When you setup a website to be managed by Contribute, the name that shows up in the client for the connection description is generated from the text of the title tag of the index page of the website.
For setups where you are only managing a single site, this may not matter, but if you have a system where you use a development server and a production server, you may want the connection string to depict which server the user is editing and publishing to.
In order to change the text of the description you have to alter some text in a few files on the CPS management server.
In the installation directory of CPS, there is a database directory. This is the location of the files that are specific to the individual websites that are being managed.
The files in each site being managed are in a directory that is “numbered”, the number relates to the numerical order in which they were set up. If you remove a particular site, the numbers are not reused.
In each of the site directories there is a file named: connection_key.stc
This file, in XML format, contains a localinfo tag. The attribute sitename is the text that shows up in the Contribute client on the start page.
Once this is updated and a user logs into the Contribute server, the client connections are updated.
While this may be enough on it’s own to effect the change desired, the original name is still referenced in the cthub file for each individual site. I changed the name in both locations for completeness.