About the Timeline pane

You can use the Timeline to examine documents in the application assignments or search results, and to view relationships between those documents. It can be useful to know when documents in an assignment or file were sent, received, or last modified. In the application, the Timeline displays this information in a bar graph in which you can select documents from a particular date, a selection of dates, or a range of dates.

Note: Only dates since January 1, 1980, appear in the Timeline.

You can perform the following tasks using the Timeline:

Visualize documents, coding, and search terms over time

Identify selected documents over time

Work with search term family highlighting

View dates and time ranges for concepts and document clusters in the Map

Focus on specific time periods

Select documents by separate time dates or by a date range

The Timeline displays documents in a histogram, or bar graph.

You can select one bar (set of documents), multiple sets of documents or bars, or a contiguous range of documents. The number of documents and the date range of each bar varies with the size of the complete document set, the search parameters, and the Timeline focus.

When you hover over a bar, a tooltip displays the date and time range, and the number of documents in that range.

To work with the Timeline, see the following topics.

To configure display settings for the Timeline see Configure the Timeline pane.

To examine and review documents in the Timeline pane see Work with documents in the Timeline pane.