Experience Builder Not Functioning with Time Series Animation

Question

Hi, I'm working on showing a time series animation in an Experience Builder App.

The time series animation works perfectly in a Web Map. It uses an Arcade expression to show changes in annual columns. I created it using the directions in your article here.

You can see the Web Map here.

However, when I open it as a map within Experience Builder, the timeline does not appear. When I add a new Timeline widget and try to link it to the map, it says "The selected Map widget does not contain any time-aware web map or web scene."

I can't find any resources online that address this. Is there any way to get a time series animation to show in Experience Builder? If not, are there other alternatives?

subu · Answer

I am in the exact same boat. Is there way to accomplish what the OP is asking?

AveryBick · Answer

Hi @TonghuiMing,

Appreciate the thoughtful reply. Unfortunately I do not have access to Pro currently, and use open-source for processing data and ArcGIS Online for sharing.

My basic goal is to plot temporal County polygons shaded by a value field. It seems like most of the timeline demos I see online use very simple, lightweight point data and a separate row for each time value and point.

While plotting many instances of County data with complex shapes, the file size becomes large and the operation becomes very slow and lags in ArcGIS Online. This is why I used the timeline series animation / Arcade expression, which worked great.

Perhaps there is an obvious way to accomplish my goal in ArcGIS online that I am not aware of?

Thanks again for your help!

TonghuiMing · Answer

Hi @AveryBick

Thanks for the information. This workflow rarely occurred in our previous user feedback. I did some testing, and it seems like you can only generate something on the fly inside the Map Viewer, based on style customizations - but not saved to the map, which is ready for other applications to use.

Here is when you publish a time-aware layer, using ArcGIS Pro, what the configuration and the layer property look like - notice that it successfully contains a valid time info

See that when I tried checking the layer property outside MV from your data, there is no time info to be found:

Thus, what I suspect is that -

Through this particular doc workflow, you might be able to create a new feature collection, time-aware, inside MV, which can only be used inside the Map Viewer. It does not update the layer property, and that's why ExB cannot obtain any time info to be used for the Timeline widget.

You might want to publish the layer/map from Pro using the previous configurations, if possible.