topic Re: Setting up Temporal Data in ArcGIS Pro Questions

Setting up Temporal Data

ChristopherAhlbach — Fri, 29 Jan 2021 23:50:37 GMT

Hi everyone!

I'm new to GIS, and am having some issues with ArcGIS Pro recognizing my temporal data. I have a list of clinics from 4 years, all over the country. The data are in a table with column headers: clinic name, address, some relevant info, and year (2017, 2018, 2019, 2020). It's in "long" format, with each clinic name being listed 4 times and the relevant year entered for each one. When I click on properties and "time," the options are all grayed out. I thought the year could be the issue so I converted them to dates with the time conversion tool, and I still have this grayed out option when I try to follow the instructions to set up the time series. What am I doing wrong? Thank you!!

Re: Setting up Temporal Data

HussainMalik1 — Fri, 29 Jan 2021 23:59:20 GMT

Hi Christopher,

I am doing something similar too but my time series is working fine. My year field in Long and Numeric.

Good luck

Hussain

Re: Setting up Temporal Data

Mary_Murphy — Mon, 01 Feb 2021 08:39:01 GMT

Are you working with shapefiles or Feature Class in a gdb? Must be a Feature Class in a gdb for temporal analysis!

Re: Setting up Temporal Data

Robert_LeClair — Mon, 01 Feb 2021 15:15:24 GMT

Christopher - the time supported field formats are date, string, and numeric field types. You can run the Convert Time Field GP tool to convert times stamps stored in a variety of formats. Best practice is to store your vector data in a geodatabase as Mary mentioned.