Time Slider Explanation

[jamesmuir]

Can someone explain the Time Slider implementation to me? I am trying to use the live example found here

http://developers.arcgis.com/javascript/sandbox/sandbox.html?sample=time_sliderwithdynamiclayer

but am failing to understand how the widget determines what graphics to draw as it doesn't appear that a reference to the map or a layer are passed into it.

[jamesmuir · Accepted solution]

So after digging into this and watching the network traffic with developer tools it appears that you can't actually specify a layer on which to set the Time Slider. It seems as though it parses the map layers to find any which contain a TimeInfo property and then queries those map services with the appropriate date parameters.

It would have been nice if this was mentioned somewhere in the documentation instead of having to discern it from the sample provided.