Overview
This template is used to shorten the citations used by the visual guides Solo: A Star Wars Story The Official Guide, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker: The Visual Dictionary and Star Wars: Rogue One: The Ultimate Visual Guide.
Usage
{{GuideDate|guide|before_after|year|event}}
{{{1|guide}}}: The guide that you are using the template for. "Solo" is for Solo: A Star Wars Story The Official Guide, "ROS" is for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker: The Visual Dictionary and "RO" is for Star Wars: Rogue One: The Ultimate Visual Guide. Required.{{{2|A or B}}}. Determines whether the template will render to say the year as "before" or "after" the event the guide uses as a basis for its dating system. Important note the parameter "A" may only be used with Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker: The Visual Dictionary, otherwise the template will return an error message. Required.{{{3|years}}}. How many years before or after the event listed in the guide. Required.{{{4|Title of the event}}}. The name of the event. Required.
Examples
{{GuideDate|RO|B|51|[[Orson Callan Krennic|Orson Krennic]]'s [[Reproduction|birth]]}}
Star Wars: Rogue One: The Ultimate Visual Guide dates Orson Krennic's birth to 51 years before the the events of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. As Star Wars: Galactic Atlas dates the the events of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story to 1 BBY, the event must have taken place in 52 BBY.
{{GuideDate|S|B|22|[[Han Solo]]'s [[Reproduction|birth]]}}
Solo: A Star Wars Story The Official Guide dates Han Solo's birth to 22 years before the the events of Solo: A Star Wars Story. As Star Wars: Timelines dates the the events of Solo: A Star Wars Story to 10 BBY, the event must have taken place in 32 BBY.
{{GuideDate|ROS|B|5|the [[First Order secession|secession]] of the [[First Order]]}}
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker: The Visual Dictionary dates the secession of the First Order to 5 years before the the Hosnian Cataclysm. As Star Wars: Galactic Atlas dates the the Hosnian Cataclysm to 34 ABY, the event must have taken place in 29 ABY.