Cannot figure out how to get Timeline Widget to work in Experience builder
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In ExB, the active time range is indicated above the slider, so it can be easily spotted (visually associated with the same-color dot of the slider); if you open the pop-up here, you will see the static entire time extent, which some may find unnecessary to display all the time, so we place it here:
The handle is shown on hover:
In addition, you can also change the style/appearance to build a different style of the slider
As for the labeling, we provide the ability to zoom in and out to check different levels of time accuracy. Thus, you can see different units displayed depending on the UI and the zoom levels.
Also, we do have some requests about enhancing it, like omitting the time, optimizing the label display, etc. We will continue to take a look at those. Thanks for bringing this up.
Took a look at the second provided service (cannot access the first one), and it seems like the service is not temporal - it might not have the time extent configured in the layer definition when published.
Here is an example of a valid time-aware service, you'll notice it has the "Time Info" with Time Extent and all other properties:
However, I cannot find any time info in the provided service:
https://services.arcgis.com/nGt4QxSblgDfeJn9/ArcGIS/rest/services/NGA_ASAM/FeatureServer/0
I am curious how you've managed to configure the time successfully.
On the other hand, what kind of changes are you expected to see with the Timeline changes - is it in a Map widget, a List, or a Table? If it's a map, then you might need to save the feature service as a web map and then use the same data source between Timeline and whatever the other one is. A sample app might be more helpful to identify the issue.
I am also struggling with the timeline widget. I have created a web map with a feature service that shows the extent of our local flying fox camp every three months. Data capture began in 2019 and is ongoing.
The feature service has 2 sub-layers: quadrats (points) and camp extents (polygons):
...however, I have only added the polygon layer to the web map:
I have time-enabled the feature service and connected it to the timeline widget.
I have been fiddling around with the Action tab of the Experience Builder Map window, however, I am unsure what I am doing. Is this the way to link the timeline widget of camp extents to the camp extents in the map window? There doesn't seem to be any options under the Data action tab:
Any help is appreciated as I can't find any detailed instructions online and I feel like I am going around in circles
@BronwenHughes Once you connect the data to the Timeline widget, the rest of the time-related configurations should be done inside the Timeline widget:
I am a bit unclear about the workflow you want to achieve inside the map.
If you want the timeline widget to work with the map widget, add the layer as a web map and use the web map as your timeline widget's data source, as well as connecting it to the map widget.
Thank you @TonghuiMing
I mistakenly used the camp extent layer rather than the web map as the timeline widget's data source. Is there any way to edit the appearance of the timeline widget in Exp Builder? It looks a lot cleaner in the Map Viewer:
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@TonghuiMing I'm referring to the entire appearance of the timeline bar in Map Viewer - particularly that it isn't cluttered with times, and that it shows month tics without month numbers. It is much easier to read than the timeline widget in Exp Builder
