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Status Future consideration
Workspace Cloudability
Categories Reports, Dashboards
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 30, 2026

RELATED IDEAS

Cloudability Widget: Enhancement Request: Support Month Dimension with Display Change (%) Month Comparison

The team has a valid business reporting use case where they want to display the Month dimension alongside Display Change → Percent to compare month-over-month spend by Account Group.

Currently, when the Month dimension is added to the widget, the previous period value is displayed as NA. This is expected behavior because the Month dimension is treated as a string/category (e.g., "May" and "April" are separate dimension values) rather than a time-aware field. As a result, the comparison cannot be calculated across those dimension values.

However, customers would like the ability to include the Month dimension so the business reporting period is immediately visible, while the widget continues to calculate the month-over-month percentage change based on the selected date ranges. Although the comparison date ranges indicate the reporting window, displaying the Month dimension provides clearer context and makes reports easier to interpret at a glance.

Enable Display Change → Percent to support the Month dimension (or provide a time-aware Month dimension) so customers can display the reporting month while still calculating valid month-over-month comparisons, instead of returning NA. This would improve report readability without requiring users to infer the reporting period from the comparison date ranges.

Idea priority Urgent

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