Hi, This is just a quick note to let you know what how we are progressing with timeline in Chisimba.
The Chisimba file manager can now be used to upload a timeline XML file, and the timeline module interface gives crude access to the timeline properties so you can control things like height, intervalPixels, etc. There is no security on this yet, and the interface is still the default ugly code generated one. There is now a standard parser plugin for timeline. Thus a CMS, course content page, Blog or Wiki or any other type of content that uses the standard text parser you can insert a timeline as: [TIMELINE]http://server.domain/path/to/timeline.xml[/TIMELINE] and this will render a timeline in the page of content. Todo: -Improve the interface for settings (2 hours) -Add standard Chisimba security (10 minutes) -Add [TIMELINE_LOCAL]chisimba_timeline_id[/TIMELINE_LOCAL] to enable timeline settings to be configured within the content page so that it does not just display with default settings (1 hour) -Add interface for creating timelines (3 hours) We have also just started a new module that will allow metadata associated with any digital asset to contain start and end dates, and have timelines automatically generated for digital assets by: - file type - directory - user created filters (Chisimba Filemanager filters) We are also adding the ability to store lat and long metadata to enable the automatic generation of timeline/google map mashups from digital assets. This module is estimated to take about 2 weeks. This has tremendous potential in automating interfaces to digitized historical artifacts. Or, even the Gutenberg libray. So thanks a lot again for Timeline! regards derek
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