Timeline custom items obscuring others

[Λύχνις Δαν]

Hi ya,

 

Win 7

Acc 11.0.3

 

I've been experimenting with adding my own region layers and item lists and so on.

 

I create a region "Mesopotamia with Languages".

I added five User Items based on wikipedia's definitions for periods of various Akkadian languages. Don't worry for the moment about the validity of that data. I needed some data so that's what I took. It looks like this :

 

• Old Akkadian, 2500–1950 BC
• Old Babylonian/Old Assyrian, 1950–1530 BC
• Middle Babylonian/Middle Assyrian, 1530–1000 BC
• Neo-Babylonian/Neo-Assyrian, 1000–600 BC
• Late Babylonian, 600 BC–100 AD

Then I created a Custom List called "Akkadian Languages" and added all those items to it. So far so good.

I created my own Item Layer called Languages and set the custom list to Akkadian Languages.

 

Cool - got a nice timeline in Mesopotamia - the region for my Region layer.

 

Then I thought I'll add the Mesopotamian rulers to this.

I edited my custom list and added them. Ignore the semantic pollution of kings in a language list for a moment.

 

See the image below. My Old Babylonian is running straight through Hammurabi.

 

 

I have tried zooming in or out but it makes little difference if any.

 

This may be generic but I have only tried on Windows so far.

 

Thx

D

[Helen Brown]

Placing the items on the Timeline was not easy, and certainly custom items may not always play nicely with our items.

[Λύχνις Δαν]

I understand it's a bit tricky to layout but given the vertical space available is essential infinite, given scroll bars, it should be possible. I don't know why user defined items would be different from others with respect to how they are laid out for display. I would not have expected a dependency there.

 

Thx

D