The Timeline is a communication tool in Haiilo designed to deliver information quickly and effectively. Its main use case is asking short questions or giving fast updates. The timeline enables users to start conversations and provide information efficiently and easily.

Different versions of the timeline are accessible within pages, communities, events, homepages, and user profiles. Each timeline element has a specific use case and functionality. However, the actions you can take when creating a timeline post are the same regardless of which timeline element you're using.

Features

These are the features related to the timeline:

• Understanding timeline post visibility: There are various timelines available for publishing, and the visibility of your post depends on the author you select and the location where you publish it. Learn more in this article:
  • Understanding timeline post visibility
• Personal newsfeed (Timeline widget): The timeline widget acts as your personalized newsfeed and displays all activities related to elements that you follow across the platform, including pages, communities, events, users, etc. This includes timeline posts and blog articles shared from pages/communities you subscribe to or are a member of, posts on your personal timeline, and posts on the timeline of a user you're following. You can add a timeline widget to a homepage. Learn more in this article:
  • Timeline widget
• Page and Community timeline (Timeline app): You can add a timeline app to a page or community. This adds a communication channel for that page or community, where users can post to address the page/community admins, or admins can post as the page/community for more official communication to their subscribers/members. Learn more in this article:
  • Timeline app
• Personal timeline: Every user profile comes with a personal timeline. The personal timeline displays all activities related to the user across the platform. This includes showing posts the user has created or shared on other timeline elements and posts directed at the user by elements they are connected to. For example, if you post as yourself in a page's Timeline app, it will show on your personal timeline and on the page timeline. Learn more in this article:
  • Personal profile timeline
• Event timeline: Every event has a timeline, and anyone with access to the event can post on it. Attendees can use the event timeline to direct questions to the event organizers or by the event organizers to communicate with the event attendees.
• Creating timeline posts: You can create timeline posts in a timeline element if you have permission. You can format your post using Markdown, upload files, and, depending on your permissions, enable other options. Learn more in these articles:
  • Creating timeline posts
  • Creating sticky timeline posts
  • Attachments & Links on the Timeline
• Editing timeline posts: You can edit the text in your published timeline posts as long as no one has interacted with them. However, admins have the option to allow users to edit their posts even after they have received interactions. Learn more in this article:
  • Editing timeline posts
• Interacting with timeline posts: You can interact with published timeline posts in multiple ways, including commenting and reacting, sharing, subscribing to notifications, and bookmarking them. The options depend on what's enabled for your platform. Learn more in these articles:
  • Liking or reacting to content
  • Commenting or mentioning someone on content
  • Sharing content internally
  • Bookmarking content
  • Reporting content
• Notifications for timeline items: You aren't notified of new timeline posts; any posts on elements you follow show in your timeline widget newsfeed. If you have new content you haven't yet seen, you'll see a "Load X new update(s)" message. You will automatically be subscribed to timeline posts when you comment on them, or you can manually subscribe for updates. Learn more in this article:
  • Subscribing to content for notifications
• Deleting timeline posts: You can delete timeline posts in a timeline element if you have permission. If a post is deleted from the timeline, all its data is removed from the platform. Deleted posts cannot be restored. Learn more in this article:
  • Deleting timeline posts
• Timeline on mobile: You can use the timeline in the mobile app similarly to the browser version. Learn more in this article:
  • Timeline on mobile

Permissions

These are the permissions related to the timeline:

• "Access timeline on homepage": Allows users to view and post on the timeline widget on the homepage.
• "Create timeline items": Allows users to create timeline posts in any element.
• "Create sticky timeline items": Allows users to set timeline posts as sticky in any element.
• "Create locked Timeline Items": Allows users to lock timeline posts in any element.
• "Delete Timeline Items": Allows users to delete their own timeline posts.
• "Share content": Allows users to share content on an element's timeline.
• "Enable timeline module": Allows users to see the Timeline in the mobile app.

The permissions related to a specific timeline element or interacting with it can be found in its respective article.