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Open a Browser Page in Brightspot Editor

Go directly to the Brightspot editor for a front-end page you're viewing.

You can create a browser bookmark that allows you to open any Brightspot web page for editing.

Create a new browser bookmark

The process for adding a bookmark varies by browser. Here are a few ways to open a new bookmark screen. Your browser will probably be similar.

Chrome/Edge

  1. Open the Bookmarks menu.
  2. Select Bookmark Manager to open the bookmark manager screen.
  3. Right click in the bookmark manager screen and select Add a Bookmark to create a new bookmark.

Firefox

  1. Open the Bookmarks menu.
  2. Select Manage Bookmarks to open the bookmark library.
  3. In the bookmark library, click the gear icon.
  4. Select Add Bookmark... to create a new bookmark.

Safari

  1. Open the Bookmarks menu.
  2. Select Add Bookmark... to create a new bookmark.

Add the title and URL to the new bookmark

  1. Set the title to Open Brightspot page in Editor or something else you prefer.
  2. Set the URL to the following code:
javascript:!function(){var bspUrl="https://brightspot.byu.edu/cms/content/edit.jsp",metas=document.getElementsByTagName("meta"),found=!1;console.log(bspUrl);for(var i=0;i<metas.length;i++)console.log(metas[i]),"brightspot.contentId"===metas[i].getAttribute("name")&&(found=!0,open(bspUrl+"?id="+metas[i].getAttribute("content"),"_blank"));found||alert("Error Finding In Brightspot")}();

Use the bookmark

  1. In your web browser, navigate to a page on your website.
  2. Click the bookmark. It should open a new tab and navigate in the Brightspot admin interface to the page you were viewing.

Or click and drag this link to your bookmark bar:
Open Page in Brightspot