Timeline/Outline questions

Question about the Timeline/Outline before I consider upgrading my live site:

1. Do the posts stay in the 'cue' forever? I want all of the activity that shows up on the wall to remain in the "show more" cue as time goes by and not to be deleted. We've had issues with Wall posts disappearing in 7.0.9 and I want to be sure that this flaw is fixed in 7.1.
2.  In my clone-test site, when I upgraded the Settings under Timeline don't have all of the Modules in the list of Hide events from Timeline: and Hide events from Outline:  I checked out the demo site and there are bunches more there (i.e. photos, videos, sounds, polls, sites, store, etc.) even though I have these modules installed. On my fresh install test site, there's nothing listed there at all, just Unknown control type. How can I get all of the modules to show there? Keep in mind I have already: cleared the cache, reinstalled the modules in question, cleared the cache again.
3. No activity is showing up on the Outline on my test sites - even for the modules that are showing up in the Settings. I placed the Outline using Page Blocks and just assumed that activity would automatically show up, but that's not working. Am I missing something?
4. Last question: What is the diff b/tw the Timeline and Outline? I'm assuming there is a difference since there are separate "Hide events" selectors, however I can't find anything about Outline in the control panel or anything to differentiate the two.

Hmmm I was thinking what if someone posts something offensive and I see it on the outline, I as the admin would go where to delete it?  If I can't delete my own posts how do I delete others?

If you delete the content, it also deletes it from the outline

Well I made a bunch of poll questions that I don't want to delete but don't want them on the outline either.  It would be just easy to delete whatever I want to delete...

1. Outline/Timeline posts stay forever.

2. I think that something went wrong with upgrade, particularly changing `Type` field in `sys_options` table, it should be: 

enum('digit','text','checkbox','select','select_multiple','file','list')

3. It maybe related to 2.

4. This is different representation of the data with different condition from the same data table

Fabulous! This has long been a problem for our site, having old posts disappear from the wall is a common complaint from our site users! Thank you for fixing it!

Ok, how do I fix it?

I did a reinstall of our test site and tried upgrading again to see if that fixed a problem with the update. However, it's still only showing some of the modules as options and missing the rest (ie: TIMELINE shows only ads, avatar, birthdays, blog, friend & profile and OUTLINE shows only ads, birthdays & blogs).

Not sure that it is related because Blogs show up in the admin timeline list, however new blog posts don't make the Timeline show up at all. Help!

So how do you switch between the two representations?

2. Check `Type` field in `sys_options` table, if it matches hes this type exactly: enum('digit','text','checkbox','select','select_multiple','file','list')

4. You can't, this is how it was crated for a bit different purposes. 

Outline/Timeline:

It took some searching since the site is rearranged, but I found the posts www.boonex.com/n/outline-the-new-masonry-grid-content-browsing-in & http://www.boonex.com/n/profile-timeline-in-dolphin-7-1-osho and answered my own question: Outline shows the content on the front page and Timeline shows the content on the Dashboard & profile.

Just sharing in case anyone else is looking for this answer (which is probably WAY more obvious when the Outline/Timeline actually shows up on your site! lol).

AND yay, I finally found this (in phpadmin it is in structure, just in case anyone else is looking for it). Evidently w/ the uprade it had truncated it to enum('digit','text','checkbox','select','selec .

Now timeline & outline are showing up! Thank you.

Got too excited too soon, not all of the modules are showing up in the Timeline admin feature (see the list of what is showing & what is missing above). How to add those back in?

 Try to reinstall Timeline module.

 Tried it again (clearing cache after uninstall and after reinstall) and still no joy. Any other suggestions?

Went nuclear and uninstalled all modules and reinstalled (clearing caches each step) and now everything is showing up as options in the timeline. However, I lose

• group images,
• store images,
• photos (allbums and images),
• videos (albums and videos),
• sounds (albums and sounds),

Sooooo that doesn't really work as a solution since it totally empties my site out.

Ggsinc, are new items coming up on Timeline?  If so, it might be a good feature for items loaded moving forward while also being able to keep your older content.

Reinstalling Timeline module is working the same way as reinstalling modules which are working with it, there is almost no diference. 

Can't imaging what could cause this issue... some more clues are needed.

Restoring the database makes the missing content reappear. So I guess that's a "fix"?

I think I'll wait a bit before going live with the Beta 7.1 until it's a little less buggy!

Thanks all for your help.

Why don't you filter the query date when you load the outline or timeline.
in the whereclause of the timeline module you can do this. this will not load items b4 that date you give it.

I have same issue, so i followed your steps ggsinc & then i get thisbelow, keep in mind i am learning, but this is annoying