Hello all: I am trying to figure out the best way to show a timeline view for a group of people, where each person in the group goes through a series of similar events. A good generic way to think about this would be creating a timeline of a day in the life of a restaurant, where we want to visualize the experience of each party of diners.
At a high level, we can look at when the restaurant opens and closes, and what time each group of customers is seated and leaves. I can see pretty easily how to do that. What I am trying to figure out is a nice way to get more detailed. Imagine that, for each group (table, party) I would like to be able to show when they arrived, when they were seated, when they ordered their meal, when it was served, etc. (There may also be optional events like ordering dessert, which not all tables will do.) In my case, I would like to visualize these with one "tape" per group, where each step of the meal is displayed as a duration with a unique color assigned for each stage (e.g. Red for Arrival->Seated, Green for Seated->Meal Ordered). It can be assumed that stages will not overlap. Right now I can see how to get part of the way to this by using indefinite start/end durations, but I'm wondering if there is a more elegant approach to displaying these types of scenarios. Thanks in advance! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SIMILE Widgets" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/simile-widgets?hl=en.
