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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 → Layout → Page structure
This topic provides a detailed overview of page structure within Brightspot as well as ideas on the best way to set up the pages within your site.
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Brightspot CMS User Guide
Admin → Site management → Theme management
Brightspot separates content (text, images, videos) from presentation (how the content appears in a web page).
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Brightspot CMS User Guide
Dashboard → Dashboards
In Brightspot, a dashboard is a centralized location in the CMS that features quick jump points for writers and editors.
Brightspot CMS User Guide
Admin → Users, roles & permissions → Single sign-on and SAML
This topic explains Brightspot's usage of Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) as the messaging platform with the SSO server.
Brightspot CMS User Guide
Admin → Editorial content types
Brightspot comes with over one dozen content types that fit almost every electronic publication. You can also create your own custom content types from the basic fields types, such as text and date.
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Brightspot Integrations Guide
Premium integrations → Amazon Elemental → Adding captions to videos
You can deliver captions along with your videos. As visitors watch a video, they also see the captions you provide. To add captions to a video: Acquire the caption file if available. Create a new vide...
Brightspot Integrations Guide
Premium integrations → Amazon Elemental → Post-production activities for videos
After Amazon Elemental processes your video, you can perform two post-production activities: select a thumbnail, and configure an advertising stream.
Brightspot CMS User Guide
User settings → Notifications → Subscriptions → Subscriptions to topics
Brightspot provides several topics to which it queues messages. You can create subscriptions to those topics so that you receive those messages that are important to you. The topics available for subs...
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Brightspot CMS User Guide
Publishing → Assignment Desk → Configuring Assignment Desk
You can configure the content types available in Assignment Desk as well as the default assignment types.
Creating an assignment
Brightspot CMS User Guide
Publishing → Assignment Desk → Using Assignment Desk
Pitches and assignments are the two items you primarily work with in Assignment Desk. This topic outlines how to work with those items.