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Scalar 2 User's Guide Main Menu Getting Started Explains account and book creation, and some interface basics. QuickStarts A path of all QuickStart content in this user's guide. Working with Media How to get the most out of your use of media in Scalar. Working with Content Creating and editing content in Scalar. Working with Widgets Working with Structure How to use Scalar's many options for structuring publications. Editorial Workflow How to use features for performing editorial review of content. Visualizations Exploring the contents of a book visually. Lenses An introduction to lenses, a tool for searching and visualizing Scalar content. Advanced Topics Describing Scalar's more advanced features. Third Party Plugins and Platforms

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Selecting a Page's Default View
This section describes functionality in Scalar's page editor, which is accessed by clicking the icon (if creating new content) or the icon (if editing existing content) in your Scalar header bar.
Immediately below the text editor is a drop-down menu for selecting the default view for the page. Any given page in Scalar can be rendered in a variety of ways; these are called views. Every page has a default view that determines what the user sees when they first arrive at the page.
Basic. In the Basic view the page's text and media are interspersed. You can set the size and placement of linked media as they are added to the page. Image Header. In the Image Header view, the page's background image is shown as a header, with the title and description of the page overlaid. The rest of the page follows the Basic layout, with text and media interspersed. Splash. In the Splash view, the page's background image is shown full screen, with the page's title at the bottom. If the page is part of a path or is itself a path, a navigation button is shown as well. Book Splash. In the Book Splash layout, the page's background image (either its own, or one inherited from its parent) is shown full screen, with the book's title and author(s) at the bottom. If the page is part of a path or is itself a path, a navigation button is shown as well. Media Gallery. In the Media Gallery view, media contained or tagged by the page are embedded at full width into a vertically scrolling gallery. Structured Gallery. In the Structured Media Gallery view, media contained, tagged, orlinked up to two levels deep are grouped into titled galleries of thumbnails which reveal the media in a larger view when clicked. Google Map. The Google Map view plots the current page plus any content it contains or tags on a Google Map embedded at the top of the page. Every piece of content to be plotted must include dcterms:spatial metadata (added using the 'Metadata' section below) in the format decimal latitude,decimal longitude. Each pin shown on the map will reveal the title, description, and link for its content when clicked. The rest of the page follows the Basic layout, with text and media interspersed. IFrame. Many third party tools allow their content to be embedded using iframe code which can be pasted into your Scalar page. The iframeview makes this content more immersive by removing the page's title and margins so that setting the iframe's width to 100% will cause it to fill all of the available horizontal space on the page. Grid. The Grid view embeds a visualization at the top of the page that shows content as boxes in a grid. Colored lines are drawn representing connections between the current page and its related content. The rest of the page follows the Basic layout, with text and media interspersed. Radial. The Radial view embeds a circular visualization at the top of thepage that shows connections between content. Colored arcs are drawn representing connections between the current page and its related content, set against the backdrop of all of the other connections in thework. The rest of the page follows the Basic layout, with text and media interspersed.