Hi there,

I have been able to render the Timeline module (created conten type, fields etc) to work very well in Views3. But, I am unable to get the simile examples to render.

In my previous Drupal6 site, I could create views rendered pages, as well as glue into standard "page" type nodes, the Simile code to show their examples. However, in my completely rebuilt drupal7 site, i can no longer get the (what ought to be) simple example timelines to render. I put in the code from Simile, and the page is blank. I have tried to refer directly to the simile api.simile-widgets site, and tried to point to my localized install, in both the simile libraries folder acess by drupal, AND in a copied folder.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,

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hamish_s commented

It is now clear that the date formats in the Simile examples cannot comply with the revised Drupal7 ISO format requirements. So, I've tried two ways to "workaround".

1. Was to simply convert the data in the xml file to datetime ISO format, cleaning up manually all the dates and formatting. That didn't work as the calls are just not making it hrough to the timeline_js bundles - no matter where i put them (default/all/libraries, or another separate folder).

2. Having converted the xml data into "proper form", i then tried to create nodes using Feeds and XPath. However, related to another issue stream, the dates simply will not translate into the new CCK date fields in the content type. Next step was to manually convert the date fields in each node.

So, now i get a timeline, with duration. The only place it falls down is in the Jewish history line, where i cannot seem to find a way to get the Drupal7 fields to take the BC dates (-0070-01-01T00:00:00). Just crashes all the data so that not only does the one node not show, but no nodes come up.

If someone can please advise how to format the dates in the node so that BC dates appear, i would be grateful.

Thanks,