timeline: auto arrange events in sublane

[klevi]

I am trying to utilize the event auto arranging capability of the timeline. Specifically, I have several events in a sublane of the timeline which are overlapping. I expected the sublane to be expanded vertically and the events to be automatically arranged vertically as well. This didn't happen and the events were shown on top of each other.
Do I understand the auto-arrange feature correctly? Or is it not supported for sublanes?

[Isomorphic]

Auto arrangement is not supported in sublanes - it's effectively an alternative to auto-arrangement - also, auto arrangement will not, even without sublanes, alter the height of a lane - rather, it splits the available (specified or default) height among those events that overlap.

[klevi]

Can you suggest a way I can achieve what I described in the first post with a databound timeline?
If I had the whole dataset it's relatively straightforward, but since the timeline is bound to a datasource with paging I see an issue.
My idea at the moment is to initialize the timeline with several artificial sublanes for arranging the overlapping events, and detect the overlaps on the server side where I can assign them to the appropriate sublane.
One thing I am not clear here is how can I hide the artificial sublanes which turn out to be empty. Will

setHideUnusedLanes(true)

be able to hide the unused sublanes?

[Isomorphic]

Unfortunately not - it only works for entire lanes.

If you need such support, either for auto-arranging sublanes, or for auto-hiding unused sublanes, we could add it via the Feature Sponsorship program.

Neither implementation is especially complex, but the latter option is probably moreso than the former.

[klevi]

OK thanks. We shall consider that and possibly get back to you.