The Timeline will create multiple rows of bars per row if there are overlapping events in that row. As an example, if you change the start year for John Adams to 1796, it spills over to a new line, since it overlaps with George Washington: http://jsfiddle.net/asgallant/khCws/
On Wednesday, July 16, 2014 11:08:04 AM UTC-4, Matthew Bleiman wrote: > > Hello, > > I am trying to create a timeline using Google's timeline package. I've > read through the page here: > https://developers.google.com/chart/interactive/docs/gallery/timeline and > it looks like the package is a very good fit for what I need. However, > there is one additionality I would like to add so I want to see if it is > possible or not. Look at the "An Advanced Example" chart. Is it possible > to make something like that, but where for each row entry (President, VP, > Sec. of State), there are multiple rows of timelines? To go along with this > example, imagine that at any given time there are two presidents, two VPs, > and two Sec. of States, and that the timelines between the two presidents > might not match up. > > The specific example of what I am trying to do is very poorly sketched out > in the attached link. > > I am a beginner user so sorry if this is a dumb question (I'm here because > trying to make this chart in excel turned out to be an incredibly > frustrating and inefficient experience), but any advice would be useful. If > it is possible, it would also be very helpful if someone could explain how > to build that added dimension into the data table. > > Thanks! > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Visualization API" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-visualization-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to google-visualization-api@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-visualization-api. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
