I’ve been an Aeon 2 user for a long time. I download a trial version of Release 3 and unhappily learned that the web export feature is gone. That was one of the essential features I used: producing historical timelines that could be sent/distributed to others who needed only a browser to view them. I cannot upgrade to Release 3 for this reason. A shame.
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Just wanted to add my voice to those for whom web export is an absolutely critical feature of Aeon Timeline.
I’ve spent 5 years researching an extremely dense timeline with well over 1000 events, hundreds of supporting documents, and several dozen cross-cutting categories. Building this resource has taken countless hours. While I initially created this resource solely for my own research, it has become essential for me to share this with select others. A zoomable, interactive web export was the only viable option. Plus, it was dead simple.
I’ve read the workaround suggestions. I am sorry to say they’re not viable for my use case and my needs.
As long as AT3 lacks this feature, I can’t upgrade from version 2. Worse yet, I am now deeply worried that if I lose the ability to run v2 for whatever reason, I will lose years of work.
Please, please reinstate this feature in AT3.
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I just received an email from Aeon Timeline mentioning some new features in AT3. The email contains a link to a Google survey regarding web-export use cases. I get the impression the AT team is thinking seriously about how to reinstitute that great and sorely missed feature.
I just filled the survey. I am hoping web exporting does get implemented again. It is crucial for our work in our foundation, and having searched for alternatives, and not finding any software that does something similar, we depend entirely on AEON timeline to publish this data. If at some point in the near future a OS update or some other issue forces us to ditch AEON Timeline v2, we would loose years of work on historical research and the ability to share it with the general public. Crossing my fingers that it’s coming soon.
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I’m in a similar boat. Fingers crossed!
In your case you should use other types of software, not a consumer desktop timeline software…
You should look at solutions like Arches, Heurists, ResearchSpace etc.
or even Omeka with the timeline addon http://www.neatline.org/
Most of them will easily be able to import the json file from Aeon, and it should also be possible to import the csv file with little effort…
Just as a tips
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Thanks. It’s very helpful for my research.
If there’s any way to get notified when/if this feature is re-implemented that would be great. It’d save having these tabs open indefinitely 
If you haven’t already, you can sign up to our newsletter on our website here: https://timeline.app/ (bottom right hand side of the page).
While we don’t announce every new feature that is released in this, web export might potentially be one that would be mentioned.
Hello. It’s been a year since the export to web feature was removed with Timeline 3 without any resolution. I need to decide whether to commit to Aeon and web export is a necessary feature.
It seems reasonable at this point that there should be a commitment more definitive than “maybe someday.”
Thanks.
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Sorry for the delay in reply.
We are currently actively working on bringing Aeon Timeline to the web.
It is a little too early for us to talk about concrete dates, but we will provide more information about a potential timeline for beta users and full launch as soon as we are able.
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I literally just joined the forum to add a small 
to your reply 
!
(Even though, I’ve been exploring the community for some time)
This is awesome news 
!
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Still no export to web functionality, and now most users need to pay extra to get that functionality…
But that may have been your plan all the time?
To force everyone that upgraded from Aeon 2 that had this functionality to have to wait a year, to renew their subscription.
And the few “updates” you actually did the last year are not worth the price at all.
For large timelines there are still no real export functionality that are useful, it’s still not possible to export a larger timeline to pdf with a scale of weeks and days…
You still use an aged PDF version with artificial dimension limits instead of changing the PDF library you use for the export, when the only thing you actually had to do was to make a “save to SVG”, so that people could have imported it into a PDF or other formats needed.
and the “save to SVG” could easily also have been used for web presentation, and if people needed some dynamics, they could at least have a way of making an interactive SVG for the web or to send to people.
But instead, people WILL BE FORCED TO PAY FOR ANOTHER YEAR to have this functionality, or to wish for an export format that can be imported into another software.
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I just want to add my name to the petition: one of the main reasons I started using Aeon was for SHARING my timelines. I didn’t realize it was gone in AT3 until after I promised a product to my veterans’ group that I now know I can’t deliver.
Without some form of web or viewer export, the product is crippled.
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Have you seen the export to image/PDF function? I understand it’s not what you want. It might be a stopgap for you.
When the web features are rolled out, I hope Aeon remains an offline-usable product, and I desperately hope the existing import/export features are retained.
I routinely extract timelines from Devonthink and OmniOutliner. No programming required, no translation or adjustment of the data needed for Aeon to import. I’d hate to lose that!
The image and PDF export are crippled as well, they use an old pdf standard, so it has an arbitrary dimension limit.
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So, currently, is there no true web export of timelines in the current version? I’m considering purchasing but this is a hard-and-fast requirement for me.
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No, there is no web export.
And I don’t think you shall hold your breath waiting for it.
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Hello. Is there a clearer date as to when web export will be reintroduced? Still waiting. Thanks
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I stopped using it because of this, best hope is for alternative s/w. Too bad as it was a great option
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