Summary View form
Completing the Content tab — Entering trend details
 

Field

Description

Choose an interval, Range (buckets) or Expression. Choose:

• Yearly, Quarterly, Monthly, Weekly, or Daily — For fixed intervals.
• Range — You can determine the ending point of a series of past time intervals, in units of days, weeks, calendar months or calendar quarters.
• Expression — Enter an expression to define break points. If the expression results in a boolean value, enter a comparison.

Weeks correspond to seven-day intervals starting on a weekday that you specify. Months correspond to calendar months, not 30-day periods.

Click to enter a default list of intervals. You can modify the intervals and the captions.

Select a DateTime property to be the basis of trend intervals.

Identify a past or future date that is to be the latest date for the report contents.

If you chose Range as the Trend field value, select Day, Week, Month, or Quarter as the unit of aggregation.

If you choose Week for the Trend field, indicate which day the week starts on.

Select to derive the captions of each time interval on the starting date value. If not selected, you can type labels for each caption in the array.

If the Enable Auto Caption box is selected, select a date format. Choose Custom as the date format to enter a Java date pattern as the date format.

If the Enable Auto Caption box is selected, select Upper Boundary Only, Upper and Lower Boundary, or Lower Boundary Only as the locus of captions.

This column appears only when Enable Auto Caption is not selected. Enter text to label the column that contains the most recent values first. Text in the second row of this array labels the column with the next most recent values, and so on.

This column of integer values appears only when you select Range for the Trend field.

Enter an ascending sequence of positive integers such as 1, 2, 3, or 30, 60, 90 or 4, 10, 100. Each value marks the inclusive endpoint of an interval, where the units are indicated in the Trend Unit field.

For example, if you enter 1, 2, 3, 10 in the top four rows of this array and the Trend Unit value is Weeks, at runtime the leftmost bucket will contain results for the rows in which the DateTime property is greater than 0 weeks old and less than or equal to 1 week old (based on the Starting value). The fourth bucket will contain results for the rows in which the DateTime property value is greater than 3 weeks old but less than or equal to 10 weeks old. (In this example, rows for which the DateTime property value is more than 10 weeks old may not affect the computation, but may appear nonetheless on the drill-down details.)