No Story Arc Assigned question

Q & A
1

Hello,

I have a project with many events and a few assigned to a new item named Story Arc. I follow seven story arcs.

If I group the timeline view into story arcs, I see my seven named groups plus one group labelled “No Story Arc Assigned”.

What I notice is that many events not assigned to any story arc do not show in the “No Story Arc Assigned” (a few do).

All of my events have a date assigned.

Is there anything I should look into?

Regards,

Philippe

2

Can you see the missing events when not grouping the timeline view by story arcs?

3

Hello,
I do.
Regards,
Philippe

4

So the events disappear from the screen as soon as you group the timeline by story arcs?
And you are sure that they are not simply pushed out of the visible screen area? It may sound silly, but what about the scrollbar?

5

Yes, once grouped, the events disappear.
I can see them in the left event list but double-clicking on their “target icon” does not do anything while clicking on the icon of an event linked to a story arc will get the interface to focus there.
scrollbar: I am at the bottom of the vertical scroll bar. The timeline is scaled to show all dates. I can still pan left and right but do not see anything there.

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7

This event [1] has no story arc.

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8

Does anything change if you collapse the story arc groups?
If not, I’m afraid I can’t help you because I’m using a quite old version of Aeon Timeline with which I can’t reproduce your problem.

I hope someone else here can help you out.
Cheers,
Peter

9

@Peter_T - Collapsing does not change anything - thanks for your help:)

10

Perhaps I have an idea of the problem: if with the above screenshot (The World in yellow), I assign one sub-item (The Rules) to an Arc , the non-assigned items (The World, Creation, Space Travel and Hemlock Ways) disappear from the “No Story Arc Assigned” group. It seems the issue occurs when events have parents.

11

In my version of Aeon Timeline, there are the commands “Expand parent events” and “Collapse parent events” in the context menu (right-click on an event). Does that help?

12

If I have two events with parent-child relationships with my Aeon version, where the parent belongs to an arc but the child does not, the parent appears in both the arc group (without child) and the “No Arc” group (with child) when grouping.

On the other hand, if I have two events where only the child belongs to an arc, but the parent does not, only the parent appears in the “No Arc” group when grouping, but both events appear in the arc group.

So it looks as if the child is dragging its parent into the respective group. This applies to Aeon Timeline 2.

13

In V. 3 if I use your example

  1. Parent and child show in Arc, No event shows in “No Arc”
  2. Parent shows in Arc, child does not seem to appear anywhere

I have removed my parent relationships and replaced them with a “Block with” so I may see all of my un-assigned events.

14

So it looks like AT3 is not properly resolving the parent-child relationships when grouping events. Could this be considered a bug?

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Hi @philippecmartin and @Peter_T,

Thanks for your investigative work on this one! :male_detective:

We’ve done some testing and can confirm this is a bug that is affecting both:

  • When the parent is assigned an arc, but the child has none
  • When the parent has no arc but the child has one

In both cases, neither parents nor children show in the No Arc group.

We’ll have this fixed in a future release :slight_smile: