Application options affect the Timeline itself. You set global functions here. Generally these do not need adjusting. 

If you prefer a dark, light or different application skin and colour scheme, you can set that here.

The Timeline MasterFile template defines the date style, entity types and roles, properties and colors of all timelines you create. Timeline Settings applies only to your new or current timeline window. It doesn't affect other existing or new any timelines you create later.

To save changes to the MasterFile template itself see the last section of this article.

These settings are for the most part self explanatory.

In Display Settings

• Skin sets a different theme in this timeline.
• Size will zoom the entire interface rather than just the timeline.
• Scrolling
  • Do not constrain scrolling - gives you unbounded scrolling left and right.
  • Bounce once at first/last event, then continue - lets you scroll left and right, stops at the first and last events, but then lets you continue.
  • Restrict scrolling to first/last event - lets you scroll only between the first and last event.
• Layout
  • Use minimum space possible - displays events at the top-most vertical space that will fit them. It uses the least space vertically but events are interleaved so a later event might appear at the top of the timeline, rather than at that time slot and under the previous event. Also, events are likely to shuffle around to very different vertical locations when you change the zoom level.
  • Cascade unbroken groups from top - displays an event underneath the previous one, until there is enough room to return to the top and have all later events displayed in another unbroken chain. This avoids the 'inter-leaving effect' and uses much less vertical space than the last option but more than the first. Events are also likely to shuffle around to very different vertical locations when you change the zoom level with this option.
  • Only return to top when clear of all previous events - displays each event underneath the previous one, until an event’s start position is further right than the right-most edge of all previous events. This is our preferred setting. It is more stable and consistent when zooming as events rarely shuffle but uses the most vertical space in large timelines.
• Options
  • Show event IDs on timeline - display events with their IDs.
  • Show event dates  - displays event dates on individual events.
  • Indicate Today - marks the current date with a vertical bar that updates in realtime.
  • Show duration in title - adds the event's duration in its title if it's greater than zero.

Display contents for expanded events

• Different entities represented by the placeholder buttons in the 'Other' section can be dragged in or out of the display as your case or presentation requires. They are shown in expanded event boxes on the timeline. In the screenshot above, placeholders for External Links, Relevance, Issue and Image were dragged and dropped over the respective columns.

• These tags are shown when an event box is expanded and in the Inspector panel as well. Since no image has been added for this event in the Inspector, none is shown in the event box.
• Clicking 'notes:///' in the LINKS section of the event box (or in the Inspector) takes you back to the event profile in MasterFile.