The dashboard is the place to streamline your site editing. It can be customized for a site, a role, or for a particular user.
Brightspot dashboard documentation
Standard Dashboard
BYU's default dashboard is set at the university level. It includes a Quick Start bar with some of the most commonly used content types, and widgets below. At any time, you can return to the Brightspot editor dashboard by clicking the logo of your website in the upper left corner.
- Quick Start can be edited by any user to remove content types from the list or to add frequently edited content. See Brightspot quick start documentation.
- Recent Activity shows content items with the most recently added or edited at the top. It can be filtered by site, content type, author, or content status (draft, published, archived, or revision). Revisions to content appear as separate entries to published content until they are published.
- Unpublished Drafts is a dedicated window for your works in progress.
- Upload allows you to drag and drop images, videos, and attachments (files like PDF or Word documents). You can drop one or multiple items
- Personal Employee gives a link to a BYU employee's public directory profile page. If you do not have a public profile page, you'll see a message that says "No employee associated with Net ID..." For more information, see Directory
- Brightspot Help includes links to BYU's Brightspot help and tutorial pages.
- Site Search Queries shows recent words and phrases that have been searched using the site search, along with their frequency of use, the number of results returned for that search, and the number of unsuccessful searches.
- Scheduled Events gives a calendar view of items that are scheduled to be published in the near future. See Scheduling.
- Workstreams allow you to easily edit a list of content items. The widget allows you to view, start, continue, stop, or remove workstreams. See Workstreams.
Custom Dashboard
Site administrators can change and customize the editor dashboard on their website. If you are a site administrator, you can access the Dashboard options under the CMS tab in the Sites and Settings menu in the left sidebar as shown below:
Dashboard Options
The Dashboard menu allows you to configure or select a custom dashboard layout. Selecting the Shared option in the dropdown menu will allow you to select preconfigured dashboards used by other websites in the university, while selecting the One Off option will allow you to create your own layout.
Quick Start Settings
The Quick Start Settings menu allows you to configure the options available in the Quick Start widget, which is typically displayed at the top of most dashboards.
The Create New Types menu allows you to set which content types an editor is able to create directly from the dashboard. Similarly, the Content Templates menu allows you to set the content templates that an editor can use from the dashboard. Finally, the Edit Existing Contents option allows you to include a direct link in the Quick Start widget to any Brightspot content item.
Note that unless the editor's permissions specifically forbid creating a specific item in this widget that they can still create a new instance of any content item, template, or attachment not listed in this widget.
