Sometimes sites are large and have many pages within. Sections are Brightspots way to help organize these many pages to keep your site organized. Different pages and content can be grouped into sections that you can create to help your site have more organization.
Creating A Section
A section is actually seen by Brightspot as a normal content type and can therefore by created, just like you would a new page or article. Click on the search bar, look to your bottom left and select "Section", then click on New.
Once created, you can organize your section to how you would like.
The parent option allows you to create a deeper 'tree' of sections for you webpage. One can create a section for part of the site, then create sub-sections for that section and set the head section as the parent. Therefore sections can be under each other as well as different content types.
Section Navigation allows you to make a custom header and navigation bar when a user is in your section. This means each section you have can have a more unique look to let the user know that they are on your main site but in a specific section. This is optional and is set to inherit by default (meaning it will look the same as your main page).
Organizing a Section
Once your section is created, you can add any content type to that section. In any content type there will be an option for Section to select what section you want that piece of content to be associated with (see photo below).
Permissions with Sections (Admins only)
Another nifty feature that sections can do is include permissions by sections as well. This will mean users can either be restricted to certain sections of a site or be restricted from certain sections.
In the Admin menu in Brightspot on the left, under Users, select who's permissions you would like to change. Under the Permissions tab then Permissions Set, go to Encompassing Section Restrictions and here you can choose which sections to restrict or unrestricted a user to.
