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A technique for rapidly delivering content to mobile devices. Web pages coded as AMP often have content pre-staged on Google for faster delivery. See AMP and The AMP Project.

A row or column of links for sharing an asset.

A module with content populated by an external ad agency. See Delivering ads with content.

A relationship a visitor creates with an asset. Examples of affinities include the following:

Text associated with an image on a web page. Alt text helps visitors understand an image in the following situations:

Figure 153. Web page with image displayed

Figure 154. Web page with alt text displayed

A line of Java code that modifies the interactions with a class or instance of a class. Brightspot has special annotations to customize the behavior of the front end and the back end.

The ratio of an image's width to its height. In the following illustration, the image has an aspect ratio of 1.5:1 (= 640 ÷ 426).

A piece of content, such as an article, image, or video. Assets can also be components of other assets—an author can be an asset that is part of an article. You can see the types of assets you can create by opening the Create list in the search panel. An asset can also be referred to as an item.

A request for items associated with a pitch. Assignments often have a lead editor, an assignee generating the content, and a due date. See Creating an assignment.

A technique by which a web page sends and receives data from a web server. You can tell a web page is using AJAX if the page changes, typically after clicking on a button or a link. For example, clicking on one of Brightspot's selection fields opens a content picker; the assets inside the content picker are the results of an AJAX call between the browser and the server.

The format of a file (often called a "feed") to which publishers submit announcements of published assets. Subscribers to the feed receive a notification when new assets are available. Atom uses a standards-based XML file format.

See Also Really Simple Syndication.

A group of visitors to which tailored content can be delivered at specified times to specified devices. Audiences are used by the plugin Segmentation.

A third party that provides authentication services for logging in to your website. Facebook, Twitter, Google, and LinkedIn are typical authentication providers; a visitor can use a login to one of those sites to also log in to your site.

Software that editors use to create items. Editors logging in to Brightspot are working on the back end. See Back end and front end. See also Front End.

Server process that runs without user intervention. There are system background tasks built into Brightspot and custom background tasks that can be added. Tasks can be viewed with the Task Status tool.

Increasing an item's relevance in a list of search results. See Understanding relevance and boosting.

A digital experience platform for building scaleable content and asset management applications, as well as a platform for integrating other publishing systems, such as video, social media, and CRM. Brightspot can be used as a publishing platform for websites and native mobile applications, or as an application backend. Highly customizable, Brightspot can be used as an out-of-the-box application with standard content types, plugins, and theme-based visual templates.

A schedule that includes the earliest date and time when all of an editor's new and modified content will be published. Bulk scheduling of multiple items.

A prompt for a visitor's response, such as "Read More" or "Watch Now." Calls to action help to increase a visitor's engagement with your website.

A utility for determining all classes in the code base based on their Java hierarchy or inheritance. See ClassFinder.

A preview version of a full-length video.

The Styleguide component that generates Java interface files for the View from template and JSON files.

A group of assets. Actions on multiple assets such as archiving, sharing, and opening work streams are often easier to do with Collections.

A widget for picking a color

One or more assets associated with another asset. In a typical scenario, you associate companion content with an audio or video playlist, and Brightspot cues the visitor to view the companion content at a specific time during the playback.

See Companion content.

Component of a Tomcat configuration entry that identifies a configuration. The configuration key is typically the third component of a path. The following illustration is an example of a configuration key for Storage Items. The configuration key for databases and image editors is in a similar format.

A network architecture that delivers content from a server that is geographically close to a visitor. When you publish an item in Brightspot, the item may be stored on various servers to ensure rapid delivery to all your visitors.

Area of the content edit page where editors develop content. A content edit form typically consists of several fields, and can vary depending on the content type.

See Creating content, Custom content edit forms

The content edit page contains the forms, widgets , and editorial toolbar for developing, managing, and publishing content. The available widgets can vary depending on the content type.

A top-down inheritance model for defining consistent page layout. The hierarchy starts at the global level and flows through the site level to further lower levels. For example, a header set on a site will be used on all pages on that site, unless a different header is defined at a lower level of the hierarchy, overriding the site header. See Content hierarchy.

When a user opens an asset in the content edit form, Brightspot prevents all other users from modifying the same asset. Administrators can disable content locking.

See Also Field-Level Locking.

The process of determining the content types in your Brightspot project, and the components of each type. For example, an image is a content type, and an image's components include a graphic, caption, and credit. See Rapid content modeling.

A widget opened from a selection field that displays assets that you can select for the list. For example, the content edit form for an article may have a field for selecting an author. When you click the author field, Brightspot displays a content picker listing the existing authors you can select.

A search for assets in Brightspot. You perform content searches in the search panel.

A mechanism for automatically populating a Content Edit Form for a given content type. For example, you can create a content template that automatically populates an article's headline, body text, and image. You can define content templates at the role level, user level, and site-specific combinations for roles and users.

A type of content, such as article, image, blog, or video.

The process of rendering content differently depending on a template's context. For example, Brightspot can render an author's image one way in the context of a bio page, and a different way in the context of a byline on an article's page.

An expression specifying the times when an event occurs, such as starting a background task. For example, the expression 0 0 0/1 1/1 * ? * can start a task every hour on every day. For more information about building cron expressions, see Cron Maker.

The region of an image that remains after cropping. In Cropping example, the wooden tray is the crop region.

Removal of extraneous areas from a graphic. Cropping often focuses a reader's eye on the actual subject of an image.

Table 55. Cropping example

Figure 155. Original image

Figure 156. Cropped image

A set of tools for debugging, monitoring, and migrating data. See Debugging with Dari.

An object persistence library and data-modeling tool, used to build complex content types and persist them to one or more databases. Dari enables developers to query databases, as well as to create and modify custom data structures from within the same access layer. A data Model can be altered by modifying the Java classes that define it, without regard to database schema or other configurations.

A Dari tool that keeps track of all events that occur within a specific time frame.

The top-level Brightspot page containing links for managing content, work streams, and scheduled events. The dashboard is the landing page users see after logging in to Brightspot. Developers can customize the dashboard to fit an organization's needs. The following image is an example of a typical dashboard; your version of Brightspot may have a different dashboard.

A Dari tool that provides the capability to export database objects from one Brightspot environment and import them into another environment. See Database Bootstrap.

A Content Template associated with an underlying Content Type. For example, you can create default templates for articles.

The URL Brightspot uses when sending notifications that include links, such as emails or text messages. Default tool URLs are often similar to the URLs for published content. For example, if published content appears at http://www.neanderthalrecipes.com/, the corresponding default tool URL may be http://editors.neanderthalrecipes.com/.

The method by which Brightspot delivers notifications. Brightspot can send notifications through the browser, email, Slack, and text messaging. See also Notification, Subscription. See Notifications.

In the editorial context, a dictionary is a list of names, technical terms, acronyms, or other nomenclature that you do not want to be flagged as spelling errors. See Global dictionaries

In the visitor-search context, a dictionary is a list of terms and associated variants. When a visitor searches for a term in the dictionary, Brightspot includes in the search results a spotlight . See Dictionaries and terms.

A pre-published version of an asset that is labeled with the Draft status in the Revisions Widget. If the asset participates in a Workflow, the workflow status is indicated, for example, Submitted, Approved, or Rejected. See Drafts and revisions.

After the initial publication of the draft, all subsequent updates to the asset are revisions, that is, post-published versions.

An Internet-based API for image resizing.

The toolbar at the top of the content edit page. The Editorial Toolbar shows an item's content type and title, and contains actions that you can perform.

If an asset is associated with a workflow, the Editorial Toolbar shows the Workflow button, which opens the Workflow Widget. The widget includes the Publish button.

A period of time during which an asset cannot be published.

An object field annotated with @Embedded. The object set on the field is then embedded within the containing object. See Relationships.

An object embedded in the rich-text editor, such as media, a promo, pull quote, external content, and many other assets in Brightspot.

A video asset with either Show or Season parent.

Content incorporated into an asset that is hosted on a server external to Brightspot. When rendering a page, Brightspot takes the external content from the external server. Examples of external content are Facebook posts and Twitter tweets.

A Content Template that appears as its own Content Type. For example, if you have a content type Article, you can create an extra template Blog Post that has the same structure as Article.

A search of a third-party content provider, such as Getty Images, from the search panel.

A list of assets available through a Really Simple Syndication or Atom subscription.

A situation in which two users are simultaneously editing the same field and one of them cannot modify the field until the other user saves changes to that field.

See Also Content Locking.

An image's ideal vertical and horizontal center. When automatically cropping images, Brightspot attempts to keep the focus point in the center of the cropped area.

See How Brightspot delivers images, Setting a focus point.

Number of images (frames) a video displays in a second. Movies and television shows are typically produced at 24 fps. Slow-motion films are typically at 60 fps. As a video's frame rate increases, so does its file size.

A brand under which shows are marketed. See Broadcast.

The HTML, JavaScript, and styling web browsers use to render content in a page or mobile app. When a visitor goes to a web address, the front end retrieves the required content and data, assembles them into a web page, and sends the page to the visitor's browser. See Back end and front end, Theme guide. See also Back End.

A module with a list of images that have a navigation cue to page through the images. See Galleries.

Configuration settings that apply to all users of a Brightspot application, unless some or all of the settings are overridden by a system level that's of higher precedence than global, for example, Site Settings.

A portion of Brightspot that provides navigation tools, user information, and company information. Your version of Brightspot may also show a broadcast message in the header. The header appears at the top of each Brightspot page.

A publishing environment in which Brightspot outputs JSON files instead of traditional HTML files. A consuming system ingests the JSON files and transforms them into HTML or other format expected by the target device. For more information, see The Pros and Cons of Coupled, Decoupled, and Headless CMS Platforms.

The asset a visitor sees when going to a site's top-level URL.

An HTTP header contains session information passed between a web browser and a web server, such as the target URL, cookies, and browser name and version. See HTTP Headers.

A widget for editing images on the Content Edit Form for editing images.

See Images.

A database index that enables searching in a Brightspot application. Both fields and methods can be targeted for indexing with the @Indexed annotation.

A method that returns a value and is a target for indexing. Indexing methods is a way to index and query values that are not directly set by users, but are generated from other values stored in an object. See Indexes.

A widget that appears when previewing an asset—depending on the user's permissions. Clicking on an asset in the inline editor displays the Content Edit Form for that asset.

The identifier Brightspot uses to refer to an object in the user interface.

Field on the content edit form showing relative importance or weight of related items. Some item bars have a handle that editors can use to adjust the relative weight.

An asset visitors see typically after a headline and before the body text. Depending on your version of Brightspot, leads can be images, videos, or Components.

A module with a series of assets typically related to the main asset or related to the visitor's profile. There are two types of lists:

See Lists. See also Playlist.

An article that consists of a list, such as a top 10 list. See Listicles.

A version of a published asset that is currently visible on a website. See also Scheduled.

A blog that provides comments by one or more editors attending an event. See Live Blog.

Video that is streamed over the Internet and displayed on a web page in real time (as an event is currently happening). Live video is typically implemented through integration with a third-party online video provider, such as Kaltura or AWS Elemental.

A playback of media files that automatically starts at a configured time. The live wheel runs sequentially and continuously in a loop. When the configured time is reached, the live wheel's playback restarts from the beginning. See Live wheel.

A language-region pair that characterizes language, currency symbol, date and time format, and other conventions used in a particular region. The following table provides some examples of locales.

A latitude-longitude coordinate on a map. See also Region.

A Brightspot utility that displays a preview of the item currently in the content edit form. You can use Looking Glass to preview content on different devices. See Previewing with Looking Glass.

Portion of the content edit page that displays descriptive messages about an item.

A template Brightspot uses to generate the body of a notifications. For example, an email message formatter typically specifies the notification's subject line and the body.

Information about a file (text, audio, image, video) that does not pertain directly to the file's contents. For example, metadata for an image file typically includes its dimensions, date created, and device used to create the image.

A compressed video file that is visually equivalent to a full-resolution video. Mezzanine files typically have the same format parameters as the original file with a lower bit rate.

A standard identifier indicating a file's type. Web pages often have a MIME type text/html, and some images have a MIME type image/png. Brightspot uses MIME types for internal processing. See MIME Types.

A Dari feature to add new fields to existing classes.

A container for content that supports or supplements the main asset on a page, like an article. There are several types of modules, such as ad, list, promo, and search. See Components.

A Brightspot environment with more than one website defined. For example, a Brightspot application for a medical supplies company can have several websites organized by product type. In a multi-site environment, content can be published to multiple sites simultaneously. See also Site.

Brightspot's top-level menu.

A mechanism for sending messages to editors and administrators when events occur. For example, you can receive notifications when you are mentioned in a conversation or when content is published. See also Delivery Option, Subscription.

A Java object that represents a persisted instance in the database.

An object associated with only one other object. Examples include the following:

See Also Shared.

An HTML tag that helps social networks find and properly lay out assets published with Brightspot.

A collection of assets grouped together under a common theme, often for a limited time. Examples include the following:

See Content hierarchy.

A subset of query results as specified by a limit and offset. A paginated result prevents all results from being returned at one time and potentially exceeding system memory. See Paginated results.

A permanent URL to a published web page. An example of a permalink is http://www.breakfastrecipes.com/bluberry-pancakes.

See Also Slug.

A module that displays content tailored to the visitor's preferences or profile. See Personalized content.

A group of assignments for developing content associated with a common theme. Examples of pitches include social events, product launches, and detailed news stories. See Creating an assignment.

Text without any formatting, such as boldface or italics. In the Content Edit Form, fields such as Headline, First Name, and Alt Text are plain text.

A series of media files that visitors can play back in sequence. See also Live Wheel.

Components that enhance Brightspot functionality.

A container for a series of episodes pertaining to a particular topic. See Podcasts.

A pane in the content edit page that shows how an asset appears when published. See Previewing content.

A |mi-visibility| icon on the Editorial Toolbar that displays the Preview Pane.

An abbreviated view of an item. Promos are typically used as an invitation for visitors to view additional content on your site. Effective promos increase engagement with your site as visitors click from the promo to the actual item.

A module with content associated with the main asset on the page. A promo can have a heading, body, link, and image. See Promos.

A sentence associated with an asset, typically set aside with a large typeface.

A portion of a URL that web applications use to generate and deliver customized content. Query strings start with a question mark (?) and often have components separated by ampersands (&). The following illustration is an example of a query string specifying a lat-long coordinate.

Referring to the previous illustration, the web application can check if pizza delivery is available at lat-long (-74.04, 40.69).

A Dari tool for querying single aggregated or multiple SQL and Solr databases. See Database Query.

A widget on the dashboard that provides quick access to creating new content types and editing existing assets.

See Quick Start.

A component that allows Brightspot to update content as it is edited in real time.

A file (often called a "feed") to which publishers submit announcements of published assets. Subscribers to the feed receive a notification when new assets are available. RSS uses a plain-text file format, and is currently more popular than Atom.

A widget that displays a list of assets containing the current asset. For example, if you are viewing an author in the Content Edit Page, the References widget lists articles written by that author.

Clicking on an asset in the References widget opens the corresponding asset in the Content Edit Page.

A circular or polygonal area on a map.

See Also Location.

A measure of an item's closeness to a search term or phrase. When retrieving a list of items matching a search term, Brightspot can sort the items by relevance. See Understanding relevance and boosting.

A web application that, after changes in a Brightspot source project, automatically rebuilds and redeploys the application. See Reloader.

An in-memory cache for SQL databases that reduces database reads.

A post-published version of an asset that, when published, replaces the live version of the asset. See Revisions widget.

Prior to publication, assets are in the draft state.

A widget on the content edit page that lists all current and previous revisions of an asset.

See Revisions widget.

Text with formatting, such as boldface or italics. In the Content Edit Form, fields such as Body, Caption, Short Biography, and any other field with a rich-text toolbar are rich text. See also Rich-Text Editor, Plain Text.

A module that provides an editor for creating formatted text, images, videos, and hyperlinks. See Rich text.

A text field that includes a toolbar for applying formatting and an editing area.

An object that can be inserted into text using the Rich-Text Editor. Examples of rich-text elements are videos, image galleries, or pull quotes. See Rich-text elements.

An HTML meta tag that instructs search engines how to index a site. See Robots meta tag and X-Robots-Tag HTTP header specifications.

A group of users who perform similar functions. In many cases, there are at least two roles: administrative and editorial. Users assigned to the administrative role typically have access to more features in Brightspot than users assigned to the editorial role. To simplify system administration tasks, you can configure Brightspot at the role level instead of at the user level. See Managing roles.

A version of a published asset that will be visible on a website at a future time.

See Also Live.

Widget in the content edit page listing results of most recent search. By default, the search carousel is disabled in the Settings for the Global site.

A module that provides a search tool for entering search terms. See Search field.

Panel for searching for content. You open the search panel by clicking in the Search field in the header.

A collection of episodes organized by a time frame. See Broadcast.

A content type for organizing related assets. The following table provides some examples of sections for different types of websites.

See Content hierarchy.

Object that can be initialized by Settings.

See Also SettingsBackedObject.

An object available for use with other objects. Examples include the following:

See Also One-Off.

A collection of seasons, episodes, or specials that can have a franchise as a parent. See Broadcast.

A website to which Brightspot publishes content.

See Also Multi-Site Environment.

A user-defined category of sites. For example, a medical supplies company could associate its websites with one or more categories, like retail sales, physician offices, and hospitals. A website can belong to more than one category.

A search for a term or phrase on your published site. One example of a site search is a visitor searching for the term "Alaska" on the site Inspire Confidence. See Site-search analytics, Terms.

Configuration settings that apply to the users of a site in a Brightspot application. Site settings take precedence over Global Settings.

An XML file that lists topics in a site hierarchy. Sitemaps can be read by web crawlers to enhance retrieval of your content by Internet search engines.

Brightspot can generate a standard sitemap, which reflects all content types on a site, and content-specific sitemaps. For more information, see Sitemaps.

An identifier for an asset, typically used in the asset's permalink. Brightspot automatically generates slugs from an asset's headline or title.

A Dari feature that enables rapid web application development by making source code changes immediately available. See SourceFilter and Reloader.

A type of query that can be used to find objects with a Location field, which specifies a two-dimensional space. For more information, see Spatial queries.

A video asset that is typically a one-off production of a show. See Broadcast.

A promo associated with a search term. Brightspot displays the spotlight when displaying results for the search term. See Terms.

An asset that provides authentication settings for visitors to log in to your site. See Configuring the Users plugin.

In the editorial context, an item's state in the publishing process. Typical examples of an item's state are Draft, Scheduled, and Live. See Content states.

In the developer context, the state of an object stored in the database. See State.

An asset's current position in a workflow. Examples of statuses are "new," "pending review," "approved," "rejected", and "published."

A module that provides the most recently available stock price from a specified listing exchange. See Stock tickers.

File-based data in a Brightspot application that is referenced by objects persisted to the database. See StorageItem.

A tool for building a library of front end components for Brightspot applications. See Styleguide development environment.

In the editorial context, a visitor who has a login to a site. Subscribers typically log in with a username and password, or with a social networking account. Traditionally, subscribers have access to extended content and site features compared to other visitors. See Users. See also User, Visitor.

In the developer context, user who created a subscription.

A combination of event, site, content type, and delivery option. When the event occurs for the configured site and content type, Brightspot sends the notification to the configured delivery option. See Notifications.

A palette of seven colors recommended by a site designer to use in a publication. See Configuring a theme's swatch.

A module for placing modules of any type into individual tabs. See Tabs.

A keyword associated with an asset. Tags help visitors discover content on your site. For example, you can apply the following tags to an image of the moon: moon, space, Apollo, and NASA. Visitors who search for those terms will discover your image. See Tags. See also Taxonomy.

A method or protocol for organizing assets you publish with Brightspot. Applying tags is an effective taxonomy.

A collection of layouts, color schemes, animations, and image sizes.

Protocol and domain name editors use to access Brightspot, such as http://editors.neanderthalrecipes.com/.

See Also Default Tool URL.

A menu of actions available for an asset on the Content Edit Page. To display the tools menu, click |mi-settings| on the Editorial Toolbar. The available actions depend on the state of the asset version (draft, revision, live) that is currently selected.

A widget providing miscellaneous information and settings for editors, and technical information for developers. To open the widget, click Tools on the Tools Menu.

A portion of a URL that websites use to understand how a visitor arrived at an item.

Referring to the previous illustration, there are two tracking parameters:

See Configuring affinities, URL Builders, UTM parameters. See also Uniform Resource Locator.

An activity that moves an asset from one state to another in a workflow. Examples of transitions are "submit," "approve," and "reject."

A date in a Bulk Schedule when all of an editor's new and modified content will be published.

A layer of security that requires a Brightspot user to enter a temporary password when logging in. An authentication app on the user's device generates the temporary password. Two-factor authentication helps prevent breaches associated with static username-password logins.

The unique ID assigned to a class stored in the database.

A unique address for every item on the Internet. You enter URLs in a browser's address field to retrieve and display content from the Internet. See URL management, Site URLs.

A widget in the Content Edit Page listing an asset's URLs. Clicking a link in this widget opens the asset (if published) in your web browser.

See Site URLs.

An employee who has a login to Brightspot. Users are typically editors, reporters, and administrators. See Roles, users, and permissions. See also Subscriber, Visitor.

A short, memorable URL that typically reflects a site's branding message and marketing purpose.

An item tailored to a particular audience. Items can have several variations, one for each audience.

Figure 157. Variation for a weekday edition

Figure 158. Variation for a weekend edition

A draft or a revision.

The Brightspot mechanism for associating backend Model classes with front end components.

The Brightspot component that generates Java interface files from front end files created in the Styleguide. See How the view generator creates view classes.

The class that binds a Model to a View. It receives raw data from the Model and transforms that data to produce a View. See View models.

The Brightspot system that controls presentation of data on the front end. See View system.

A user who opened an asset in the Content Edit Page.

A model's property that indicates an object is excluded from a query's search results even if it satisfies the search criteria. For example, an object satisfies the search criteria WHERE ID=12345. If the object's visibility label is non-null, Dari does not include the object in the search results. See Excluding records from queries with visibility labels, Retrieving records with visibility labels.

Someone using a web browser or native app to view your site's content. See also Subscriber, User.

A graph showing the frequency of a video's percent completion as watched by visitors.

In the previous illustration, approximately 43,000 visitors watched the first 10 percent of a video, and approximately 4,000 visitors watched the entire video.

A plugin that notifies interested users as an asset moves through its publication workflow. See Watch.

A component of a Brightspot page that provides links or fields for entering, viewing, and updating information. The following image is an example of the Recent Activity widget.

A background process that maintains live backups of content in the event a Brightspot session unexpectedly ends.

An assignment for one or more assets. For example, an editor can create a work stream to fact-check a group of articles, and then assign that work stream to the copy-edit department. See Work streams.

A mechanism that enforces a sequence of operations through which an asset moves from draft state to publication. See Workflows.

A log that tracks modifications as an object progresses through the states of a workflow.

A widget for navigating through the steps of a workflow. To open the widget, click Workflow on the Editorial Toolbar.

See Workflows.