Timelines in Drupal
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Kara:
this is what i'm workign on
http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/docs/create-timelines.html
benjamin melançon
There's a Drupal module for that (and it's sure to be better than poll module, which is getting voted out of core), but it's not up to date: http://drupal.org/project/timeline
04:00
It was used in court though: http://drupal.org/node/154921
05:16
it uses/accepts the same MIT project
http://groups.drupal.org/node/1145
Kara:
ooh
I don't know drupal thought
i can do a little javascript
benjamin melançon 2:06
ah, it's an old module anyway-- just if you want to start integrating it with live events or something, there's a solid base
kara 2:06
Benny, i need a translator with you sometimes
benjamin melançon 2:08
everyone does. I'm not volunteering to make the timeline js work with Drupal's core jquery. Had enough of that with the Google Maps module.
Arto's (the module developer's) other timeline-related projects:
http://bendiken.net/2006/12/29/the-universal-timeline-aggregator
Still work being done:
http://www.developmentseed.org/drupal/modules/timline
And actually it has been made available in Drupal 5, just not an official release on the module home page.
> Any ideas on how to make them plot more horizontally?
>
> *From: Harris
>
> I've been playing around with the timeline tool
>
> www.harrisrashid.com/timeline/timeline.html
>
> Right now I don't think it's that strong - since the dates populate in a
> more vertical manner, than in a horizontal one, like the examples listed.
This has most things listed at the same time? Is that intentional? That's the main issue.
The other thing, which I don't know how to do (it's not editable in the HTML anyway that I could see) is to change the scale. It should be possible to spread things out simply by making hours and days wider.
The JFK timeline has hours: http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/examples/jfk/jfk.html
Harris' has months.
OK, it's in the javascript:
var tl;function onLoad() {
var bandInfos = [
Timeline.createBandInfo({
width: "70%",
intervalUnit: Timeline.DateTime.MONTH,
intervalPixels: 100
}),
Timeline.createBandInfo({
width: "30%",
intervalUnit: Timeline.DateTime.YEAR,
intervalPixels: 200
})
];
tl = Timeline.create(document.getElementById("my-timeline"), bandInfos);
}
He's going to want to see about changing that to DAY or HOUR and MONTH, WEEK, or DAY.
http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/docs/create-timelines.html
Again, though, he's got many events all at the exact same hour. That's not going to work well no matter what.
ben