Timeline Plugin

[hdkeith]

Has anyone authored a timeline plugin for making graphical sense out of date topics?

[Eduardo Mauro]

What do you suggest? A graphic view like the one in Wikipedia?

[hdkeith]

I'm thinking something like Easy Timeline would be terriffic, not sure if it's the only one that wikipedia uses - would make life much easier for all of us researchers, especially if it can be integrated, somehow, with date topics.  Lots of wishful thinking!

http://infodisiac.com/Wikipedia/EasyTimeline/Introduction.htm

[zinoff]

It could be useful even to us programme managers...

[Eduardo Mauro]

TimeLine depends on Ploticus, a superb piece of software. I talked to its creator and Ploticus will be addes as a plugin in ConnectedText. TimeLine is a Perl script. I will check if is is possible to compile it and use with Ploticus.

[PIMfan]

Was there ever any effort on this?  Timelines and dates are big part of the data I track, and something like this would be a great feature.

If not this, are there other tools that can be used?  Has Ploticus perhaps evolved on it's own to now provide timeline functionality without a separate component?

V/R,
PIMfan

[StarPilot]

Ploticus has some support for timelines. I've just recently started using it in my CT displaying data over time.

A quick search of the Ploticus web site turns up these example scripts at these 2 urls: http://ploticus.sourceforge.net/gallery/gall.hbars.html , http://ploticus.sourceforge.net/doc/clickmap.html

I'm still getting familar with what Ploticus can do, as it has so much capability. In fact, the page you linked to seems likely to be using ploticus itself--- with its own standard scripts to feed in the exact format to Ploticus so it is easy to use and have standard formats.