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I have an instance of foswiki 1.07 and 1.06 in separate directories and port numbers. In 1.06 EasyTimeLinePlugin renders correctly. In 1.07 The same code renders blank.

I can Google no working examples of EasyTimelinePlugin on Foswiki-1.0.7

Picking an example in each In the 1.06: ...working/work_areas/EasyTimelinePlugin/tmp/EasyTimelinePlugin25575 contains:
   * EasyTimelinePlugin25575.svg
   * EasyTimelinePlugin25575.png
   * EasyTimelinePlugin25575.map
   * EasyTimeline.txt.25585
   * EasyTimelinePlugin25575.txt
In the 1.07 folder ...working/work_areas/EasyTimelinePlugin/tmp/EasyTimelinePlugin25660 (and all other like folders) contains only:
   * EasyTimelinePlugin25660.txt
   * EasyTimeline.txt.25660

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The warn log is quiet The foswiki log says thusly:

(In configure, the path locations are the same for the plugin for each instance of foswiki.)

<blockquote>OS linux detected -&gt; environment = Linux, create image in png format.

Input: Script file /var/www/foswiki.local/working/work_areas/EasyTimelinePlugin/tmp/EasyTimelinePlugin25750/EasyTimelinePlugin25750.txt Output: Image files /var/www/foswiki.local/working/work_areas/EasyTimelinePlugin/tmp/EasyTimelinePlugin25750/EasyTimelinePlugin25750.png & /var/www/foswiki.local/working/work_areas/EasyTimelinePlugin/tmp/EasyTimelinePlugin25750/EasyTimelinePlugin25750.svg Map file /var/www/foswiki.local/working/work_areas/EasyTimelinePlugin/tmp/EasyTimelinePlugin25750/EasyTimelinePlugin25750.map (add to html for clickable map)

No external fonts specified in input -&gt; Treat input as ascii and use internal Ploticus font.

Ploticus input file = '/var/www/foswiki.local/working/work_areas/EasyTimelinePlugin/tmp/EasyTimelinePlugin25750/EasyTimeline.txt.25759'

Generating output: Invoke Ploticus exe file as '/usr/local/bin/pl' Running Ploticus to generate svg file '/usr/local/bin/pl' -svg -o '/var/www/foswiki.local/working/work_areas/EasyTimelinePlugin/tmp/EasyTimelinePlugin25750/EasyTimelinePlugin25750.svg' '/var/www/foswiki.local/working/work_areas/EasyTimelinePlugin/tmp/EasyTimelinePlugin25750/EasyTimeline.txt.25759' -tightcrop Running Ploticus to generate bitmap '/usr/local/bin/pl' -csmap -mapfile /var/www/foswiki.local/working/work_areas/EasyTimelinePlugin/tmp/EasyTimelinePlugin25750/EasyTimelinePlugin25750.map -png -o '/var/www/foswiki.local/working/work_areas/EasyTimelinePlugin/tmp/EasyTimelinePlugin25750/EasyTimelinePlugin25750.png' '/var/www/foswiki.local/working/work_areas/EasyTimelinePlugin/tmp/EasyTimelinePlugin25750/EasyTimeline.txt.25759' -tightcrop

Image /var/www/foswiki.local/working/work_areas/EasyTimelinePlugin/tmp/EasyTimelinePlugin25750/EasyTimelinePlugin25750.png not created.

Ploticus not found in local folder. Is it on your system path? status 0 |
| 2009-10-15T02:43:27Z debug | - EasyTimelinePlugin::commonTagsHandler( System.SiteBottomBar ) |
| 2009-10-15T02:43:27Z debug | - EasyTimelinePlugin::commonTagsHandler( Sandbox.TestTopic26 ) |

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</blockquote>

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We have easy timeline working fine on our internal wiki with 1.0.7. The line __"Ploticus not found in local folder. Is it on your system path? status 0 |"__ in your log is suspicious. Have you set the path to ploticus in configure? The configuration item is ={Plugins}{EasyTimelinePlugin}{PloticusCmd}=, but its under the Plugins heading rather than Extensions. The actual command is =pl=, so try that from the command line.

I will also see if I can look at your ApprovalPlugin notification problems today.

-- Main.AndrewJones - 21 Oct 2009

Sorry, I missed the bit where you said that the paths are the same in configure. However it does seem like the script is not able to run Ploticus successfully.

Perhaps reading [[Support/Faq9][this FAQ]] on debugging external programs will help, or at least provide more information.

-- Main.AndrewJones - 21 Oct 2009
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Subject	Using an extension
Extension	EasyTimelinePlugin
Version	Foswiki 1.0.7
Status	Closed unanswered
Topic revision: r5 - 05 Feb 2010, OliverKrueger
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