This feature is new to build 19. As I added organizations and jobs people were holding at these organizations I found it interesting to add more context by providing an organizational timeline. Separately we have timelines for people, places, and organizations, but I was looking for something different.
Instead of a linear timeline, I wanted a parent line for an organization, that showed the start and end date of an organization. Then on separate graph lines, I want to see when people worked for that organization, identifying their occupation or role in the company. In the case of a military organization, it would provide their rank.
I was finding multiple families working for the same company. So, determining their start and end date would show more family context. This can be challenging without company documents. One useful source I found was City Directories. At least for males, it tells me their occupation and company. As more city directories come online this becomes easier. For us in Ontario, Canada I found FamilySearch has a large collection of Vernon City Direectories. I was able to locate and narrow down the start and dates at least to the year. You can also locate more details about companies. Add newspaper searches to your research and I found even more details.
From this, I can get something like this:
To generate any timeline you must first know and provide the start (founding) date and end (closing) date of the company. If the company is still in business type the word "now" as the end date, to cause the chart to grow over time.
To define company members we have two methods:
1. Open the company in edit mode and simply add members using the People selector. This just provides a way of identifying employees when dates and occupations are unknown.
2. open the company in viewing mode and select the "add member roles" button. This will create a separate tiddler that is used to define a role or occupation of the person (or people) you want to define. Here you can also optionally add a start and end date.
Separately, you should generate events that identify any events associated with their roles in an organization. When you have not identified a start or end date for a person the system will attempt to collate those company events to determine the first known start and end dates.
For further timeline ideas take a look at "Periods". Periods must a assigned to a defined Period Category. Each period has a start and end date and is graphed collectively by category.
I initially defined period categories to be used to provide context when people lived. If you have a category of US Presidents or Roual Monarchs you see who was US president or a monarch when a person lived.
However, you can create period categories for whatever you'd like. I have defined project period categories to graph project work. If you want examples check out my downloadable collection of periods at: https://clsturgeon.github.io/MemoryKeeper/?mode=edit#Periods
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