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Up to this point most of the client customization I have talked about for Adobe Contribute involved changes that affected only the user interface. Outside of the custom plugin, none of them had any real effect on the usefulness of the client itself.
This customization is different, and like the addition of the Dublin Core [...]

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In this article I will briefly discuss the customization of the Task Panel.
On the Welcome Page, in the bottom left is a nice section entitled How Do I… that contains handy information on how to accomplish a whole slew of tasks in Contribute.
What I found during my research into customizing the client is that this [...]

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In my last post about customizing the Contribute Client I talked about customizing the Welcome Page.
Well, if you recall, I mentioned that the Welcome Page is built on the fly from a Dreamweaver template. More than just this one page is built this way. Each of the special, dynamic pages are built in [...]

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As with many software packages that we deploy, system admins quite often get called upon to customize the application to suit the needs and brand of the enterprise they work for.
When I started deploying the Adobe Contribute client, customization wasn’t really on the radar. But as we got further into our deployment and support [...]

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As with any project, there are always users that want a particular feature that either doesn’t exist or the feature exists but doesn’t meet their needs.
In the deployment of the Adobe Contribute Publishing system at my current job this was the case. The library staff desired a way to insert Dublin Core Metadata Initiative [...]

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