Time Range Configurations

Overview

There are a number of different time ranges Preset offers to help you further customize your chart.

Range Type: Last

When selecting Last in the Range Type field, Preset will display a date range that starts at the beginning of the selected option and ends at 23:59:59 yesterday. Please note that the Last option does not include data from today in order to avoid providing partial data.

Examples:

Last Month
If today is March 7 2021, then the Last month option will retrieve data from February 7 2021 to before March 7 2021 (note the "<") in the Actual time range section.

Specifically, the date range begins on February 7 2021 at 00:00:00 and ends on March 6 2021 at 23:59:59.

Last Year
If today is March 7 2021, then the Last year option will retrieve data from March 7 2020 to before March 7 2021. Like before, please note the "<" less than sign in the Actual time range section — this means that the ending date range is up to, and including, yesterday.

Range Type: Previous

When selecting Previous in the Range Type field, Preset will display a date range that is based on the previous calendar selection — options include the previous calendar week, calendar month, or calendar year.

Example:

Previous Month
If today is March 7 2021, then the Previous month option will retrieve all days within the calendar month of February 2021. As always, please take note of the Actual time range section to see specific dates. In this example, the time range starts on February 1 2021 and ends before ("<") March 1 2021.

Specifically, the date range begins on February 1 2021 at 00:00:00 and ends on February 28 2021 at 23:59:59.

Range Type: Custom

When selecting Custom in the Range Type field, Preset will display a date range based on your defined start & end date.

Options include:

Start (Inclusive: Includes the specified starting date)

• Specific Date/Time: Enter date & time in yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss format.
• Relative Date/Time:
  • Value: Enter a number.
  • x Before: With x = Seconds | Minutes | House | Days | Weeks | Months | Quarters | Years (e.g., Seconds before, days before, et al).
• Now: Selects the current date & time.
• Midnight: Selects today at 00:00:00.

End (Exclusive: Excludes the specified ending date)

• Specific Date/Time: Enter date & time in yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss format.
• Relative Date/Time:
  • Value: Enter a number.
  • x Before: With x = Seconds | Minutes | House | Days | Weeks | Months | Quarters | Years (e.g., Seconds before, days before, et al).
• Now: Selects the current date & time.
• Midnight: Selects today at 00:00:00.

Example:

In this example, we selected a relative custom date range of 10 weeks before now. So if today is March 7 2021, then the custom date range would be December 27 2020 to before ("<") March 7 2020 (i.e., 23:59:59 yesterday).

Note that, in the Actual time range section, the times are also included for accuracy.

Range Type: Advanced

When selecting Advanced in the Range Type field, Preset uses its AI logic capabilites to determine a specific date based on your input.

Examples of Starting or Ending text:

• 3 weeks ago
• today
• now
• next 2 weeks
• next year
• yesterday
• last monday

If no start or end date is specified, then Preset will enter ∞ infinity, which means that all new data is included up to and including the current date & time.

Example:

In the example graphic below, we specified a date range from 2 weeks ago and did not include an ending date. If today is March 7 2021, then Preset will include all inclusive data from two weeks ago, February 21 2021, to infinity — i.e., all new data is included.

Range Type: No Filter

Lastly, in order to access all data within the dataset without applying any time range filters, select No filter in the Range Type field. This is recommended if you are working with a dataset with limited data.

For this walkthrough, we are using the No filter option.