Art Timeline

Timelines

• Create highly-customizable timelines from the Art Timeline administrator
• Google Calendar API Integration
• Google Drive API Integration
• Add template to timeline to control look and feel
• Start timeline at first event (default chronological order)
• Start timeline at last event
• Start timeline at any specific event
• Set timeline time scale - human or cosmological
• The cosmological scale handles dates in the very distant past or future.
• Add events to timeline from SQL Query
• ACL support

Templates

• Set timeline background color
• Set event date color
• Set event name color
• Set event description color
• Set event slidenav navigation color
• Set event slidenav title color
• Set event slidenav description color
• Set timenav position - top or bottom
• Set timenav height
• Set optimal tick width
• Set timenav height minimum
• Set timenav height percentage
• Set timenav mobile height percentage
• Set marker height minimum
• Set marker width minimum
• Set marker padding
• Set duration
• Set event slide padding left & right

Events

• Load timeline events from Google Calendar API Integration
• Load timeline events from Google Drive API Integration
• Create events from Art Timeline Administrator UI
• Associate event with a timeline
• Add category to event items
• Add media to event items
• Set start and end date for event

Media

• Media can be added to an event for added visual effect
• URL is the path to your media
• Several different types of media can be used
• Image - If your URL ends in jpg, gif, png or jpeg, it will be used as the source for an image tag
• YouTube - Use the URL for the page of the video
• Vine - Use the URL for the page of the video
• DailyMotion - Use the URL for the page of the video
• Vimeo - Use the URL for the page of the video
• SoundCloud - Use the URL for the SoundCloud clip page
• Twitter - Use the the Twitter embed code, or the URL of the tweet's page
• Google Maps - Use the URL for the Google Maps page
• Google Plus - Use the URL for the Google Plus photo
• Instagram - Use the URL for the Instagram photo's page
• Flickr - Use the URL for the Flickr photo's page
• Imgur - Use the URL for the Imgur photo's page
• Document Cloud - Use the URL of the Document Cloud document's page
• Wikipedia - Use the URL of the Wikipedia article's page
• Storify - Use the URL of the Storify
• Embedly - If Art Timeline doesn't recognize your media URL, it will try to use Embed.ly to get the best thing to include on your slide

Eras

• Eras can be used to define a period of time on a timeline
• Add an era to a timeline
• Set start date and end date

Categories

• Add a template to a category
• Customize the look of specific events by adding a category to an event