Timeline Module

Timeline is a DHTML-based AJAXy widget for visualizing temporal information.

This module is a style plugin for the Views module that represents date
information of nodes on horizontal timeline display.

Features:

  • CCK date fields can be used to display all kinds of information on the timeline.
  • Coloring events based on their taxonomy, node type etc. via views' group by function.
  • Displaying icons for events on the timeline based on a taxonomy images or imagefields.
  • Icon images can be run through any Imagecache preset.
  • You can create your own themes to present the timeline the way you like it.
  • Optional: Local use of the SIMILE Libraries using the Libraries module.

Advanced timeline settings

You can set a lot of advanced settings in timeline's views settings:

Basic timeline view creation

Content type with date field(s)

Create new themes for the timeline

Inside of the module's directory there is a "themes" folder. The easiest way would be to copy one of the existing themes and simply do a

Installation

Getting started

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