[Zotero 7 Beta] timeline band settings dropdown menus not working

ezellohar

As in the title, clicking on the dropdown menus is doing nothing, the dropdown doesn't open.
I'm on latest beta (47).
I do not have a debug ID, because the log doesn't even get the click on the menus. If I activate the log savings, it doesn't save anything while I click on the menus.

ezellohar

@dstillman have you seen this?

not that I want to hurry or anything, just making sure the bug doesn't go unnoticed :)

dstillman

I'm afraid we're actually going to remove the timeline feature in Zotero 7. The open-source project it's based on has been defunct for over a decade, and there's no reason for this to be built in. If someone wants to maintain a timeline feature, they should build it as a plugin on top of an actively maintained timeline library.

mjthoraval

https://github.com/zotero/zotero/issues/3462

ezellohar

Sorry for the message then, I missed the issue on github. That's good to know that you're going to drop the feature, I have a huge course upcoming, so I'm gonna remove it from the course's topics.
Too bad I liked it, let's hope someone does a plugin.
Thanks

lawriewalters

There is still a reference to timelines in the documentation.

There is not indication that this functionality has been deprecated.

https://www.zotero.org/support/timelines

RamonMi

@lawriewalters The timeline functionality has been deprecated.
see https://www.zotero.org/support/changelog The third to last line in Changes in 7.0 (August 9, 2024)

There is still a reference to timelines in the documentation.

This is because the documentation has not been updated comprehensively since Zotero7 was released.

lawriewalters

Thanks for that. Is there any way I could help with the documentation?

dstillman

I've removed that documentation entry.