Editing and Publishing Tutorials

Add an event that will appear on your site's calendar or the university calendar.

Use a CSV file to add several events at a time. Use bulk edit and workstream tools to further edit the events.

Add event category types and event categories, and configure your site settings to correctly handle events.

Fix the issue where event times show up differently than entered.

Create events on your own site and share them with the BYU calendar site

Get general image guidelines, add an image (with relevant metadata) to the shared image library, and edit an image's focus or cropping.

Add an image to the lead area of a page, add an image to a rich text area, and edit the display of the image within the rich text area.

If you're in the middle of editing a page you don't want to go back to the dashboard to add an image before you can use it in your page. Brightspot has you covered.

Add or remove the credit text in photos.

Learn the basics of creating a new page in Brightspot. Add title, description, and content. Set a URL or redirect. Understand the lead and content areas.

Change the site header to create user-friendly links to other parts of your site that are most often visited/used.

Require CAS login for access to parts of your website.

Fix spacing and add a title to the first column

Change the settings for section and all pages within it

Organize your site by putting pages and other content into sections

Create a link to something on the current page.

Promos are some of the building blocks of Brightspot. Whenever you want to refer to another page using its title, description or image, Brightspot helps you by automatically pulling that information into a promo.

Use Brightspot Lists to display a list of promos. These can be dynamically generated to show things like the most recent articles, or finely controlled to specify exactly which items appear in which order.

Update the page title, meta tags, promo information, and sharing information. Customize the title, description, and image that are used for SEO, internal links, and social media.

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

Use tags in a hierarchy to keep them better organized and easily access specific articles, employees, and anything else you need.

Save changes without publishing, and schedule future publishing

Speed up content creation by configuring commonly-used settings into a content template. Add templates to the Quick Start menu for easy access.

Add the same content in multiple locations but edit in just one place.

Add CSS and Javascript to some or all pages of your site.