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To make the time range earlier or later , drag the time slider to the right or left. The range marker moves with the time slider so that the time range shown remains the same. Zoom in to shorten or zoom out to lengthen the date range covered by your timeline.
The Start and End dates on the timeline change. Change the time of day You can view the effect of the sun and sunlight across the landscape. Turn on the sunlight feature Click Sunlight.
The time slider appears. To change the timezone: Drag the time slider left or right. Depending on your location and time of year, you can view the sunrise or sunset while looking east or west. To display an animation of sunlight across the landscape: When both controls are active, the map time is represented as a time extent or the time between the start time control and the end time control.
If either the start time or end time control is disabled, its corresponding timestamp will not show. This indicates that the map time is either all time before or all time after the given timestamp. When time is disabled in the map, no timestamps display. The timestamps above the slider bar show the time extent of the time slider. The time extent of the slider can be modified by dragging the slider controls beyond the extent of the time slider, clicking the full time extent command, or rotating the wheel button over the time slider to zoom in and out.
The colored fill in the slider bar represents the time extent of one or more temporal layers in the map. Areas without a fill are time periods where there is no temporal data.
The playback commands for Play , Pause , Step Forward and Step Back have keyboard shortcuts to assist in the interactive experience when viewing time data. The view must be active and the active tool must be the Explore tool in order to utilize these keyboard shortcuts.
The Time Slider window provides controls that allow you to visualize temporal data in ArcGIS. You can invoke the Time Slider window by clicking the Time Slider. The time slider provides controls that allow you to visualize temporal data.
Play through the entire sequence of time with the direction and speed defined in the time slider settings or press the shortcut again to pause. Move forward in time by the step amount defined in the step settings on the Time tab.
Move backward in time by the step amount defined in the step settings on the Time tab. Hide Table of Contents. Set up a development environment. TimeSlider" ; Description Added at v2. TimeExtent What is temporal data? All On Style event listeners receive a single event object. Additionally, the event object also contains a 'target' property whose value is the object which fired the event. See the options table below for parameters. Rate at which the time animation plays.
Default value is milliseconds. The specified number of time stops are created for the input time extent. Create a time stop for each interval specified, i. Specify an array of strings to be used as labels.
The array position for each string defines which tick it will be placed on. Add a label for every other tick. Default value is false.
You can click on either slider to see the actual time that is represented. This widget can be set to open automatically when an app starts. The Time Slider widget enables you to view temporal layers in a map and play the animation to see how the data changes over time. The time extent of the slider can be modified by dragging the slider controls beyond the extent of the time slider, clicking the full time extent command, or rotating the wheel button over the time slider to zoom in and out. If the two pointers are as close together as they can be, then they are in fact defining the same time and the Start and End time are identical and the Time window slider represents a single time only. Convert metres to centimetres, then to Date using ConvertTimeField. TimeExtent What is temporal data?