Displaying attributes on a note in timeline view

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Is there a way to display an attribute on a note in the timeline view?

I thought I had done this previously but perhaps not. Certainly I can’t find any way to create this display.

As an example the illustrations in Marks Reference document show dates as part of the note presentation.

Thanks

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Yes. What you’ll want to do is use action code to set your display attribute. It is a good practice to create a $DisplayExpressionCache user attribute. Set $DisplayExpress=$DisplayExpressionCache. Then, in your note (or prototype) set create an edict, something like this:

$DisplayExpressionCache=$Name + " ["+$MyDate.format(“l”)+"]";

Where $MyData is the date you want displayed, could be $Created and .format is specifying the date format you wan to show.

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DisplayExpressionCache makes sense here if your timeline has hundreds of elements, or if the expression is hard to construct.

For a small timeline and a simple display expression, I think you can just use $DisplayExpression.

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