I would love it if it were possible to have a Timeline Instant App, where I could showcase maps and multimedia contents in a manner similar to the Portfolio Instant Map, but with the ability to select the different contents from a timeline in the lower part of the screen, where I can set time periods for the different contents. Something similar to this example:
Revolutionary User Interfaces (knightlab.com)
Thanks in advance!
Hi Johanna,
There is now an instant app with Time Slider beta available. Unfortunately, at the moment there is the map "Population Growth Rate by Country, 1960-2010" fixed in the app and it is not replaced with your own map. @KellyHutchins @RyanLibed
Additional: When the app is saved the url under settings does not contain ?appid=<id app>
Hi @JohannaPrüssmann1, as @Stefan_Thorn mentioned, there is now a new Instant App, Slider (beta), which allows you to explore and interact with temporal and numeric data through a slider tool in the UI.
@Stefan_Thorn Would you happen to have the steps to reproduce this behavior?
Thanks,
Ryan
@Stefan_Thorn @RyanLibed The poster is showing an example of a Timeline JS application! It's a free application hosted by Knightlab that allows you to build and embed interactive timelines.
I also wish that we could have an Instant App or Story Map tool that would do this! While the Instant Slider App does allow for the combination of time + geospatial data - it doesn't have the same interactive functionality. The tool itself is also fairly static - you're really limited to the composition of the data that you upload.
It would be really neat to have specifically an interactive timeline app - almost similar to how the Map Tour is set up, but instead of adding slides, you would add sections to a timeline and then could attach it directly to a location on the map. I would envision this as:
When a user scrolls up and down on the timeline, the map would zoom or have a "tour effect" on the map view.
You could probably create a similar effect with a map and the sidecar + map actions --> Add a map to the sidecar tool, and the manually type in text or dates into the sidecar panel. Attach actions to the dates that would allow a user to zoom to the area. But having a specific app or tool would really be neat for adding extra functionality.
@JohannaPrüssmann1 I agree with you! I wish we had something more of an interactive timeline functionality in ArcGIS Online!
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