See common collection properties for details of common properties shared by different all collection types

• Container and Content: provides the list of currently available collection styles. Select another collection style to display your assets in a different way.

Appearance

• Display loading images: shows the loading indicator set by the experience property

Collection appearance

• Fill color: defines the background color
• Timescale color: defines the color of the graduations on the timeline
• Timescale font: defines the font used for the labels on the timeline

Item appearance

• Show icons: displays "asset type" identification icons on the assets in the timeline

Behavior

Viewport

• Initial start date: defines the start date for the time window displayed when the experience is started
• Initial timespan (days): defines the number of days shown in the time window displayed when the experience is started

Overall timespan

• Start date: defines the overall start date for the timeline
• End date: defines the overall end date for the timeline

Item behavior

• Allow interaction with item: toggle whether or not an item can be interacted with. For example, if this property is turned on, touching a video in a collection can cause the video to play.
  • Show usage animation: toggles whether or not to display a graphic illustrating how to interact with this collection
  • Display items as thumbnails: toggle whether or not the actual content - images, videos, etc. should be replaced by thumbnail. Using thumbnails can improve performance if the content is very large.
• Tap item to open: toggle whether or not a touch on an item will cause a copy of that item to open outside of its parent collection.
• Drag and drop item to open: toggle whether or not a drag-and-drop action on an item will cause a copy of that item to open outside of its parent collection.
• Resize ratio for opened item: identify the size multiple of an opened item in comparison to its size while inside the collection. A ratio of 1 means don't change the size, a ratio of 2 means double the size, a ratio of 0.5 means reduce the size in half, and so on.

See Triggers Overview to get details of common triggers shared by all assets or collections

• Date changes: Raised when the date has changed
• Is scrolled: Raised when this Collection has been scrolled
• Reaches date: Raised when the specified date is reached
  • Date: the date to reach
• Viewport is changed: Raised when Viewport changed

See Actions Overview to get details of common actions shared by all assets or collections

• Center on date: Center the Timeline on the specified date.
  • Date: the date to center the Timeline on.
• Close all opened collection items: Close all opened collection items.
• Open item at date: Open the item (if any) at the specified date.
  • Date: the date of the item to open
  • X: The X position to open the item at.
  • Y: The Y position to open the item at.
  • Orientation: The orientation to open the item with.
• Scroll to an item: Scroll to an item using its Name property.
  • Item name: The name of the item to scroll to.
• Set timespan: Changes the timespan of the timeline.
  • Number of days: The number of days shown in the time window.
• Set viewport: Sets the viewport.
  • Initial start date: The start date for the time window.
  • Initial timespan (days): The number of days shown in the time window.

NOTE:

• The Open item at date action requires that the collection's Visible property be set to True and that the item to be opened is already scrolled into view. If the item is not yet scrolled into view, use the Center on date or Scroll to an asset actions before calling Open item at date.
• The Set ViewPort action directly sets the start date and the timespan leveraging these 2 parameters.