Time slider widget (Web AppBuilder)

[JayHodny]

Hi all.  I have a municipal crime map app built using ArcGIS Pro, Online, and Web AppBuilder.  The web map app includes the time slider widget.  My agency would like the app to not display any crime features when the app first opens.  I have fiddled with the time interval tools in Pro, and in the web map and web map app, trying to suppress the display of all crime features on the initial app opening.  So instead of "scaring" the user by displaying a year's worth of crime data when the app first opens, we would like an blank basemap to open.  The user would then click on the time slider widget in the app, and slide back in time to start showing the various crimes.  It appears the time slider in the web map app always starts from the beginning of the data set regardless of what I set in Pro or the web map.

[JayHodny · Accepted solution]

I contacted Esri tech support and received this reply.  The issue is known and an enhancement may be available at the next AGOL release.

ENH-000105798: "Time slider widget settings are not honored when selecting 'Playback position saved with map'

Description of Enhancement : Customer would like to use the same configuration settings used in the time slider from the web map in a web appbuilder template. The Time slider widget settings are not honored when selecting 'Playback position saved with map' in web map. The web map is converted to a Web AppBuilder application and time slider widget is added but the playback position starts at the beginning.