[Simile-Widgets] I'm looking for a way to implement an expandable/collapsible timeline

2013-07-11 Thread Josh Korn
What I'm looking to do is represent a timeline that's logically a composite of several other timelines. Obviously, it would be really helpful to be able to drill down into a given timeline in order to see its constituent pieces and (subsequently) collapse the constituents back into the

[Simile-Widgets] Re: I'm looking for a way to implement an expandable/collapsible timeline

2013-07-11 Thread Matt Denman
I think I am doing something like what you say now. I have a view where I show events for several people mixed together. That is the composite view. However, I can drill down to just the details for one person. I do that by making a separate UI that allows me to filter out the other people.

[Simile-Widgets] Re: I'm looking for a way to implement an expandable/collapsible timeline

2013-07-11 Thread Matt Denman
An example could be showing a list of wars on the timeline. WW2 would be just one event on the timeline. If someone clicked on WW2, the timeline would change to show the events within WW2 only. If that is what you mean, you'll need to handle the click of the event, query for your child

[Simile-Widgets] Linked items in Tabuler View with popup/lightbox

2013-07-11 Thread Andrea Nelson Mauro
hi guys, i'm trying build a tabular view like this http://databench.zepheira.com/demos/senate/senate.html my goal is insert link items like 'spondered' and 'cosponsored' values, but i did understand in which way i can from google spreadsheet, and i did find references about this issue e use of

[Simile-Widgets] Crowd-sourced timelines using Google Docs

2013-07-11 Thread Andrew Taylor
Hi all, For some time I've been experimenting with using Google Docs forms to generate data for spreadsheets . I have used one in the past to get students to create metadata for their art images (similar to crowd-sourcing already), and for the past through years have used a form to keep a log

[Simile-Widgets] Re: Crowd-sourced timelines using Google Docs

2013-07-11 Thread Matt Denman
I am doing something similar with WordPress and Gravity forms ( http://www.gravityforms.com/). I am working on a plugin for wordpress that will let you embed a timeline into a wordpress page and then configure it to use content from the form responses and posts in the site. This way the data

Re: [Simile-Widgets] Re: Crowd-sourced timelines using Google Docs

2013-07-11 Thread George Adams
I did something like this 4 years ago. A Google form that populates a Google spreadsheet. The spreadsheet has a script to look up geocodes and based on the address adds a pin to a map of local businesses. It uses a very old version of Exhibit http://www.hayriverti.org/local-directory-map It

Re: [Simile-Widgets] Re: Crowd-sourced timelines using Google Docs

2013-07-11 Thread David Karger
I've used this technique but I've found it limiting. I can and have used a form to create new entries that then populate an exhibit. However, I often find that I need to add some *computed* column to the raw data coming in (e.g. geocode an address). The obvious way to do this would be do

Re: [Simile-Widgets] Re: Crowd-sourced timelines using Google Docs

2013-07-11 Thread George Adams
Check out this article on Google Spreadsheets. It will show you a way to get your formula in a column. The EXPAND and ArrayFormula add your calculations as rows are added with form submissions. Search for =EXPAND(ArrayFormula(A:A*2)) in the article or read it from the beginning

Re: [Simile-Widgets] Re: Timeline revisited - updated - streamlined

2013-07-11 Thread Contemplative
I can only imagine. Thanks for the efforts! On Wednesday, July 10, 2013 8:17:20 PM UTC-5, Matt Denman wrote: The issue with the keyboard popping up like it does after you've used it is a bug. It should continue to work like it does the first time, where it only pops the keyboard when you