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08 October, 2012

Contributor Settings in SharePoint Designer


Issue:
Client was unable to open a site in SharePoint Designer after the activation of the SharePoint Designer on his site.

Reason:
He is not admin of that site or may not have proper permissions to make changes to site using SPD.

Notice:
- You may be able to open the site on your machine using SPD.
- While trying to open the site using SPD on the client machine you get message “Site is not allowed for editing using SPD”.
- You also notice that a small Icon at bottom right side of the SPD console with “Contribute Authentication”.
- It says the user who is trying to access the site is not a Site manager and has contribute rights to edit the site.

Resolution:
- Being Site Administrators, you can disable the use of contribute settings from the sites.
- To do that, open SPD console -> Sites -> contribute settings -> Under Advance tab -> Click Disable Contributor Settings.

Important: 
Contributor Settings is not a security feature. Contributor mode is a limited access mode for users who open and edit SharePoint sites in Office SharePoint Designer 2007. Contributor mode is designed to be used in an environment where site managers are confident of their users’ intentions. Contributor mode helps to guide users in a particular direction to carry out their tasks, and this guidance prevents accidental changes to the Web site.