Make timeline available with x scales other than date

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[x] feature request

Current behavior

According to documentation timeline is

Only available if x scale is date

Expected behavior

Timeline should work with x scale in numbers (linear/time?).

Reproduction of the problem

Set [timeline]="true" and

data = [{ “name”: “Germany”, “series”: [ { “name”: 2010, “value”: 7300000 }, { “name”: 2011, “value”: 8940000 }, { “name”: “2015”, “value”: 8960000 }, ] }];

and timeline doesn’t show.

What is the motivation / use case for changing the behavior?

I would like to use timeline with my data, but since the name values in my data are not dates but numbers (milliseconds in this case), it doesn’t work.

[marjan-georgiev]

This was added and released in 7.1.0

[thetravis]

I made a fork, edited the files and ran npm run release but wasn’t able to include it in my project, possibly because I’m using Angular 4 with old version of ngx-graphs and the fork uses Angular 5.

Using *ngIf="timeline && scaleType != 'ordinal'" in the template seems to work with my data, so I copied it to area charts and line chart where I could find *ngIf="timeline ...

At the moment I have no time to test it more. If it doesn’t work with yours you always have option to use timeline=false.

I’ll make pull request.