"This module provides two new view types for the Views module:
- Timeline Horizontal
- Timeline Vertical

In addition, two default views are provided to get you started quickly:
- timeline_nodes: plots any nodes by their creation dates.
- timeline_events: plots event nodes by their event start and end dates
(requires the Event module).
from README.txt
"
What am I missing, these do not appear, is the documentation missing a step somewhere?
When I look in views, if I try to create a new view or anything nothing is there, I tried copying files...

anyone being able to fill me in on what's going on here, it would be greatly greatly appreciated

site is running drupal 6.4 with all most recent modules

am I going crazy?
thank you again,
charles

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jmiccolis’s picture

jmiccolis commented

Hi,

Timeline for Drupal 6 is still under development. The text on the project page refers to the stable releases of the module - for 4.7 & 5, not to development branches and their snapshots. As timeline gets closer to being ready for a beta release on 6 you can expect to see the documentation get updated.

So, no - you're not going crazy :)

sidharth_k’s picture

sidharth_k commented

I'm really looking forward to this module. Providing a sample view will be very useful because if it works, you know your basic setup is correct. I'm having problems getting this to work. I just get a blank page!

The instructions are also a little confusing. "1st if present, 2nd if present.." Technically I can leave all of them out according to the instructions but then views does not allow me to save the view.

If you are not providing a sample view can you give me a trivial view configuration?

e.g.
Filter: Node.type==page,
Fields:Node.title,
Style=timeline

Should this work?

Once again, I'm really excited about this module. What sort of timelines do you expect for a alpha/beta version of timeline :-) ?

lupinix’s picture

lupinix commented

I'm having same problems. Could someone please post any how-to's on how make a sample view for drupal 6.x? please help

Thank you

fjuan’s picture

fjuan commented

I'm using this module with Drupal 6 and, after many failed configurations, I found this one to work:

Modules required: timeline, cck, views and date

I created a content type called "event"

I added a CCK date field to this content type with an optional "to date" field

then I created a view with this options:

Style: timeline
Items to display: no limit

Fields:
1.- Content: Date (field_date value) Default
2.- Content: Date (field_date value2) Default
3.- Node: Title Title
4.- Node: Teaser Teaser

Filter by published and content type equals to event.

Note: it's not working in the views preview, you have to create a page view and test there.

If you have any problem undestanding this small how-to, i'll post a full instrucction in some days.

wrb123’s picture

wrb123 commented

you may want to look at this:
http://drupal.org/node/335131

jmiccolis’s picture

jmiccolis commented
Title: missing timeline views » Update default event views?
Component: Configuration » Code
Category: support » task

I've added a default view to the timeline module. It's more basic then what's describe above, but will hopefully be enough to get people started. The view will display nodes on a timeline based on created dates.

I'm not certain yet if there will be a default event view in the D6 version as past versions have had. It seems like most people are using date these days.

However I'll leave the possibility open for now.

cglusky’s picture

cglusky commented

thanks. i'll get this updated and tested as well. still working on my CVS access.
R,
Coby

xamanu’s picture

xamanu commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

closing because of inactivity. Should be fixed anyway.