Using Chronolator Samples
Exercise 6 - Giving events a Reference Number

You might like to give each event a Reference Number. Chronolator’s Sequence column lets you do that.

Step

Action

What to expect and other comments

1

Read Chronolator Toolbars and About the Exercises if you have not already done so.

2

Open SampleCompositeChronologyHealth.

3

Press Tools > Sequencing > Add Column:

Add Sequence Column button
Sequence Column added

A column headed Seq is added to the left of the table. It contains reference numbers, starting at 1 and increasing by 1.


An Administrator can define a Sequencing column when setting up the document, or - as in this exercise - it can be added later.

You can change the column heading, unless it was defined by the Administrator in an Internal Chronology, which is not the case in this exercise. You do this later in this exercise.

If the table overflows the page margins, or a heading wraps inappropriately, you can use one of the Tools > Table AutoFit options to fix it.

4

Press Tools > Sequencing > Change Column Heading;

Change Sequence Column button

A form is displayed in which you can specify the new heading:

Change Sequence Column form

5

Type the new heading - let’s call it Reference - and press OK;

Change Sequence Column form

The heading is changed:

Sequence Column changed
If the table overflows the page margins, or a heading wraps inappropriately, you can use one of the Tools > Table AutoFit options to fix it.

6

Close SampleCompositeChronologyHealth without saving changes.

In this exercise, you have seen that:

Exercise 7 - Forcing events into order illustrates how you can use a Sequence column to force events into order when there is insufficient information about the time on which they occurred.