Brightspot CMS User Guide

Adding, removing, or favoriting assets in your Quick Start widget


Your Quick Start widget defaults to the one assigned first to your role, then to the site you are working on, and then to the global site. You can customize your Quick Start widget by adding, removing and favoriting content types and individual assets.

To add content types and assets to the Quick Start widget:

  1. In the Quick Start widget, click settings.
  2. Under Create New Types, mark the content types you want to include in the Quick Start widget.
  3. Expand Dashboard.
  4. Under Edit Existing Content, click add_circle_outline.
  5. Click search.

    Edit existing content list.png Edit existing content list.png

  6. Search for and select the assets you want to appear in the Quick Start widget.
  7. Close the content picker. You return to Edit Existing Contents.
  8. Click Save. Your assets are added to the Quick Start widget.

To remove assets from the Quick Start widget:

  1. In the Quick Start widget, click settings.
  2. Under Create New Types, clear the checkboxes for the content types you want to remove.

    Quick Start Add and Remove Content Types Quick Start Add and Remove Content Types

  3. Under Edit Existing Content, click remove for the assets you want to remove.
  4. Click Save.


To favorite content types and assets on the Quick Start widget:

In order to make the content types and assets you use most frequently easily accessible to you, Brightspot allows you to mark assets as favorites. Assets that have been made favorites show up in the leftmost spots of the Quick Start widget to eliminate the need for scrolling to find them.

  1. Open Brightspot to display the Quick Start widget.
  2. Hover over a content type or asset you want to make a favorite, and click the star located in the upper-right corner.

    Favoriting content types selected.png Favoriting content types selected.png

  3. Refresh your browser.

    The assets that have been made favorties now show up on the left side of the Quick Start widget.

    Favorite content types on the left Favorite content types on the left

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