Basic timeline view creation

Last updated on
30 April 2025

Content type with date field(s)

  • Create new content type to hold event nodes for your timeline.
  • Add field of type datetime with "select list" form element.
  • Please check on the date field configuration page that "Time zone handling:" is selected as the same as the settings chosen in the site's timezone handling settings. Could be Site's timezone or user's timezone.
  • Now add some nodes with content

View

  • On Views page, click "add"
  • Give your view a name
  • Row style: Fields
  • Define fields to show up inside of the bubble of every event. Be sure that at least one date field is present
  • Date fields must be of the type of data to store = "Date (ISO format)" and widget should be "Select list"
  • Style: Timeline
    • Define fields on "Fields usage". At least one field used for the title and one for the start date.
    • Define band intervals and if you want to have a second summary band
    • Initial focus: Select where the initial timeline load should point to
  • Filters:
    • Node type is one of: "Your timeline content type"
    • You might want to select published: True as well.
    • You might need to also add a filter for date related to this issue: #637928: Missing events when more than 50.
    • Turn "Ajax" off if you have exposed filters, as the submit won't work unless selected twice
  • "Add Display" to add a page display containing all the settings you just made.
  • Define a path to reach this view later
  • Click "Save" to save all of the changes to your new view

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