Period Over Period(PoP)

Period over Period support used to compare measure values for one period of time against the results from a previous or subsequent period of time. PoP widget used to choose two different time periods at a time.

How to configure table data to Period over Period?

1. Drag and drop the Period Over Period from the toolbox at left into the design canvas and resize it to your required size.

2. Click the Data Source button in the configuration panel.

3. Click the CREATE NEW button to launch a new connection from the connection type panel.

4. In the connection type panel, click any one (Here, the Microsoft Excel Connection type is selected for demonstration) of the listed connection type button shown.

5. In the NEW DATA SOURCE configuration panel, fill the connection type and related details. Click the Connect button.

6. Drag your preferred table or view from the left pane from the data design view, click the Save button.

7. Click the Properties button in the configuration panel, property pane opens. Now, switch to the ASSIGN DATA tab.

8. The data tab will be opened with available measures and dimensions from the connected data source.

9. Drag and drop a date field from Dimensions into the Columns section.

Binding Fields

On binding field to PoP widget, default date ranges calculated based on the bounded field and set as a selected filter.

By default, the PoP widget renders with some default filter value and which can not be discarded. We allow only to reset the filters to default if we made changes. The default date range is calculated based on the days’ pan between min and max dates of the bounded field.

You can select the Relative/Custom date ranges using the Relative Combobox or Calendars. We can select any date ranges irrespective of the bounded field. That field is used to calculate the default date ranges and filtering purposes.

The following relative items are displayed under the Date Range:

The following relative items are displayed under the Compare To:

In both relative items Combobox, the Custom will be selected automatically if you choose custom range from calendar or enter custom range manually using the Combobox input section.

IMPORTANT:

• PoP widget won’t act as slave for any widget.
• PoP always having some value selected by default it in. We can reset, but we can’t discard it’s filter values.
• No widget mapped as slave by default to PoP, we need to manually configure the required widgets as slave.
• The widget acting as slave for PoP will display it’s virtual measure in view mode alone.
• For now, PoP supported provided for Chart widget(except Combo and Radar Polar) alone.

How ‘Compare To’ relative items range calculated?

Compare To relative items value calculated dynamically based on the date range selection from Date Range. You can see how it calculated for each relative item:

1. Previous Period:

It is calculated based on the number of days between the selected dates(start and end) of Date Range. For example, consider the Date Range selected value as 1-Jan-2019 to 10-Jan-2019. Here, the number of days between the selected dates is 10. So, the Previous Period value for the selected range is 22-Dec-2018 to 31-Dec-2018.

2. Previous Year:

It is a previous year date of the selected date values from the Date Range. For example, consider the Date Range selected value as 1-Jan-2019 to 10-Jan-2019. Here, the year of start and end date value is 2019. So, the Previous Year value for the selected range is 1-Jan-2018 to 10-Jan-2018.

How the PoP filtering works in Slave Widget?

Comparison types of charts like Bar, Column, Stacked Bar, Stacked Column, 100% Stacked Bar, and 100% Stacked Column. Distribution types of charts Line, Spline, Spline Area, Area, Stacked Area, and 100% Stacked Area. Proportional types of charts Pie, Doughnut, Pyramid, and Funnel can be slave widgets for Period Over Period.

Consider you configured Column chart. You can change the Column Chart as a slave for the Period Over Period widget by using the filter interaction window as shown below.

Once you configured, the Chart color palette will be changed using the PoP selection colors(blue and green). The red information icon denotes that the chart virtual column value will not get a display in the design mode.

Similarly, you can see an option to customize legend and palette for the virtual column which will be displayed in the Designer Preview/View Mode.

During interaction from the PoP widget, the chart will display two series. One having values filtered from Date Range and another one contains filtered values from Compare To.

Please find the response of different type of charts as slave for PoP widgets.

Bar Chart

Line Chart

Area Chart

Spline Chart

Spline Area Chart

Stacked column Chart

Percent Stacked bar chart

Consider you have configured the Proportional Chart as a slave for the Period Over Period widget. Like the column, the line chart’s color palette will not be changed. The Red information icon denotes that the comparison of period visualization will not be shown in the design mode.

During the interaction of Pop Widget, the proportional chart will display two series. One shows values filtered from Date Range another one contains filtered values from Compare To.

How to format Period Over Period?

You can format the Period Over Period for better illustration of the view that you require, through the settings available in Properties tab.

General Settings

Name

This option allows you to change the title for the Period Over Period.

Subtitle

Allows you to provide subtitle for Period Over Period.

Description

Allows you to provide a description about the Period Over Period.

Filter

Act as Master Widget

This allows you to define this PoP as a master widget such that its filter action can be made to listen by other widgets in the dashboard.

Container Appearance

Title Alignment

This allows you to handle the alignment of widget title to either left, center, or right.

Title Color

This allows you to apply the text color to the widget title.

Title Auto Font Size

On enabling Auto Font Size, the font size of the title will be adjusted automatically if the resolution of the screen varies.

Font Size

This allows you to apply the specified size of the font to the widget title if the Title Auto Font Size is disabled. Value can be between 10 and 44.

Subtitle Auto Font Size

On enabling Auto Font Size , the font size of the subtitle will be adjusted automatically if the resolution of the screen varies.

Font Size

This allows you to apply the specified size of the font to the widget title if the Subtitle Auto Font Size is disabled. Value can be between 10 and 32.

Show Border

This allows you to toggle the visibility of border surrounding the widget.

Corner Radius

This allows you to apply the specified radius to the widget corners if the Show Border is enabled. Value can be between 0 and 10.

Background Color

This allows you to set the background color to the period over period widget.

Transparency

This property allows you to specify the transparency for the background color.

Container actions

Show Header

This allows you to enable or disable the widget title of the period over period widget.

Enable Comments

This allows you to enable or disable comment for the dashboard widget. For more details, refer to this link.