[Feature - Horizontal] Implement Timeline-arrow as a way of connecting events
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Integration with timeline arrows,
Use case would be to "link" events together, or show a connections between them as a cause and effect
https://github.com/javdome/timeline-arrows
a playtest demo of it working
https://gistpreview.github.io/?b5a7a48e51d0b5d62aee718e10039e16
This is pretty cool. I'll add it to the to-do list
Looking into this, actually implementing the arrows should be fairly simple. I'm more wondering how I would be able to let the end user make those connections themselves. From the timeline-arrows README, each connection has to be have the ID of start and finish.
Right now I generate an ID for each event from the normalized start date of an event, so perhaps I could add a field on events for successor, arrow-to, points-to, next-event or some such?
Events would probably look like:
<div class="ob-timelines"
data-title="First Event"
data-start-date="2024-5-24"
data-points-to="2024-6-11"
>
Event Number One
</div><div class="ob-timelines"
data-title="Second Event"
data-start-date="2024-6-11"
>
Event Number Two
</div>Does this seem an acceptable way to add this? What are your thoughts?
Sorry for the long wait as im just seeing this now, didnt expect youll get to it this fast, and yeah actually that pretty much sums up how i figure it to work or a simple connects-to : (name of event) as a simpler way
Created an issue on the timeline-arrows repo because I wasn't sure if groups were required or not in order to make this work. Turns out they are so I'm going to make it so that all items are automatically added to a single group in order for the arrows to render. Because I'm going to messing with that stuff already, I'll also implement the ability to add groups to your items as a whole for the timeline, which is issue #62. Both of these will now be added to the 2.4.0 milestone