Color and/or Icon used as Category / Different timelines

Hey Kees,

Thanks for the feature recommendation. The problem with that would be that the color and icon parameters would be used for the entire timeline. So if you specified a red calendar icon every announcement in the timeline would use the red calendar icon.

Also, each time you use the shortcode to display the timeline it is querying from the same set of announcement posts. So using the shortcode on two seperate pages generates the same timeline on both pages.

To allow for multiple timelines to be created, I would either need to a) add a new meta field which gave the timeline a specific ID or re-write large parts of the plugin to allow for multiple custom post types.

I will consider it moving forward.

Thanks,
Evan

I think you misunderstood the suggestion.
Now you use different colors/icons in the announcements of the timeline.
When you use the shortcode you get all the announcements with all colors/icons in the timeline.
My suggestion:
Maybe it is possible to select the announcements on the color (or icon) used. Then if this selection was possible in the shortcode, you could produce different timelines based on the color/icons (eg [shortcode color=red] for only the announcements with the color red ; [shortcode] for all announcements ; [shortcode icon=envelop] for a timeline with announcements with the envelop-icon)

Ah,

I see what you are saying now, and it makes complete sense. That is something that could actually be doable. I will look into implementing that sort of feature, but possibly make a new field and sort based on that. The new field would maybe be a drop down or something where you could assign the announcement to a timeline, say Timeline 1, Timeline 2 etc.

Thanks for the feature request and clarifying!

Evan