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This sample demonstrates how to use TimeSlider widget with minimal configuration. The TimeSlider widget simplifies the process of visualizing temporal data in a JavaScript application.

This application uses an instance of ImageryLayer to visualize global sea temperature at sea level on a daily basis. Since the image service has multidimensional information, you can set the multidimensionalDefinition property in the MosaicRule object to request water temperature at a specific water depth and time.

There are four different mode options when initializing the TimeSlider widget: instant, time-window, cumulative-from-start, and cumulative-from-end. In this case, the mode is set to time-window, meaning that slider will show temporal data that falls within a given time range.

// time slider widget initialization
const timeSlider = new TimeSlider({
  container: "timeSlider",
  mode: "time-window",
  view: view
});
view.ui.add(timeSlider, "manual");

Once the layer view has loaded, the fullTimeExtent and stops properties of the TimeSlider can be set based on the time properties of the layer.

view.whenLayerView(layer).then(function(lv) {
  const fullTimeExtent = layer.timeInfo.fullTimeExtent;

  // set up time slider properties
  timeSlider.fullTimeExtent = fullTimeExtent;
  timeSlider.stops = {
    interval: layer.timeInfo.interval
  };
});