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Enter events with date ranges.
I have event's that I would like to enter that don't have specific dates. Like in 1987 my organization had 400 members. It would be nice to be able to enter those events as "1987" or "May 1990." Maybe they would show up on the timeline as a shaded box extending from the beginning of the year/month to the end of the year/month? Or as the flag you have now with a pointed end on it?
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Hi guys, we updated the site to allow you to add date ranges (like 1999 - 2003) or less-specific dates (like May 2008).
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Inappropriate?I think it is an important idea. Very often I don't have exact dates, for example: The book was first published in 1951 -
Inappropriate?Along similar lines I would like to put a date range in for a trip, say I left on the 17th of September and came back on the 25th. It would be nice to enter a start and end date.
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Inappropriate?Hi guys, we updated the site to allow you to add date ranges (like 1999 - 2003) or less-specific dates (like May 2008).
Hope this helps.
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I don't think this is working properly. I can enter a date range, but regardless of the range the visual representation (shaded box) appears for one year only. -
We show the date range in the flag "Below the title, like 2000-2008" but we don't change the flags right now. We experimented with some other representations, like making the flags long/short, but given that the range can be 1 second or 10000 years we didn't find a great way to do this. Keeping it simple for now.
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Inappropriate?How about if you display a thin horizontal bar above or below that event box when the event is moused-over, and the bar would extend between the two dates (or to the edge of the window if that date is beyond that)?
Alternatively, the bars of all event ranges can be permanently displayed (but behind other event boxes to avoid clutter).
In any case, I believe that visual display of the duration of an event is an essential element in time lines, and hence it deserves some . -
Inappropriate?Hi tak2, thanks for the suggestions! There are a lot of considerations here, but I"ll give the feedback to our designer.
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Inappropriate?I don't think the way it is implemented now is very helpful. Dipity is supposed to be a visual tool. Showing the range for an event is crucial imo.
What would be usefull is to give a range:
- its own colour
-set it above the main timeline
- include begin and end dates in this sub- timeline
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