Possible to use without tabletop? Connect directly to javascript array

[larserikfinholt]

Hi! It would be very nice to add an option for providing the data as js array instead of using the google spreadsheet.

Any hints to how it could be done?

[zzolo]

Hi @larserikfinholt. Great question.

This is no current way to do this without hacking the library. But this is a good feature, so I'll keep open.

[zzolo]

Just to follow up on how you might quickly hack it together. The following lines is the line that makes the call to get the data from the spreadsheet:
https://github.com/MinnPost/jquery-vertical-timeline/blob/master/js/jquery-veritcal-timeline.js#L398

You can change this to use a provided data source in the options, then you would want to call the postProcess callback then the verticalTimeline.setupTimeline with your data.

In theory. There are probably some minor details I am missing.

[zzolo]

I just added this feature:
c8c20b5

Let me know how it all works.

[hupili]

👍 This feature is awesome. I try to survey timeline libraries today and find that many libraries do more things than mere rendering, making it hard to use.

I built my aggregated timeline from multiple SNS using this lib,

http://hupili.net/tl-social.html

Looks much better than the timelineJS I previously tried,

http://hupili.net/tl-social-back.html

Sincerely hope this gets merged to upstream. Or more people will go away after reading the readme of original repo.

wnyc#6