Settings for the Global site
The Global site has many settings that serve two purposes: configuring Brightspot and providing defaults for lower levels in the site hierarchy.
The settings described in this section apply to most versions of Brightspot. Your version of Brightspot may have different settings.
From the Navigation Menu, expand Admin, and select Sites & Settings.
In the Sites & Settings widget, click Global. The Edit Global widget appears.
Using the tables Global settings–Main tab and Global settings–Debug tab as a reference, configure settings in the Edit Global widget.
Click Save.
Field | Description |
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Name | Name for Global site. |
Company Name | Company name. If there is no company logo, the company name appears in the header next to the Navigation Menu. If there is no company name and no logo, |
Company Logo | Company logo. Appears in the header next to the Navigation Menu. Overrides company name. |
Background Image | Background image for login page. If set to |
Environment | Name of environment. Appears in a ribbon in the header. |
Default Role | Default role when creating a new user. For additional information about creating new users, see Creating roles and Creating users. |
Default Site URL | Default URL for published sites. For information about creating sites, see Creating sites; for an explanation of site URLs, see Overview of URLs. |
Default Preview URL | The default base portion of a URL used to preview content. If not specified, Brightspot uses the Default Site URL. |
Default Tool URL | The URL Brightspot uses when sending notifications that include links, such as emails or text messages. Also the URL editors use to log in to Brightspot. Do not append |
Allow Global Editing | Editors logged on to Global site can edit content associated with any other site. Overrides access permission set at item level. For information about permissions in a multi-site environment, see Assigning permissions to content on multiple sites. |
Authenticators | Select the applicable authenticator for users logging into Brightspot. |
Broadcast | |
Global Only | If on, editors see the broadcast message only when working in the Global site. |
Broadcast Message | Message appearing on top of the header. |
Broadcast Expiration | Date and time when broadcast message expires. If blank, broadcast message has no expiration. |
Content Templates | |
Global Defaults | Globally available templates populated with default values. For details, see Content templates. |
Global Extras | Globally available templates populated with default values and labeled as a different content type. For details, see Content templates. |
Site Specific Defaults | Templates populated with default values for a specific site. For details, see Setting content templates at site levels. |
Site Specific Extras | Templates populated with default levels and labeled as a different content type for a specific site. For details, see Setting content templates at site levels. |
Dashboard | |
Default Dashboard | Default dashboard for all roles and users. Roles and users with a default dashboard of |
Resources | Default list of resources for the Resources widget. For information about the Resources widget, see Resources. |
Quick Start Settings | List of content types and items appearing in the Quick Start widget. |
Bulk Upload Settings | Default file type in the Upload Files widget. For details, see Upload. |
Dropbox | |
Dropbox Application Key | Application key for downloading files from Dropbox. Useful if you want to select images or videos for an article that are stored on Dropbox. |
Google Server Api Key | Application key for downloading files from Google Drive. Useful if you want to select images or videos for an article that are stored on Google. |
Hunspell | |
Dictionaries | List of dictionaries containing correctly spelled words. For information about creating additional dictionaries, see Auxiliary dictionaries. |
Notifications | |
Default From Email | Address from which Brightspot sends email notifications. For details, see Notifications. |
Default From Phone Number | Phone number from which Brightspot sends text message notifications. Must be a number registered with an SMS service for sending text messages. If blank, Brightspot uses the value configured for Dari; for details, see Step 3: Configure Dari for text messaging. |
Preview | |
Closed by Default | For mobile devices, preview pane is closed by default. Enable this option for the preview pane to be closed by default for other devices. |
Preview Types | Previews generated by external applications, such as InDesign or a GraphQL server. |
Default Preview Type | Default preview type from available preview types. |
Preview Devices | List of devices available in the preview pane. If blank, all devices are available. |
RTE | |
Default Text Overlay CSS | Default CSS statements for text overlaid on graphics. For example, |
Text CSS Class Groups | Adds user-defined buttons and associated formatting to the rich-text editor. Useful if users are adding combinations of formatting, such as red + underline. |
Legacy HTML | Provides backward compatibility for those projects using the old style of storing HTML from rich-text editors. |
Enable Annotations | Deprecated. |
Enable Code Mirror Rich Text Editor | If toggled on, Brightspot uses the previous CodeMirror rich-text editor; if toggled off, Brightspot uses the more current ProseMirror rich-text editor. |
Security | |
Two-Factor Authentication Required | Default setting for requiring Two-Factor Authentication when logging in. |
Site Copier | |
Disallow Site Copy | If toggled on, administrators cannot copy sites. For additional information, see Copying sites. |
Copy Threshold | Maximal number of items Brightspot copies from the original site to the new site. |
Social Publishing | |
Content Types | List of content types for which social publishing is enabled. For additional information, see Enabling sharing for content types. |
UI | |
Common Times | Static times for general usage, such as setting a daily column deadline to 3:30 PM. You can have these times appear in Brightspot. For details, contact your Brightspot representative. |
Inline Editing | Items users can edit using the inline editor.
Users can override this setting at the user level; for details, see Creating users. |
Disable Front End Uploader | Deprecated. |
Disable Viewers | Disables the viewer mechanism. For details, see Viewers. |
Content Locking | Applies various levels of content locking. For an explanation of the levels, see Enabling content or field locking |
Inactivity Lock Timeout | Number of minutes after which the locking editor navigated away from the browser tab that Brightspot removes the lock. For example, if Juan opened an article, and started working in a different browser tab, Brightspot removes the lock on the article after the specified number of minutes. The timer resets when Juan returns to the browser tab. Set to zero for no timeout. |
Network Lock Timeout | Number of minutes after which locking editor's network connection ends (such as putting a laptop to sleep) that Brightspot removes the lock. Set to zero for no timeout. |
Hard Lock Timeout | Number of hours after which Brightspot unconditionally removes a lock. Set to zero for no timeout. |
Recent Revisions Banner Expiration | Number of hours after which an unpublished revision no longer appears in the Recent Revisions Banner (see the illustration New revision in content edit form). |
Allow Disable Unlocking | Allows editors in a role with the Disable Content Unlocking permission to prevent other editors without the permission Disable Content Unlocking from unlocking an item they opened. Editors disable content unlocking by clicking a link in the message area.  Example:
In this scenario—
(This setting does not override the effect of Inactivity Lock Timeout, Network Lock Timeout, and Hard Lock Timeout.) For information about setting the permission Disable Content Unlocking at the role level, see Limiting access to locking. |
Search Carousel Display | Deprecated. |
Enable Sticky Search Filters | Retains values for common search filters when searching for a different content type. For example, if you first search for articles with status |
Disable Search Term Highlighting | In search results, the search term is not highlighted in yellow. |
Enable Calendar Search Result View | Changes the view for the editorial calendar widget. |
Enable Sticky Search Filters | Retains values for common search filters when searching for a different content type. For example, if you first search for articles with status Draft, and then search for images, the setting for status remains Draft. |
Enable Padded Crop | Deprecated. |
Disable Smart Uploader | Deprecated. |
Disable Video Editor UI | Disables video editing functionality. |
Gallery Display | Deprecated. |
List Gallery Default View | Changes default view in a gallery from grid view to list view; see Galleries. |
Localization Bundles | Customized labels for Brightspot's widgets; for details, see Customizing Brightspot's labels. |
Field | Description |
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Disabled Plugins | List of installed plugins that are disabled. |
Single Generated Permalink | Forces a newly generated permalink to replace any existing permalinks. |
Extra CSS | Additional lines of CSS code that impact the Brightspot GUI. For example, the statement |
Extra Java Script | Lines of JavaScript code that run every time you load a page in Brightspot. For example, the statement |
Use Non Minified CSS | Displays linked CSS files in pretty print. Applies to viewing page sources within Brightspot. For example, if you load the Dashboard, view source, and view the linked CSS files, those files appear in pretty print. This setting has no effect on the built file |
Use Non Minified Java Script | Displays linked JavaScript files in pretty print. Applies to viewing page sources within Brightspot. For example, if you load the Dashboard, view source, and view the linked JavaScript files, those files appear in pretty print. This setting has no effect on the built file |
Disable Automatically Saving Drafts | Deprecated. |
Enable Ajax Saves | Deprecated. Use instead |
Disable Types Not Associated with Java Classes | Prevents models not associated with a class from appearing in the Brightspot GUI. For example, if you renamed a class |
Remove Trailing Slashes | Removes trailing slashes from URL requests to published sites. Brightspot saves permalinks without a trailing slash, such as Overrides Enable Trailing Slash Normalization. |
Enable Trailing Slash Normalization |
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Disable Tool Checks | Deprecated. |
Allow Insecure Authentication Cookie | Deprecated. |
Display Site in Search Result | Adds a Site column to the search panel. This column indicates to which site a found item belongs. |
Always Generate Permalinks | Always generates new permalinks and retains previous ones. For example, Brightspot often creates permalinks from the headline field. If an item's first draft has a headline |
Disable Edit Field Update Cache | Deprecated. Replaced by |
Dari Settings | List of key-value pairs for interacting with Dari. For a list of possible settings, see Configuring Dari. |
Enable Cross Domain Inline Editing | Inline Editor appears for all elements on a page, even those belonging to a different domain. Useful when you log in to Brightspot at one domain (such as bsp.example.com) but publish to a different domain (such as www.example.com). |
Disable Rtc | Disables the real-time communication (RTC) platform between the browser and the server. Several features rely on this platform, such as Viewers, so disabling RTC disables these features. Useful for debugging as RTC frequently changes the state of several system elements and thereby masks the sources of bugs. |
Disable Invisible Content Preview | Disables the display of invisible content, such as archived items, in the Preview Pane. For example, an author is associated with an article, and the author's record is subsequently archived. The author is still visible in the preview pane—but not in the published version. Marking this option prevents the archived author from appearing in the preview pane. |
Disable Work in Progress | As users type in the content edit form, Brightspot saves the incremental changes even before they click one of the save buttons in the Publish widget. Marking this option disables those interim saves. For more information, see Work in progress. |
Use Old History Index | Provides backward compatibility for those projects using the old indexing of History objects. |
Use Old Taxonomy Children Detection | Provides backward compatibility for those projects using the old indexing of objects implementing the Taxon interface. |
Use Old Directory Paths Predicate | When querying for objects with a path:
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Use Legacy Settings Site Switching | Deprecated. |
Auto Increment Permalinks | Brightspot automatically appends an incremental number to a permalink if necessary to prevent a duplicate URL. |
Tip
Administrators can provide explanatory notes for fields in the Edit Global widget. For details, see Reading and providing notes for Brightspot fields.