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	simple link to target a date on Timeline? by rlaird :: Rate this Message: Reply to Author \| View Threaded \| Show Only this Message I've got my timeline up and running on a web page, but would like to put HTML links below it (not part of the js script) that a user can click on and it will move the timeline and zero in on the item they clicked on. What's the simplest way to do that? -- Robert -- Why did the chicken cross the Mobius strip? To get to the other, er, um.... _______________________________________________ General mailing list General@... http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general
	Re: simple link to target a date on Timeline? by Josh Aresty :: Rate this Message: Reply to Author \| View Threaded \| Show Only this Message Hey Robert, If this is just timeline (e.g. not using Exhibit) then I think what you need is to call timeline.showBubbleForEvent( "eventID") to scroll directly to and show a bubble for an event. If you don't want to show the bubble, then you can write a function that does this: var evt = timeline.getEventSource().getEvent(eventID); if (evt) { timeline.scrollToCenter(evt.getStart()); } Josh 2008/6/19 Robert Laird <rlaird@...>: I've got my timeline up and running on a web page, but would like to put HTML links below it (not part of the js script) that a user can click on and it will move the timeline and zero in on the item they clicked on. What's the simplest way to do that? -- Robert -- Why did the chicken cross the Mobius strip? To get to the other, er, um.... _______________________________________________ General mailing list General@... http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general -- Best, Josh Aresty Systems Administrator/Programmer MIT LLARC _______________________________________________ General mailing list General@... http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general
	Re: simple link to target a date on Timeline? by rlaird :: Rate this Message: Reply to Author \| View Threaded \| Show Only this Message Josh -- Thanks for the info... I'm an old hand at HTML, but not as confident around javascript. If this is a discrete function that I'm calling, don't I have to reference the timeline instance? Also, none of my XML has an eventID... I have the start, end, title, etc., but no eventID... what is it? -- Robert 2008/6/19 Josh Aresty <jaresty@...>: Hey Robert, If this is just timeline (e.g. not using Exhibit) then I think what you need is to call timeline.showBubbleForEvent( "eventID") to scroll directly to and show a bubble for an event. If you don't want to show the bubble, then you can write a function that does this: var evt = timeline.getEventSource().getEvent(eventID); if (evt) { timeline.scrollToCenter(evt.getStart()); } Josh 2008/6/19 Robert Laird <rlaird@...>: I've got my timeline up and running on a web page, but would like to put HTML links below it (not part of the js script) that a user can click on and it will move the timeline and zero in on the item they clicked on. What's the simplest way to do that? -- Robert -- Why did the chicken cross the Mobius strip? To get to the other, er, um.... _______________________________________________ General mailing list General@... http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general -- Best, Josh Aresty Systems Administrator/Programmer MIT LLARC _______________________________________________ General mailing list General@... http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general -- Why did the chicken cross the Mobius strip? To get to the other, er, um.... _______________________________________________ General mailing list General@... http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general
	Re: simple link to target a date on Timeline? by rlaird :: Rate this Message: Reply to Author \| View Threaded \| Show Only this Message Josh -- Never mind... I found the: parseIso8601DateTime(string) function, and created this: function centerTimeline(string) { tl.getBand(0).setCenterVisibleDate(Timeline.DateTime.parseIso8601DateTime(string)); } and I call is thus: <A href='javascript:centerTimeline("1953-05-02")'>May 02 1953</A> and it works! Thanks for leading me in the right direction! -- Robert On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 9:25 PM, Robert Laird <rlaird@...> wrote: Josh -- Thanks for the info... I'm an old hand at HTML, but not as confident around javascript. If this is a discrete function that I'm calling, don't I have to reference the timeline instance? Also, none of my XML has an eventID... I have the start, end, title, etc., but no eventID... what is it? -- Robert 2008/6/19 Josh Aresty <jaresty@...>: Hey Robert, If this is just timeline (e.g. not using Exhibit) then I think what you need is to call timeline.showBubbleForEvent( "eventID") to scroll directly to and show a bubble for an event. If you don't want to show the bubble, then you can write a function that does this: var evt = timeline.getEventSource().getEvent(eventID); if (evt) { timeline.scrollToCenter(evt.getStart()); } Josh 2008/6/19 Robert Laird <rlaird@...>: I've got my timeline up and running on a web page, but would like to put HTML links below it (not part of the js script) that a user can click on and it will move the timeline and zero in on the item they clicked on. What's the simplest way to do that? -- Robert -- Why did the chicken cross the Mobius strip? To get to the other, er, um.... _______________________________________________ General mailing list General@... http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general -- Best, Josh Aresty Systems Administrator/Programmer MIT LLARC _______________________________________________ General mailing list General@... http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general -- Why did the chicken cross the Mobius strip? To get to the other, er, um.... -- Why did the chicken cross the Mobius strip? To get to the other, er, um.... _______________________________________________ General mailing list General@... http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general
	Re: simple link to target a date on Timeline? by Josh Aresty :: Rate this Message: Reply to Author \| View Threaded \| Show Only this Message Glad to hear it. You taught me some new tricks, too :) Josh 2008/6/19 Robert Laird <rlaird@...>: Josh -- Never mind... I found the: parseIso8601DateTime(string) function, and created this: function centerTimeline(string) { tl.getBand(0).setCenterVisibleDate(Timeline.DateTime.parseIso8601DateTime(string)); } and I call is thus: <A href='javascript:centerTimeline("1953-05-02")'>May 02 1953</A> and it works! Thanks for leading me in the right direction! -- Robert On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 9:25 PM, Robert Laird <rlaird@...> wrote: Josh -- Thanks for the info... I'm an old hand at HTML, but not as confident around javascript. If this is a discrete function that I'm calling, don't I have to reference the timeline instance? Also, none of my XML has an eventID... I have the start, end, title, etc., but no eventID... what is it? -- Robert 2008/6/19 Josh Aresty <jaresty@...>: Hey Robert, If this is just timeline (e.g. not using Exhibit) then I think what you need is to call timeline.showBubbleForEvent( "eventID") to scroll directly to and show a bubble for an event. If you don't want to show the bubble, then you can write a function that does this: var evt = timeline.getEventSource().getEvent(eventID); if (evt) { timeline.scrollToCenter(evt.getStart()); } Josh 2008/6/19 Robert Laird <rlaird@...>: I've got my timeline up and running on a web page, but would like to put HTML links below it (not part of the js script) that a user can click on and it will move the timeline and zero in on the item they clicked on. What's the simplest way to do that? -- Robert -- Why did the chicken cross the Mobius strip? To get to the other, er, um.... _______________________________________________ General mailing list General@... http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general -- Best, Josh Aresty Systems Administrator/Programmer MIT LLARC _______________________________________________ General mailing list General@... http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general -- Why did the chicken cross the Mobius strip? To get to the other, er, um.... -- Why did the chicken cross the Mobius strip? To get to the other, er, um.... _______________________________________________ General mailing list General@... http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general -- Best, Josh Aresty Systems Administrator/Programmer MIT LLARC _______________________________________________ General mailing list General@... http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general

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