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• 11.04.1955: Charle's birth
• 08.09.1960: Elisabeth's marriage
• 01.01.1961: Sandy and Raoul's separation
• etc...

and being able to insert in this table any other important event, even if not defined by genographic elements or other tables or fields, such as:

- 3.11.1979: Marcs graduation

- 5.12.1980: Thomas' first's steps

etc...

Edited: Sunday, March 25, 2007 by GenoProSupport

I tried opening IE while the family tree report was open and it connected without any problem but the timeline still doesn't show in the frame.

The Google Map shows up perfectly in this report.

Edited: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 by IainTait

By the way I am assuming the text Timeline.DefaultEventSourceEvent in your last post is a typo for Timeline.DefaultEventSource.Event, if not your script.js file is corrupt.

P.S. any one else experiencing a similar problem?

I had no problem dowdloading this file and saved it to my "Skins filder" and I then opened my test report and to my surprise the timeline showed up !

I have no idea why this happened.

The result is much improved and almost all the names are visible except for some at the very bottom of the page which could be seen if there was the possibility of a vertical scroll. I had to zoom in a couple of stops to see them.

Bravo, this is getting even more amazing. (What's next ?):

I can't tell from the image but if Peter & Sue have a date of marriage and are still together then they will have their own blue duration line extending to the date of the report. As I cannot see the scale I cannot tell if the gap is 6 months.

Update: attachment updated to fix bug caused by localisation of report date
Update II: replaced util.vbs with revised version

See new thread http://support.genopro.com/Topic17200-60-1.aspx for further news

A life line exists for completed lives and continuing lives

A life line does not exist for completed marriages only for continuing marriages.

Should there be consistency in these rules, making reading the time lines easier.

Poolzone  a mere cog in a revolution

If there is a divorce date present then a duration line is displayed. So I guess you mean a marriage is 'completed' when the first spouse dies. If this is so I can put some code in for this.

I am thinking of changing the initial state of the duration lines on/off toggle to be off so that the chart is not dominated by blue lines at the end and is also more compact in terms of height. Thoughts anyone?

I have managed to code the individuals timelines so I hope to release the next revision sometime tomorrow once I have added family timelines.

I have had to get a quite good understanding of the code in order to achieve this and I am much in awe of the guys at MIT, especially David Huynh, in producing this Timeline 'widget' with Javascript. The coding techniques employed have been a huge eyer-opener for me.

I like the blue time lines to be present for all Life lines but find it confusing when other 'life events' use it also which if they are to have a line, then it should not be the same as the blue Life line i.e. slim black line or other coloured line. This would show more clearly the life events occurring within the time span of the blue Life line.

I am not sure what the bug is, Ron, I think any Marriages that are current i.e. coninue until TODAY have a blue time line but the others do not because they do not have a finish date, even though they are complete through death of one partner. Therefore they stand as a single point entry only and show no blue line. In other words, Yes you are right and some code to correct this would provide consistency and accuracy.

Poolzone  a mere cog in a revolution

Edited: Thursday, March 29, 2007 by poolzone

I got the following error when I try to generate a report.

[2.96] Processing template 'timeline.json'...

I changed the regional settings to UK English in control panel, but it doesn't work, any sugesttion??

Thanks

Hugo

Sorry Hugo, I moved the function StrJsonDescription to Util.vbs but forgot to update it in the zip file. Download again and it should be OK.

Iain, your problems do not appear to be related to Timeline. Without sight of the generated html files it is difficult to diagnose, but you have a syntax error on line 32 of the generated default.htm and an access errors on line 25 of heading.htm and line 25 of toc_timelines.htm. If it runs OK without your own customisations then you need to double-check your amendments.

Thanks Ron,

Now it works perfect! The vertical scrollbar addition is great!!

Thanks again,

Hugo

Edited: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 by haep

These errors were from the freshly made Customized English Narrative Report to which I had only added the files from your last timeline zip after extraction. No other changes were made.

Edited: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 by Ron

This is exactly what I did, but I never get this problem with a classic skin even when personalised as you can see in my tree on this site. I only get it when the timeline files are added.

Edited: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 by IainTait

I think you are missing my point. Your tree on this site is report generated from a skin template and not the skin template itself. I believe you have opened a file with IE from a report skin template by mistake. index.html in a report opens default.htm. If you open index.html in a skin template folder rather than a generated report folder it will open the skin file default.htm, which is not an HTML file at all, but a VBScript used to generate an HTML file. Hence the errors

Actually I have always been able to open the index.htm in the Skin folder to check the effect of my personalisations and even now I can still do this with all my skins that were adapted from the normal English Narative Report skin.

It is only when I add the timeline files to the skin that this problem arises. In spite of this the report generates normally.

PS

I  unticked the error box as the reports are generated normaly so I am not worrying about the minor errors any more.

I have generated a report with all the latest of Ron's innovations with my personalised pages and the result is superb. :

Edited: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 by IainTait

I also have had this error.

I have now made a new "Customized English Narrative Report" from scratch and I added only the timeline files but when I opened the index.htm to check it I got two error messages.

First I got this one and after clicking on "OK" I got the second one

All this is without adding any personal formatting.

I then noticed that when I click on the timeline button I get the third error below (2 images) but none of the other buttons work in the heading.htm.

 

Edited: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 by IainTait

Yes, I did not realise you had given a time line for 'events' that continue, but not for 'events' that are finished. Perhaps I thought you would have given them a different colour than the life lines

It's going to be a busy place in there when all events are captured.

Congratulations on your efforts.

Poolzone  a mere cog in a revolution

This is exactly what I had in mind when I first mentioned it (22/3). These timelines will be on the individual & family pages under a collapse/expand header similar to the Pedigree Chart. I will use a config parameter to specify how many dated events must be available before such a timeline is generated.

The last birth shown is my late sister in law born 1928. (The privacy filter was left blank)

PS. I have just discovered that when I toggle the timeline bars to "off" the missing names appear. Any ideas why this would be ?

PPS. I just added the timeline files to my new main personalised skin and tried to generate a report but got this error

[15.53] Processing template 'gmap_place.htm'...

yes there was still a localisation bug as I was setting the report date before setting the locale. I have corrected this and updated the attachment to my previous post.

Both these errors indicate that your customised skin is not based on the 2.0.0.3 skin, e.g. your config.xml did not contain the 'gmap_place.htm' line, wheres the standard 2.0.0.3 version does etc. When adding your changes you must merge your changes into the files and not just replace the whole file with your own, otherwise changes introduced in the standard skin will be lost. This process must be performed for each new version.

Thanks Ron, I'm not sure how to "merge" the files.

I have now made a new skin and added the timeline files plus my custom pages and when I wanted to add a couple of buttons to the heading.htm I noticed an anomaly as when I opened this I got the following error

The line in question is below but stops at caracter 21

<base target="toc"/>

Edited: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 by GenoProSupport