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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 Developer Guide
Developer guide → Configuring Brightspot's server → Brightspot editorial URLs
The URL editors use to access Brightspot has two components: a tool URL and an application path.
Brightspot CMS Developer Guide
Developer guide → Error pages
You can customize error pages corresponding to the standard HTTP status codes.
Brightspot CMS Developer Guide
Developer guide → Configuring Brightspot's server → Integrating AWS Services
Many development scenarios require integrating AWS services, such as Rekognition or Translate, into the Brightspot webapp. The following sections describe how to integrate those services into Brightspot.
Custom tab
Brightspot CMS Developer Guide
Developer guide → Widgets → Tabs
The content edit form typically includes three tabs: Main, Overrides, and SEO. (Other tabs are available depending on the content type and Brightspot’s configuration.)
Brightspot CMS Developer Guide
Developer guide → Rich text
There are three aspects of customizing Brightspot’s rich-text features. The first is customizing the toolbar, in which you select the specific controls available to editors. The second is developing your own rich-text elements, and attaching the controls for those elements to the toolbar. The last aspect is rendering the rich text.
Default profile tabs
Brightspot CMS Developer Guide
Developer guide → Widgets → Profile tabs
The header contains a link to display the current user’s profile in a widget. The default implementation displays two tabs in the widget: Profile and History.
Brightspot CMS Developer Guide
Developer guide → Rich text → Rich text toolbar
To deploy a rich-text toolbar, you define it as a class and then assign the class to a field.
External types
Brightspot CMS Developer Guide
Developer guide → Widgets → Adding areas to the navigation menu
An area is an item in the navigation menu. You can add areas to the navigation menu, a useful feature if you want to make your custom widgets or plugins easily accessible to editors.
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Brightspot CMS Developer Guide
Developer guide → Rich text → Rendering rich text
Brightspot stores rich-text elements as Strings, and a view model's getter for a String retrieves the text as it is stored.
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Brightspot CMS Developer Guide
Developer guide → Content modeling → Resource bundles
You can use Java-style .properties files to customize the content edit form for a given model.