Brightspot basics

A list of topics pertaining to the basics of Brightspot.

Getting Started
You have a user menu that allows you to customize various aspects of Brightspot as well as use some functionality that is only seen by you. To access your user menu, click your username. This expands ...
Getting Started
Brightspot features an intuitive user interface to make working in the content management system easy and efficient. Understanding the Brightspot User Interface When you first log into Brightspot, you...
Getting Started
The Brightspot user menu provides links to several bits of functionality that are specific to your user account. From the user menu you can modify your profile settings, view your history, etc. To acc...
Brightspot supports three kinds of authentication in order to log in: Generic login requiring only a username and password. Two-factor authenticated login requiring a username, password, and a third-p...
You can archive assets (they remain in Brightspot, but not are not available to visitors), and you can permanently delete assets.
Brightspot CMS is natively multisite. Admins can easily create new websites to meet a wide range of needs, and configure these sites however best suits their organizations.
Shared modules appear in more than one page layout. This is a powerful way to reuse modules: you can create one of the other modules described in this section, and then you can incorporate it into as many page layouts as possible.
This guide explains how to work with revisions to ensure the only the best version of content is live.

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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
Page types