Thanks for your patience during our recent outage at scalar.usc.edu. While Scalar content is loading normally now, saving is still slow, and Scalar's 'additional metadata' features have been disabled, which may interfere with features like timelines and maps that depend on metadata. This also means that saving a page or media item will remove its additional metadata. If this occurs, you can use the 'All versions' link at the bottom of the page to restore the earlier version. We are continuing to troubleshoot, and will provide further updates as needed. Note that this only affects Scalar projects at scalar.usc.edu, and not those hosted elsewhere.
Scalar 2 User's GuideMain MenuGetting StartedExplains account and book creation, and some interface basics.QuickStartsA path of all QuickStart content in this user's guide.Working with MediaHow to get the most out of your use of media in Scalar.Working with ContentCreating and editing content in Scalar.Working with WidgetsWorking with StructureHow to use Scalar's many options for structuring publications.Editorial WorkflowHow to use features for performing editorial review of content.VisualizationsExploring the contents of a book visually.LensesAn introduction to lenses, a tool for searching and visualizing Scalar content.Advanced TopicsDescribing Scalar's more advanced features.Third Party Plugins and Platforms
Timeline Widget
12017-02-21T22:44:35-08:00Curtis Fletcher3225f3b99ebb95ebd811595627293f68f680673e329611plain2021-08-12T12:11:20-07:00Erik Loyerf862727c4b34febd6a0341bffd27f168a35aa637The Timeline widget will display content in your Scalar book chronologically via an interactive timeline. All items to be displayed must include dcterms:temporal or dcterms:date in the format month, day, year, hour, minute, second (which can be added using the 'Metadata' tab in the page editor). To learn more about adding temporal metadata to items in your Scalar book, see the section on our Timeline Layout.
To add a Timeline widget, click on either the linked or inline widget button in the WYSIWYG editor and then choose “Timeline” from the widget options. Next, use the content selector to choose an item or selection of items to be displayed in the timeline. One can choose individual items at will. One can also choose paths and tags and include the items they contain or tag, respectively, by ticking the box under “Include Children” for that item in the content selector. Additionally, one can populate Scalar’s Timeline widget with content external to the Scalar project in which it appears. To do so, simply select the “External URL” tab in the content selector for the Timeline widget and paste in the url to a Google Sheet containing properly formatted references to content (Scalar’s Timeline widget is powered by Timeline.js which is ordinarily populated using an appropriately formatted Google Sheet. See here, for details.)
Finally, select your formatting options for the widget. If you’d like to include descriptive or explanatory text below the widget, choose “Custom text” under “Caption” and enter it there.
The Timeline widget is powered by Timeline.JS built by the wonderful people at Knight Lab.
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