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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 Integrations Guide
Built-in integrations → Google Tag Manager
Brightspot's Google Tag Manager integration allows you to quickly update tags on your site.
Brightspot CMS Developer Guide
Developer guide → Configuring Brightspot's server → Activity logs
The key cms/tool/isActivityLogged records events within Brightspot. The events are sent to the Tomcat log file catalina.out.
Brightspot CMS Developer Guide
Developer guide → Localization
Localization is the process of developing infrastructure so an application appears in a user-preferred language. You can localize Brightspot itself (so that the widgets and field names appear in a different language), and you can localize the published websites.
Brightspot CMS Developer Guide
Developer guide → Content modeling → Creating a content type
A Brightspot content type is a Java class that has specific properties describing an item.
Brightspot CMS Developer Guide
Developer guide → Configuring Brightspot's server
Brightspot provides configuration options to modify default behavior of the editorial UI. You can set these options in the settings.properties or context.xml file for a servlet container.
Date Time Range Groups - Future
Brightspot CMS Developer Guide
Developer guide → Content modeling → Content modeling annotations
An important step of content modeling is defining data interactions—how users and databases interact with the model. This section lists the annotations you can use to implement data interactions.
Brightspot CMS Developer Guide
Developer guide → Images → Focus points
A focus point is an image’s ideal vertical and horizontal center after cropping.
Image sizes grouped by aspect ratio
Brightspot CMS Developer Guide
Developer guide → Images → Creating image sizes
After a user uploads an image, Brightspot crops out various regions depending on the context.
Custom image sizes in sizes tab
Brightspot CMS Developer Guide
Developer guide → Images → Registering image sizes
If you create image sizes using the class ImageSize, you can register them for display in the Sizes tab of the image editor by following the steps in this section.
Brightspot CMS Developer Guide
Developer guide → Images → Retrieving image information
After you create image size objects, you can use the ImageSize class to retrieve URLs for delivering the images to clients.