I understand there is a feature to construct a custom timeline by accessing some kind of XML data, but it would seem to be useful to be able to extract timelines from remote dbs via normal SQL.
for example, Our phone system stores our call info (start, end, number, directory lookup) in a db, and it would be useful to pull that in as a timeline via a simple extract. I could construct the query myself, provide the expected column names, etc, I just need the connector.
I'm sure I can find a way to do the query externally, and convert it to the necessary XML on the fly, but that would require yet another running program, or what have you. It would seem that you are already using SQL under the hood to access the CE db, so some of the lifting is probably already done, and the intermediate steps of XML conversion would be unnecessary.
Plus, I can't be the only one who could use this. :)
