Creating timeline charts

When charting iBase items you can choose to create timeline charts rather than association charts. On a timeline chart, entities are represented as event frames and entities without dates and times as theme lines.

To create a timeline chart, you could add the event frames to the chart first, and then expand to add the theme lines or vice versa. Alternatively, you may create the chart using the Timeline Assistant and then add further items to the resulting chart.

Before you can create a timeline chart, you require a charting scheme that at least defines how date and time properties are to be derived from iBase entities or links. For instance, if you specify that a Telephone Call link should use Start Date and Start Time as its date and time information then, when you chart telephone calls, the telephones will appear as theme lines and the telephone calls will be arranged in chronological order.

Note: Links are always charted using the From Database and Multiple options (in charting settings). This ensures that timed links are placed at their correct location and can be merged in the chart.

You can either create a timeline chart by using the Timeline Assistant or, if the charting settings are set up correctly in Analyst's Notebook, by using the standard Add to Chart and Expand options on the shortcut menu.