Time Settings

The fields of the Time Settings dialog differ according to whether you access it from a comparison statement or a trend statement.

In the Time Settings dialog you can take these actions:

  • Select the level at which the figures are compared: Day, Month, Quarter, or Year
  • Specify whether to compare discrete periods, or Year to Date figures
  • With restrictions, select different periods to compare (Comparison statements)
  • Specify the number of periods to compare (Trend statements)
  • With restrictions, select whether to compare actual or planned quantities or durations.

These are the restrictions:

  • In Comparison statements, if you compare Actual values with Planned values, you can only compare figures for the same day,month, quarter or year. You cannot, for example, compare the actual quantities for May with the planned quantities for June.
  • In Comparison statements, if you compare Planned to Planned or Actual to Actual, you can compare only the current period with the previous period, or the current period with the same period in the previous year.
  • In Trend statements, you can select either Actual or Planned. But you cannot compare Actuals with Budgets.

To change the time settings:

  1. Click Edit time settings in the report heading.
  2. From the Level list, Select Day, Month, Quarter, or Year as the comparison level.
  3. From the Time Hierarchy list, select All Years, or All Years YTD.
  4. Select the Base Period.
  5. Either:
    Option Description
    Select the period to compare with the Base Period Comparison statements
    Select the number of periods to compare Trend statements
  6. Either:
    Option Description
    Select the versions to compare Comparison statements
    Select the version on which to report Trend statements