chalk tip #33: bookmarking digital slide views

I'm back with another chalk tip!  (pauses to let applause subside :)

Today's tip is simple and useful: did you know, you can easily bookmark digital slide views?  Yes, indeed, any view of a digital slide can easily be saved as a URL bookmark.  Here's a digital slide we can use as an example:

By default the slide is displayed "zoomed out" to fit the entire slide in the window.  But let's say there's a particular view we want to bookmark, like this one:

  

Position the slide to the view you want, and then click the checkmark on the toolbar.  This opens a new window which has exactly the URL needed to bookmark this view, like this:

The following link can be used as a "bookmark" for WebScope: http://images2.aperio.com/H_E 40x.svs/view.apml?X=-0.0182238266781054&Y=-0.228077872826575&zoom=25 Options for display of the bookmarked slide view: Display navigation window (thumbnail) Display toolbar Display menubar Display annotations The following link can be used as a "bookmark" for ImageScope: http://images2.aperio.com/H_E 40x.svs/is.sis?X=-0.0182238266781054&Y=-0.228077872826575&zoom=25&chost=images2.aperio.com

Go ahead and click the link, it works!

Bonus tip: this window also has a link which bookmarks the slide view for the Aperio ImageScope viewer.  Yes that's right, you can bookmark any view of any digital slide with a single URL.  How cool is that?