Dates and Events

Timeline Module

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Timeline is a DHTML-based AJAXy widget for visualizing temporal information.

This module is a style plugin for the Views module that represents date
information of nodes on horizontal timeline display.

Features:

CCK date fields can be used to display all kinds of information on the timeline.
Coloring events based on their taxonomy, node type etc. via views' group by function.
Displaying icons for events on the timeline based on a taxonomy images or imagefields.
Icon images can be run through any Imagecache preset.
You can create your own themes to present the timeline the way you like it.
Optional: Local use of the SIMILE Libraries using the Libraries module.

You can set a lot of advanced settings in timeline's views settings:

Content type with date field(s)

Inside of the module's directory there is a "themes" folder. The easiest way would be to copy one of the existing themes and simply do a

Getting started