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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 → View system → Traditional
In a traditional Brightspot implementation, the view system includes two components: a template and a view model. The template provides the structure for the output to be rendered on the client’s device. The view model receives and transforms the model’s data based on the template’s structure.
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Brightspot CMS Developer Guide
Developer guide → Localization → Localizing Brightspot
You can customize Brightspot’s widgets and content edit forms so that editors see the UI in their preferred language. Localizing Brightspot is similar to that for other Java-based web applications.
Rendered custom tab, Edit Global widget
Brightspot CMS Developer Guide
Developer guide → Sites → Global-only settings
Global-only settings are settable only at the system global level, and apply to all admin-defined sites that exist. A setting changed at the global level cascades to all other sites in the site hierarchy.
Brightspot CMS Developer Guide
Developer guide → Sites → Site settings
A custom site setting added at the global level is inherited by admin-defined sites, but the setting can be changed only in the global site. When you add a custom setting, you have the option of making the setting available on admin-defined sites as well as the global site.
Brightspot CMS Developer Guide
Developer guide → Sites → Multi-site considerations
In a multi-site environment, you may have use cases where queries need to reflect the site context. For example, the Recent Activity widget and search panel query for objects that are owned by the site that the user selects in the dashboard.
Brightspot CMS Developer Guide
Developer guide → Localization → Formatting dates using view models
You can set the default date format from within the content type’s view model. When resolving the date format to use, Brightspot checks for this configuration if there is no date format specified in a theme’s properties (as described in Date formats and resource bundles) or in a site’s settings.
Brightspot CMS Developer Guide
Developer guide → Notifications
Brightspot’s notifications mechanism implements the pub-sub architecture. You can trap events, retrieve the interested recipients, and deliver notifications over the recipients’ preferred medium.
Brightspot CMS Developer Guide
Developer guide → Notifications → Notification lifecycle
Brightspot invokes a process when processing notifications. This section describes that process.
Brightspot CMS Developer Guide
Developer guide → Customizing the search experience
You can customize the default appearance and behavior of the search panel.
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Brightspot CMS Developer Guide
Developer guide → External Types → Importing to Brightspot
External content is imported via the search panel, from which a Brightspot query for an external type is converted to a search on a third-party service.