Worst case, I have to do some manual editing to fix, and either way, your plug-in has already saved me so much time that I’ll still be better off.
#AEON TIMELINE WINDOWS HOW TO#
I’m talking to Aeon about how to fix, and will hopefully have good news soon. For example, I would now have a participant called “Churchill, Winston” and one called “Churchill Winston” When the no-comma name landed in the “participant” column, it then created the no-comma name as a new participant. However, when I set the file up, I set all the entities up WITH COMMAS! Which means the imported participant name which doesn’t have a comma, no longer matches the participant that I set up which does have a comma. When you tag someone as a participant, it tells you how old the character was at the time etc. It worked, but, in AEON, all “participants” (the people involved in the event on the time) are set up as “entities” (basically just data entry fields for information such as name, date of birth, date of death etc). I did that for a test sample and imported it into Aeon. They don’t have a fix for that and told me that to make it work, I’d need to manually delete the commas. R.”,") … despite the fact that the values are quoted, AEON is still parsing commas inside the quote as separators. When I imported the file into Aeon, it thought there were two different people, one called Winston and another called Churchill. I entered the names in Tropy with a comma… for example, Churchill, Winston. I’ve had some problems on AEON Timeline’s end.
#AEON TIMELINE WINDOWS UPDATE#
Just thought I’d give you a quick update to let you know where I am at… Your plug-in is working great. Note that if you want to have multiple images per event, then in the csv file the locations just need to be separated by the pipe character (|) You can read about import csv files here: You can read about Links and Attachments here: and here: You can have multiple images as External Links or Attachments though. You are also only allowed one “Image” per event. Note that if you do want to convert your images to be embedded in the timeline file, this will increase your timeline file size, so if you have lots of images this might be unfeasible. If you want the image embedded in the timeline (either as an Image or an Attachment) you can then choose File->Attachments->Convert Local Links to Inline Images or Convert Local Links to Attachments, and this will convert your links to images/attachments. The timeline stores the path of the image on your computer, however it does not store the image itself. This will import your photos as external links.Choose “Start” for the column that has your date data, “Links” for the column that has your photo locations and “Title” for the column that has the event title.
The next screen will ask you to match your columns to what they should be imported as.If the first row of the csv file has header titles, check this box.Choose whether it has a comma or tab delimiter (whether the data is separated by commas or tabs).Choose the csv file to import your data from.Once you have the csv file, follow these steps to import your data: So if Trophy is providing you with a csv export of their data, they will have to provide a “Title” column (or you would have to add one in after). However to import csv data into Aeon Timeline, the csv file must contain a column that is imported as the Title of an event. If this is true, then you would be able to import this data into Aeon Timeline, where you would have an event at the date listed, and the image either as a Image, Link or an Attachment. I must admit to being very excited that this might be a thing we can do! Let me know if you need Aeon screenshots to see an example of something I manually entered.įrom what I can tell from Tropy’s suggestion, they are able to provide you with a csv export of your data that would include the date and the path of the photo on your computer. I would assume I could modify the template for metadata to include a “Title” for an archive, right? “The Battle of Britain” for which you can then enter a singular date or a date range). If you are not familiar with Aeon, each entry on the timeline has a title (e.g.
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