Upcoming changes to TimelineJS and this plugin

  • Plugin Author NUKnightLab

    (@nuknightlab)


    4 years, 2 months ago

    I wanted to make sure that this community was aware of an update to TimelineJS which is scheduled for next Wednesday, September 23rd. The details are explained in depth in this blog post but in short:

    At the end of this month, Google is disabling the access method which TimelineJS has used to read configuration data. You MUST update your copy of the plugin between September 23rd and September 30th or your timelines will stop working. The minimum version of the plugin which will continue to work will be 3.8.0.0, so make sure that’s the one you have.

    If you have been using the plugin since before 2015, there may be other impacts, and if you use JSON configuration instead of Google Sheets, again, there may be impact. Please read the blog post for details. We’ll try to keep up with questions here if you have them.

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  • Plugin Author NUKnightLab

    (@nuknightlab)

    These changes are deployed. If you update to the latest version of the plugin (3.8.4.0), you may experience disruptions, as noted in the blog post.

    However, we see today that Google has delayed their changes, so that now the Sheets API v3 will be shut down on January 26, 2021.

    What that means to users of this plugin: you have less urgency to update the plugin. If you do update and experience issues, you could, in principle, roll back to versions of the plugin before 3.8.4.0. However, we’d also like to work with you to solve the issues for you and other users who might experience the problem. We ask that you post issues to our support system rather than here, as we are much more responsive there.

    However, we recommend that you do it well in advance of January 2021, as who knows if Google will extend the deadline again.

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