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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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Custom content edit widget
Brightspot CMS Developer Guide
Developer guide → Widgets → Content edit widgets
Content edit widgets are widgets that appear on an editor’s content edit page. Brightspot comes with standard widgets such as Revisions and URLs. You can also create your own custom content edit widgets, and you can configure the standard and custom content edit widgets.
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Brightspot CMS Developer Guide
Developer guide → Content modeling → Providing error messages
Brightspot provides convenient APIs for displaying data validation and other error messages on the content edit form.
URLS widget with custom permalinks
Brightspot CMS Developer Guide
Developer guide → Permalinks
Brightspot provides APIs for managing URLs and generating permalinks automatically.
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Brightspot CMS Developer Guide
Developer guide → Localization → Localizing published websites
Localizing a published website with Brightspot is similar to that for other Java-based web applications.
Brightspot CMS Developer Guide
Developer guide → Sites
To support customization of Brightspot, you can add admin-configurable site settings to the Brightspot editorial UI.
Brightspot CMS Developer Guide
Developer guide → Localization → Installing additional dictionaries
Brightspot comes with generic English and Spanish dictionaries for spell checking. You need to install additional dictionaries if you want to use region-specific spelling, such as UK English or Mexican Spanish, or if you want to spell check in a language other than English or Spanish.
Brightspot CMS Developer Guide
Developer guide → Sites → Adding custom styling and scripting
You can add custom styling and scripting to Brightspot the same way you do with standard HTML. You can link to external resources, such as .css and .js files. You can also embed styling and scripts into Brightspot’s HTML with
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Brightspot CMS Developer Guide
Developer guide → Customizing the search experience → Customizing search panel settings
This section describes Brightspot’s search panel and how you can customize its behavior.
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Brightspot CMS User Guide
Publishing → Creating and managing content → Archiving and deleting assets
You can archive assets (they remain in Brightspot, but not are not available to visitors), and you can permanently delete assets.
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Brightspot CMS User Guide
Publishing → Publishing concepts → Content edit pages
This topic explains how to work with content edit forms in Brightspot CMS.