David,

Thanks for the info.  The two timelines on 
http://tip.wm.edu/mtp/english.php will give you a sense of what I'm 
trying to do.  (This is still a work in progress, so forgive any 
roughness.) The first that shows up by default uses "run" items to show 
how long films played at three theaters in Moscow, Russia.  The timeline 
you get by clicking on "Timeline (individual screenings)"  show related 
items--screenings, not runs.  That timeline is less visually useful, but 
it provides some information that the runs timeline doesn't, namely the 
number of screenings for a particular film on a particular day.  Those 
are obviously very similar items, and ideally I'd have facets for 
cinemas that worked for both.  If there was a way to make inoperable 
facets disappear, the user wouldn't even know that there were two 
different facets for these different timeline--the operable one would 
appear in the same area that the inoperable one disappeared from.

As you'll see, I've got over a thousand items now, and I'm adding dozens 
everyday using a scraper.  There must be a functional limit to what the 
average browser running on an average machine will be able to process.  
Do you all have an estimate of where exhibit starts to bog down?

Many thanks.  I appreciate all the help.
Rob

David Huynh 
<http://simile.mit.edu/mail/BrowseList?listName=General&by=author&from=141> 
wrote:
> Rob,
>
> No, there is no way to automatically hide inapplicable facets, but I 
> understand that that is desirable. I'd use 2 different HTML files that 
> link to the same data file(s), with each HTML file displaying a 
> different collection and containing different sets of facets.
>
> The support for several collections is still experimental. If you could 
> describe your usage scenario, it would help me think of how to improve 
> this feature.
>
> Thanks,
>
> David

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