Lines to timeline from event, start and finish

Q & A
#1

Hi. Looking at free version to verify all features I need are there. I am looking for 2 things:

  1. How do I make a line from the event to the timeline. Preferably the start and finish for events with a duration, but just start would be ok.
  2. What is the name of that line, so I can correctly search for whether its in feature requests, or it exists I just don’t know.

Thank you!
mw

#2

I’m not sure what you’re asking. Events can be viewed several different ways, one of which is the timeline view.

In that view, the events comprise the timeline. I’m not sure what a line from the event to the timeline would be. Help me understand what you’re looking for. I’ll give it my best shot and there are others here more knowledgeable than I.

Other views include a relationship grid. That cross references people to events.

The subway view lets you select people, which are used for rows. Events they are involved with are connected by lines.

The narrative view is a little like the old Writer’s Blocks outline tool. It lets you arrange events in narrative order without regard for chronology.

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#3

(https://photos.app.goo.gl/tqa7soKd73u7cEux9)

Something like this. Hand drawn example has start and finish lines, the example from TMP just has 1 line, indicating where specifically the event was on the timeline.

#4

I understand what you mean by timeline, now. The scale showing the dates at the top of the window. I don’t think Aeon has a feature to draw those lines.

The vertical lines Aeon will draw indicate dependencies, when dependencies are defined and if dependency lines are enabled (there’s a button on the bottom bar to turn them on and off).

For instance, if an event is blocked by or blocks another event, you’ll see vertical lines between the events.

I don’t think Aeon will draw vertical lines from events to the time scale.

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#5

There’s a feature called “calendar markers” that will do that but you have to create all those vertical lines yourself by entering the date and/or time you want, the color of the line and the icon you want to use. There’s no way to auto-generate them.

#6

Ug.

But, thanks for the info on naming. :slight_smile:

#7

I learned something new, thanks.

It looks like calendar markers are like slide rule cursors, for want of a better analogy. It’s a vertical line all the way across the timeline without association to an event.

Is that the way they work?

#8

Yeah, there’s no way to connect them to events, unfortunately. You can also give them start and end dates, so they’ll appear as a vertical “band” of color that is as wide as that duration of time.

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