The HL7 Timeline Tool provides an overview of the message volume over time for the currently displayed tab. This tool is useful when you are navigating a very large message stream and you want to see the messaging rate over time, or you want to quickly navigate to a particular date/time. In the example below, the message stream contains 100,000 messages. Note the spike in message throughput just before midnight every day.
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HL7 Timeline Tool Features
Can handle hundreds of thousands of messages
Clicking on the timeline navigates the editor to that date/time
Zoom In
/Out using Shift-Click operations with the mouseusing Shift-Mouse-Left-Click
Zoom Out using Alt-Mouse-Left-Click
Control-Mouse-Drag to count the messages in the highlighted region
Right-Click to export the graph to a png image file
Right-Click to export raw data to Excel