Comments on: Installing MIT Simile’s Timeline locally (w/ Rails integration)

By: Biju

Biju — Sat, 23 May 2009 02:31:33 +0000

Great info..

I was just going through timeline_2.3.1, what they say is in the html page, where we need to include timline, add the following

Timeline_ajax_url=”http://YOUR_SERVER/javascripts/timeline/timeline_ajax/simile-ajax-api.js”;
Timeline_urlPrefix=’http://YOUR_SERVER/javascripts/timeline/timeline_js/’;
Timeline_parameters=’bundle=true’;

So no need to edit timeline js files in newer versions.

By: ryankanno

ryankanno — Fri, 22 May 2009 05:07:52 +0000

@Tim

Sorry, I haven’t looked at Simile in a little while. However, with no web server, have you tried using the file:/// URI syntax? I don’t see why the relative path wouldn’t work either, but I’m suspecting they are using the base domain for something and maybe that’s throwing everything else off. Does Firebug indicate that the script even loaded?

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 12 May 2009 15:35:14 +0000

this is like 99% there… how can I create and run a timeline without access to the Internet on my stand-alone machine – NO WEB SERVER. The above instructions do not work!!

I am replacing “WEB_URL_TO /src/ajax/api/simile-ajax-api.js?bundle=false”; with “../../ajax/api/simile-ajax-api.js?bundle=false”;

Any ideas why??

By: Gil

Gil — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:03:35 +0000

Worked perfectly, great job!

By: Keith

Keith — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 23:19:23 +0000

Hi,

I hate to bring up an old topic, but I followed your guide (the first part, not the rails part), and there were more steps. simile-ajax-api.js pointed to some other external javascript files and after downloading those, it works, but there’s one thing in particular i’m trying to accomplish:

Instead of calling a bubble when an event is clicked, i want to call a lightbox event. I had this working before (making it local) by changing the Timeline.OriginalEventPainter.prototype._showBubble function in “original-painter.js” on line 489 to contain my own call to a lightbox event.

Unfortunately, it looks like the local copy doesn’t even look at this file (“original-painter.js”) and I was wondering if you knew where the new code is that calls the bubble event. Any ideas?

Thank you so much!

Keith

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Adding a Simile Timeline to Community Server : Technovangelist — Mon, 12 May 2008 07:35:35 +0000

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By: ryankanno

ryankanno — Thu, 01 May 2008 01:42:43 +0000

@rkiran –

It’s been a while since I’ve looked at the library, but I suspect that your JSON is probably incorrect – I remember having this issue when I didn’t use a valid iso8601 date/time format. Could this be the source of your error?

By: rkiran

rkiran — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:07:43 +0000

if i put this url in my web browser,

http://127.0.0.1:9999/ajax/api/simile-ajax-api.js?bundle=false

i am able to load the js file.

But my problem is i am not able to view the events..i am able to view the timeline

Its throwing the js error like “Failed to create view Terms”. Terms is the label i have given like in the div-> ex:label=”Terms”

Please help me in this issue.

By: ryankanno

ryankanno — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:45:56 +0000

@Micajah – If you install Firebug (http://www.getfirebug.com/), it’ll most likely help solve your problem. That’s what I used to figure out what was being called by the javascript – using its debugger.

By: Micajah McGarity

Micajah McGarity — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:49:28 +0000

I want to make a Timeline that can be run from one HTML file with all of the javascript in a single block. I have tried placing the contents of timeline-bundle.js and simile-ajax-bundle.js into the script block. The error I’m getting is that Timeline is undefined. Do you have any thoughts on how to fix this?

Thanks!