If I use "January 1, 2012" as the date and sort "oldest" first, the year marker appears below the content item. If I use "January 2, 2012" the year marker displays above the item as it should. It appears that January 1st causes an issue but all other dates appear to work.

Example:

http://kpbs.webfactional.com/static/timeline/sort_test.html

I like this tool and had two issues that I haven't been able to resolve. 1.) I wasn't able to link to youtube video from the photo_url column (which I thought was equivalent to media) 2.) While working in the html index the photos displayed fine but don't' display in IFrame of website.

Thanks for this awesome timeline - have been looking for something alike for month. Heres a question from a non coding journalist: Can you think (and explain to me) a way to combine this timeline with a vertical timeseries-graph, that would move in accordance to the time on the timeline and is programmed so that the point on the timeseries is highlighted, that corresponds with the object in the timeline I am looking at? This would give this timeline great potential. Also, is there a way to sort of anchor the objects on a map, that appears on one side of the timeline? Do you still work on this app? If not, can you recommend, whom to ask? Would be a great help.

Tanks, Miriam

Hi,

Thank you for this great timeline !

I'm trying to use it, but I can't make it work. The formats are well text format everywhere because I've made a copy of your sheet and I've renamed it and share it to everyone and plublished it to the web.

I've also change the key and the name of the file in the sheet.

I really wonder what's wrong !

This timeline tool is amazing, it's almost perfect but I hope there's a way to adjust one crucial aspect so it'll be even more useful for storytelling. The "year" headers ought to communicate more than the year if, for instance, I want to show events that occur every few years, decades or centuries. It would be tremendous if I could have alternate ways of labeling the headers.

I attempted to layout a timeline of certain election day results only to discover that many of my boxes won't alternate sides, most just stack on the left side because the headers occur too frequently (which makes the page longer than it has to be).

Is it possible to make headers group events under decades instead of years?

Please let me know your thinking on this.

Here's my attempt:
http://seezie.com/tests/dataviz/electoral_timeline/

Malik

I want to try to use this for a open source project but I want to know what the license behind this is?

Thanks

Also, if you really want this to bee used by journalists, who dont have a technical departement as a resource, you may want to add something like this to your supereasy how to use - section:

(after "publish the sheet as described at tabletop")
"Click on the button "copy repository" and download the zipfile on your computer. Unzip it. The file "index" contains the html with the timeline. It needs access to the folder "css", "images" and "js" . Copy all three folders plus the index-file to the place, where you want to publish the site. You can also copy those items manually.

Cheers Miriam

Hi - beautiful timeline!
Can this script be adapted / extended to use other sources?
eg. PHP-made JSON from data on a private server:
many thanks, Mike
(Ed: having an intensive course on what Tabletop actually does... :)

Since the example has been broken for the last 6 years (as of 2021) - #13, #14, I wonder if anyone has a working example elsewhere they could screenshot.

Hello,

Your live demo no longer appears to work or the files themselves once downloaded and placed on my server, I'm thinking this is linked to the Google API updates recently? but no clue on how to resolve this!

Kind regards,
Bradley