Hi, Please, must I expect that the timeline snippet or the modifications proposed by Niels work fine in a 1.3.8295 XWiki Enterprise. Sorry, I now that I must update this server...
Thanks for your help, Ricardo Niels Mayer wrote: > FYI, I've updated and commented the Timeline example ( > http://code.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Snippets/TimelineSnippet ) in > preparation of my nefarious deconstruction of the widget into a novel > interface for a totally different form of usage ... > > working example: > http://nielsmayer.com/xwiki/bin/view/Timeline/TL2 > > sources: http://nielsmayer.com/xwiki/bin/view/Timeline/TL2?viewer=code & > http://nielsmayer.com/xwiki/bin/view/Timeline/ChangesList?viewer=code > > Next steps is to remove this constraint (suggested in > http://code.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Snippets/TimelineSnippet ). If you > forget to do this, nothing works; yet, adding it is quite annoying and > shouldn't be needed: > > >> Prerequisites >> >> You must add this line: >> >> <script src="http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/api/timeline-api.js"; >> type="text/javascript"></script> >> >> At the bottom of the "HTTP Meta Information" field in *Administration* > * >> Presentation*. >> >> > Seems like the following links are good starting points for a solution to > the above issue: Installing MIT Simile's Timeline locally (w/ Rails > integration) | Ryan Kanno: The diary of an Enginerd in > Hawaii<http://blog.localkinegrinds.com/2007/11/06/installing-mit-similes-timeline-locally-w-rails-integration/>& > Message <http://simile.mit.edu/mail/ReadMsg?listId=10&msgId=19202> & > Message<http://simile.mit.edu/mail/ReadMsg?listId=10&msgId=19199>... > > This entails installing a local copy of the timeline javascript and > modifying a few lines of source. Othewise, with the existing solution, > you're stuck with loading the simile javascript for any page on your site, > slowing down the initial load time even more with yet more global javascript > that never gets called in most situations. (Alternately, perhaps catenating > all the timeline javascript and shoving it into a single xwiki doc or > template that gets included only in a timeline-using app). > > -- Niels > http://nielsmayer.com > > PS: I think it would be interesting to put extra attributes on certain sets > of documents, and then sql-query for those documents with those attributes > and present them in the timeline. That way, for example, one could render a > sequence of steps over time, where each step is a xwiki doc. There's no > reason why the horizontal axis needs to represent discrete time. It can > represent any monotonically increasing sequence. For example, editing the > sequence of steps and concurrent streaming media for purposes of making a > movie or real-time presentation composed from wiki components. > > PPS: > http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/XQuery/DBpedia_with_SPARQL_and_Simile_Timeline_-_Album_Chronologyis > another interesting application of the Timeline widget. It would be > interesting if xwiki could support SPARQL ( > http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-sparql-XMLres/ ). The timeline widget doesn't > necessarily need to be used as a timeline... you could also use it to > present complex database result sets laid out in two-dimensions, for example > (e.g. search hits presented over topic and confidence in matching.). > > On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Jean-Vincent Drean > <jean-vinc...@drean.org>wrote: > > >> Hi, >> >> I've played quite a lot with Simile Timeline in the past. >> I've made a little snippet showing last modifications within the wiki >> on code.xwiki.org : >> http://code.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Snippets/TimelineSnippet >> >> In action: http://incubator.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Timeline >> >> JV. >> >> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 8:35 PM, Niels Mayer <nielsma...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Has anybody integrated any of MIT's open source "Project Simile" ( >>> http://code.google.com/p/simile-widgets/ ) JS widgetry into Xwiki? For >>> example their http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/ >>> http://simile.mit.edu/timeplot/ or http://simile.mit.edu/timegrid/ ?? >>> >>> This has been discussed previously on these lists: >>> >>> >> http://markmail.org/message/bds6fein6w4ftqot#query:MIT%20Simile%20Xwiki+page:1+mid:55peh7tm5z2vjoyd+state:results >> >> http://markmail.org/message/bds6fein6w4ftqot#query:MIT%20Simile%20Xwiki+page:1+mid:xu5d32bukkmtdldx+state:results >> >> http://markmail.org/message/bds6fein6w4ftqot#query:MIT%20Simile%20Xwiki+page:1+mid:hefinq3w652jrkiy+state:results >> >> http://markmail.org/message/bds6fein6w4ftqot#query:MIT%20Simile%20Xwiki+page:1+mid:yd4a3nb2mk6e3fdu+state:results >> >> http://markmail.org/message/bds6fein6w4ftqot#query:MIT%20Simile%20Xwiki+page:1+mid:nt5t5e27ccykrnx4+state:results >> >>> Unfortunately, all the emails mention example links that no longer exist, >>> >> so >> >>> there's no obvious Xwiki examples providing Simile widgetry in Xwiki ... >>> >>> FYI, Other environments have integrated some of the MIT functionality: >>> http://drupal.org/project/timeline >>> http://drupal.org/project/exhibit >>> http://simile.mit.edu/wiki/Wibbit >>> >>> Niels >>> http://nielsmayer.com >>> ______________________________ >>> > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > users@xwiki.org > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > > -- Ricardo RodrÃguez Your EPEC Network ICT Team _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
