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ONS Service Manual: Timeline

Documents a timeline component for showing a linear record of past or future events.

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Pattern Decisions This Source Supports

Pattern Supported decision Required contract Claim note
Timeline Choose timeline when the main user question is what happened, when it happened, who or what caused it, and what came next. Each event has one stable identity, timestamp or date label, event title, and actor or system source when known. ONS supports timelines for linear records of past or future events.

Evidence Role

This source is treated as service-manual evidence. Use it to validate the decision rules above, not as a visual style reference.

Publisher: Office for National Statistics Service Manual. Last checked: .