Specifying the Time Period

Most reports present information for at least one time period: a week, month, quarter or year, or a time period defined by a set of "custom dates" that you define using calendar date controls. This is also known as the "reporting timeframe". Using a few reports, you can request data for another time period so that you can compare data for the two different periods.

To specify a custom date range, enter a Start date and an End date.

  • The Start date is defaulted to a month earlier than current date.
  • The End date is defaulted to today.

When you change the time period covered by a report, the report is reprocessed.

Note: As a rule, you should specify the time period for the report (the "reporting timeframe") as soon as the report is displayed, to avoid waiting for a default report to be processed.

Using custom dates, you can specify the exact date range that a report should cover. The data displayed on the report is based on the range selected. If you pick the current week, current month, current quarter, and so on, some of the most recent data might not be available. The delay varies, depending on the type of data, how it is transmitted and processed, and how your company has set up its data transfers and processing with TIBCO Reward.

You can sometimes improve the accuracy of a recent, short-term report (for example, the most recent week) by setting the end date to a date two or more days earlier than the current date.