Date filter

Provides an interactive calendar for configuring a date filter. The calendar filters the values in a given date range.

In view mode, you can adjust the date range by clicking the + symbol and - symbol in the widget.

The Date filter widget supports values only of date type.

The following widget options are available.

General options

Description

Name

Optional widget name.

More options

Displays additional options.

Container

Hide header: Hides the header as well as the title of the widget, and resizes the content of the container. Click the icon again to display the header.

Hide border: Hides the outline of the widget container. Click the icon again to display the outline.

Container style

Selects the style type of the container. The container styles available in the drop-down menu are part of the style template selected for the current dashboard. By default, the Default widget style is preselected.

Style

Selects the style type of the widget. The widget styles available in the drop-down menu are part of the style template selected for the current dashboard. By default, the Default widget style is preselected.

Auto refresh

Sets the automatic data retrieval of the widget.

Show menu

Enables the widget menu in view mode. In view mode, you can display the widget menu by clicking the Show menu Menu icon in the widget header. In the widget menu, you can, for example, clear a selection, refresh the data displayed, or save the component widget in a CSV file.

Specific date filter options

Description

Granularity

Specifies the structure of the time range.

  • There are three possible time granularities:

  • Year

  • Quarter

  • Month

Allow range selection

Enables the selection of multiple time periods in the calendar.

To define a time range in view mode, select multiple periods by holding the mouse button.

The option is enabled by default. If the option is disabled, the From and To values of the default selection are set to the same value.

If you are using a PPM version older than 10.5, this option is not available for Process Mining context-based dashboards.

Compact

Hides the selected range label above the time filter.

Range

Specifies the initially displayed date range with a start value (From) and an end value (To).

You can either enter the date value manually or extract it from a data feed. This option is disabled for manual entry if the date value is extracted from a data feed.

If no data source columns are assigned to the widget, you can enter the initial range values manually.

If data source columns are assigned, the range values are taken from the corresponding columns. The first values of the corresponding data source columns are always taken as the start or the end value of the range.

Default selection

Specifies the range values that are preselected by default.

You can either enter the date value manually or extract it from a data feed. This option is disabled for manual entry if the date value is extracted from a data feed.

If no data source columns are assigned to the widget, you can enter the default range values manually.

If data source columns are assigned, the default values are taken from the corresponding columns.

The first values of the corresponding data source columns are always taken as the minimum or the maximum.