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# Set Up the Contributor’s Studio View

Control what your contributors can do in Site.com Studio.

### Required Editions

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            <td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: Salesforce Classic</td>

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              <p>Available for purchase in: <strong>Enterprise</strong>, <strong>Performance</strong>,
                and <strong>Unlimited</strong> Editions</p>
              <p style="margin-bottom:0;">Available (with limitations) in:
                <strong>Developer</strong> Edition
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              Permissions Needed</th>
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            <td data-label="User Permissions Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d101958e74 ">To build, edit, and manage Site.com sites:</td>

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              <p><samp class="parmname">Site.com Publisher User</samp> field enabled on the
                user detail page</p>
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              <p style="margin-bottom:0;">Site administrator or designer role
                assigned at the site level</p>
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The contributor’s Site.com Studio view lets users browse and update website content. To enable contributors to edit the site’s content, however, you must first create template-based pages with editable areas and enable several properties.

To enable your contributors to:

- Edit the text on a page, create template-based pages with editable content blocks
- Add content blocks to the page, create template-based pages with editable panels
- Create site pages based on a page template, select **Available to Contributors** in the Properties pane when the page template is open
- Add widgets to the page, select **Available to Contributors** in the Widgets view on the Overview tab or in the Properties pane when the widget is open
- Update the appearance of pages and widgets, set up branding properties

To ensure that the contributor’s Site.com Studio view is set up correctly, click **View Studio as a Contributor** in the site’s pull-down menu (on the top toolbar). To exit, click **Return to My Studio View**.

The contributor’s view is not available by default for Site.com Community sites. However, you can use a Site.com Contributor license to grant contributor access to a specific user. See About Feature Licenses in the Site.com help for details. Alternatively, a user can preview the Site.com Community site as a contributor by appending `?iscontrib` to the site’s URL. For example: `MyDomainName.builder.salesforce-experience.com/?iscontrib`

#### See Also

- [Create Site.com Page Templates](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.siteforce_page_master_create.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "A page template lets you define the layout and functionality of site pages in one location. By adding common page elements to the template and then basing site pages on it, you can achieve a consistent look and feel throughout your site. And because a template-based page inherits the template's elements, you can make site-wide changes from one location.")
- [Create Widgets](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.siteforce_widget_create.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Widgets let you create custom, reusable page elements by combining existing Site.com page elements, custom code, and CSS.")
- [Site Branding Overview](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.siteforce_prop_brand_overview.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Branding provides a flexible way for you to define different aspects of your website's brand. Once branding properties are defined, your editors can easily customize everything in one centralized place, the Branding Editor. When your website editors customize the properties, they get a preview of their branding changes immediately.")
- [The Contributor's Page Editing View](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.siteforce_editor_page_edit.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Use the Overview tab to import assets, preview the page, and update the appearance of the page.")