Hello,

I've been working on another module that uses the SIMILE timeline and wanted to touch base to see what the future plans of the timeline module are. My module does not work on nodes, but rather on discrete events that users enter directly with the module. The crux of my module is a timesheet sort-of tool. Users enter what they are doing right now. after the fact, the results are delivered on a SIMILE timeline. Timeline isn't the /center/ of my module, rather just a reporting facility on the back end. Just wanted to touch base and see what the future scope of the timeline module is envisioned as, to see if it made sense to piggy back off of timeline.module or not.

Seth

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jmiccolis commented

Hi,

Glad to see some other interest in the timeline widget. I'll be picking up the pace of development of this module soon, but it's certainly going to remain node driven. It may be possible for you to use some of internal functions of this module to call up the timeline widget, but the majority of functionality here is an interface with views. However, if you do find that some changes to make things more generic would help you, I'd be open to that.

- Jeff

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sethfreach commented

Hey again,

Good to hear that! I have added Timemap to the repository, which is the module I mentioned above. Timemap is meant to be a self-contained drop in app that can do a timesheet recording and reporting. Currently, as I mentioned above, the reporting is via the simile timeline widget. My current dev stuff (which isn't up yet) does have hooks to allow other modules to write and include reports other than timeline as well though.

It looks like Timemap's functionality /could/ be built with CCK + Views + Timeline, but my intention was really a self-contained ready built sort of app. If there appears to be any common ground on a Simile/Timeline API side of things, I would certainly love to collaborate though. I briefly skimmed Timeline's issue queue and found a few of the same things that I bumped up against, for instance: with timezone's/GMT and colors. I'll go back and have a more thorough read, but I'll certainly help out any way I may be able.

Seth

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xamanu commented
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