Timeframes
When viewing dashboards or editing data tiles in SquaredUp, you have the ability to select a "timeframe" for that dashboard / tile. This timeframe simple refers to the period of time for which the returned data is from.
For example, instead of showing data from the default last 24 hours, you can select any of the available options to show data from the last 7 days, 30 days, this / last month, this / last year etc.
By default, tiles inherit whichever timeframe the dashboard uses, and dashboards display data using a timeframe of the last 24 hours.
If all the tiles on a dashboard use a fixed timeframe then the dashboard's timeframe dropdown is disabled. Likewise, if a specific timeframe is unsupported then it is disabled in the dropdown.
Dashboard timeframe
The dashboard timeframe setting, located on the toolbar at the top of a dashboard, lets you easily toggle the time span that a dashboard displays data for.
Selecting a new timeframe immediately updates the data for every tile on the dashboard that is configured to inherit that dashboard's timeframe.
Setting a default timeframe
To set the default timeframe for a dashboard, click the pin
next to an option in the timeframe dropdown. This sets the initial timeframe that is used, whenever the page is loaded, for all viewers of the dashboard - including shared dashboard viewers.Tile timeframe
Normally, tiles on a dashboard will inherit that dashboard's timeframe, meaning that the tile data shown changes whenever you change the dashboard timeframe. However, you can choose to override this and set a fixed timeframe for a tile by configuring the Timeframe tab in the tile editor.
Fixed-timeframe tiles display their set timeframe value in a bubble next to their title, and the tile data does not change if the dashboard timeframe is changed.
You should indicate if a tile's timeframe can be changed in the name of a tile. For example, naming a tile Performance during the last week indicated that the tile always displays data for the last week.
Cache refresh intervals
As well as determining the period for the data that displays, the timeframe you select also controls the cache refresh frequency of that data. In other words, the timeframe you pick also affects how "fresh" that data is.