Exact Copy

Pressing Publish > Exact Copy copies everything to a new document, and then displays Word's Save As dialog so you can choose where to save it.

Narrative formats

Although tables are a good way to put a chronology together, they can be unwieldy to read, particularly when a single event has a lot of text in one column that spans several pages.

Chronolator can convert a chronology table to several narrative formats, some of which include the elapsed time since the start of the chronology.

Press Publish > Custom
The resulting Published Document Customisation form lets you customise the headings displayed in the narrative.

Main heading - Sequence, Date and Time

If the chronology contains a Sequence column, it will be the first part of the main heading for each event in the chronology.

The options in the Date / Time format box control how the rest of main heading is displayed:

• As in document: date and time information will be copied exactly from the document
• Elapsed: information about how long it has been since the start of the chronology is included. This always includes the number of days. Two sub-options control how the time is treated:
  • Partial: the actual time of the event is used
  • Full: the elapsed time is used

The dark grey box is updated as you change options to illustrate their effect:

Other headings

After the main heading, the narrative includes information from the non-blank entries for each event. The Print column headings box controls whether their individual headings are included.

Examples

Take these events as an example:

This is how they will appear in the narrative when various option combinations are used:

As in document?	Elapsed Partial?	Elapsed Full?	Print column headings?	Result
Yes	No	No	Yes
Yes	No	No	No
Yes	No	Yes	No
Yes	Yes	No	No
No	Yes	No	No
No	No	Yes	No

Analysis Document

Pressing Publish > Analysis creates a new document analysing event reference numbers and counts by Source of Information, and then displays Word's Save As dialog so you can choose where to save it.
If you want to split the chronology into separate time periods for analysis, you can do so by clicking in the table where you want a split and then using Tools > Table Tools > Split at current row.

An analysis document contains four types of table:

• Detailed Analysis by Source Prefix and Month
• Summary Analysis by Source Prefix and Month
• Totals by Source
• Totals by Month

Here are some examples of each, taken from a chronology which has been split into time periods.

Detailed Analysis by Source Prefix and Month

Summary Analysis by Source Prefix and Month

Totals by Source

Totals by Month

JSON - Chronolator Browser Tools

Pressing Publish > JSON creates a new document in the JSON (JavaScript Object Notation ) format that can be read by the Chronolator Browser Tools.

The Chronolator Browser Tools at tools.chronolator.com use your web browser (e.g. Chrome) to process chronologies.

It is important to note that only the software resides on the Web. Your Chronologies stay on your computer, completely under your control. Their confidentiality is not compromised.

Web access is only required the first time a tool is used, as the software is cached in the browser.

When this Help was published in early 2023, the available tools were:

• Define, which is used to define a new chronology, providing the same features as the Case Details Wizard in the Chronolator Online Workbench
• Data Entry, which provides a means for people to enter events into a chronology. Events are checked for errors as they are entered, meaning that the resulting chronologies have fewer errors than with Chronolator for Word, which relies on people using the Check Tables feature
• Reviewer's Tool, which provides several features useful for reviewers, such as graphical timelines

These tools are under continual development, with new features being added much more often than is possible with Microsoft Word.

New tools will be also be added, such as an alternative to the Case Details Wizard in the Online Workbench.

It is intended that the Browser Tools will eventually provide a complete alternative to Chronolator for Word.