Why does my pivot table not have a time range filter?

[ulikabbq]

This page says that all pivot tables have the time picker as a default filter. It also says you can not disable this.

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.1.3/PivotTutorial/Createpivottable

However, when I build a data model and try to pivot off it, I do not have a time picker as a filter. What am I missing? The time picker shows up on the prebuilt data models that come with a standard install. Just not for user generated data models.

[ulikabbq · Accepted solution]

I was creating a root search and not a root event. Once I created the data model with a root event, then the time picker became available.