how do you add events to a person’s life in their timeline - graduation, leaving home, marriage, first job, etc.?
Hi mbzar, Welcome to the forum!
There are a few ways you can go about that, depending on how your timeline is set up and how many people you’re tracking.
Is your timeline intended to track the events of one person’s life, or do you want to enter these types of milestones for multiple people?
Hi Rob,
Tracking multiple people and the events of their lives. Would like the events either on their own timeline or captured directly under it
Thx!
Mbzar
I’m a complete Aeon newbie, so I hope I am relating what I see correctly; but I just looked over this discussion, and did the following (you can do it from any of the views, Timeline, Spreadsheet, etc.)(I am using the Novel template with sample data, with no changes yet):
- In the left-hand vertical menu, click on the character icon, and see the list of characters column come up on the left, which can be filtered, ordered as you like.
- Clicking on any character there brings up the inspector column on the right-hand side.
- In the inspector column, click on the
^button for the Events section and you will immediately see a list of events that the selected character participates in; and you can even add in more events for the selected character. - Relationships of any kind can be viewed in the inspector.
Then, you can also go to the Relationship view (Timeline, Spreadsheet, Relationship…) and see a horizontal list of characters and locations which are related to any event in the left-hand column. You can also add additional columns.
I don’t know whether or not this fits your current needs, or if that is what you are looking for.
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Rob,
Please advise of the different ways you have referenced.
Again, within one story, have multiple characters who each have certain life events that I would like to lay out in one horizontal line so I can see all the characters date of birth, death, graduation, military career, business career, etc.
Thx! mbzar
victorkane,
thanks but I am not using Novel template and do not have the character icon.
cheers, mbzar
Sure. You could pretty easily add the character item type by going to item type settings and adding a character item type if you do not have one. This can be done manually by opening the example novel template in a tab making sure you give a new character item type the same settings. I imagine with some help here there might be an export/import option to ease that. Anyway, hope that helps. The item type is the core in my humble newbie opinion of the power of Aeon Timeline. I made several of my own (“context element” for a cultural or historical milestone; a similar but different colored “bio context element”; these can be added to any event after enabling the relationship settings for them to appear as add-ons in the inspector for a given event).
Sorry for the slow reply @mbzar, I’ve been off on leave for the last couple of weeks.
An effective way to show multiple people in their own row on the timeline is with grouping, like we’ve done with the Family History starting template in the current version of the app. You can have a play around with it by creating a new timeline and looking for it under “Historical” on the template selection screen.
You group things in different ways, but to do it as we’ve done in that template, you’ll need to:
- Create a list of people.
- Create separate events representing each person’s birth, death, career milestones, etc.
- Select each event and use the relationships panel in the inspector to assign the relevant person.
- Use the Group By menu to activate grouping by Relationships > Person.
You’ve mentioned above that you’re not using the Novel template and don’t have characters in your file. If the one you’re using has the Person item type, they both work in the same way.
If you don’t see an icon for either of them in the Sidebar, you may need to make it visible in the Show item types menu accessible via the (…) icon in the Sidebar.
Does that look like the kind of solution you’re after?
If so, we’ve created a couple of guides on Grouping and Nesting, and Customizing Item Types that will provide more details on how to set it up. I’m also happy to go through anything that’s unclear.
If it’s not what you’re after, let me know what you’re picturing and I’ll see what else I can suggest.