Timeline

Timeline

• Demonstration: SIMILE Timeline
• Java API: N/A
• JavaScript API: N/A

Employment/Purpose

Timelineis a DHTML-based Ajax widget for visualizing time-based events developed by SIMILE project of MIT. It is like Google Maps for time-based information.

A timeline contains one or more Bands, which can be panned infinitely by dragging with the mouse pointer, using the mouse scroll-wheel or the keyboard's arrow buttons.

A band can be configured to synchronize with another band such that panning one band also scrolls the other.

Example

<timeline height="300px" width="100%">
	<bandinfo width="70%" id="b1" intervalUnit="month"
		intervalPixels="100" eventSourceUrl="misc/timeline_ex1.xml">
	</bandinfo>
	<bandinfo width="30%" intervalUnit="year" intervalPixels="200"
		syncWith="b1" eventSourceUrl="misc/timeline_ex1.xml">
	</bandinfo>
</timeline>

timeline_ex1.xml

<data>
	<event start="Oct 1 2008 00:00:00 GMT" end="Oct 1 2008 00:00:00 GMT"
		title="Friend's wedding">
		I'm not sure precisely when my friend's wedding is.
        </event>
	<event start="Oct 15 2008 11:00:00 GMT" end="Nov 1 2008 09:00:00 GMT"
		isDuration="true" title="Writing Style Guide" image="http://simile.mit.edu/images/csail-logo.gif">
		A few days to write some documentation for
		<a href="http://www.zkoss.org/doc/styleguide">Timeline</a>
		.
	</event>
	<event start="Oct 23 2008 06:12:33 GMT" title="Trip to New York"
		link="http://www.priceline.com/">
		Happy New Year !
	</event>
</data>

Supported events

Name	Event Type
None	None

Supported Children

* Bandinfo

Use cases

Version	Description	Example Location
3.6	Smalltalk: Using Timeline Component, Part I	http://docs.zkoss.org/wiki/Using_Timeline_Component%2C_Part_I
3.6	Smalltalk: Using Timeline Component, Part II	http://docs.zkoss.org/wiki/Using_Timeline_Component%2C_Part_II
3.6	How to use ListModel in Timeline component	http://docs.zkoss.org/wiki/How_to_use_ListModel_in_Timeline_component
3.6	Using the New Feature Of The Timeline Component	http://docs.zkoss.org/wiki/Using_the_New_Feature_Of_The_Timeline_Component
3.6	Integrating Google Calendar with ZK Timeline Component	http://docs.zkoss.org/wiki/Integrating_Google_Calendar_with_ZK_Timeline_Component

Version History

Version	Date	Content
5.0.2	5/18/2010	Initialization