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====== Navigator > Multiple Perspectives ======

This page presents a series of thumbnails which, when clicked on, open nested pages.  There are 4 options for these nested pages, focusing on text, an image, an audio recording or a video recording.  While you can embed a link to video hosted elsewhere onto any page in Xerte, this is one of the few page types where the default is to upload the video into Xerte. :!: New in 3.13. When the thumbnails are set to display as a **Grid**, the content associated with a thumbnail can be set to display in a lightbox, rather than as a nested page.


===== Example demo =====

{{url>https://xot.xerte.org.uk/xapi_launch.php?template_id=116&group=xertepagetypes#multipleperspectives}}

or view at [[https://xot.xerte.org.uk/xapi_launch.php?template_id=116&group=xertepagetypes#multipleperspectives| Xerte Page Types > Navigators: Multiple Perspectives]] (opens in new tab).

===== Editor Interface =====

{{:xerte-navi-multipleperspectives-editor.jpg?direct|Editor interface.}}

==== Top Level: Core Properties ====

^ Property ^ Description ^ Type ^ Additional information ^
| Page Title | Text that appears in header of published page. | Text |   |

==== Top Level: Optional Properties ====

=== Page-specific ===

^ Property ^ Description ^ Type ^ Additional information ^
| Play All: Include Play All Button | Inserts a **Play All **thumbnail at the beginning of the thumb nail bar. | Tick box |   |
| Play All: Image Play time | The number of seconds a nested image page remains visible if **Play All** is applied. | Number |   |
| Thumbnail Bar: Position | The position of the **Thumbnail Bar** on the page {**Top**/Bottom/Grid}. | Drop-down | :!: New in 3.13. When set to **Grid**, a new **Display In** property can be set to allow the content for each item to be opened in a lightbox rather than on the page itself.  |
| Thumbnail Bar: Height | The height of the **Thumbnail Bar **(Small/**Medium**/Large}. | Drop-down | Choose **Large **if the titles of your nested pages are 15 - 20 characters |
| Thumbnail Bar: Type | Choose what is included in the **Thumbnail Bar **{**Image and Caption**/Image and Number/Image Only}. | Drop-down | The Caption is the Title of the nested page. If you choose Image and Number, numbers are automatically assigned. |
| Thumbnail Bar: Border | Displays a thin black border round each thumbnail. | Tick box |   |
| Thumbnail Bar:  Highlight Current | Check this box if you want to change the default (yellow) colour of the thumbnail for the current nested page... | Tick box |   |
| Thumbnail Bar:  Highlight Colour | ... and choose a colour here. | Colour picker | If you want a different colour highlight, add the colour here, and make sure the **Highlight Current **check box is ticked. |
| Tracking Score Weight (0=Off) | Allows the task on the page to be weighted relative to other scored pages in the project.  | Number  | Add link to weighting page.  |

=== General ===

See [[optional_properties#General optional properties|General Optional Properties]]


==== Top Level: Language Options ====

^ Property ^ Description ^ Type ^ Additional information ^
| Scroll Back Tip | The text for the tooltip that appears on mouseover of the Forward button - this button is only displayed when the thumbnail bar at the top has too many items to show at once. | Text | Default - "Scroll Back"  |
| Scroll Forward Tip | The text for the tooltip that appears on mouseover of the Back button - this button is only displayed when the thumbnail bar at the top has too many items to show at once. | Text | Default - "Scroll Back"  |
| Generic Video Tip | When you add a video clip but don't upload an associated image, a default image will show. This is the alt text for that image. | Text | Default - "Video Clip"  |
| Generic Sound Tip | When you add an audio clip but don't upload an associated image, a default image will show. This is the alt text for that image. | Text | Default - "Sound Clip" |
| Back Button Text | When thumbnail bar position is set to grid and you view one of the items, you see a back button to return to the grid view. This is the text on that button. | Text | Default - "Back" |
| Play All Text | If you have added a **Play All **thumbnail from Optional Properties, this is the text that appears in the thumbnail. | Text | Default - "Play All" |

After you have given the page a Title and looked at the Optional Properties and Language Options, you need to add content.  You have 4 Options;

{{ :xerte-navi-multipleperspectives-newitem.jpg |New item option.}}

Follow these links to see their properties;

  * [[multipleperspectives_newtext|Multiple Perspectives Page: New Text]] 
  * [[multipleperspectives_newimage|Multiple Perspectives Page: New Image]] 
  * [[multipleperspectives_newsound|Multiple Perspectives Page: New Sound]] 
  * [[multipleperspectives_newvideo|Multiple Perspectives Page: New Video]]

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