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CMS User Guide
Everything you need to know when creating, managing, and administering content within Brightspot CMS.

• Dashboards
• Publishing
• Workflows
• Admin configurations
Developer Guide
A guide for installing, supporting, extending, modifying and administering code on the Brightspot platform.

• Field types
• Content modeling
• Rich-text elements
• Images
Integrations Guide
A guide to configuring Brightspot's library of integrations, including pre-built options and developer-configured extensions.

• Google Analytics
• Shopify
• Apple News
Content Types Guide
Brightspot is packaged with content types that get you up and running in a matter of days, including assets, modules and landing pages.

• Assets
• Modules
• Landing pages
Design System
Our robust, flexible Design System provides hundreds of pre-built components you can use to build the presentation layer of your dreams.

• Asset types
• Module types
• Page types
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Brightspot CMS User Guide
Admin → Site management
This section includes information on site URLs, settings, widgets, search-engine optimization, and more, including information about using and building multiple sites in Brightspot.
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Brightspot CMS User Guide
Admin → Site management → Site settings
Brightspot provides a number of configurations and settings at both global and site levels. This guide explains concepts like site hierarchy, expands on site setting fields in Brightspot CMS, and more.
Association between roles, permissions, and users
Brightspot CMS User Guide
Admin → Users, roles & permissions → Permissions
This topic explains concepts related to permissions in Brightspot.
Subscriptions for conversation events
Brightspot CMS User Guide
User settings → Notifications → Subscriptions
You use subscriptions to receive notifications for those events—such as when you are mentioned in a conversation—that matter to you. Below are the most common types of subscriptions. Subscriptions for...
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Brightspot CMS User Guide
Publishing → Creating and managing content → Rich-text editor
Brightspot's rich-text editor provides tools for formatting text (such as boldface or italics), inserting images, videos, and hyperlinks, and many other features available in traditional word processors.
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Brightspot CMS User Guide
Publishing → Collaboration → Conversation
With the Conversation plugin, you can post messages about individual assets. All other editors who have access to the asset can see your messages in the content edit page.
Brightspot CMS User Guide
User settings → Customizing Brightspot's appearance
You can customize Brightspot’s color scheme and layout. All users can customize Brightspot’s appearance for themselves. Administrators can customize the appearance for a specific site or for the global site.
Brightspot CMS User Guide
Admin → Site management → Digital asset management
With Digital Asset Management (DAM), you can stand up a site of proprietary assets that subscribers can browse and use in their own publications.
Brightspot CMS User Guide
Admin → Site management → Digital asset management → Downloading assets
This section describes how to download assets in a variety of formats and how to review download activity.
Brightspot CMS User Guide
Admin → Site management → Digital asset management → Providing menus for viewing asset activity
Your site’s subscribers can review their asset activity by viewing special pages you publish through Brightspot. For example, the following image shows assets that a subscriber shared through your site.