Glossary
Brightspot CMS is simple and intuitive, but does use some unique language sprinkled in certain places. If you're stumped by a term while working with Brightspot CMS, check the list of terms & their definitions here.
Archiving has two effects:
- If the content has a URL, archiving removes the URL from the published site so visitors can no longer view it.
- Removes the content from search results within Brightspot so editors can no longer reference it on another page, asset or module.
You can restore or permanently delete archived content. For details, see Archiving and deleting assets.
A widget opened from a selection field that displays assets that you can select for the list. For example, the content edit form for an article may have a field for selecting an author. When you click the author field, Brightspot displays a content picker listing the existing authors you can select.
A mechanism for automatically populating a Content Edit Form for a given content type. For example, you can create a content template that automatically populates an article’s headline, body text, and image. You can define content templates at the role level, user level, and site-specific combinations for roles and users.
The top-level Brightspot page containing links for managing content, work streams, and scheduled events. The dashboard is the landing page users see after logging in to Brightspot. Developers can customize the dashboard to fit an organization’s needs. The following image is an example of a typical dashboard; your version of Brightspot may have a different dashboard.
The URL Brightspot uses when sending notifications that include links, such as emails or text messages. Default tool URLs are often similar to the URLs for published content. For example, if published content appears at http://www.neanderthalrecipes.com/,
the corresponding default tool URL may be http://editors.neanderthalrecipes.com/
.
In the editorial context, a dictionary is a list of names, technical terms, acronyms, or other nomenclature that you do not want to be flagged as spelling errors.
In the visitor-search context, a dictionary is a list of terms and associated variants. When a visitor searches for a term in the dictionary, Brightspot includes in the search results a spotlight.
A pre-published version of an asset that is labeled with the Draft
status in the Revisions Widget. If the asset participates in a Workflow, the workflow status is indicated, for example, Submitted
, Approved
, or Rejected
.
After the initial publication of the draft, all subsequent updates to the asset are revisions, that is, post-published versions.