Feature request: Time filter range type of "Current"

[sfirke]

The "Last" and "Previous" filter choices for time intervals are great. I'd like to see a similar section, "Current", with the choices:

• Current day
• Current week
• Current month
• Current quarter
• Current year

This match the choices offered under "Last". This is related to this issue closed for inactivity: #8667. Some current workarounds are discussed on Slack here.

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"Current" would appear on this list:

[zhaoyongjie]

Hi @sfirke the Advanced Frame in Time Range supports date function expression. It's easy to do this.

[mattitoo]

We have many users that don't have the technical knowledge to use "datetrunc". Also, it is much more error-prone than the proposed solution.

[sfirke]

Thanks @zhaoyongjie, this helps me for right now and maybe is even how this could get implemented. For my less-technical users (and even technical analysts who don't find that tooltip) it would still be a big help to have a set of Current options. E.g., I have a dashboard that faces the general public and shows rainfall data, lots of regular members of the public would use "Current year" or "Current quarter."

[cass-simplelegal]

Interesting, will be worth looking into locally. I will take a look and see if I can find a solution.

And I also see in the linked Slack thread that another user will be working on it as well.

[Vaelek]

No activity on this in a while. Any possibility of this becoming a thing? I too would very much like to not have to provide "code" to my users. I honestly can't believe that it wasn't there from the start. If no one is interested in taking this on I may try my hand at it.

EDIT - My info tooltip is just 1 line not anything like the screen shot shown above.

[victortony]

i have the same question.

[maheshkumarkr]

Same ask, would be nice to be able to add/customize those values that are shown in that "Edit Time Range" drop down. - Something on the lines of setting "Current" / any other generic timeline value in the drop down in UI, and have those datetrunc statements sent as values for selected drop down values to backend..?

[adamcunnington-mlg]

How on earth is this not an immediately accepted thing?!

I cannot believe the suggestion of "use date trunc". Which users do we think are using typical dashboards?!
It's outrageous that there is not a "current / this month" style option. A year on and this isn't added? Surely this is trivial - what is the blocker?

[Rusp0]

Same question

[chrisngene]

No activity on this yet? this question is still of value, wish it can be sorted

[mmospanenko]

This is very important functionality, I have no idea why it is so difficult to work with filters. Any date range picker has predefined options like today, yesterday, this month, etc. Here I can describe only one (!) range :(

[mattitoo]

Have you looked into the "Advanced" section? Here you can do all this and even greater things, like "03-01" (to select March 1st), "2 days before yesterday", "14 days ago", etc.
Admittedly "Current month" or similar does not work, which is bad.

[mmospanenko]

sure, for this month I prepared couple of calculations , but this is not user friendly.
Is it ok that users have to write something like this just for viewing current month? :)

and how to change period quickly (without many clicks every time and reloading whole page for returning)?
I had to add column in SQL ...