Hi Jonathan, Glad you like the plugin.
The plugin uses the moment.js<http://momentjs.com/docs/#/parsing/string-format/> library for date parsing. The formats it supports are listed under the "string + format" section. The required format can be passed to the plugin using the 'format' attribute. Looking at the documentation it doesn't seem that moment js handles +/- nor a BCE/CE indicator. However, I have had a look at the moment.js test suite and have come across examples using negative years. There examples include: 1. "-270000-01-01" formatting it with "YYYYY-MM-DD" to get BCE 270,001. 2. "-1000-01-01" formatting it with "YYYYY-MM-DD" to get BCE 1,001 I haven't tried these myself (I only need to the timeline to handle the last couple of hundred years), but it may be worth having a go to see if you can get them to work. Good luck, Martin On Friday, 14 March 2014 13:23:58 UTC, Jonathan Emmert wrote: > > I love this plugin - thank you. > > Is there a way to work with dates that are BCE? I tried using negative > numbers for "start" and "end" but I get an error: "visjstimeline: Not a > startDate (-0605) on Nebuchadnezzar II.start" > > I get the same thing if I use positive numbers. > > Thanks for the work and the help! > > Jonathan > > > > On Thursday, March 13, 2014 10:05:44 AM UTC-4, emkay wrote: >> >> >> On Wednesday, 12 March 2014 22:15:10 UTC, Jeremy Ruston wrote: >>> >>> Hi Martin >>> >>> Congratulations on a very nicely executed plugin, with exemplary >>> presentation. I'm sure it will be justly popular. I'll add a link on >>> tiddlywiki.com - how would you like to be credited? >>> >> >> Thanks to you (and everyone else) for the positive feedback. All the >> real hard work has been done by you and the vis.js guys, all I did was to >> pull the two together. You are welcome to credit me as Martin Kendall on >> tiddlywiki.com. >> >> >> >>> I had a quick scan of the code: >>> >>> * Your parseWidgetAttributes() method is interesting. I had originally >>> planned to make the attribute handling be more declaratory, and would still >>> like to do so >>> >> >> Yes, I like the idea of declarative options, though my code is a long way >> from being useful. I will keep evolving it and maybe it will help >> formulate some ideas. >> >> >>> * I wondered if you'd considered merging the three ways of specifying >>> the tiddler list into one: "list='title'" is equivalent to a filter >>> "[list[title]]", except for the requirement to quote tiddler titles. >>> >> >> You really made my day with this idea - I love simplifying things down to >> a smaller set of moving parts (less to code, less to maintain and less to >> go wrong). I've released a new version of the plugin that merges the three >> attributes, consolidating on filter. This lead me to digging deeper into >> filters, but my issues there are best discussed on TiddyWikiDev. >> >> >>> * The demo tiddlers are missing the vertical bar at the start of the >>> table at the top >>> >> >> I'd totally forgotten I was even aiming to show a table - nice spot! >> >> >>> >>> Anyhow, I'm very happy to see this, and wish you luck for future >>> plugins! (Mindmapping is a perennial request...) >>> >>> Best wishes >>> >>> Jeremy >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 8:12 PM, emkay <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> I've written a TW5 plugin that uses vis.js <http://visjs.org/> to show >>>> a graphical timeline view of a wiki's tiddlers. >>>> >>>> I developed it for my own use, but I thought others may find it useful, >>>> so I have made it available on github. >>>> >>>> A demonstration of the widget and it's help tiddler can be seen at: >>>> >>>> http://emkayonline.github.io/tw5visjs >>>> >>>> You can install it by dragging it from the demonstration's ControlPanel >>>> into your wiki. It requires TW5 version >= 5.0.8-beta. >>>> >>>> Full documentation, source and tests can be found at: >>>> >>>> https://github.com/emkayonline/tw5visjs >>>> >>>> >>>> All the best, >>>> >>>> Martin >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>> an email to [email protected]. >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Jeremy Ruston >>> mailto:[email protected] >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
