You can use timelines to organise and store your research in chronological order.
Create a new timeline
To create a new timeline:
- Navigate to ‘My Account’ using the icon at the top of the page
- Under the ‘My records’ heading, select 'Saved timelines’
- Select ‘Create new timeline’
- Enter a name and description
- Select ‘Save’
Add records to a timeline
To add records to a timeline, select ‘Add to timeline’ from the image viewer. You can access the image viewer:
- through a records search
- from your saved items in ‘My account’
Choose the timeline from the ‘Choose Timeline’ drop-down. Enter a ‘Timeline entry title’ and a ‘Timeline entry description’ and select ‘Save’.
If an image is already added to a timeline, you’ll see the message ‘Record already added to your timeline’.
Accessing and editing your timelines
To see your timelines:
- Select ‘My Account’ using icon at the top of the page
- Under ‘My records’, select 'Saved timelines’
You can sort these by name, description or date created.
Select ‘View’ to open the timeline viewer.
Viewing and editing your timeline
There are 2 ways to view your timeline:
- grid view
- report view
By default timelines open in grid view. It includes a ‘Filter records’ function to search for records within a timeline.
Use the ‘Download’ button to export timeline results as a CSV file.
The timeline displays records in chronological order. Select ‘Edit’ to amend a description.
Select ‘Remove’ to delete a record entry from the timeline.
Deleting a timeline
To permanently delete a timeline, select ‘Delete’ next to the timeline you want to delete. You’ll be asked to confirm that you want to delete this timeline.
After deleting a timeline, you can’t recover it.