CMS customization

A list of topics pertaining to customizing the CMS experience in Brightspot.

Site-level content templates are available to editors working on a specific site. When you create a new asset with this content template, Brightspot populates the fields with the text and values you s...
You can modify an existing content form in Brightspot. To modify a content form: Click Menu icon > Admin > Users & Roles. In the Content Forms widget, select the form you want to modify. Brightspot di...
Using Brightspot's content forms feature, you can create a customized content edit page for a particular content type, and then associate it to a role or role-site combination. This feature is useful ...
You can add a tab to a content form in Brightspot. To add a tab to a content form: Click Menu icon > Admin > Users & Roles. In the Content Forms widget, select a content form to which you want to add ...
Brightspot generates default content edit forms based on the fields in the underlying content type. For example, if an article has fields for headline, author, body, and image, the default content edi...
You can delete a content form in Brightspot. Once deleted, the content form cannot be recovered, and the content edit page that the content form affected reverts back to its default state. To delete a...
Brightspot provides the ability for you to create content forms to override default field and widget placements on an asset's content edit page. To create a content form: Click Menu icon > Admin > Use...
This topic explains how to modify a custom site widget in Brightspot. To modify a custom site widget: Click Menu icon > Admin > Users & Roles. The Content Forms widget is displayed on the left side of...
This topic explains how to create a custom site widget in Brightspot. To create a custom site widget: Click Menu icon > Admin > Users & Roles. The Content Forms widget is displayed on the left side of...
When you delete a custom site widget, Brightspot displays the default Edit Global, New Site, or Edit Site widgets. To delete a custom site widget: Click Menu icon > Admin > Users & Roles. The Content ...

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