Improvement: Change names for "min" and "max" in Timeline

[ova2]

Hi,

First, thanks for the great Timeline!

Reading documentation I could not understand what "min" and "max" attributes should mean. After looking the showcase I realized that you meant min. and max. zooming range. Would it be not better and more intuitive to rename these attributes to "zoomMin" and "zoomMax" similar to "intervalMin" and "internalMax" respectively? Or even better to "dateMin" and "dateMax". I think it's more intuitive.

Thanks in advance.

[josdejong]

I agree the namings can be confusing. We have the following properties:

• start initial start date of the visible range
• end initial end date of the visible range
• min minimum start date of the visible range
• max maximum end date of the visible range
• intervalMin minimum interval of the visible range (minimum zoom level)
• intervalMax maximum interval of the visible range (maximum zoom level)

So the zooming constraints are given by intervalMin and intervalMax.

[ova2]

Oh, sorry, sure. I wanted to write that it would be more intuitive to change "intervalMin" und "intervalMax" to "zoomMin" und "zoomMax". Other names can stay without changes. Only the word "interval" was not clear. The word "zoom" is clear in my opionion. But ok, you are the boss, you should decide :-)

By the way, is there a possibility to connect two events with a line or arrow? Like as in a gantt diagram. Imagine a booking system in a hotel. Y axis - rooms, X axis - booking time. Now, if a customer books two or more rooms in the same hotel (different time), we would like to connect their rooms the customer booked. Is it possible with custom item types?

Thanks.

[josdejong]

We will give the parameter naming some more thought, thanks.

Sounds like you are looking for a hybrid between the Timeline and the Network visualization. Of course in theory everything is possible with custom item types. Not sure though whether that will be easy...

[ova2]

Thanks for your response. Yes, it seems to be a hybrid, but can be considered as an extension to Timeline as well.

[ova2]

If you could change "intervalMin" to "zoomMin" and "intervalMax" to "zoomMax", you can close this issue :-).