Help talk:EasyTimeline syntax


 * 00:17, 20 November 2006 User:66.254.241.199  (→TextData)


 * 22:00, 12 September 2006  contribs)|  (→Text Input - fixed error : caret not supported in TextData)


 * 06:12, 5 September 2006  contribs)|  (→Bar related attributes - Add in a description of barset)


 * 14:52, 27 August 2006  contribs)|  (→Presets - existing presets explained)


 * 15:25, 9 August 2006  contribs)|  (readded useful edits after tech. revert)


 * 15:22, 9 August 2006  contribs)|  (revert as major part of text got lost (seemingly unintended))


 * 13:25, 8 August 2006  contribs)|  m   (gah, add alpha sort to own cat)


 * 13:24, 8 August 2006  contribs)|  m   (+cat Category:Graphical Timelines)


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 * 13:31, 24 April 2006  contribs)|  m   (→Font Support)


 * 13:29, 24 April 2006  contribs)|  m   (→Font Support)


 * 23:31, 12 March 2006 User:12.218.27.2  (→BarData - typo)


 * 10:40, 8 March 2006 User:83.250.239.164  (→Bar related attributes -  Syntax error in example)


 * 09:30, 8 March 2006 User:83.250.239.164  (→DateFormat -  Syntax error in example)


 * 23:57, 28 February 2006 User:216.59.252.205  (→Legend)


 * 18:04, 3 January 2006 User:81.250.110.27  (→Commands)


 * 03:20, 3 January 2006  contribs)|  (upd link)


 * 03:53, 1 January 2006 User:24.84.43.179  (Shouldn't cyryllic be cyrillic?)


 * 19:42, 30 December 2005  contribs)|  (→AlignBars -  because the template only appears here, and does not exist at other projects)


 * 23:49, 13 December 2005 User:63.205.162.114  (→Bar related attributes -  changed width=0.3 to width:0.3)


 * 13:55, 29 November 2005  contribs)|  (Removed category.  Fixed hyperlinks that break when this page is copied to other projects.)


 * 15:51, 26 November 2005 User:83.16.52.194  (→TimeAxis - order: reverse)


 * 15:29, 26 November 2005 User:83.16.52.194  (→Text Input - more update on unicode)


 * 15:21, 26 November 2005 User:83.16.52.194  (→Font Support)


 * 15:20, 26 November 2005 User:83.16.52.194  (→Font Support - timeline has some unicode support now)


 * 03:29, 9 November 2005  contribs)|  m   (→Commands -  copyedit by Bodnotbod from en:)


 * 01:54, 21 October 2005 User:65.94.171.81  (→Introduction)


 * 05:33, 9 October 2005  contribs)|  m   (→Embedded links -  Correct example URLs (use valid format).)


 * 10:24, 13 September 2005  contribs)|  (rv link spam)


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 * 23:30, 24 August 2005  contribs)|  (→Clickable maps - one link per  text segment)


 * 01:31, 7 July 2005  contribs)|  m   (→ImageSize (mandatory))


 * 01:27, 7 July 2005  contribs)|  m   (→PlotArea (mandatory))


 * 01:26, 7 July 2005  contribs)|  (→PlotArea (mandatory) - + attr top/right + about deprecation)


 * 01:12, 7 July 2005  contribs)|  (→ImageSize (mandatory) -  'new' value auto + attribute barincrement)


 * 00:40, 7 July 2005  contribs)|  (→LineData - 'new' attributes)


 * 23:40, 6 July 2005  contribs)|  (cmd DrawLines renamed to LineData)


 * 00:33, 20 June 2005  contribs)|  m   (→TextData - link fix)


 * 00:31, 20 June 2005  contribs)|  m   (→TextData - link fix)


 * 21:15, 29 May 2005 User:202.1.193.10  (→Available commands -  oh well.. previous one did not work... fixing again)


 * 21:13, 29 May 2005 User:202.1.193.10  (→Available commands -  fix subsection links)


 * 23:37, 21 April 2005  contribs)|  (h:h and h:f)


 * 06:42, 25 March 2005  contribs)|  m   (→EasyTimeline code with a template parameter is not allowed - )


 * 06:40, 25 March 2005  contribs)|  (+)


 * 00:39, 18 March 2005 User:217.19.95.41  (→Marker attribute)


 * 20:17, 15 March 2005  contribs)|  (revert vandalism)


 * 15:16, 15 March 2005 User:193.190.134.66  (→Marker attribute)


 * 23:25, 27 February 2005 User:200.121.44.20  (→EasyTimeline code with a template parameter is not allowed)


 * 23:24, 27 February 2005 User:200.121.44.20  (→EasyTimeline code with a template parameter is not allowed)


 * 02:13, 27 February 2005  contribs)|  m   (→TextData - nowiki)


 * 02:04, 27 February 2005  contribs)|  m   (+ es:)


 * 01:55, 27 February 2005  contribs)|  (presentation examples)


 * 01:24, 27 February 2005  contribs)|  m   (layout)


 * 01:22, 27 February 2005  contribs)|  (→Legend - layout)


 * 02:01, 26 February 2005  contribs)|  (→Embedded links - note on special characters)


 * 13:12, 23 February 2005 User:213.36.45.120  (fr:)


 * 02:11, 17 January 2005  contribs)|  (→Colors - add link to Ploticus color page)


 * 18:31, 4 December 2004  contribs)|  (+ link)


 * 15:33, 3 November 2004  contribs)|  m   (Reverted edits by 61.49.188.142 to last version by Patrick)


 * 14:44, 3 November 2004 User:61.49.188.142


 * 20:28, 30 September 2004  contribs)|  m   (Reverted edits by 195.39.223.7 to last version by Patrick)


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 * 14:41, 30 September 2004  contribs)|  m   (rm dup)


 * 14:41, 30 September 2004  contribs)|  m   (presets)


 * 14:25, 30 September 2004  contribs)|  m


 * 14:21, 30 September 2004  contribs)|  (The name &quot;EasyTimeline&quot; refers to the possibility to apply the feature with a time scale horizontally or vertically, possibly with another parameter in the other direction, but there are also various)


 * 11:50, 29 September 2004  contribs)|  m


 * 11:44, 29 September 2004  contribs)|  (The EasyTimeline feature produces an embedded image from wikitext. The image can be be one-dimensional diagram (horizontally or vertically), or a two-dimension)


 * 06:57, 29 September 2004  contribs)|  (==EasyTimeline code with a template parameter is not allowed==)


 * 06:50, 29 September 2004  contribs)|  (→Embedded links)


 * 06:32, 29 September 2004  contribs)|  (→Embedded links)


 * 06:24, 29 September 2004  contribs)|  (→Embedded links)


 * 21:36, 28 September 2004  contribs)|  (→Measurements - The first coordinate is horizontal from left to right, the second is vertically upward.)


 * 21:23, 28 September 2004  contribs)|  m   (mv down)


 * 21:17, 28 September 2004  contribs)|  m   (→Font Support - mv down)


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 * 13:14, 28 September 2004  contribs)|  (presets documentation?)


 * 09:17, 28 September 2004  contribs)|  (→Embedded links - external link style is as usual with single brackets, but here with a pipe instead of a space. Blank spaces and underscores in the url should be written as %20.)


 * 08:55, 28 September 2004  contribs)|  m   (→TextData)


 * 08:50, 28 September 2004  contribs)|  m   (→Legend)


 * 08:42, 28 September 2004  contribs)|  (→Available commands - TimeAxis mandatory)


 * 07:02, 28 September 2004  contribs)|  (→Period -  (mandatory))


 * 07:00, 28 September 2004  contribs)|  (→PlotArea -  (mandatory))


 * 07:00, 28 September 2004  contribs)|  (→ImageSize -  (mandatory))


 * 06:54, 28 September 2004  contribs)|  m   (→Embedded links)


 * 06:52, 28 September 2004  contribs)|  m   (→Clickable Maps)


 * 06:50, 28 September 2004  contribs)|  m   (→Parameters vs Data Items)


 * 06:47, 28 September 2004  contribs)|  m   (→Available Commands)


 * 14:22, 27 September 2004  contribs)|  (→Embedded links)


 * 14:15, 27 September 2004  contribs)|  (→Embedded links)


 * 14:09, 27 September 2004  contribs)|  (→Embedded links)


 * 14:00, 27 September 2004  contribs)|  (→Embedded links)


 * 13:54, 27 September 2004  contribs)|  (→Embedded links)


 * 13:49, 27 September 2004  contribs)|  (→Embedded links - compare with link styles outside timelines)


 * 12:57, 27 September 2004  contribs)|  (→Embedded Links - interwiki links do not seem to work)


 * 11:57, 27 September 2004  contribs)|  m   (→Font Support)


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 * 21:04, 29 August 2004  contribs)|  m   (→Embedded Links - fix error messages)


 * 23:17, 8 August 2004 User:137.226.181.173  (→Positional attributes)


 * 22:56, 8 August 2004 User:137.226.181.173  (→DrawLines)


 * 11:09, 5 July 2004  contribs)|  (+ Category:MediaWiki User's Guide)


 * 19:52, 2 July 2004  contribs)|  m   (→Define)


 * 11:29, 27 June 2004 User:141.53.194.251  (→DateFormat -  is this correct? -10000-+10000)


 * 09:20, 27 June 2004  contribs)|  (EasyTimeline/Index)


 * 09:08, 27 June 2004  contribs)|  (See also EasyTimeline.)


 * 17:10, 3 June 2004  contribs)|  m   (→Attributes)


 * 16:13, 3 June 2004  contribs)|  (MajorScale -&gt; ScaleMajor, MinorScale -&gt; ScaleMinor)


 * 16:08, 3 June 2004  contribs)|  (→Marker attribute - + example)


 * 15:45, 3 June 2004  contribs)|  (→TextData - + example)


 * 13:06, 3 June 2004 User:171.21.80.126  (→Embedded Links - + examples)


 * 12:46, 3 June 2004 User:171.21.80.126  (→Font Support - + example)


 * 00:42, 3 June 2004  contribs)|  (→AlignBars - + examples)


 * 00:20, 3 June 2004  contribs)|  (→Font Support - + category)


 * 11:34, 24 May 2004  contribs)|  (Removing warning now that bug as been fixed)


 * 10:59, 24 May 2004  contribs)|  (Copying from TestWiki before it gets nuked)

Timeline or Graph?
Are the syntax for timelines? They seem to look more like graphs to me. Can someone show an example?  No News  !  01:33, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Strong agree BoldLuis (talk) 15:22, 20 May 2020 (UTC)

Help "Error Message" on Timeline
I have been preforming edits on the Southland Conference and the timeline continues to have an error message that says something to the effect of Invalid Image map created by easy timeline. It still displays the timeline though. I have copied entire timelines from other pages but nothing seems to work. Can someone help with this problem? ThomasHorn7 (talk) 15:12, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

I have also been attempting to edit the timeline but the error message continues to appear. Quidam65 (talk) 16:59, 11 August 2010 (UTC)


 * Same issue at Colonial Athletic Association - any help would be appreciated. Thanks!  GoingBatty (talk) 15:08, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

HSB vs. HSV
Hi.

I've been trying to create color mixtures using  syntax as the help page indicated but I am told that HSB is supported instead. Unfortunately, I had no luck with HSB either. Every combination that I test results in black.

Best regards, Codename Lisa (talk) 11:59, 31 May 2014 (UTC)


 * The back end does not support HSB specifications for PNG images. I will remove this option from the help page. 84.127.115.190 (talk) 04:53, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

ISO 8601 date format
User:Erik Zachte

More and more sites and tools use ISO 8601 date format "yyyy-mm-dd".

Could this tool be updated to allow that format as input?

Currently only allowed is
 * mm/dd/yyyy - US format
 * dd/mm/yyyy - European, Latin American format

So, two all-numerical formats, but none of them allowed by WP style guide, which mandates ISO 8601 for all-numerical formats.

See also http://xkcd.com/1179/

Derianus (talk) 21:31, 28 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Hi Dedalus, I am not longer maintaining since 200?, but it should be a straightforward patch. You can either submit a patch yourself or file a bug for it. Cheers, Erik Zachte (talk) 17:35, 29 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Here it is:


 * 84.127.115.190 (talk) 14:12, 8 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Hi! Thanks for your patch! Please use Developer access to submit this as a Git branch directly into Gerrit. Putting your branch in Git makes it easier to review it quickly. If you don't want to set up Git/Gerrit, you can also use the Gerrit Patch Uploader. Thanks again! --AKlapper (WMF) (talk) 10:28, 10 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Submitted at 73640. 84.127.115.190 (talk) 04:58, 20 November 2014 (UTC)

Alignment
How do I align the timeline as a whole on the wikipage? On the German wiki does the trick. Here it seems to have no effect. Any help would be appreciated :) Best, Furius (talk) 08:19, 10 October 2014 (UTC)

x.y format
Is there a reason the  real-number "date" format isn't documented? --Fru1tbat (talk) 17:19, 5 December 2014 (UTC)

Legend cropped on the right
On this article, the legend is cropped on the right - the "n" in "Percussion" is cut in half, and "Studio releases" becomes "Studio rele". I can fix this by changing "columns:4" to "3", but it would be better if it would be fixed in the feature itself. Could somebody do that? Bonomont (talk) 18:32, 9 June 2015 (UTC)

Font Color
Hi guys,

I am working on Template:Tomb Raider series Timeline. How do I change the font color?

Cheers!--TudorTulok (talk) 07:28, 29 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Solved here textcolor:black. Sorry for putting the question and immediately answering and finding the solution myself. TudorTulok (talk) 07:29, 29 November 2015 (UTC)

Font selection
I understand from the EasyTimeline documentation that any non-default font must be available on the server. In the case of Wikipedia, how do I find out what alternative fonts are available? The default is just horrible: the letter spacing is all uneven. OTOH, this might be a problem with the font rendering, and not something that can be improved easily. (See Classical music) Imaginatorium (talk) 11:26, 11 September 2016 (UTC)

Bar height
Hi! I would be grateful if someone could tell me where to find the syntax for the bar dimensions. ATBWikirictor (talk) 02:30, 11 January 2017 (UTC)

Years before 1800
I just drafted a timeline to add to an article relating to the American Revolutionary War. I pasted it into the article, only to discover that EasyTimeline wouldn't run. It doesn't work for years in the 1700s:

Is this limitation as arbitrary as it appears to be, and could someone please fix it? Lwarrenwiki (talk) 17:35, 15 January 2018 (UTC)

Bug: Additional diagonal lines in Chrome
I can't reproduce it but there are multiple reports that timelines can add strange diagonal lines when used for bands like this. It seems to affect Chrome but not Firefox. Here is a screenshot. Any idea what causes this and how to get rid of it? --mfb (talk) 23:09, 3 October 2019 (UTC)

Text is blurry when zoomed in
This template should generate 2x images as well https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/HTML/Multimedia_and_embedding/Responsive_images#resolution_switching_same_size_different_resolutions. The text is noticably blurry when using a page zoom above 100% or using a retina display.



Akeosnhaoe (talk) 20:39, 1 March 2021 (UTC)

Help needed splitting a line at Demographics of the Supreme Court of the United States‎
At Demographics of the Supreme Court of the United States‎, is it possible to plot one line for Edward D. White, split between the two colors representing his time as an associate justice and his time as chief justice? BD2412 T 22:56, 10 March 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This has been resolved. BD2412  T 19:18, 24 April 2021 (UTC)

Underscores as spaces

 * bar
 * defines the bar id. Other commands (notably PlotData) will expect this id for reference. This will also be the label to be shown along the axis, unless attribute text is present. The bar id should not contain any spaces: use underscores instead, these will be converted to spaces, as with article titles.

Oh no, they won't!

The underscores continue to show up as underscores. How long has this been a thing? TangoFett (talk) 19:07, 6 October 2023 (UTC)

Adding a reference to this chart
Hey,

is there a way I can add a reference to this chart? Or maybe place a short caption directly below this chart with this reference:

WikiPate (talk) 16:22, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

Adding multiple wikilinks in TextInput
How do I wikilink to multiple internal pages in the same line in a given "bar"? See timeline. Tried using quotes ("") and underscore (_) between Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan per Help:EasyTimeline syntax, but did not give the intended result. Qwerty284651 (talk) 03:28, 10 February 2024 (UTC)

"EasyTimeline syntax" listed at Redirects for discussion
The redirect [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=EasyTimeline_syntax&redirect=no EasyTimeline syntax] has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at  until a consensus is reached. jlwoodwa (talk) 00:54, 14 March 2024 (UTC)