Brightspot CMS User Guide

Providing and reading notes for Brightspot fields


You can read and provide editorial notes for almost any field throughout Brightspot, including the following:

  • Fields in the content edit form
  • Fields in the New Site and Edit Site widgets
  • Fields in the New Tool Role and Edit Tool Role widgets
  • Fields in the New Tool User and Edit Tool User widgets
  • Fields in your Profile widget
Note
Editorial notes give editors instructions or guidelines for setting a field to a particular value.


  1. Open the widget containing the field.
  2. Next to the field’s label, click help.

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    Headline example showing icon to view notes

    The field’s widget appears under the For Editors tab.

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    For Editors field notes

  3. To add a note for a field, do the following:

    1. Click help.
    2. Enter the help text.
    3. Click Save.
    4. Click Back.
  4. Click close.
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