not find a single user or developer that would disagree with you. So i guess this point you make throws out your idea of extending the manpages because that is not a concise project (for example manpages for transcode are good but to get into all the basics a newbie would need to know would require one to be alot more verbose similarily with networking documents)?
to say that we here do not pay attention to users is ABSOLUTELY THE WRONG ANSWER. there are only two pages of unanswered post and considering there are always post that are merely statements that do not need to be answered that is very good. in fact if you even bothered to check there are only 79 unanswered posts out of 4512. that's 1.75% of the posts on the forum are unanswered. besides that there are always questions that no one has an answer to. obscure problems do exist i know i have hit many in my ventures in any OS.
besides this forums are a free service. no one is under obligation to use it user AND developers alike. no one is paid here so don't diss anyone and don't feel that anyone is obligated to answer you.
i can also say that you are a complete arrogant ass for saying arch does not care about its users. we don't care about you that is for certain. but i can guarantee that everything i did every package i made, upgraded, donated, fixed, etc was for the user. people wanted openoffice i spent a week building it then it got broken with the upgrade to gcc 3.3 i spent another week trying to fix it without luck then judd spent 3 days compiling and patching 1.1. so do you EVER say we don't fucking care you little ingrate.
The perceived 'lack of clarity' on my part is because I am still a newbie. I might have a few things working under Slackware, but I'm not certain, today, where I even made the changes. I'm not asking for hints on how to keep a notebook, I have one, it is 40 miles away, I cannot discuss Linux by reading my notes or grepping my config files, they are 40 miles away. I cannot log into my Linux PC, I only have dial up, the only telephone line in my house is for voice communications. DSL is too far away, Cable is too expensive.... have I never said any of this before? No, not in this thread, but I've always been a hardliner on those points sarah31. I do not match up with what is assumed of me. But here I am, posting, despite my ineptitude.
"Waaagh i'm a newbie. waggh i don't have highspeed pity me pity meee!"
there are lots of users on dialup here including developers so we don't give a flying f**k.
I believe the deepest undercurrent I see here is diverging viewpoints of what Arch is and diverging goals for Arch. My views are different from a few who assume the Archer has the skills, hApy seems to have a third viewpoint, and yet a third viewpoint exists.
yeah and you are saying we have to conform to your view. typical. funny we seem to be getting more and more users all the time both newbie and non newbie and this despite having a completely uncaring development team and a horrendous set of docs. one of the funny things is that many of the newbies recently are all dialup like you and they still take time to make irc interesting or contribute packages.
If my posts reflect an atmosphere of bewildering viewpoiints, I'm not surprised - I've tried to reply to differing posts which take differing opinions; I suppose it is frustrating to anyone to reply to 3 posts at once. I'm replying in order to offer my view of when I was a frustrated newbie (this morning, I think ;-) ). Remember, I was told by a certain forum member that, most certainly, dunbar was a slackware user and the assumption was that he must be nearly expert - yet, I declared, no, I'm not an expert and I freely admit a lack of skills. I was not the one who estimated dunbars skills, Sarah31.
oh you are soooo subtle in your insults. come on you tell me after hundreds of installs and two years of using linux you don't know anything? find me five green newbies that know how to grep or know to look online for information. personally i and many others here and elsewhere have little time for someone who cries about being a newbie when they obviously aren't.
what is it some sort of ploy to make people feel sorry for you or shorten your look online for info that you likely could find in two minutes? spare me. up to one year you are a n00b after that you are not.
I'm definitely not interested in dissing anyone, not you, nor Gyroplast, nor Apeiro, nor hApy .....
hmmm you care to stand by that or should i pull out several quotes to the contrary?
I have pointed out that early on, Arch was interested in being Judds perfect distro... did anyone ask him if he ever said that? As I said, I can offer to cut and paste, if you wish.
so your point is? is this a bad thing? is it not possible for many of us to believe it is the perfect distro for us as well? why not diss yoper for claiming to be THE distro.
Yet, I'm clearly getting 2 viewpoints in response to me repeating that fact. Thus, in order to push the reader away from their position, so as to get them to walk in my shoes, I post from different directions aiming toward one central condition. Is the issue me, and me alone? Or did the issue exist, and I'm guilty of responding to all viewpoints and thus I'm guilty of pointing it out?
i have been in your shoes and i often get put back in your shoes when i start to use or investigate applications or areas of linux i have never explored before. so whats your point? if it was to fix up the documentation? that was a goal for some time now in fact a few users have made it an ongoing thing.
you are not the only one that is a newbie here nor are you the only one here. there are many things that developers must balance when they do their duties. there will never be a distro that will satisfy all a user's needs but i can tell you that the arch team does try to please as many people as possible. so yeah i think you are the issue to some extent. you could have come in here and politely explained what it is that you felt needed improvement but instead you came in and whine and cried that you were so abused and that we had to change to please you. it was all about you anyone can easily extract that from the way you keep flipping between i'm a newbie, i'm not a newbie but i speak for newbies. if you cannot find the offesive comments you have made along the way or see how some people came to the conclusions they did then it is your fault.
Anyway, you mentioned the ethernet thread.... thydian is evidently new here. Lets explain that issue out loud (since you already raised the matter). I offered to write a document regarding Ethernet setup, I was not shown what to do (frozdsolid posted that they were "pretty sure that's necessary"). I do not assume that every member here reads every posted message; thus, I believe I had read the opinion of someone who was as newbie to Arch as I myself was a newbie (frozdsolids title still shows only 4 posts even today). Nobody here 'handed me an answer' as some might conclude from your post.
well YOU may not have gotten answer but people DID try to answer your question and, in fact, the answer is there. but you could not extract it or did not know how to ask the question properly to get the result you desired.
but of course we are the bad guys here because we took the time to try and give you an answer. man you are such a wanker....
I posted everywhere else on the internet about my situation using IPX/SPX, I heard that it was a dead protocol. I finally found information about IPX/SPX, it was not herein, so the forum was of no use in that instance - that is a fact, sarah31. Now that I have concluded that IPX/SPX was not the best choice and changed the rest of the household over to TCP/IP...... the IPX/SPX issue is no longer the focus, so I dropped the subject; until I was 6 months later, I came back here, saw BluPhoenixs post and was a bit confused. That lead to him suggesting DOSemu, I stated no, that was not preferred, etc. etc. I ultimately thanked BluPhoenix, stated why I was going to drop the issue, and I left the thread cold.
so why insist on blaming us for something that we tried to answer but was obviously beyond our knowledge? you did it at the end of that thread and you constantly do it here. how many other people did you verbally assault along the way?
The whole thing got misdirected, away from what I was asking for, as if the topic was no longer my decision alone.
what a pile of BS. it was YOUR thread so get in there and assert yourself. threads get out of hand sometimes but the original poster can easily get control again if they have a pair.
i know for a fact that the people he chose to insult would and have tried to help him but he blows them off. i know too that the head developer is VERY open to user contributions yet dunbar chose not to contribute.
The reasons should be evident by now - when I offered to contribute, I had the time; 6 months of time transpired, I was not able to write because I had no answers with which to generate such a document. I had to revoke the offer. I am taken by surprise that anyone would say I was given the necessary information!
BS again you just stated that you got your answer (outside of our forum) so you could have easily posted back with what you had found out and then provided documentation later. and you mean to tell me that you have not had time in the last six months to wing something together. shit you have practically written a novel here.
it is obvious to me that you just want to guard that knowledge and us it to flame and troll here. once you had the answers you were sure to come back and flame that thread and continue flaming on a regular basis. what an ass.
I've known you to be patient, sarah31 (and you are yet teaching me as I write), but when you say I'm taking great pains to insult someone - while I'm waiting months for forum responses and I'm reading internet documents that are obsolete and these are docs which talk about a different distro, refer to a different kernel, puts files in a different location????
yeah so you waited for an answer and didn't get one...it happens. you stated that barely anyone knew the answer. fianlly you got one and then came back and rudely blamed us for poor documentation and a barrel of other things. nice guy.
all i saw was orelein answer you in a nice and proper fashion and you called him eliteist. you also were rather rude about judd in your first post in the future thread. so yes i see all throughout attempts to belittle and brate and not one instance of sober commentary from you.
and here you are again balming us for online docs that are not ours.
That is not appropriate, ever, to assume that the newbie will not find older docs and will know enought to discard the incorrect ones.
this is not limited to newbies.....it can definitely be difficult finding what you need online.
And since most internet docs are coasting along since, for example, 1999 (re: the IPX/SPX how-to)
well if you are checking out and obscure problem that is actually now obsolete then sure the fucking doc will be old but you make is sound like ALL docs are old. so i have to assume that you are very much an idiot because i have found most documentation for most current issues to have current docs. most applications will upgrade their docs as they upgrade or do you even notice that? are you to self absorbed to go around and find out if your wild accusations actually have any merit?
once again, and I'll ask this, and directly of you, sarah31, why would any newbie assume that 4 year old document applied to their situation??
well knowing how many newbies are i would expect them to ask if docs are relevant. or they could possibly look into some of the information. if it was not producing answers...wow i think they would ask for help again. shit do you even pay attention to how newbies act on justlinux?
:oops: I'd ask that people remove useless web documents, but I fear that I'd get only 4 responses. That is reality, not sarcasm.
hmmm remove docs, add docs which is it? fyi arch removes most docs except in rare circumstances. if those docs are html they are html. if a n00b doesn't know how to view them i expect they would ask( that is if they are outside x).
dunbar...stick with slack because arch will never please you. slack is a very nice distro that should have the balance arch does not afford you. that is the great thing about a linux .... if you don't like one flavour then try another. just don't go back to the ice cream dealer and berate him for selling you your choice...get the point (if you don't then fine i expected that)

Multiple Contribute Admin Accounts

Hey,
I am trying to use Contribute to edit a Template file made in
Dreamweaver for an HTML email. I know its not the best way of doing
things, but all the office need to do is change the text, so its
working just fine except for CSS. I have found that some email
clients (like gmail or yahoo) do not support CSS formated text in
the email. I have also found that the only way to change what
Contribute uses (CSS or not) is with an Admin account. I have an
Admin account for the main site, but I do not want to disable CSS
for the main site. I only want to disable CSS for a sub folder
where I will store the HTML files. Right now I have a sub folder,
linked to an FTP user name and only allows them to upload to that
sub folder. That's where I am now.
So, all I need to know is how to create an Admin account for
only a sub folder. That way, I can use Contribute go into the Admin
Panel and disable CSS, but only for the sub folder. Thanks for any
help!

In the Standalone version BIP uses the same credentials to connect to the datasources, irrespective of the user logged in, hence I cannot think of how this restriction can be done, perhaps in a future release this may be supported.
In the BI publisher that comes embedded with systems, like JDEdwards, Siebel, etc The security is controlled by the user rights assigned to the user in the application BI Publisher is embedded with.
If your requirement is Binding, you may want to consider a different Instance of BIP for each exclusive datasource.

Siebel Econfigurator info about the future prospects please

Hi all,
My company is pushing me into accepting the role in Siebel E-config (for some products).. I have no idea about Siebel CRM though I have worked as a tester before...
Can some one please tell me whats the future for someone who has just worked on Siebel E-config(is this something hott)(ofcourse nothing is hott in this market but may be 1-2 yrs down the line)...What extra skills would I need to remain in the Siebel space ,may be not working for my present company but some one else in 2 yrs .
Please some one help me with some info..
Thank you.
Regards
Raj.

Hi Raj,
Siebel product configurator is a quite complex solution to be implemeted carefully(i.e. considering Oracle's Best-practices for it), however if you do it right, you will be greatly impressed by its capabilities and you will be in great demand...some of the best-practice is to spend a significant amount of time building the Product Model, and validating (via little prototypes) that this model is optimal and well fits the Siebel architecture. Infrastructure sizing is obviously key. Product "distribution" is also important (i.e. on which server(s) a product is going to be loaded on...) and will be a contributing factor to your product configurator's performance, scalability...you may also need to consider that the product configurator's architecture has quite changed from 7.5.3 to... 8.0...
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Apple announces future update for Wi-Fi issues...

+From Apple's support site+
Symptoms
A very small number of iPad users have experienced issues with Wi-Fi connectivity. This article outlines workarounds for these issues. *Apple will also address remaining Wi-Fi connectivity issues with a future iPad software update.*
Note: For general information on troubleshooting Wi-Fi connections with iPad, refer to this article.
Products Affected
iPad
Resolution
If you consistently encounter issues connecting to a specific Wi-Fi network, try the following steps to resolve your issue:
Update Wi-Fi router firmware
Verify that your Wi-Fi router firmware is up-to-date.
Note: This is important if your Wi-Fi router supports 802.11n, as it may still be using the draft specification of the 802.11n standard.
For AirPort Base Stations, refer to this article for information about firmware updates. For third-party Wi- Fi routers, check the manufacturer's website for details on updating your firmware.
Use WPA or WPA2 wireless security
Check the wireless security option of your Wi-Fi router. If WEP is being used, try using WPA or WPA2.
Some Wi-Fi routers using WEP wireless security may cause intermittent disconnects to iPad which requires re-typing a password. Using WPA or WPA2 wireless security on your network will correct this issue.
Note: WPA and WPA2 encryption protocols are newer, more effective security options for wireless networks than the older WEP protocol.
Adjust screen brightness
Check to see if your screen brightness is set to the lowest level by going to Settings > Brightness & Wallpaper. If brightness is at lowest level, increase it by moving the slider to the right and set auto brightness to off.
Note: Brightness control in the iBooks application can also be used to adjust brightness.
Renew IP address
In some larger wireless networks it may be necessary to renew your IP address. Renew your IP address using the following steps:
Tap Settings > Wi-Fi
Locate the Wi-Fi network you are currently using and tap
Tap Renew Lease
If the issue persists, try turning Wi-Fi to Off and then to On.
If after attempting the troubleshooting tips provided above you are still having difficulty connecting to a network please contact Apple.
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jbhmacpro wrote:
My experience on a recent trip without my MBP (a mistake I won't make again)? DoubleTree, McDonalds, Starbucks = Fail, fail, fail. Poor signal strength = fail.
Marriott, 2 different airports = success, success, success. Your "poor signal strength" is just a symptom of an incompatible network.
Define "old".
Any router that was not tested with an iPad before it was sold - all of them. Many of those routers were well made and comply with standards that were not written or finalized when they were sold. Those routers work well with devices such as the iPad that comply to those now-official standards.
Enlighten me, how is a router "misconfigured"?
It's been hacked up by every assistant store manager at McDonalds so it can run an array of peer-to-peer and gaming servers, as an example. There are literally an infinite number of ways for routers to be misconfigured.
You are saying that 20% of iPads are failing to connect and it's the router to blame.
I have no idea how many iPads fail to connect. If you added all of the replies to the "WiFi failure" threads here on Apple Discussions, it would be 0.2%. I think a more accurate number is somewhere in between. It isn't always the router to blame. Sometimes it is the user.
While I don't doubt router vagaries and the rube-ness of the general public being contributing factors, I'm certainly not a rube. Even know how to read and understand both my router instruction books.
But I gather you aren't a field IT support person for DoubleTree, McDonalds, or Starbucks.
I experienced the same kinds of problems when I first got my iBook and MacBook. Routers are cheap, break frequently, and get replaced on a regular basis. The next time you go back to those places, your iPad will probably work just fine.

Contribute 6.5

I'm a Mac user and have been a user of Contribute for some years. Can someone at Adobe please advise future plans for this product and in particular the timetable for updating Contribute to current OS X. The tech specs for Contribute list it as being compatible up to OS X v10.7.

I'm full aware of their policy! It may well be the decision has already been taken in respect of the Mac community!
Having tried many alternative products, it's software that suits me. A pity if I have to join others, who have already discontinued using Contribute, as they upgrade to OS X 10.10 et al.

@Adobe, do you intend to contribute Flash Catalyst as Open Source Project ?

Hello,
in the recent Whitepaper* you write that you no longer develop Flash Catalyst.
Wouldnt it be great if you make it open source (contribute to Apache as well?)
or sell it to another developer so that it can be continued to be developed ?
I think many people will totally agree with this and would be happy to continue using
Flash Catalyst to visually built/prototype engaging GUI for the Apache Flex Framework.
What do you think ?
Best Regards
Marc
Flash Catalyst
Flash Catalyst CS5.5 is the last release of Flash Catalyst.
At this time, it will not be updated to work with Flex SDK 4.6 or any Apache Flex releases nor will it be included in future versions of the Adobe Creative Suite software offerings.
*http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/whitepapers/roadmap.html

Hi daslicht,
im also very interrested to know the answer.
But im afraid they wont because it uses code from other proprietary tools.
And even if the community get flash catalyst source code, it will be useless (in a sens) mainly because the synergy with other Adobe Tools will not be maintained. And for me it was the main power of Flash Catalyst.
And knowing that, i think it is more easy for Apache community to create a new tool from scratch not linked to Adobe's tooling chain.
It could be a Flex app!!
For you information, the design view from Flash Builder has also been discontinued by Adobe. But in that case its a flex app incorporated in Flash Builder so theres good chances that Adobe will donate it to Apache community.
So why not use the design view as a base for a Flash Catalyst like tool? by making it a standalone tool or designers.

CMS with 'Roles' like Contribute

Hi,
I've read a few of the threads here about CMS but none of
them seem to meet
my question head on.
I have a site which I have set up for Contribute for my
client. They now
want to be able to add a page for each of their branches to
update and
maintain, but do not want to allow them to edit other pages.
They have
around 16 branches, so they would be looking at 8 to 16
copies of Contribute
@ around $250 AUD.
What would people's recommendations be? Should they just get
the licences
for Contribute as well as a small bill from me for setup?
What about
Contribute Publishing Server (if it still exists)? How does
that compare
pricewise? What about a CMS with 'roles' or permissions so
that I can limit
each branch to edit only pages in their folder? Another
factor would be
future branch increases - if they get another five branches
soon they would
have to pay for more Contribute licences, but a CMS would
already be paid
for and pretty much set up.
Thanks for your wisdom in an area I know little about,
Bruce

Thanks SnakEyez,
You're pretty much right with your conclusion of the
permissions needed
although I'll probably have to give access to an individual
folder for each
branch, rather than a page, but Contribute handles that just
as well.
I'll contact Adobe Australia Sales Dept but first I have to
find out whether
my client qualifies for either Education or Government since
they are a
Government affiliated Not-for-Profit who also does
training...
Thanks again,
Bruce
> If I am understanding your issue correctly the client
will create only 1
> page
> per branch. These are not divisions which will have
entirely different
> websites (ie: take Ford Motor Company for example with
Ford, Lincoln,
> Mercury
> websites).
>
> If this is only one page, do they have an IT department
to look over it?
> If
> so they could designate a few individuals to update all
of the pages to
> cut
> back on costs. Or, as an alternative you could stay on
and help update
> those
> pages. As far as licensing goes though, Adobe has a
pricing calculator (
>
http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/openoptions/calculator/
). I'm not too
> sure
> about pricing outside the US, but you would be in TLP
level S. If you
> contact
> Adobe sales or a volume retailer (sorry but nothing
comes to mind for
> Australia) you should get more of a discount on the
software when you buy
> in
> quantity.
>
> With regards to permissions, I do know that Contribute
does allow you to
> set
> up permissions. These are typically based on login so I
would assume that
> you
> would only have 1 login per branch. But how Contribute
Publishing Server
> works
> I do not have the experience there to help you. For that
I would highly
> recommend contacting Adobe sales. If you want to find
out if something is
> for
> you, calling a sales department.
>

Remove Contribute CS3 toolbar in MS Office?

Is there a way to remove the Contribute toolbar from the MS
Office applications? I know it was possible in version 4 but I
don't see it in CS3 (4.1).
Any help would be appreciated.

To remove the Contribute plug ins - you will need to close
both Contribute and MS Office applications. Then navigate to
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Contribute CS3 and rename the
following file from officeplugin.dll to officeplugin.dllOLD. When
you relaunch Word, Excel or Outlook - the Contribute toolbar should
be removed.
If you choose to add the toolbar again in the future, you
just need to remove the OLD from the file name. Then bring up the
command.exe window and browse to the program's directory C:\Program
Files\Adobe\Adobe Contribute CS3\ and then run the following
command: regsvr32 officeplugin.dll
This will re-register the .dll file responsible for the
toolbar.

Need Contribute 3.1 process when connecting

Hi guys,
Does anyone know the exact process Contribute 3.1 goes through when connecting? After getting through the FTP login phase, does it first check the _mm/cd3beta/messaging/users folder? I have no idea why it would be named beta, as no beta version was ever used.
Or if you know of where this is detailed and can point me in the right direction, I would be most grateful! ;-)
I have a client who is suddenly having a permission's issue. Our staff who handles the servers says that they do have permission, and I must admit I can log on using their id to FTP with no problems, as well as go to all directories.
Of course, the staff wants to blame Contribute, which has worked seamlessly for this customer for over 5 years. We have recently put up a new website for them. First, they could connect, but could not write changes. There was a permission problem and the server staff fixed that. That is when the connection problem began to occur.
So, I am gathering information to help them see this has to be something on their end.
Thanks in advance for any help you can send me, especially those Adobe Contribute experts! ;-)
Suzanne
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Hi everyone, especially to anyone else with this issue currently or in the future. I was surprised that I got no comments from anyone, having originally posted in the General side - no response there either. Very surprising.
The initial problem I found, was that the directory had not been set up for a group I was told, so I continued to have write access, etc. During their attempt to correct this, a mistake was made and the folder permissions were hosed up for both myself and the user.
When a user attempts to connect to a server, and the permission has changed, Contribute apparently disables that site's connection within Contribute. I have never had this happen on my end, but it created a login issue for the user. I have often come in to see disable connections, but if all is well, I have been able to connect. Even after the permission issue was solved, the user still could not login.
In my continued search for a solution, something made me think about this, and when I had the user check, the connection had been disabled. When the connection was enabled, the user was then able to login, make changes, and publish those changes normally.
I would gather from this, that Contribute does indeed check the users folder or some folder upon each login.
Hope this helps.
Suzanne

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Hi daslicht,
im also very interrested to know the answer.
But im afraid they wont because it uses code from other proprietary tools.
And even if the community get flash catalyst source code, it will be useless (in a sens) mainly because the synergy with other Adobe Tools will not be maintained. And for me it was the main power of Flash Catalyst.
And knowing that, i think it is more easy for Apache community to create a new tool from scratch not linked to Adobe's tooling chain.
It could be a Flex app!!
For you information, the design view from Flash Builder has also been discontinued by Adobe. But in that case its a flex app incorporated in Flash Builder so theres good chances that Adobe will donate it to Apache community.
So why not use the design view as a base for a Flash Catalyst like tool? by making it a standalone tool or designers.

Future of Cairngorm 3

Hi,
I'm wondering, what is the future of this project. Will it be moved to Apache as well or someone at Adobe will continue the development?
I'm sure that this project helped many developers to solve common problems so it shouldn't be abandoned. And its integration with enterprise frameworks such as Parsley was just great. However, while these frameworks continue to develop, Cairngorm hasn't been updated for a number of months. Will it be developed further?
Thanks.

I personally stopped contributing to Cairngorm a few month ago and I did not see any code commit nor patches, nor other type of contribution sent through.
If anybody wants to commit/contribute, please raise your hand ! I'll see what I can do to help (i.e. give you the keys and let you drive... :-))
Now as for moving from http://sourceforge.net/adobe/cairngorm/ to the Apache foundation, we would need a lot more active contributers... as it would require quite some work...

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