Without a zoom in the URL the window now follows the record: one that
starts inside the last three months opens on three months clamped to
its first entry (at least four weeks up to today), an older one with
entries there opens on three months, an older one without opens on
everything, and an empty one keeps the empty state. The choice is made
from the first answer before anything is drawn, so the page does not
jump between windows.
Opened without a zoom, three months that hold nothing while the record
has older entries now show everything instead of a dead end, without
writing the zoom into the URL. A window named in the URL that is empty
offers "Show everything" when the record has entries before it. An
unreadable ?zoom= or range opens on the same default as no zoom.
A medication arrived as up to four kinds of item (its own span, its
courses, its dose changes, its pauses) and was drawn item by item, so a
medication with a course read as two bars on two rows. Every item of one
medication now carries the medication's id as `group`, and the lane draws
one row per group: the courses are the stretches it was taken, each dose
change cuts them into pieces labelled with their dose, and a pause is a
gap in the same bar. The selection bar and the phone chronicle list one
entry per medication with the dose in the text.
The value series cap of six is gone. The response carries
`availableSeries`, every series the record can show, and the picker is
one compact "Values (n)" button whose menu lists them. Past the fifth
line the five data colours repeat; every line is named at its left.
Choosing a range opens a popover anchored to the "Range" segment (a sheet
on a phone) with "Apply", so the chart no longer moves; the URL keeps the
range as before. The selection bar sits on the card under a hairline
instead of a grey box, the legend explains the dashed stroke and the
hollow point, and no timeline text joins its parts with a middle dot or
calls an open span "ongoing".
Beside All, 12 months and 3 months the timeline takes a range of the
person's own choosing, from and to, through the app's date field. Each
change is clamped softly: never past today, never before the record's
first entry, never inverted, never longer than fifteen years. On a phone,
where the chronicle has no zoom control, a range button opens the same
fields with a way back to the whole record. A range with nothing in it
keeps its fields instead of the empty-record notice.
The zoom and the range live in the URL (zoom, from, to), so Back and a
bookmark return to them; a parameter that does not read falls back to
All. The API accepts zoom=range with both ends, at most fifteen years,
and picks the bucket by its length: quarters from two years, months from
120 days, weeks from 42 days and single days below, a new day bucket
whose dashed bridge spans at most three missing days. A range borrows
the grid and the keyboard steps of the fixed zoom nearest its length.
The selection bar heads a day bucket with that day.
Every bucket with a reading gets its point; one with fewer than three
readings is drawn hollow. A short gap (one quarter, two months, four
weeks) is bridged with a dashed stroke between the two real points; a
longer one leaves the line open. The selection bar and the value table
for screen readers name each bucket's readings and say "no value" where
there is none. The phone chronicle names each bucket once, at its newest
month. The value menu takes up to six lines. The legend's causality line
is gone with its keys in all seven bundles.
The opt-in timeline module gets its page (#613). At 768 px and up the
record's lanes (life, conditions, allergies, medications, vaccinations,
doctor and procedures, labs, documents) are drawn in one SVG on a shared
time axis, with a year, month or week grid, open periods ending in an
arrow, a dashed lead-in where a start is unknown, dose marks and pauses on
the medication they belong to, a Today line and a selection line. Up to
three neutral value lines run below as monthly means, chosen in a menu.
Recharts stays for every value chart; this surface is plain SVG like the
heatmaps.
All geometry is pure (timeline-geometry.ts): window, scale, row packing
and label placement through one occupancy map, so no label overlaps
another label or a bar, none runs past the card edge, and labels that do
not fit are left out rather than squeezed. The width comes from a
ResizeObserver, so a docked day panel re-runs the layout.
The bar under the chart names the selected month's entries as chips, the
month's means and "Open 3 Jan.", which puts ?day= in the URL for the day
layer. The chart is one tab stop: arrows move the selection by a day, a
month or a year with the zoom, Home and End jump to the ends, Enter opens
the day. A visually hidden table lists every entry for screen readers.
The legend says once that stacked means at the same time, not cause and
effect.
Below 768 px the timeline is a chronicle, newest first by month or year,
with an Ongoing block for what has no meaningful start, rails beside the
rows an episode or course spans, and empty stretches named as such.
Switching the module on in Settings opens the readiness inventory: each
lane carries, is thin or is empty, with one link per gap and the verdict
as a count. The same inventory sits as a dismissible card on the timeline
while a gap is open, and under Layers as "Data coverage".
Life events are entered in a sheet (title, kind, a date to the day, month
or year, an optional end, an optional note) from the timeline, the
capture picker and the dashboard's add menu; one surface line maps the
capture kind to the timeline module, and it is offered in one's own
record only. Deleting asks first.
Server routes are built in parallel; the e2e journey answers them with the
contract's shapes. Copy in all seven locales; the timeline and lifeEvents
release-pending prefixes are gone.
Marc-André Bombeck