Digital Exhibits Guide

• To create a numbered Table of Contents path in the body of a page, start on the first page with text. If you don’t want a Table of Contents in the body of a page, then start your path from the Title splash page

• Input all the pages you want in your path either from the first page of your path (Edit-->Relationships-->Path) or from the dashboard (Relationships tab-->Paths pull-down menu)

• For more information on creating paths, see the Scalar User's Guide

Thumbnails

You can use the card widget in combination with page thumbnails to create thumbnail navigation.  This can be done in addition to or instead of a path, as was done for "The Sporting Life: Stories from Chicago Collections archives" exhibit:

There are two steps for creating this kind of navigation: 

1. For each page you want to include, assign a thumbnail by editing the page, then selecting the "Thumbnail" option in the "Styling" tab at the bottom 
2. Add a card widget in the body of the text where the thumbnails will appear. The card images will be the thumbnails you just assigned. You can find out more about working with the card widget in the Scalar User's Guide

To feature a gallery of images on a single page, use the Media Gallery or Structured Media Gallery layout.  For the pilot exhibit we initially used the Media Gallery layout for each theme page to display all images in that theme.  However, we included so many images in each gallery that the pages took up too much bandwidth.  This might be a viable solution for your exhibit, though, if you have a small number of few images. 

Another way to display a large group of images is to use a carousel widget, which is what we ended up doing for each theme page of the Sporting Life exhibit.  For us, a drawback is that the carousel doesn’t display image metadata in the same way as standalone image metadata is displayed.  If you want to feature metadata and images together in a carousel you’ll need to customize the caption text or link to the individual image pages. 

The pilot exhibit also features a page with all images in the entire exhibit that we called “Media Gallery” (not to be confused with the Media Gallery layout) since we wanted to showcase the different images from our various members.  This is entirely optional.  

And a general note: it is a little difficult to have multiple people in Scalar at the same time since you can't see what everyone is doing. If you have multiple people working on your exhibit, be sure to coordinate who is working on what and when.