 Welcome to Splashing Around with Installatron App Session 2, Scaler. We're very excited to bring this to you today. I am joined by Pilot to kind of, hey, how's it going? Good. Awesome. I totally interrupted you. No. How excited are you to dive into .dive Splash around? Yes. Very excited. Honestly, I've looked at Scaler once or twice. When I was domain of one zone admin, I had someone go, so would Scaler be good for this project? Like, what would you recommend? And I went, no idea. Let me go take a look. And I did not get very far, but also they didn't seem particularly interested in pursuing that project. So it didn't end up mattering. But I'm excited to revisit it because I think, yeah, I want to understand it much better than I did. I want to sort of see how to get started, that sort of thing. For sure. And I think that we have definitely seen a massive uptick in interest in Scaler. I know that we've been getting a lot of interest in it in the support queue. People who have existing projects, it's not like it's brand new. There are some people who have existing projects who are working on updating things or managing it long term and want to know some tips and tricks. And while this is certainly the theme of this whole flex course is let's talk about things that aren't WordPress. We did start out with Omeka and Omeka S last week. Meredith and I spoke about that. And so now we're moving into that. That is still a pretty comfortable territory for us. But now we're moving into territory that is certainly less well known with us. Scaler is something that we have an installatron. And we know of people who use it. But that's pretty much where our expertise is limited. So for me, this has been exciting to be able to flash around, have this opportunity to play around with Scaler. Because I know that we're all interested in knowing a little bit more about it. We're seeing a lot of potential for it. And we're seeing people do really cool things with it. So I'm excited to get into it. We're waiting. We're continuing the water metaphor. We're waiting a little bit further out in Omeka S. I love it. We're just going to continue coming up with strange water, non-committal water. All right, so let's get into it. Yeah. I've got some slides here. Again, just always trying to be like my idol, Meredith. So Meredith has the best slides. Meredith has the best slides. I'm not even going to pretend that these are even equal. But these are the slides. So we're going to help you. That's stylish. I like them. Well, thank you. So we're talking about Scaler today. And so the main thing that we are going to focus on is today's topics, obviously. And so we're going to touch a bit on these themes here. What is Scaler? We're going to actually, instead of getting right into Scaler, we're going to take a pause and check out an example Scaler site that we are aware of. That is really cool to kind of wet your interest and guide us through the rest of these more technically oriented bits about Scaler, including installing and using it and handling redirects. And then we'll also have some resources and whatnot at the end for you. So what is Scaler? Scaler is supported by the Alliance for Networking Visual Culture, or ANVC. It is an open source authoring and publishing platform, specifically using their words for digital-born scholarship. And I love this idea because this is something that makes Scaler particularly unique. It is fully embracing the fact that it is a digital platform. It's not something necessarily that is geared toward taking print kind of static publications and just plopping them online the way that some other platforms might, which is still fully valuable and very much appropriate for certain projects. And it's still kind of possible with Scaler, but doing so would kind of be missing out on a lot of the potential that this platform has for your project. Trying to sort of make use of the flexibility of how you can organize your projects in a way that sort of that linear print, it's harder to do that with print in certain ways. Fully, and your point about this non-linear content creation, which is another big point of what Scaler is, is really what makes it an experiment in thought and process. It helps us think about resources, publication resources, and educational resources in that non-linear way and kind of makes the focus more on the dynamics of learning about and interacting with the publication. So when we talk about non-linear content creation, what does that mean? So linear being page after page, chapter after chapter, and that kind of traditional way that we're used to interacting with publications. Whereas in Scaler, that is an option. And that is considered, they refer to that type of formatting as a path. So they have their content kind of split into their content format split into path and tags. Paths is something that is more linear. And tags are considered non-linear groupings of content. So this would include things like indexes, descriptors, and so on. The benefit of using non-linear content in the Scaler platform is that it allows you to create visualizations that show users the content and connections that are happening all within a project. So you can just read through a project or you can go in and just start making connections that maybe otherwise you would have to scrape an entire project, plug it into a whole completely different software program, and then start running some visualizations. You can do that all within Scaler if you have things set up properly. Cool. Yeah. And so it's a really dynamic way of interacting with that material. And it also has its own API. And it is very good at interacting with other APIs. And so it's also very popularly used for adding the Google Maps API and that type of thing, which you can do easily from CPyNL, File Manager, and that kind of thing. So yeah. So the site example that we're going to start with is BlackQuotidian.org. We love this example here at Reclaim. It is based out of the Stanford University Press. And what it is is I actually had to look up the word Quotidian because I didn't really know what that meant. But it basically means daily. So the daily type newspaper. And so the everyday history in African-American newspapers throughout history. And it's a great example of a single scalar book being used for an entire scalar project. So as we're going to explore as we go along here, scalar is really built for having multiple books on one platform. Like on one instance of scalar, you'll have multiple books. But the BlackQuotidian is only one book. And it uses an entire scalar instance. And so there's going to be some interesting ways that you would need to set that up for it to flow really seamlessly. And this example does it flawlessly. As you can see, this front page, if you've ever seen scalar before, it doesn't really look like scalar. And that's not. It's WordPress. And I love when people do this. Meredith actually had an example of this last week in the other course, where a, was it Georgetown, I think? I think, yes, I think it was Georgetown. The Georgetown slavery is WordPress as the home page. And then Omega as the interior, I guess. Yes, WordPress is effectively acting as a portal, which is something we're very much a fan of at Reclaim. So WordPress is the entry point here to this. And what we're going to talk about a lot today is URLs and redirects and how to work with those in scalar. And what I really like about this is that it's a simple URL that you can go to to access this project. That's just blackquotidian.org. And if you know that URL, you can plug it in. And it will take you to the project. And then we're already starting to see this kind of nonlinear, maybe not nonlinear, but this kind of dynamic engagement that the project is already starting to introduce to you, where it uses language like Enter. It has different buttons that will take you, like manipulate the content on the pages, levels exactly. And so it invites you into the project. And so once you are in, now we're starting to see a more of a traditional scalar wrapper. And then if you look up here at the browser bar, you'll see the URL gets a little bit messier. But that is the way that the nesting works. And you can see very easily in the file manager and the back end of scalar that that's how things are set up. And it's completely workable when that's not something that the user has to memorize every time they want to come to the site. You just have to know blackquotidian.org and then Enter. And then they're taken here. And they are probably not even going to look at that URL at that point. SEO friendly. It is SEO friendly, exactly. And so the project itself can be considered linear, but it also utilizes scalar signature immersive nested features. So you can start anywhere. But it does give you the opportunity to start at an introduction area. You can see tons of different types of media can be embedded here. That's really neat. Yeah, from PDFs to videos. And then what I like down here at the end of each page, you're able to either continue on in that particular section. And it even prompts you to begin with the next, the person section. Or you can pop out of that content section and continue on to a completely new section. And so it's just a fun way to explore. And of course, if that's not someone's cup of tea, there always is the option to go to the table of contents. And from here, have a more familiar kind of like, OK, I've got an overview. I've got introduction. I can go through the themes. And that can be more comfortable for people. But what this project is really great at exhibiting about scalar is that you can give people a choice over how immersed they want to be in the project. And I just really love it. It seems like that would also be super useful for sort of cross-referencing is maybe not quite the word that I want. But I'm thinking of if you are looking at a book and you say, oh, man, this is really this. They're discussing, I don't know. Wow, can't make up examples off the top of my brain. But you're reading some sort of scholarly book article. And you say, wow, this is really interesting. I wonder if this ever comes up again, you go to the index. You say, all right, so that was on page 40. But they also say, OK, there's more stuff on pages 63 and 97 and from page 110 to 115 or something like that. Whereas for this, you can just say, here, here, and here. Click these links. It'll take you right where you need to go, instead of doing all of that back and forth flipping. Yeah, and it's kind of a path of least resistance. It allows the user to do that exactly the process that you outlined in a way that is more seamless and takes fewer clicks and fewer interruptions to their exploration process. And I think that that is what makes us really powerful is that you don't want to be interrupted when you're exploring. You're getting excited. You're coming up with these ideas and seeing these connections. You don't want to just be like, OK, well, let me go over to the index or let me erupt to this moment. It flows really well that way. Cool. Yeah. OK, so that is blackquattidian.org. I'm going to put it away for now. And we're going to go ahead and continue with some of the more technical pieces of setting up Scalar and actually getting in there and using it. And what I'm hoping is that as we do that, you'll be able to think back a little bit to this example and see how they were able to do some of what they did. Cool. So for installing and using Scalar, the reason we are talking about it today is because it has a very simple install-a-tron setup. So I'm on my C panel right now. And I have already installed it for myself. If you want to go ahead and play around with this on your own, I recommend creating a new subdomain for it. And then once you've created that subdomain, so I've done scaler.amandawentorthschmidt.com and then installed the application on top of that. And so to install the application, you can go to the applications browser. And it's actually in our featured applications. And as you can see, this is where WordPress is number one. Omega is number two. And all the way at the end, we do have Scalar. And it may be at the end, but it's there. It may be, it's at the end of the top, but it's still at the top. It's also alphabetical, but it is still at the top. So you just click in like you would into WordPress or Omega, any of those commonly used applications. And then you could just install it and go through the whole installation process that you are familiar with. And when I did it, I just made sure that I put it on HTTPS Scalar subdomain. And then something that we can also take from the Omega lesson we learned is that you will need to make sure that you save your credentials to login because this is not a one-click login type situation. So save those credentials. And then you'll notice there is actually an additional field here for our registration key, which is something that is unique to Scalar. It is for security purposes. You can actually set that key to something that is personalized for you that is easily memorable. Because what this will be doing is it's something that you'll share with anyone that you want to register for the site so that they can actually register. No one can just come across your Scalar site and register for it. That's, you know, we have this set up so that it is automatically required that somebody has a registration key in order to get into your site. Which is something that has been implemented in just the past few months as something that really keeps Scalar secure. So you could put something here like Amanda's class 2023 and then just share that with people so it's easily memorable or you can leave it blank, let them generate a randomized key. You'll be able to easily find it once you're in as an admin. So I'm not gonna install this. I'm gonna go ahead and cancel because I already have it. And we'll go back. Do you have trouble shooting on the fly this time? No, no. Not me. I am way too nervous for that. And I saved those credentials for myself and my password manager and I'll go ahead and log in. So this is how you will see this page when you're logged in. If you were to go to my Scalar site right now in your browser, you would not see this. You would just see this kind of Scalar page. This book here wouldn't be there. Okay. I don't believe. But if you were to select View All or Search, it should pop up because I have made it public, which is something I was doing while I was playing around. And I will talk about that as well because each book is not set as public by default. Okay. The first thing we'll do is go ahead and go into the dashboard and I'll take you through how I set up this first book. So when you log into Scalar for the first time, you probably won't see this view. You'll probably see something a little bit different and that's because there are currently two versions of Scalar available. There's Scalar One and Scalar Two. Scalar One is the first version and it is still perfectly functional but they're also rolling out, the developers have rolled out a second version that's a little prettier in my opinion and just a bit cleaner and it has different ways that you can interact with the content. And so I have switched to the second version just to see how that is and show all of you if maybe you have Scalar installed and it's only on version one, you can see what it would look like to translate that to version two. Is there a, let's not go down this rabbit hole if it's intensive, but is there a particular way that you would toggle is not really the right word but like switch from Scalar One to Scalar Two? Toggle is the exact right word because there is a handy-dandy button that allows you to revert the dashboard. Ooh, you nailed the pilot. Yeah, so that, they have this, this is Scalar One and they have this very enticing banner at the top that says, do you wanna try out version two? You're like, I guess so. And it's pretty non-committal because you can always revert back if you end up non-committal. Cool, yeah. So to create a book, so for the dashboard in version two, as you can see it's like way more minimalist and simple looking than this initial one here because in order to move around here, you have to, or even interact with a lot of these tabs, it's having you select a book to manage and you have to just kind of do that at the top as opposed to in version two. This, you have this kind of sidebar that right now doesn't really look much like a sidebar because I only have one book there, but if you had a bunch of books that would be populated down the screen and it really reinforces that you have to go into a book in order to start working with a lot of those features. Yeah, yeah. I think that time that I was sort of investigating Scalar for that faculty member, the dashboard was Scalar one. And I remember sort of looking through it and going, gosh, there's a lot going on here. How do I sort of figured out get started? But this looks very approachable, very friendly. I think so. I think that that can be a double-edged sword. Sometimes you want to be a little bit more detailed, a little bit more of like how things work under the hood. Sometimes people don't prefer an interface that's like this, but we'll see. And I'm not an expert in either interface. So if there are things that I'm missing, I hope people will pop it into the chat and we can all learn from each other. But I'm going to just take you through this the way that I figured out how to do it. So you see that I have my test book here already. The role here is going to be your role as the individual who's logged in. And so I'm the author. If I wanted to create a new book, I would obviously go to this create a new book area. And it has a super simple way to get started where you just have to put in the title, subtitle if you'd like, and then the genre. But we're just going to go ahead and go right into my test book. I was actually going to ask really quick, what are the different types of genres? It's, you don't have to go back. There's a genre dropdown right there in the middle. But because the dropdown menu isn't visible when you're sharing your screen, I couldn't get a look at what the other types of genres were. Well, how about I go back? Because I don't remember. Yeah, so genre. So what you're not seeing here is there's book, there's article, and then there's project. Okay, okay. Now I don't know what the difference is between them. So that's where my knowledge ends. But those are available. So, but we're going to explore book. Okay. So you have, these are where you have these, this is where you have these tabs that you're used to seeing in the version one of Scaler. But now they are presented within the book itself. You have to go into the book in order to find them. And this is where you would put the properties. So, what you can, the main thing I want to point out to you here is that I have this set up so that there's no login required. So that's why if you go to Scaler.AmandaWentOrthSchmidt.com, you, if you were to search test book or just click that view all button to pop up for you. By default, that is not checked so that if a random person came across your Scaler site, they wouldn't be able to see any books at all. So it would just look blank to them. And the only way that they'd be able to see the books and access them is if they were to sign in. Okay. So sort of privacy oriented or maybe like development oriented, no one can see what you're doing while you're still there. Yes. Yeah, exactly. And I think a lot of people can appreciate that. And I like the way that you put it. It can either be kind of, you can focus on the privacy aspect of it where you have maybe students in a course who don't want their work public and you can give them that option similar to how you can in WordPress, but even in WordPress, it's kind of hard, right? To keep things like pretty private because it is such a public based platform and application but with Scaler, it's a lot easier to keep things a little bit more DL. But then also this idea that it's development focused, right? So if you're not necessarily concerned about privacy but you are concerned about how polished things look, then that's also a great feature to have at your disposal. And then this is another one that I just checked. I don't really know why I checked it, but I did. But you don't have to have it indexed by search engines. And it's worth noting that even when you check or don't check something like this, it's the internet. So things are never truly fully closed off. If that makes sense, you can't necessarily keep your site from being indexed in some way, but this can certainly help. You also have options for if this book can be duplicated. So that kind of welcomes in the whole kind of creative comments, open license element very easily. And then you can check to have it so that only authors and editors can see past versions if you'd like. Cool. What's also cool. Oh, I'm sorry, I wanted to add a question. No, I was just sort of leaning in to see, I think, maybe you were headed towards the comments section. Yes, I was. Now, this is pretty cool, right? Because this is not a blogging type platform the way that WordPress obviously is, but it does actually allow for comments on the pages. And again, I think that this just goes towards that dynamic-ness of scaler and invite people in to interact with the content instead of just experience it. So you can have it automatically approve new comments, which again is not the riskiest thing because a lot of that is only for people who have your registration key and can not make an account and sign in. And you know. You have those privacy controls. You do, you have very upfront privacy controls. So anything else is just kind of like extra. So you don't have to feel pressured to have all of these things checked or not checked. It is not automatic that you'll approve new comments. You can email authors when comments are added and then you can also take advantage of annotation and scaler. It's built-in that hypothesis, which a lot of folks are familiar with the open source annotation software that can be added to your browser is built-in to scaler. So it's very easy to get up nice. Yeah. So then we have some more things down here that I'm not gonna go into in a lot of detail but things like being able to create a table of contents. I'm not gonna get into that today because I don't have a ton of pages that I've created yet. And you need to have all of your pages created before you make the table of contents because you're essentially plugging those pages in. Okay. And I will let you know about some cool resources on that stuff at the end of this. So then there's this editorial tab and I actually have not interacted with this very much but it looks like you're able to enable editorial workflow on the current book in each piece of content in your book. I'm gonna leave this alone just because of time limitations but highly recommend that you check that out. As for smiling, I've already set a thumbnail image for this book and if you wanted to set a thumbnail image for it, this is where you would go. And that's what shows up if you go to the View All thing, that list of... Exactly. Okay, cool. Yep. And then under content, this is where you would find your pages. Okay, actually. And you would also use this area to manipulate media. So it truly is content and you don't have to find different tabs for like pages versus... I mean, if we're thinking WordPress, pages versus posts versus media, it's all gonna be in the content tab. So that's kind of nice. And that dropdown menu in the top left where it says pages, that's... You would use that to toggle between pages and media, et cetera. Yes. So I'll read this to you since you can't see it. It's pages, media files, paths, tags, annotations, comments, lenses, and hidden. So you have a lot of options on that dropdown. And that goes back to the scalar being flexible about how you can organize and manage lots of different options for that sort of management. Yeah, I think. Fully, fully. So the main thing that I want to, the next section I would like to approach here is creating, so adding and assigning users. Users are a huge part of scalar. Again, it's something that makes this a very collaborative space. It makes it easy for people to come in and work with you on your book. And so in order to do that, you have to have users. And we've already talked a bit about some of the extra guardrails that scalar puts in place to make sure that users are added securely. Not going to be dealing with a bunch of spammers or anyone like that because things are pretty secure. And I've done it in a pretty elegant way in my opinion. So I have two users here right now. This is me. This is the management that is talking to you at this moment. And you can see here that my role is author. And I am listed. So that means that I would be visible in the index for the book. Okay. So you actually have the option to not be listed, which is interesting and expands the way that you can collaborate. The other person I have added is the me that's not me. So this is Amanda Reclaim. Your secret identity. My alter ego. And I've added Amanda Reclaim as an author. I don't have her listed. And it's a secret. It's a secret. And in order to add Amanda, I had to give her the registration key, which I was able to do. When I did this, I did it in version one. So I'm gonna see quickly. I am troubleshooting on the fly. How to do it in version two. Can't avoid it. Can't avoid it. But this is what our viewers come for. Yes, okay. Okay, okay. If you go in version two and you go to utilities and you go down to manage users, I don't know why all of this part is red. It kind of scares me. It makes it look like they're all broken links for some reason. Yeah, or that you're doing something really scary when you go to them, but go to manage users. And then you can see the users that are already here. You're able to do things like deactivate them from here, set passwords from here, and you can most importantly show your registration key. So because I didn't put a easily memorable key in, you'll see my key right here. Everyone can look at it. This is going to go away. So, but I would take this. I would try a copy just the key. There you go. There you go. Yeah, yeah. So that might take a little bit of finesse. Exactly. And so you copy that and then you just share that. So that is kind of like an extra manual step, right? You're going to have to communicate with your users ahead of time. So that's what makes it great for if you're working with a class or very close collaborators that you have easy communication with. But definitely it can be a barrier if you're kind of generally inviting a group of people to point your scalar book, you would have to make sure that you also provide them with that key up front. And so what that would do is, let's say Amanda Reclaim went to, went here. I'm going to say now, it's probably going to mess everything up, but that's okay. And then I wanted to, as Amanda Reclaim registered, this is what they would look like. You'd have a female full name and then that registration key that was shared with me. And then you'd set your password here and it has this terms of service, which is the general scalar terms of service that you can find at scalar.usc.edu slash terms of service. And then you'd be able to register. Cool. Hopefully that didn't mess up this tab. If we continue to move around, but we can always log back in. So. Nope. There it is. Okay. We're back. So yes, so you can add, I think the way the main difference here is right in scalar one you had to add the user generally and then after you added them, you would then assign them to a book. But the way that scalar two is operating right now is that you would be inside of the book and that's the only way that you can add a user because that's not an option. If I go back to like the general dashboard, it really is the dashboard from my profile. And in scalar one, you were able to look at all users across all books. Okay. And this might be something that you can do in scalar two as well. And folks who are attending might know that. So if that's the case, let us know. But from what I'm seeing, you're only able to add users to specific books in scalar two. In that case, I have a question. Maybe we don't have the answer to that right now and it's fine, but if you want someone to be able to have multiple books accessible to them when they log in, it looked like in scalar one, you could say, here's all the users and this particular user is attached to X, Y and Z books. Whereas this, if you're making the user inside the book, when you, if you were to add them to another book, oh, manage users, I just saw it. Or some of the manage users finish books. Okay, okay. So it does look like this utilities tab will allow you to control things kind of across the scalar. Site beyond just the book. Okay, that's super useful. Good to know. Yes. So we've got users taken care of. It's worth noting that scalar does have options for roll. So it's not just author, that's an option. You can also have commentator. This is somebody who can edit existing pages, can create pages which will be flagged as commentaries to end users. So it's not gonna show up as like, this was created by the author, little show users like this is created as a commentary page. And then they have no other editing privileges. You can have a reviewer, so that's someone who can edit existing pages, but then they have no other editing privileges. They can't create anything. Okay, okay. And then you finally have a reader and that's someone who can add signed comments to public pages, no other privileges. And so those are the people who you would be managing with that check mark for adding, allowing comments to come through without approval. They'd be readers. Cool, great. So that's the user section of this. The next thing I wanted to get into a little bit and explore is the idea of importing media. So in order to insert media, from what I can tell, if you want to upload a file that you have on your computer, you need to do that ahead of time so that you have a bank to pull from. This is a familiar concept to us when we think about WordPress, or we think about Omeka. Although with those platforms, while you're editing, it's relatively easy to upload that media on the fly. With that, you have to do a little bit of planning ahead. You have to think, I know I'm gonna need this picture, so I need to add it on this content page rather than just going into a page and then trying to upload it there because it doesn't really have that option from what I can tell. If I'm wrong, please tell me. I'm speaking to the audience, of course. So you would go to the book that you want your media to live. You would go to this import media section, and again, I apologize that my dropdown is not working, but you will see a lot of options actually for this. They have affiliated archives, such as Critical Commons or the Internet Archive. They have other archives that include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, or Meccanites, or YouTube, or SoundCloud. But then they also have the very basic option of files or URLs. So you can upload an internet URL, so you have that, or you can upload a file. And so as you can see, this change to upload a file, and then it redirects me to this media file page. And so you have kind of a form to fill out every time that you add something, but what is nice is that you can add metadata here. You can mark if it's triple IF, manifest, and that kind of thing. So you would just put in a title, you put in a description if you'd like. I don't really know how this works in terms of alt text, so that would be something to look into. I haven't had the time to figure out if description is the same as alt text, or if it would translate into it, or something like that. Maybe additional metadata or something. Yeah, additional metadata. No, that is a Dublin core standard, I think. And so you would fill that in, and then you'd choose your file at the end, and then you would upload it. And then let's say I did that, and then I'm gonna go, right now we are on the upload page, and if I click on this edit current content, it's not gonna like it because I can't edit this page. So I'll go back to the dashboard, what you do with that wrench. And then I'll go back to content. And so let's say I added content and I wanted to create a home page, like a cover page for my book. And I already picked out what image I wanna use. I would then create a page. So this is the end result. This is me taking this out of the oven for you. But so this is what, if you were to go into my book on scaler.amandawentorthschmidt.com, and you click view all and you go into the test book, this is what you would see. This is the cover. But let's say I want to, let's say I'm just setting up this page, I do have to create a page for your cover. You give it a title. So that would be the title of your book and a description. And then from here, you would kind of leave this alone for your cover because you're not really looking to add content like that, but you would come down to this bottom area. And this is where you would set up something called a book splash cover in the layout option. So you have, again, a dropdown comes up and it has a lot of things on it. But under the first, there's gonna be a top section that will say general. And then under there, you'll have basic image header splash, book splash, virtual path for your options. If you select book splash, it tells you what that is. Shows a full screen cover for your book. So you would select that and then you would go to styling. And then you would select this dropdown, which I'm assuming you can't see. Actually, that one I can see. I think it's, I don't know why it's different. That one, that one's visible though. I think it's because this one is built into the interface whereas like this- That's a system dropdown. A system dropdown. So you would go to key image. And then from here, you would select your image. So I have a couple of different images that I have uploaded already to my media bank. And I'm gonna select cover image and that's this little reclaimed tech scalar icon that we have. And then you would save it and you'd be able to save in view. And that's what you would get. Cool. Yes. Great. So- It's very stylish. I think it's stylish. I think it looks very slick. But if you think back to our example, blackquartidian.org they do not have that for their homepage. They have the WordPress portal. And then when they got to their homepage for the book it actually had a whole graph layout. Yeah, I can do that as well. I don't know exactly how. So again, I just want to reiterate here that you can select this no log in required permission for anyone to see the book. You're gonna need this selected if you want to actually share the link to your book to anyone that you would have to sign in and have an account in order to view it. Yes. But it looked like that was selected by default rather than- Nope, I had selected it myself. By default it is unchecked. I had just already had that all set up. I think all of those are unchecked by default so that you have full decision making over what you want to do. Okay, again, sort of again that privacy minded, dev minded, you can get started without anybody being able to peek behind the curtain while you're still getting ready. Precisely, which is a wonderful comfort to most. Yeah. So the last thing that I want to talk about in any detail to share my screen again is this idea of handling redirects. I kind of made a big deal about this. The black quotidian. The black quotidian because I thought it was so nice that they had it like that. But that's not, you know, by default you kind of get a messy URL with this stuff. So what I'm going to show you how to do is how to set this, this is if you're working with one book. So if my scalar instance, I just had my test book was the only book that I was interested in even adding to that instance. It wouldn't really make a lot of sense for my home page to have this like grid setup, this like library setup. Instead, it might- Yeah, like a catalog. I was, that was something that I was, again, you know, I keep saying way back when I was experimenting with scalar I was like, why did they do that? You're only making one book. Why would they make you do that? Catalog, of course, library, of course. Right, and that's kind of by default how it's set up is to create this catalog for you. But if you only have the one book, then. Then we can do it this way. Okay, sure. So I am not gonna show you exactly how Black Quotidian did this but essentially what they did was created a WordPress page and then linked it to their scalar instance. Pretty simple, we'd be happy to walk anyone through it if they were interested in it. But what I'm gonna show you how to do is set the scalar home page to what we'll call the primary book. So we'll consider my test book the primary book. Okay. This will give us a cleaner URL and essentially we're gonna do two things. We're going to go into C panel and create a redirect and then we're going to go into the file manager and manipulate the HT access rule that that redirect puts in place. Nice. Yeah. So back in C panel, I'm gonna go to my main dashboard and I'm going to go to redirects under the domain section. And the way that you would do this here and again, I've already, have I made this? I don't think I have made this redirect actually. So we'll do it lifetime. Cause I was like, I'll save this for the demo. Yeah. So what you would do is under this HTTPS question mark, question mark, cause it gives you all the options. You would drop down and then you would select the page that you would like people to input into the browser in order to get to redirects can be confusing. Yeah. For people to get to the page that you want them to get to. So I want people to just put in scaler.amanda-werthschmidt.com and then I want that to automatically redirect to, this is still a very unwieldy. I want that to redirect. Test book. Text book, text book slash index. Okay. Yeah, but it's a little clunky. Isn't it? All right. So I'm just going to go ahead and redirect without, with or without www.andadd. And I think I did that right. Yeah. But you're not putting the wildcard redirect because the wildcard redirect is saying, if it's .com slash ooh look at me, it'll send it to testbook slash index slash ooh look at me. Exactly. But in theory that'll never happen because what we're trying to set up is to make the URL super clean. People won't ever get, it won't matter in the end. Yeah. But that's definitely, thank you for pointing that out. Yeah, in this case, we can just ignore that wildcard feature. So now you see I've got this domain set up. This is the one that everyone's going to be working with. That's all you have to remember. This is the one you're going to share with people. It's cleaner, still very unwieldy. I don't personally love my domain name at this point, but it's what I have and I'm too late to change it. And this is the one that people won't be dealing with, but where it's actually going to be going. Okay. Cool. So because we did that, C-Panel did its magic on the backend and now we're going to go in and tweak it just a little bit so that Scaler understands what we're trying to get it to do. Okay. So we would go into the file manager and then you would go into the folder that has your Scaler instance. And then you would go to HT Access. And again, just a quick review. If you're not seeing your .files, you can add that by going to settings, this preferences, box will open and you will be sure to show hidden files. Got it. So with HT Access, you would go in and edit it and you'll see all the way at the bottom here. Yeah. C-Panel has placed that right at the bottom of this file. So it's great, we have it there, but this actually isn't going to help us because Scaler is going to be reading all of the default stuff before this. Oh, okay. And so it won't actually work. What we'll need to do is put it all the way at the top and save it. So that as Scaler is loading, as your site is loading over this new redirect, it knows to send you right there as opposed to going with the default. Yeah. So now, if we do take this out, we're there. And as you can see, it does populate the rest of this with the rest that's still URL, but I don't remember that whole thing as a user. I can just do that base. Keep it nice and clean. Clean and fresh. Yeah, I like that. Any questions for anything that you think I need to clarify about handling redirects? I'm wondering how someone would, they'd have to bookmark the direct admin link. They'd have to bookmark. .com slash admin or system or whatever that extension is. How long do you mean? Yeah, you have to log in and get into the backend and do editing. That's a great point because on the normal screen, you would have that login option. So yes, if you wanted people, if you wanted that to be your finished product redirect at the end, but you still wanted the creators to log in, you would want to make sure that they had this saved. Okay. And we'll take them here and then they'll sign in like normal, great point. Okay. So we are coming up on the end here. And the last thing I wanna ask the audience and the ether is to tell us what scalar sites do you love? Throw it in the Discord channel. We know that they're out there. We don't get to see them a ton. And so we'd really love, you know, we just love to see what people are working on if it's something that you're working on or a person you're working with and supporting is working on or even just scalar sites that you've seen across the web that you think are particularly impressive. Drop it in Discord. Tell us a little bit about why you love it. And then we can have a nice chat about it. Show and tell. Sharing is caring, share. Shares these time. Share these time. And then finally, I just wanted to take a minute to point out these resources that we have on scalar. We have our own knowledge base on scalar, which is pretty C-Panel focus, pretty, you know, hosting focused as we are. But then if you look into this second section I've included here, these three resources helped me understand scalars so much and I recommend them to everybody. What I'll point out first, this one was one I was particularly excited about, but I will point out the Scalar User Guide, the official Scalar User Guide from the University of South Carolina. Yeah, that's the one that I link every time someone says, oh, does Scalar have documentation? I go, University of South Carolina does. This is the official documentation. Okay. So that is great. And it has it for both Scalar One and Scalar Two. Oh, nice. But what I really enjoyed as well as the excellent knowledge base that USC has is the digital publishing workshop website. And they have a whole section on learning scalar, lots of really useful tips that are focused on what the community has noticed. And then finally, for those of the video watching preference, the Digital Humanities Initiative, they have a YouTube channel that I have links directly here with the Scalar Query. They have a whole series on Scalar. I think they have 11 videos on Scalar. That was also a game changer for me. So how do you recommend that? It's a great resource. We are going, I'll go ahead and share in Discord. I'm sure by now I'll have shared the link to the slides, which are right on our ReclaimEd.Tech website. It's reclaimed.tech slash Scalar dash application. And you'll see all of these slides. You'll be able to click on those links and revisit all of this as well as the... And I'm sure it'll be in the blog post for the week as well. It sure will. Yes. So that's Scalar folks. That was a lot to cover and we covered it in an hour. So we appreciate you sticking with us and joining us. And can't wait to hear about your experience and all the stuff you know about it that we don't know. And yeah, thanks for joining. This has been amazing. Thank you so much, Amanda. Thank you, Pilot, for joining me. I had a lot of fun. We will see you next week for Urals. There was, I think, some debate in the chat of your old URL. There'll be a debate in the chat for all of these going forward about how to pronounce them. So looking forward to it and see you then. Bye. Bye.