bsn.Control and bsn.Content were formerly named Control Cloud and Content Cloud, respectively.

The software used to manage the content that players will display is known as a 

. Content management consists of the following activities:

Publishing - getting content onto the player

Scheduling - setting when or under what circumstances content will display

Authoring (optional) - creating presentations for players to display

Content authoring may be included as part of the CMS, although in many cases (such as with HTML/web-based presentations described below), authoring is done outside of the CMS.

There are a number of CMS solutions available which can be broadly categorized into three options.

 is BrightSign’s free, all-in-one app for player setup / management, authoring, and content management. It is available for Mac or PC and can be downloaded 

Intend to manage and publish content residing on their 

Have relatively small player networks (typically less than 10 players).

Note that BrightSign Author (also known as BrightAuthor:connected) is our latest app for managing content and players. Although similarly named, it is 

 from BrightAuthor, our legacy app. Development of BrightAuthor has largely ceased and the app will eventually be deprecated and replaced with BrightSign Author. The legacy BrightAuthor is often referred to as BrightAuthor Classic throughout our docs to better help emphasize this distinction.

Generally speaking, there are two approaches for authoring player content:

Presentations from simple to advanced can be created using BrightSign Author/BrightAuthor:connected or via a web browser at bsn.cloud.

Thanks to the Chromium engine built-in to every player, players are capable of displaying standards-compliant web pages. Common web technologies (i.e., HTML, JavaScript, etc.) can thus be used to create web-based presentations for players to display.

Core Elements

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This is our legacy cloud platform. Our latest cloud platform is BSN.Cloud which consists of the free bsn.Control and the paid bsn.Content tiers. Development of BSN has largely ceased and will eventually be deprecated and replaced with BSN.Cloud.

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BrightSign’s *legacy* app for authoring and managing players. The app's actual name is BrightAuthor but is referred to as BrightAuthor Classic to lessen confusion with BrightAuthor:connected, our latest app.

BrightAuthor_Classic

BrightSign’s latest free, all-in-one app for player setup / management, authoring, and content management.

BrightAuthorconnected

The BSN.Cloud record of a player and its Setup. The Default Setup is assigned to the player unless another Setup has been explicitly set.

Provision_Record

The process where a Setup is delivered and applied to a player by BSN.Cloud.

Provision

A set of files containing player settings (player name, description, time zone, Publishing Mode, network settings, etc.) and an autorun.brs file which instructs the player what to do upon bootup.

Setup

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Are like departments for your users. You can create different groups (like Engineers, Marketing, or Management) and assign users to them. This helps you organize your users and give them different access levels to different parts of your organization

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Connect multiple published Spaces for easy navigation between docs (e.g., User Guides, API docs). Add links in Space settings, label them, and publish. Changes to links automatically update across connected Spaces. 

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Think of them as folders for your Spaces. You start with one called "Spaces." Make more folders if you need them. You can add, rename, or delete folders (but only if they're empty). To put a Space in a folder, just drag it there, use the move action,

Space_Group

Containers for documents organized by teams or projects. Each account has a personal space, and organizations can create custom ones with access control.

Spaces

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