Brightspot basics

A list of topics pertaining to the basics of Brightspot.

Broadcast messages display at the top of the CMS in a banner and contain information that is important for your users to know. You can configure a broadcast message in the following ways: For the Glob...
When drafting assets, you can control who has access to the draft by using the Users widget on the content edit page. For Brightspot to display this widget, you must enable it. For details, see Enabli...
By default, any user can access a draft of an asset, either by filtering for it in search or by referencing the Recent Activity widget on the dashboard; however, users may at times want to limit acces...
After you permanently delete administrative objects, those objects are no longer available within Brightspot. Before you permanently delete an archived administrative object, review the following impa...
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Restoring an archived administrative object returns it to its state when it was archived. Before you restore an archived administrative object, review the following impacts. Module To restore an archi...
When you archive administrative objects, those objects are no longer available for use within Brightspot, but they are still visible and they can be restored. There may be downstream impacts for delet...
You can archive assets (they remain in Brightspot, but not are not available to visitors), and you can permanently delete assets.
You create and modify assets in Brightspot by using the content edit page. Though the fields, tabs, and widgets of a content edit page vary by content type, their anatomy is similar. Content edit page...
New assets default to being owned by the site in which they are created, with no other sites having access; however, you can change the site owner and grant access to other sites from the Sites widget...
Brightspot lists assets referring to the current asset in the References widget. Among other use cases, the References widget is especially helpful when an asset needs to be archived, as editors can r...
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Asset types
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Brightspot is packaged with content types that get you up and running in a matter of days, including assets, modules and landing pages.

Content types
Modules
Landing pages
Everything you need to know when creating, managing, and administering content within Brightspot CMS.

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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
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