topic Time series symbology (blinks) in Mapping Questions

Time series symbology (blinks)

NavidAhmadiyeh2 — Sat, 01 Apr 2017 23:00:35 GMT

I have a feature class with 150 lines which I am joining 1 to M to a table with numerical values and date field for each hour of the day. I am symbolizing my lines based on the numerical values in the table. When I run a time series event with the time slider, the symbolized lines blink on and off as time is moving forward.

Any suggestions???

Re: Time series symbology (blinks)

DanPatterson_Retired — Sat, 01 Apr 2017 23:10:07 GMT

Time slider properties.... what did you try? What is the nature of your data temporally? (continuous? discrete?, evenly spaced?)

Re: Time series symbology (blinks)

NavidAhmadiyeh2 — Sat, 01 Apr 2017 23:34:00 GMT

The data is discrete and changes each hour. I believe I used the time slider properties appropriately. So for each of my 150 features, I have table with 150 values for 2016-01-01-0:00:0, another 150 values for 2016-01-01 1:00:00 and so on. In total my feature class has 150 line records and my table has 170k records. Do you think it is due to the volume of records in table?

Date

2016-01-01 0:00:00

2016-01-01 1:00:00

2016-01-01 2:00:00

2016-01-01 3:00:00

2016-01-01 4:00:00

Re: Time series symbology (blinks)

DanPatterson_Retired — Sat, 01 Apr 2017 23:47:28 GMT

Did you check the tips in ... Tips for improving the playback performance and this link in there as well. It is hard to say and you may have to experiment with a sample of your data if you think it is the size of the set

Re: Time series symbology (blinks)

NavidAhmadiyeh2 — Sun, 02 Apr 2017 21:03:20 GMT

Dan,

Thank you for the advice. The solution to my problem was changing the date-time format from mm-dd-yyyy hh:mm:ss to yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss. This is one of the recommended date-time formats for ArcGIS. I used the data management tools - Fields - Convert Time Field tool.

Problem solved.

Re: Time series symbology (blinks)

DanPatterson_Retired — Sun, 02 Apr 2017 21:18:43 GMT

Yes international formats are the best to use ...Time, supported field formats... in case someone is setting up temporal dat from the beginning