topic Re: Enhanced time slider widget problem in ArcGIS Viewer for Flex Questions

Enhanced time slider widget problem

AndreyZhalnin — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 12:37:07 GMT

Hello everybody,
I was trying to switch to enhanced time slider widget (Thanks Robert!), but looks like I have some issue with my layers. I can see them in drop down list of widget window, but can't select them. I suspect this might have to do something with grouping layers in the TOC of my mxd. I wonder if I have layer sitting inside a group (I may have a few levels of these, like the folder structure on a desktop, see image below) how do I specify the layer's name in widget's config file? Previously these layers worked with default time slider. You can see example at http://prodgis.agriculture.purdue.edu/NDM_Atlas_time/, the default time widget is the left time icon, the enhanced is the right icon. I am attaching my widgets config file as well.
Any help is greatly appreciated!
Thank you
Andrey
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Re: Enhanced time slider widget problem

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 13:03:17 GMT

Andriy,

Your issue is you are thinking of layers as one would expect (individual layers of a map service) but esri uses the term layer to describe a WHOLE Map Service. So the Drop down is for use the time slider on more than on Map Service not specifying individual layers of a Map Service.

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Re: Enhanced time slider widget problem

Anonymous User — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 14:37:54 GMT

Original User: strelolist

Robert, Thank you for the quick answer. I am a bit confused here: in example you provided for eTime widget does each map/layer in Flex viewer (eg "Shad", "Sockeye" etc.) has its own mxd and corresponding ArcGIS service? Or they are "true layers" of a single service/mxd? Thanks again!

Re: Enhanced time slider widget problem

RobertScheitlin__GISP — Sat, 11 Dec 2021 16:16:38 GMT

Andriy,

You are correct that in my example the layers do all come from the same map service but they are each added to the viewer as individual layers in the main config.xml:

        <operationallayers>
            <layer label="Earthquakes" type="feature" visible="false" alpha="1" mode="snapshot"
                   url="http://sampleserver3.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/Earthquakes/Since_1970/MapServer/0" usetime="true"/>
            <layer label="Chinook" type="feature" visible="true" alpha="1" mode="snapshot"
                   url="http://servicesbeta.esri.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/Portland/FishCount/MapServer/0" usetime="true" />
            <layer label="Steelhead" type="feature" visible="false" alpha="1" mode="snapshot"
                   url="http://servicesbeta.esri.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/Portland/FishCount/MapServer/1" usetime="true" />
            <layer label="Sockeye" type="feature" visible="false" alpha="1" mode="snapshot"
                   url="http://servicesbeta.esri.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/Portland/FishCount/MapServer/2" usetime="true" />
            <layer label="Shad" type="feature" visible="false" alpha="1" mode="snapshot"
                   url="http://servicesbeta.esri.com/ArcGIS/rest/services/Portland/FishCount/MapServer/3" usetime="true" />
        </operationallayers>

Sorry after reading my last post it does sound misleading.

Re: Enhanced time slider widget problem

Anonymous User — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 20:22:45 GMT

Original User: strelolist

Robert,
Thank you! Now I got it, was able to run the widget.
Appreciate your time!