Timelines are very important in organising sensible business strategies, and they offer windows on events in those strategies. They can be used to manage business initiatives, projects, staff holidays, human resources, stock and hire availability and a variety of other resources.
Business Administrator uses timelines widely in demonstrating information about events or processes, to offer you a graphical picture of a global process.
Moving around a timeline
A timeline in Business Administrator offers you a window, a view if you like, of part of the whole timeline. To save precious space, timelines don’t have scrollbars or scroll buttons.
To move a timeline, you simply grab the background of the timeline, and drag it in the opposite direction to the area which you wish to view: it’s much like grabbing a piece of paper with your hand and moving the required area into focus.
Assuming there’s sufficient data, the timelines can be moved horizontally and vertically. If it won’t move in the direction you choose, it’s because there’s no data in that region.
If editing the timeline is allowed, as it is in Edit Phase in Project Manager, you are offered an Event Adjustment control when you put you mouse over an event row. This control allows you to adjust the timeline. Be careful not to move the control if you intend to move the timeline: that would affect the timeline.
The Event Adjustment allows you to adjust the selected region of the timeline. You can move it by grabbing the body of it and moving it left or right, and you can extend or reduce the length of the event by moving the left or right edges as required: those edges have grab handles on.