Brightspot basics

A list of topics pertaining to the basics of Brightspot.

Broadcast messages display at the top of the CMS in a banner and contain information that is important for your users to know. You can configure a broadcast message in the following ways: For the Glob...
After you permanently delete administrative objects, those objects are no longer available within Brightspot. Before you permanently delete an archived administrative object, review the following impa...
Getting Started
Restoring an archived administrative object returns it to its state when it was archived. Before you restore an archived administrative object, review the following impacts. Module To restore an archi...
When you archive administrative objects, those objects are no longer available for use within Brightspot, but they are still visible and they can be restored. There may be downstream impacts for delet...
You can archive assets (they remain in Brightspot, but not are not available to visitors), and you can permanently delete assets.
You create and modify assets in Brightspot by using the content edit page. Though the fields, tabs, and widgets of a content edit page vary by content type, their anatomy is similar. Content edit page...
New assets default to being owned by the site in which they are created, with no other sites having access; however, you can change the site owner and grant access to other sites from the Sites widget...
Brightspot lists assets referring to the current asset in the References widget. Among other use cases, the References widget is especially helpful when an asset needs to be archived, as editors can r...
Quick View is an easy way to get a snapshot of an asset in the search panel, content pickers, and other widgets. Quick View can be configured at the site level as well as by individual users. See Conf...
When you break up a numbered list, you can restart its numbering. This is helpful if you need to add an rich-text enhancement in the middle of a list. To reset numbering in a list: In the rich-text ed...

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Everything you need to know when creating, managing, and administering content within Brightspot CMS.

Dashboards
Publishing
Workflows
Admin configurations
A guide for installing, supporting, extending, modifying and administering code on the Brightspot platform.

Field types
Content modeling
Rich-text elements
Images
A guide to configuring Brightspot's library of integrations, including pre-built options and developer-configured extensions.

Google Analytics
Shopify
Apple News
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
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
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