Summary. The attached files add an Individual, Family and GenoMap Timelines  feature to the English Narrative Report. To use it, create an empty GenoPro customized skin folder e.g. Customized English Narrative Report with Timelines, and unpack the contents of the attached zip file into it.

 Then generate a report using this custom skin.

Usage Notes.

1. Config.xml contains a number of new parameters used to customise the Timeline:
       Timelines="Y" set this to "N" if you do not want Timelines to appear in your report
       TimelineMinEventsIndividual="2"  Mimimum no. of events before a Timeline is produced for a particular individual.
       TimelineMinEventsFamily="2"  Mimimum no. of events before a Timeline is produced for a particular family.
       TimelineShowDuration="N" Whether or not 'duration' bars are displayed initially. (Can be toggeld on and off in Report)
       TimelineContemporary="Y" Whether or not 'duration' bars are to be displayed for events that are still current.
   These parameters can of course either be changed in Config.xml or set using GenoPro Document Custom Tags.
2. Dictionary.xml contains settings for the colours of the text and bars in the Timelines and can be changed if required. Not that the (hexadecimal) RGB color values should be used. Note also that when used for a duration bar, a 20% opacity value is applied to the colour. The Timeline widget also allows other aspects of the theme to be changed but this has not been implemented here.
3. The GenoMap timelines initially display a 'note' event giving details of how the navigate the timeline. You can also pan the Timeline by clciking the mouse wheel and dragging or by double clicking at the ends of the visible Timeline area when hand cursor is displayed.
4. Information bubble/balloons are not displayed on the Individual & Family Timelines because most of the information is already available on the same page.
5. The Simile Timeline Javascripts are now included in the custom skin and will be copioes into the report location rather than being dynamically downloaded from the MIT site when the report is viewed. This is because the scripts have been amended to permit coloured duration bars and will also isolate the generated Report from changes & availability of the MIT site.

Update VI: 14/4/07 Version 2.0.0.3l posted

Hi Ron, I did exactly as you said with the Customized English Narrative skin I had made a few days ago with version 2.0.0.3  but got this error.

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I got the following error when I try to open a timeline from the timeline index

Line: 2
Char: 1
Error: invalid character
Code:0
URL: file://c:\Report\Timeline.htm

Line: 1228
Char: 2
Error: 'tl' is null or not an object
Code:0
URL: file://c:\Report\Timeline.htm

In the person or family pages it works fine until zoom in or out, or toogle timeline duration bars, or refresh the page. ... got the same error.

Thanks

Hugo

PS. The new feature are excellent! regards!

Update: This error is extremely frustrating. The line number and filename  given in the error message seem to be a complete red herring - oh Microsoft why do you do this! And the only decent Javascript debugger, VenkMan,  is for Mozilla Firefox only so is not much use here!

1) When i press the button "toggle timeline duration bar on/off" some individuals disappear.

2) When i edit the config.xml and set TimelineShowDuration="Y"  i got this error: "Caught exception : SyntaxError : missing : after property id."  (With FireFox),   "Caught exception [Object error]" with IE6.

PD: Congratulations Ron, this software is the great.

Thanks

I've corrected the TimelineShowDuration issue and also managed to get it working with IE. So should now be useable with FF 1.5 & 2, IE 6 & 7. See revised attachment, version 2.0.03i, to my 1st post in this thread.

There is a bug in the Timeline API such that if the timeline area has a vertical scroll bar then the information bubbles/balloons are misplaced when the timeline has been scrolled vertically. Also, IE7, poor thing, gets a bit confused with the vertical scroll bar and decides to add one to the frame as well as a completely useless one for the timeline because It spills the timeline out of its containing box.

Could you please provide more info on the 'disappearing' individuals. ¿What attributes do they have in common, start date end date, etc.? ¿Do they really disappear or just yet repainted in a different position?

Ej: Duration bar off : All data

Ej: Duration bar on   Common data : All individuals are dead and end unions.

Hi Ron, I downloaded your version 2.0.03i and made a skin from scratch again and added your files but I still got the errors below

I was beginning to tear my hair out over this one but fingers crossed I hope I have now got to the bottom of the problem. I had made changes to the MIT code and re-built their bundle.js file from the individual js files using the Apache Ant tool. What I did not realise until now was that this build did not include the localisation files included in the MIT sources. Why this omission affected IE but not Firefox remains a mystery. Anyway I have now updated the zip file to include these files, so if you download yet again hopefully it will work. My testing was flawed because I didn't delete the report folder before regenerating the report and these files had been present in an earlier release, so IE appeared to work. Lesson learnt

I still need to understanded what is happening with EDilena's problem as I can't reproduce it yet.

I tried th same download link which still shows 2.0.03i  and only got the first error, the same as above though when I click OK I no longer get the second error message ?

More hair tearing!

I have just had a longer look at the report generated and discovered to my delight the Timelines in the Individual and Family pages (FAB!). The only problem now is the main Timeline which should open from the toc_timelines.htm as the others are perrrrrfect and quite unexpected as far as I'm concerned.

I have also noticed that the names of the children mentioned at the top of the family pages look like links but dont lead to the child's page and only when "Children" is expanded does the name link to their page.

I put a backup in my account, if you can access this file, maybe you can test with my data and obtain the same problem.

I tried to download again, erase the report folder and i obtain the same problem than IainTait.  

My PC is a P4, W2K SP4, IE6 SP1

Eduardo Dilena

Hi Ron,

I have the same problem as EDilena in personal and family timelines, and the missing data is on events without ending date, (birth, education, occupation and marriages).

Update: The problem with missing data is in Firefox (2.0.0.3) too, not only in IE6; curiously in Opera (9.1) works fine.

I hope it help you to find the problem.

Sincerely,

Hugo

PS. The other problem is fixed in family and individual embedded timelines, but still in main Timelines (from the timeline index)

I found this, the education events disapear only if termination field is "Still attending" and termination date is empty...

Same case with occupation events, disapear only if end date is empty, and termination field is "Still working"

Hugo

I tried your Harry Potter tree and found the same problem as I have IE6.

Individual and Family timelines are now ok It´s a magnific addition! :

Regards,

Hugo

This problem only seems to apply to the main timeline charts as the individual and family ones are fine.

This original problem seems to be a quirk in the Report Generator with the IsDead property in the line

I expect .IsDead to give a Boolean value of True or False but on this occasion it appears to return a null string. Changing the line to

I also have a fix for the IE6 issue but I am doing some tidying up before releasing another version. My thanks to all the patient testers who have helped in debugging this.

P.S. The error occurs when a family has only one parent defined and that parent is dead. An attempt to access the 'IsDead' property of the non-existent parent causes a null string to be returned.

Sorry to have been a pain about this problem as I seem to be almost the only one with IE6

I look forward to seeing your solution and am wondering what other amazing ideas will be coming out of the woodwork in the future !

The Timeline and djvu were quite unexpected for me but greatly appreciated and I am thinking of other possible uses for the djvu.

Keep up the good work: and Thanks

I think that anybody wanting to print the report would like the 'help' tip removed. 

You have not as yet updated the config file with paramater descriptions.

This visual presentation is very valauable to all Genopro users, and brings genopro's stored information to life on the screen.

I will make a copy and personalise it with djvu etc and see how it goes tomorrow.

Thanks for the timeline feature. It is great!

A single suggestion: For Occupations, please display the name of the company instead of the position name. It will be more informative and will use the same rule used for Education, where the name of the institution is displayed.

Carlos

I will review their code to see if I can find a solution.