Improving timeline with relations

[stefanobortoli]

We are setting up a rich dashboard to support Vehicle Excise Duty investigation. The timeline becomes very handy to have a quick overview of the lifecycle of a vehicle, but we are having some trouble configuring it.

We have the case where we want to represent different events from the same index, labelled differently. To do this, we defined different properties, and added the relations in the relations settings panel.

To select the vehicle, we use a filter on the plate ("targa"). however, the document we want to be represented in the timeline uses (for the same value) "targa precendente".

Does the timeline use the relations to get the related objects in the different indexes? It looks it should, but it seems it does not.

[scampi]

Relations are not used. Can you provide some example data that we can try ? A complete scenario would be nice: the data, the configuration of the timeline vis, what the interactions are with the vis you do, and finally what you'd expect to see.

[stefanobortoli]

The use case is rather simple. There are entities, such as vehicles, that have a lifecycle for which you want to represent the different phases as separate individuals in the dashboards, but you want to link them in a timeline. The sequence of lifecycle states are represented with specific type of relations.

Provided there are no cycles, it would be nice to be able to represent in a timeline the different states of the vehicle computing a transitive closure over the "previous state" or "next state" relations.

[jccq]

Timeline should be upgraded to use the filters that are in remote dashboards instead of using indexes directly.