Hello, I can answer myself, sorry for bothering you ... ;) In fact I merely had to use a <iframe> and it works perfectly (and very nicely). Regards, Jeremie

Have you tried something like: <iframe src=" http:// <http://mywiki/xwiki/bin/view/WikiDev/TimeLine> <yourserver> <http://mywiki/xwiki/bin/view/WikiDev/TimeLine>/xwiki/bin/view/WikiDev/TimeLine <http://mywiki/xwiki/bin/view/WikiDev/TimeLine>*?xpage=plain*" frameborder=0 width=100% height=600px></iframe> Simply paste this on a page while in wiki edition mode and it should work fine. Guillaume

Could someone turn this into a code snippet on xwiki.org? Thanks -Vincent On Nov 29, 2007, at 9:46 PM, Your XEN ICT Team - Ricardo Rodriguez wrote: Guillaume Lerouge wrote: Have you tried something like: <iframe src=" http:// <http://mywiki/xwiki/bin/view/WikiDev/TimeLine> <yourserver> <http://mywiki/xwiki/bin/view/WikiDev/TimeLine>/xwiki/bin/view/WikiDev/TimeLine <http://mywiki/xwiki/bin/view/WikiDev/TimeLine>*?xpage=plain*" frameborder=0 width=100% height=600px></iframe> Simply paste this on a page while in wiki edition mode and it should work fine. Guillaume Perfect. Thank you so much, Guillaume. I've been trying all kind of esoteric options... :-( Best, -- Ricardo Rodríguez _______________________________________________ users mailing list users(a)xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users

Hi Guillaume, I think that to have timeline working here will be of major interest for our group. So, let me try to generalize its usefulness. I think that the reference given by Jeremi in the original entry ( http://www.jeremi.info/index.php/post/2006/11/28/Simile-Timeline) plus the <iframe> trick in his second message solve the issue. If Jeremie agrees, I will try to understand the whole thing and create ASAP an *ad hoc* page.

Great, I'm sure both Jeremi and Jeremie will be ok (I'm seeing Jeremi on

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Has any of you tested Simile Timeline's sister project Timeplot ( http://simile.mit.edu/timeplot/) ? Apparently it uses the same xml format for its data files, I thought it might be used to generate statistics from a wiki use by turning a XWiki Instance own RSS feed into the RSS plugin, creating the XML and displaying the timeplot. Actually, I might try and do it as well :-) Guillaume

Here is a semantic project XWiki is taking part in: http://nepomuk.semanticdesktop.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main1/

Cheers, Guillaume On 30/11/2007, Your XEN ICT Team - Ricardo Rodriguez < webmaster(a)xen.net Guillaume Lerouge wrote: Nope! I've just enjoyed the sample at the MIT site. There is a number of quite interesting projects within Simile. By the way, I know this is not the best way to jump into a different topic but, is there any initiative to add Semantic Web tools to XWiki? Well, you can perfectly think that I am completely lost :-) Best, -- Ricardo Rodríguez Your XEN ICT Team

Hi all, I, of course, completely agree, as said I merely put 2 things together ;-) The timeline is a great feature, I'm currently working on adding all this information in the same timeline (using groovy), and use it in the homepage: - of course, blog news - page updates - FAQ entries - comments on pages The result is not yet perfect, but it's working quite nicely, using different bullets colors depending on type of item. I still have a problem in Jeremi's part (XML generation), because it seems that most recent entry in RSS is not taken into account in generated XML, and I really don't understand why (it's a for $entry in $entries with xwiki.feed.getFeeds(url), it should retrieve everything !?) Also, when your timeline is "rich" it's quite unreadable, because newer things go too far in the bottom and don't display at all. I'm trying to make the timeline automatically "magnify" itselfs for current period of time (+- n hours), so items will be able to show up side-by-side, but I'm still failing to do it. The timeplot also seems very cool ;-) Only problem (for both timeline & timeplot) is that if it's rich it can take long to show up ... But it's a very nice and synthetic display. Regards, Jeremie

Hi Ricardo,

In first instance I copied the sample (the timeline) in a WIKI page, but of course as in the sample are defined <html>, <head> and <body> tags, it could not work. In a wiki page we already are inside the <body> tag, and the browser does not like redefining such tags very much.

I then tried the trick from the TIMELINE-24 issue also, but it failed to work. I don't know if I left this "patch" on the page, because my wiki is currently broken ... :/ It removed the URL prefiks issue, but nothing was displayed.

So the trick was to have a page WikiDev.TimeLine, with the sample, another page WikiDev.TimeLineFeed with the sample script to generate the XML (it works well, I only added new things inside it). Basically the timeline feed page generates XML with a root <data> tag, and a number of <event> tags inside, with a date ("start") and a "description". So it's very easy to generate using any events as entries. In the WikiDev.TimeLine page you have to put URL of WikiDev.TimeLineFeed as first parameter of the tl.loadxml() method.

Then, in the page where I want to show the timeline, I added a <iframe>, with "src" equals URL of WikiDev.TimeLine. Also had to give it a height and width for proper display. Inside the <iframe> it's like in another page, so there is no problem of <head> or <body> tags anymore. The WikiDev.TimeLine page does not show up (you get the URL prefiks error), but the <iframe> in the other page should display correctly.

Hope this helps ...

Regards,

In first instance I copied the sample (the timeline) in a WIKI page, but of course as in the sample are defined <html>, <head> and <body> tags, it could not work. In a wiki page we already are inside the <body> tag, and the browser does not like redefining such tags very much. I have not a clear idea about how to have this kind of <head> and <body> nested tags affect the rendering of the page. Take a look at this... http://xepecnet.environmentalchange.net/xwiki/bin/view/ICT/GoogleMaps Here the code... http://xepecnet.environmentalchange.net/xwiki/bin/view/ICT/GoogleMaps?viewe… <head> and <body> are also defined in the Google Maps snippet, but the page is correctly rendered. No errors at all. Ok, this means I was wrong ;) Maybe the difference is in the header (with the <!DOCTYPE ), and also I believe that the //<![CDATA[ might play a role … But I'm really not a good web developer … I then tried the trick from the TIMELINE-24 issue also, but it failed to work. I don't know if I left this "patch" on the page, because my wiki is currently broken … :/ It removed the URL prefiks issue, but nothing was displayed. I didn't succeed by specifying a value for Timeline_urlPrefix. And I don't know how to apply the patch proposed by Sami Radi last October. Of course I can put timeline-api.js in one of our servers and modify it, but I don't know how to call all the dependencies. To make it work I modified timeline-api.js as described in the issue (just replaced the block indicated), attached the timeline-api.js in a wiki page, and replaced its URL in the WikiDev.TimeLine. But I'm not sure it's needed in fact … Or maybe it's needed if you don't use <iframe> So the trick was to have a page WikiDev.TimeLine, with the sample, another page WikiDev.TimeLineFeed with the sample script to generate the XML (it works well, I only added new things inside it). Basically the timeline feed page generates XML with a root <data> tag, and a number of <event> tags inside, with a date ("start") and a "description". So it's very easy to generate using any events as entries. In the WikiDev.TimeLine page you have to put URL of WikiDev.TimeLineFeed as first parameter of the tl.loadxml() method. This is another point I fail at. I am not a programmer, so I have to learn how to produce this XML output from XWiki items. Let's write down here a couple of simple examples showing the structure you describe... http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/docs/example1.xml http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/docs/example2.xml And the HOW-TO from Simile... http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/docs/create-timelines.html The sample from Jeremi is quite simple and works very well to display all News elements in the timeline : {pre} <data wiki-url="$xwiki.getURL('Main.WebHome', 'view')" wiki-section=""> #set($feed = $xwiki.feed.getFeed("$xwiki.getURL('Main.BlogRss', 'view', 'xpage=rdf')")) #foreach($entry in $feed.entries) <event start="$entry.getPublishedDate().toLocaleString()" title="$entry.title" color="blue">$xwiki.getXMLEncoded($entry.description.value) ... $xwiki.getXMLEncoded("<a href=$entry.link target='_blank'>Suite</a>") </event> #end Note : ADD CODE HERE TO ADD OTHER EVENTS IN THE XML </data> {/pre} The #foreach parses all entries in the feed (constructed with your wiki blog), and writes down an <event> entry with date and description. It's not too complicated, but it's development … In the ADD CODE HERE … , I put the groovy code to generate the XML from the page updates and the FAQ entries and such, but it's more complicated, not very readable, and most of all there are many hard-coded specific things inside it. Once I'll get something clearer I'll share it with you or add it in xwiki wiki ;-) Then, in the page where I want to show the timeline, I added a <iframe>, with "src" equals URL of WikiDev.TimeLine. Also had to give it a height and width for proper display. Inside the <iframe> it's like in another page, so there is no problem of <head> or <body> tags anymore. The WikiDev.TimeLine page does not show up (you get the URL prefiks error), but the <iframe> in the other page should display correctly. The <iframe> way works perfectly. I am only still curious to understand why Google Maps work without it. I am too (see above). I believe it would be nicer to be able to do as for Google Maps, but we would have to understand better why it works … Hope this helps … Yes, it does! Thanks for your message, Jeremi. I keep working to produce a clear page about how to use Simile TimeLine in XWiki, although I think you are the one for this task! :-) If you prefer I can get the point ;-) But is this a code snippet, an application, macros … ? I believe it belongs to snippets … And can I make use of Jeremi's modified sample, because HE is the creator of this xwiki timeline after all …. Regards, Cheers, -- Ricardo Rodríguez Your XEN ICT Team _______________________________________________ users mailing list users(a)xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users