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In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Travis Cobbs wrote:
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In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Tim Courtney wrote:
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I’m filling in a little myself right now. You’re the only one who filled in
data in the “milestone” columns. You interpreted that as version numbers.
I think it makes more sense to name the colums “VersionNumber#” to
correspond with the “VersionDate#.” So I did this, and moved each next to
the respective version.
I also highlighted the Original Release Date, Current Ver. Release Date, and
Current Version Number columns as I believe they are the most important for
visualizing this information.
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OK. I rearranged mine to make 0.1 the “Original Release”. I pushed other
versions over and replaced 0.1 in the Misc column with 3.1. Also, I didn’t
like the spreadsheet stripping of the .0, so I added a v prefix to all my
version numbers so they’d be treated as strings. If you know how to force
them to be strings without a prefix, feel free to make that change.
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Thanks. Not sure on the string bit. For starters I’d like to get the data filled
out to the point where I can work on graphing it with Excel, Numbers or possibly
even Illustrator. I’m not as concerned with the string for that reason as I’ll
manually translate the info into a graphic with a callout or a mouseover
callout.
BTW - if anyone has ideas for illustrating this I’m all ears. I have a concept
in mind but open to ideas.
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I would suggest swapping all the version/date columns so that the version
column precedes the date column. I think that would make the spreadsheet
more readable. I would do it, but since you setup the spreadsheet, I’m not
going to make that change, since it’s an opinion.
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Good suggestion. I’m typing this out right before heading to bed, you’re welcome
to make the swap if you like. I haven’t had time over the last few days to work
on this but hope to put some more into it in the next couple.
Just logged in and it’s filling out quite nicely. Thanks (and thanks Philo as
well) for the help!
-Tim
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| (...) Good news - I found an XML based dynamic timeline generator. I've plugged in a couple dates on my local machine, and I'm testing for how to deal with events and spans aesthetically. I'll post it when I have a bit more info filled in, then we (...) (17 years ago, 18-Apr-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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| (...) OK. I rearranged mine to make 0.1 the "Original Release". I pushed other versions over and replaced 0.1 in the Misc column with 3.1. Also, I didn't like the spreadsheet stripping of the .0, so I added a v prefix to all my version numbers so (...) (17 years ago, 14-Apr-08, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, FTX)
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