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Using the Timeline

How to apply Timeline dates to surveys, models and markups; and how to navigate through time.

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Written by Aifric Delahunty
Updated over 2 weeks ago

The Timeline feature enables you to manage, visualise, and plan project data with time-specific views for surveys, markups, and models, supporting effective 4D planning. This guide will help you make the most of the Timeline’s capabilities.

How the Timeline Works

  • Timeline dates can be applied to any content type (surveys, models, 2D layers, markups etc).

  • These dates determine the time period over which layers are visualised in a Workspace.

  • If no Timeline dates are set, the item will be visible across all time.

  • Timeline dates are project-level, e.g. if a timeline date is applied to a layer in one workspace, it will apply to all workspaces containing that layer.

  • The Timeline located at the top of your Workspace. To select a specific month or week to view, simple click on it. In the image below February 2025 has been selected:

  • You can choose to display the Timeline in weeks, months or years:


Adding Timeline dates to Content

Timeline dates can be applied from within a Workspace or the Content page.

To apply timeline dates:

  1. Click on the item that you want to add Timeline dates to, to open it.

  2. In the Timeline dates section select a start and end date using the date picker.

  3. To clear Timeline dates simply click on the 'x' beside the date.


Note: Point clouds a "Capture Date" field, which is an attribute only and does not affect the layer's visualisation period.

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