Timeline Joomla – How to display only start year and end year

[Andre Weckeiser]

Hi,

after installing Joomla Timeline into a working Joomla-Gantry-Helium-environment I wonder how you can configure the particle that only a start year and an end year is displayed in the timeline. Without month and day and the day name.

Example: <timeline entry> – 2001 – 2020
or with open end
Example: <timeline entry> – 2001 –
or with “today”
Example: <timeline entry> – 2001 – today

How do I configure this?

[Tony]

Hi there,
It’s possible but you need to modify and remove the existing date field for timeline items and then define the first/last item using loop.first and loop.last. Example.

{% if display.date.enabled %}
{% if loop.first %}

<div class="tm-timeline-date"{{scrollspy_cls}}>
<span class="tm-date{{ date_style }}"><i class="fa fa-calendar-check-o" aria-hidden="true"></i>
    Start Here
</span>    
</div>

{% endif %}
{% endif %}

and

{% if loop.last %}

<div class="tm-timeline-date jl-text-right"{{scrollspy_cls}}>
<span class="tm-date{{ date_style }}"><i class="fa fa-calendar-check-o" aria-hidden="true"></i>
End Here
</span>
</div>

{% endif %}

Last, for item switcher on mobile/tablet devices, you can replace the item_date like this

{% set item_date %}

{% if loop.first %}

    <div class="jl-card-badge jl-label{{ img_padding ? ' jl-position-top-right' : '' }}">
    Start Here
    </div>

{% endif %}
{% if loop.last %}

    <div class="jl-card-badge jl-label{{ img_padding ? ' jl-position-top-right' : '' }}">
    End Here
    </div>

{% endif %}

{% endset %}

NOTE: In this case, you need to define the custom text for start and end date. You can define the text fields via jltimelinejoomla.yaml and receive the output via jltimelinejoomla.html.twig

Screenshot: https://imgur.com/kxB4awF

[Tony]

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[Andre Weckeiser]

That’s close to what I want (many thanks!!), but something is missing.

I have a timeline with 10+ entries.
For every single entry I want to show either
start year – end year
or
start year – “today”/no year/blank

the dates for start year could be the date of the article creation and
the dates for the start year could be the date of the article publishing
which I manually change.

Is that possible?

[Andre Weckeiser]

the second “start year” in the sentence should mean “end year”…sorry 😉

[Tony]

It’s not possible, please note the articles are dynamic based from Joomla categories.
Thank you