Is it possible to use custom thumbnail images next to each event in the Timeline display? I've seen examples of this on the main SIMILE pages, not through drupal.

I have used Exhibit Views in Drupal and successfully display a few Exhibits. I've used views I created from nodes that included CCK fields. Great. I'd like to include a CCK field of an image that can be used as the thumbnail.

Image sizing may be an issue. Of course, for now, maybe it's up to the user to make sure their images are 50x50 or so. Or, for the long term, maybe integrate imagecache dynamic resizing.

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Can you provide a link to the example you saw on the Simile site that allowed the thumbnails to be displayed in the timeline? I haven't seen this before. Typically, if the timeline module supports it, you should be able to do it. I'd like to see how they did it to make sure first though.

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Take a look at the discussion here in the Timeline project. http://drupal.org/node/104890

The idea in this thread is to use Taxonomy image. Any events with this tag would show that tax image. I believe the patch just grabs the top tax term, in case there are multiple terms with images.

There are a few examples out there showing custom icons for display on Timeline. Here are a few I can find now:

http://picurl.org/frontend/picurl-timeline/
http://euclid.psych.yorku.ca/SCS/Gallery/milestone/Private/timeline/data...
http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/examples/dinosaurs/dinosaurs2.html

Ideally you would like custom icons per event, such as from a CCK ImageField, or maybe default image based on a tax term or content type.

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I would vote for CCK imagefield compatibility for each timeline entry, then you could have a custom icon for each item on the timeline. Actually, it would be best to have both taxonomy and imagefield options; just adding my suggestion here.