David:
Again, I'd like to express my appreciation and admiration for the entire
Simile team. You have produced an incredibly valuable solution.
Now down to my requests and questions. I am using Exhibit extensively
related to projects. In my case, scientific research feeding into
development programs. I need to have the flexability of Exhibit (the
fasceted browsing) but the expanded capability of Timeline (I need to show
related elements in multiple bands). I would really like a way to group
related elements. Let me give you an example of what is really a
multi-level gantt chart.
I have development projects. Those projects have a start and an end date
and I need to show the title of the project. Each project has three types
of milestones (single dates), Project Milestones, Testing Milestones, and
Documentation Milestones. Each project also has dependencies on one or more
scientific research projects (which have a start and end date). Thus I
envision a 4 band timeline with projects then project milestones, then
testing milestones, then documentation milestones, then research projects.
I'd like all bands to move together (standard timeline behavior). But I
want to browse them using facets, perhaps picking one or two projects and
seeing all of the related information.
So, I think what I need is:
1) an ability to associate different "collections" with different bands in
the Exhibit timeline. timelineConstructor would probably give me the way to
create my 4 band timeline.
2) it would be very valuable to keep the milestones for a particular project
together if multiple projects are displayed. Perhaps I would have to do
that with color coding and recommendations are appreciated.
3) I'd love to have a way to show a relationship (i.e. a connecting line
from one item, say a scientific research project, to a development project)
... probably too much to ask
Also, I have had trouble trying to build pages with multiple views (say
one page with a timeline and a tabular view, another with a different
timeline and a different table) that can be selected with a browse panel.
It may be a trick of the <div> nesting but I haven't quite figured it out.
Recommendations here?
Thanks again.
Charles
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