I had a similar problem(when events are too close, they disappear vertically).
My solution was to determine event count and timespan between events 
and display accordingly (by minute,quarter hour, hour, week, month, 
etc...). G40

Quoting David Huynh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> Christoph,
>
> You could set the width of the event labels to be longer, e.g., see this
> line
>
>    theme.event.label.width = 250; // px
>
> in this example
>
>    http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/examples/jfk/jfk.html
>
> Other than that, no, there isn't a good way to deal with overflow currently.
>
> David
>
> Christoph Pingel wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm wondering if there is any recommended way to deal with vertical
>> overflow in a timeline.
>> Is there a way to determine if all events are being displayed? I just
>> hacked around a bit whith javascript and added a 'more' button to
>> enlarge the containing div and reload the timeline, but that's not
>> very elegant because it depends on the user recognizing that there
>> are more items to be displayed...
>>
>> any ideas?
>>
>> TIA,
>> best regards
>> Christoph
>>
>> BTW, if you want to have a look: http://www.tqm.com/seminare/
>> similetimeline/timeline_alt_view
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