Time Slider

Question

Good Day,

I was trying to setup a time slider showing the sales over the last decade. I have a shapefile that has a date that is in the proper format and i can get it to work correctly in Arcmap but then here is my problem. I loaded the Shapefile into SDE and I setup the permissions on the feature class and made it versioned. When i go to Arcmap now with the feature class that is in SDE using the same fields and settings as the shapefile the sde version will not work in the time slider anymore. It seems to process the dates on the features but nothing is returned to my screen. Is this there some extra step you need to do to get Time Aware layers to work in SDE?

Thanks.

JasonNielsen · Answer

Solution:

My problem was that my connection properties to SDE i did not have a Server name listed. Once i put the server name in the connection everything worked correctly.

BjornSvensson · Answer

Is this there some extra step you need to do to get Time Aware layers to work in SDE?

No, the steps are the same.  In ArcMap, make sure that both layers were set up the same way and that they both have time enabled.
See Enabling time on your data
 
To verify that, you can look at the service directory for the layers in your map service and make sure that they have "Time Info", see for example: http://sampleserver3.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/Earthquakes/EarthquakesFromLastSevenDays/MapServer/0