Timeline TWiki Plugin

Uses the dead sexy Timeline view from http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/ to show date based information. I use it to show webChanges with the query below, and will update with a task / calendar query soon.

Syntax Rules

• interval - (DAY, MONTH, YEAR, DECADE)
• date - the initial date that the timeline will be centered on
• height - height in pixels that the timeline area will use
• width - width in pixels that the timeline area will use

Plugin Settings

Plugin settings are stored as preferences variables. To reference a plugin setting write %<plugin>_<setting>%, i.e. %TIMELINEPLUGIN_SHORTDESCRIPTION%

• One line description, is shown in the TextFormattingRules topic:
  • Set SHORTDESCRIPTION = Show a scrolling Timeline from a TWiki SEARCH

• Debug plugin: (See output in data/debug.txt)
  • Set DEBUG = 0

Example (shows when Plugin is installed and running successfully)

%TIMELINE{ "http://www.torontowikituesdays.com/twiki/pub/TWiki/TimelinePlugin/monet.xml" interval="DECADE" height="450px" width="700px" date="1870" }%

This example uses the TimeLineSearch topic to show the last 50 modified topics in all webs. (DISABLED - currently can only show one timeline per page)

WARNING: at the moment IE will only work with xml file, not from generated xml as below

%TIMELINE{ "http://www.torontowikituesdays.com/twiki/bin/view/TWiki/TimeLineSearch" interval="YEAR" height="450px" width="700px" date="08 Jan 2009" }% The example is made up of the the %TIMELINE% variable that is converted into the client side javascript, and a TWiki %SEARCH% statement that formats the results into the XML data format that the javascript requires.

%TIMELINE{
"%SCRIPTURL{view}%/%SYSTEMWEB%/TimeLineSearch"
interval="DAY"
height="450px"
width="450px"
date="%DISPLAYTIME{"$day $month $year"}%"
}%

where TimeLineSearch contains

<data>
<!--
   * Set <nop>SKIN = xml

the format of and event:  
   start="May 28 2006 09:00:00 GMT"
   end="Jun 15 2006 09:00:00 GMT"
   isDuration="true" 
   title="Writing Timeline documentation" 
   image="http://simile.mit.edu/images/csail-logo.gif" 
-->
%SEARCH{
".*" web="all" regex="on" nototal="on" noheader="on" nosearch="on" order="modified" reverse="on" limit="10"
format="<event start='$date' title='$topic' link='%SCRIPTURL{"view"}%/$web/$topic' >$summary(noheader)</event>"}%
</data>

Plugin Installation Instructions

• unzip the zip file into the twiki directory
• if you are running TWiki release 4.0.4 or before, you need to apply patch to TWiki add the tmpl file mentioned in http://develop.twiki.org/~develop/cgi-bin/view/Bugs/Item2617
• enable the plugin using configure

Plugin Info

Plugin Author:	TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit - http://WikiRing.com
Copyright:	© 2006, TWiki:Main.SvenDowideit

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