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.
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.
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