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I’ve been holding off on a post about the Timeline mashup I did using some of the Winter ‘07 features. I wanted to write up a nice post with an embeded scrollable timeline so you could really see how cool this thing is. But one thing I’ve learned in blogging is that sometimes you should just get the post out the door.

So, I built a mashup between Salesforce and the SIMILE Timeline. Whe SIMILE released their timeline, I was trying to find a cool use for it. When I saw that Scontrols could be embedded in the detail page in Salesforce’s Winter ‘07 release, I decided to mash it up.

Here’s a picture of what the timeline in Salesforce.com looks like. Note the Salesforce look and feel:

You’ll see that all the standard Salesforce objects that are related to a Contact are shown on the timeline. Task and Events are shown on the date they occurred or are due, Opportunities are shown with their close dates, same with Cases, Campaign memberships show the date last modified. Check out the SIMILE site for the real thing. They have lots of examples so you can see all the amazing functionality they’ve built into it.

I’ve built a Timeline on the Contact detail page, as well as ones for Camapaign, Case, Opportunity, and Account. When Winter ‘07 gets released, I try to make them available. If you’d be interested in that, let me know.

Thanks again to Nick Tran and Adam Gross who made this all possible and got me shown in the Day 1 keynote at Dreamforce!

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