I first heard about the SIMILE Widgets a couple of weeks ago. My boss was looking for an easy way to allow our K-12 students to create timelines and these widgets looked great but too hard for our students. I suggested I might be able to make a FileMaker data base that could export it's data via XML and XSLT transformations to make up the needed HTML file and JSON file. I have that working and am looking into ways to share this with the community. So far this is what it can do and it's limitations. Once data is entered or imported into the database it can create a JSON data file in Timeline format. It can also create a HTML file that can display any or all of the following depending on the options chosen in the database. Map, Timeline, Table, Tiles, search and facets. I saw the Timeplot widget for the first time this morning so that isn't included right now. HTML and JSON files are created with the click of a button. The exported html and json files are exported with the "exhibit" name like billionaires.htm and billionaire.js Limitations Using this database requires the user to own FileMaker 8.5 or a somewhat locked down version which has been made into a runtime version of the database. I created a Mac only runtime version as a test and it works. I'm not quite ready to make the runtimes available. The database alone is onl 136 KB while the runtime is about 30 MB The "data" that is exported has field names that are set and fairly limited. They include, label, type, category, who, what where, when, latLng and imageURL. These can be changed or additional fields added if you own a copy of FileMaker 8.5 or newer and are willing to change the export script and the XSLT transformation file that creates the HTML file. Are there any FileMaker users out there that would like to try this or help me make it better? Is that place for this in the Exhibit Google Code site or is there a good place to make this available once it gets a little further along?
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