The Timeline component for Microsoft Dynamics 2011

The company xRM Consultancy has developed a free component that can display activities in the timeline, and it can give a good overview of the Customer (Company or Contacts) or Opportunity activities.

I have noted the following advantages and disadvantages with this component:

Benefits

• Provides a good overview of activities (Appointments, Email, Phone Calls, Tasks).
• Quick navigation between activities.
• Easy to open activities, to edit them directly from the timeline.
• Easy to implement. Good implementation guide.
• Supported browsers other than Internet Explorer (I tested the component in the latest versions of Google Chrome and Firefox).
• The component is free.

Cons

• Can only handle such types of activity: Agreements, Email, Phone Calls and Tasks. That means that user defined activity is not supported.
• You cannot filter by open or closed activities, or both.
• Supported only English language, so all displayed fields in the component are in English. 
• The component can only be used on Account, Contact and Opportunities.

Download: Timeline component...