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Hi again Nick

A quick follow up ..

Works for me on Moodle 1.9.11

Though the bottom link to the XML data is not working for me

I'm getting a link like http://[moodleaddress]/course/4/simile-invent.xml

whereas I guess it should be more like

http://[moodleaddress]/file.php/4/simile-invent.xml

Not yet had any luck with Moodle 2.1 alpha. Will also try Moodle 2.0.3

I presume you need to set up 'Legacy course file' to get this to work with Moodle 2

Hi Sue,

Sorry I haven't replied sooner. Thanks for the enquiry.

Yes, the timeline can be generated from a Moodle Database activity, so that your class can collaborate to create the timeline. See an example further down the Readme (substitute a value for the 'DATA_ID').

This feature is not yet available for Moodle 2, though I've created an issue in the tracker for the task. Feel free to watch the issue report, and I'll also report back here.

Many thanks,

Nick

Hi Sue,

I'm sorry it's taken so long to respond. (I've been completing a book, about Moodle).

BC dates are tricky. There are potentially limitations in Javascript, and in the MIT Simile libraries. I'm putting a question to the author of this page on the SIMILE Wiki, RonanKER,

I know I had a play with,

intervalUnit = MILLENIUM

-- Events tended to be 'lost' because they were generally too short, relativly speaking (I thought of archaeology as an interesting use-case).

I'll report back when I know more. Thanks for your interest and patience,

Nick

BTW, the entry in the new Plugins database,

http://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=filter_timelinewidget

Hi Sue,

Sorry forgot to ask - would you mind posting any links related to the 'research' you mention?

You may have found something useful! (If you can remember/ find the links - months...)

Thanks, Nick

Just wondering if anyone is still following this thread.  I am pretty much stuck.  I need to know how to find the values specific to my database.  If there is help out there, I would really apprciate it.

Hi Dan,

Sorry for the delay in responding (this filter features in a book I've been writing, and it's been a mad dash to finish the book - details in my user profile).

This is a very useful question.

If we imagined for a minute that the Books database on Moodle.org had the appropriate fields ('start', 'end', 'title' etc. as mentioned in the Readme), and that the Timeline Widget filter worked with the Database module in Moodle 2+ (which it may not yet - it's on my list of todos), then we take this URL:

    http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=55

And use the value of 'd', 55, like so in a Moodle resource:

[Timeline]
dataSrc = mod/data
dataId = 55
; other parameters ...
[/Timeline]

Note don't use the 'id' (you may have to put example data in your DB, and browse around to find 'data/view.php?d=M&r=N'. 'd' database, 'r' record.) I hope that helps.

Many thanks for your interest and comments,

Nick

According to the documentation, the link to the timeline data should look like 2/timeline-invent.xml, but according to the code (regular expressions), it is expecting the url to include either content or user/draft

lines 37 - 55

// Handle relative URLs. They must start with a course/resource ID, eg. '2/timeline-invent.xml'
        if (0!==strpos($config->dataUrl, '/')
          && 0!==stripos($config->dataUrl, 'http://')) {
          if (file_exists("$CFG->dirroot/draftfile.php")) {
              // Moodle 2.x.
              if (preg_match('#\d+\/[a-z_]+\/content\/\d+\/.+\.#', $config->dataUrl)) {
                //dataUrl = 60/mod_resource/content/1/simile-invent.xml
                $config->dataUrl="$CFG->wwwroot/pluginfile.php/$config->dataUrl";
              }
              elseif (preg_match('#\d+\/user\/draft\/\d+\/.+\.#', $config->dataUrl)) {
                //dataUrl = 14/user/draft/403117530/simile-invent.xml
                $config->dataUrl="$CFG->wwwroot/draftfile.php/$config->dataUrl";
              } else {
                  print_error('errorindataurl', 'filter_timelinewidget');
              }
          } else { // Moodle 1.8-1.9.x
              $config->dataUrl = "$CFG->wwwroot/file.php/$config->dataUrl";
          }
        }

Did you get some answer to thr problem?

it is not workong for me also

Irith