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Enter your Netbadge credentials to finish logging in. Now we'll connect your Visuals account to your Google Drive account.
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Before making your timeline, we need Visuals to be able to access your spreadsheet.
From Visuals, click the Main Menu icon ( ), then Account, then Profile. Your account information will appear.
Authorize Now! to give Visuals access to your account.
Audio-Video will confirm that you want to let it access your Drive account. Click Yes. The Google sign in page will open: log in to the account that has your spreadsheet.
Click Allow to finish giving Visuals access. You'll be taken back to the Visuals homepage.
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6. Create your timeline
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You'll see the visualization editor and a preview of your timeline.
Now we'll use the options in the sidebar to customize your timeline.
The default timeline view doesn't show all the events. You can see that the events "Last Visit" and "Building the Rotunda" are cut off on the left, while there is plenty of empty space on the right. Let's fix that.
First, set "Center date of timeline." 1800 seems like a good place to center the timeline, so we'll enter "1800" in the field. If you want to set a specific day, you would use the month/day/year format ("01/25/1800").
That looks a lot better. Now we can see all the events in the default view. Let's add a title in the "Title of timeline" field.
The timeline still isn't very informative, however – how will viewers understand the significance of the letter to Dr. Priestly, for example? Let's make the visualization show a description of the event, which we entered in column B of our spreadsheet. To do this, change Show the description from false to true. Now when a viewer clicks on an event, a description will pop up.
The timeline still looks slightly plain. Let's mark each event about architecture. You can see that the index guide for the Timeline has an "icon" column on the data sheet. This means you can add icons to events by making a new "icon" column.
Go back to the spreadsheet and add icon in a new column on the header. Remember to enter the label exactly.
Now let's change the color of the background to something more UVA-appropriate. Click Background colors, then enter the hexadecimal code for UVA orange (E57200) in the "main background" field. Click OK to apply the color.
Now we're done. This is what your timeline should look like:
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