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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
Theme guide → Data files → Special keys
The keys listed in this section provide additional logic when processing the data file.
Brightspot CMS Developer Guide
Theme guide → Data files → Generating Java view interfaces from data files
At run time, Brightspot runs a view model that retrieves all the required items and injects them into a template.
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Brightspot CMS Developer Guide
Theme guide → Data files → How the view generator creates view classes
When you build a theme, the view generator executes the steps detailed in this section.
Brightspot CMS Developer Guide
Theme guide → Data files → Pathing for referred data files and templates
Within a data file, you can refer to other data files and templates using absolute or relative paths.
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Brightspot CMS Developer Guide
Theme guide → Configuring a theme → Data modeling for themes
With Styleguide you can add fields to individual templates so that the fields appear in the associated content edit forms. This feature helps expedite the development process by allowing front-end developers to do data modeling without involving back-end developers.
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Brightspot CMS Developer Guide
Theme guide → Configuring a theme → Theme fields
All elements in the array themeFields in a configuration file _config.json appear as fields in a theme’s Overrides widget. Designers and editors can use these fields to modify the theme applied to a site’s published content.
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Brightspot CMS Developer Guide
Theme guide → Configuring a theme → Swatches
Swatches provide a convenient way for site designers to select colors that conform to a site’s branding. You can configure a default swatch for all sites, and designers later customize the swatch for each site as necessary.
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Brightspot CMS User Guide
Publishing → Advanced editing tools → Working with The Shelf
The Shelf is a sliding content drawer that you open by clicking Manage Search icon in the side toolbar of a content edit page. (In versions of Brightspot prior to 4.8, the widget is visible by default...
Brightspot Content Types Guide
Assets → Live blog
A live blog provides comments by one or more editors attending an event. Comments tend to be short and include the authors' bylines. To build a live blog, you create the container, and then post comme...
Brightspot Content Types Guide
Landing pages → Podcast
A podcast is a series of original audios regarding a specific topic. Most commercial-grade podcasts include a header, footer, episode, reader comments, advertisements, and a feature for adding links t...