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Timeline View Usage

The Timeline View is a powerful way to visualize and manage your events by category and sub-category, making it ideal for complex schedules, project management, and resource planning.

What is Timeline View?

Timeline View organizes your calendar into horizontal lanes, each representing a category or sub-category. Events are displayed as blocks along the timeline, grouped by their assigned category. Parent categories can aggregate child events, and you can expand/collapse groups for clarity.

Key Features

  • Hierarchical Organization: Events are grouped by category and sub-category, allowing for multi-level organization.
  • Shadow Events: Parent categories can display shadow events that aggregate child sub-category events for better visual context.
  • Drag-and-Drop: Easily reassign events to different categories or sub-categories by dragging them between lanes.
  • Expandable Groups: Collapse or expand categories to focus on specific areas of your schedule.
  • Custom Colors: Categories and sub-categories can be color-coded for instant recognition.

How to Use Timeline View

  1. Enable Advanced Categorization:
  2. Go to Full Calendar plugin settings and enable "Advanced Categories".

  3. Configure your categories and colors as desired.

  4. Switch to Timeline View:

  5. In the calendar toolbar, click the "Timeline" dropdown and select "Timeline Week" or "Timeline Day".

  6. The calendar will reorganize events into lanes by category/sub-category.

  7. Interact with Events:

  8. Drag events between lanes to change their category.
  9. Click on events to edit details, including category and sub-category.
  10. Expand/collapse categories for a focused view.

Example

Event Title: Work - Project Alpha - Kickoff Meeting
Category: Work
Sub-Category: Project Alpha

This event will appear in the "Project Alpha" lane under the "Work" category in Timeline View.

Tips

  • Use sub-categories for granular organization (e.g., "Client A - Design Review").
  • Parent categories show shadow events for quick overview of all child events.
  • Timeline View works with local, remote, and Google Calendar events.

For more details, see Advanced Categories and Calendar Settings.