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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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DIMS URL
Brightspot CMS Developer Guide
Developer guide → Images → Image URLs
Brightspot uses an open-source Apache module Dynamic Image Manipulation Service (DIMS) which incorporates ImageMagick to perform image manipulations.
Brightspot CMS Developer Guide
Developer guide → Configuring Brightspot's server → Security
This section describes Brightspot’s security configuration keys in context.xml. In addition, as a best practice install Brightspot on an SSL-configured domain that is separate from the sites it publishes.
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Brightspot CMS Developer Guide
Developer guide → Rich text → Rich-text elements
Brightspot’s rich-text editor accommodates custom rich-text elements, such as embedded videos, image galleries, or pull quotes.
Brightspot CMS Developer Guide
Developer guide → Content modeling → Creating custom fields
Brightspot renders the standard field types in the content edit form as described in Field types. You can customize a field’s rendering using a servlet, and annotating the field with the path to the servlet.
Brightspot CMS Developer Guide
Developer guide → Content modeling → Image modeling
Brightspot includes a wide variety of image editing capabilities, including cropping, brightness, sharpness and color adjustment, image rotation, blurring, and text overlays.
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Brightspot CMS Developer Guide
Developer guide → Content modeling → Inheritance
Inheritance of classes works in Brightspot as expected in Java.
Brightspot CMS Developer Guide
Developer guide → View system
Brightspot’s view system offers two implementations to output your data: traditional and headless. Both implementations are nearly identical and adhere to the Model-View-ViewModel paradigm.
Brightspot CMS Developer Guide
Developer guide → View system → Headless
In a headless Brightspot implementation, the view system delivers content via a JSON API to a consuming application; that application processes and transforms the content using its own logic.
Default visibility labels
Brightspot CMS Developer Guide
Developer guide → Visibility labels
Editors use visibility labels to filter the results of search criteria on the Brightspot UI. Brightspot uses visibility labels in conjunction with visibility-indexed fields to suppress objects.
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Brightspot CMS Developer Guide
Developer guide → View system → View models
In the model-view-view model pattern, the view model receives raw data from the model and transforms that data to produce a view.