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Report Settings: Date Period

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How Date Period Works

In Dynamic Reports

Trade Date or Entry Date

In PDF Reports

Trade Date or Entry Date

Reports With This Setting

Related Settings

 

How Date Period Works

Applies to:
✔ Dynamic ✔ PDF

✔ Client Portal

 

This setting lets you select the date period you want to use for the report. Reports that use a date period allow you to see the how the data being reported changes over time, such as all the transactions that took place last week or the returns for the previous quarter.

The date periods listed are created by users in your firm.

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In Dynamic Reports

You can choose an existing date period from the list or click <Create New> at the bottom of the list to add a new temporary date period.

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Trade Date or Entry Date

In the Transactions report, this setting determines whether the trade date or entry date will be used to filter the transactions included on the report.

For more information, see Date Period: Apply Filter To Trade Date or Entry Date.

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In PDF Reports

You can choose a date period from the list. Some reports allow you to choose multiple date periods to display.

Use inception date lets you report partial periods in PDF reports for instances where the account or group was opened after the beginning of the date period selected.

Example

You set a date period of 2006, which runs from 01/01/2006 through 12/31/2006. If you have an account that was opened on 04/12/2006:

Best Practice

Always select this option.

This option will be unavailable if you set the date period to Inception to date.

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Trade Date or Entry Date

In the Transactions report, this setting determines whether the trade date or entry date will be used to filter the transactions included on the report.

For more information, see Date Period: Apply Filter To Trade Date or Entry Date.

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Reports With This Setting

Performance Reports

Holdings Reports

Transaction Reports

Business Intelligence Reports

 

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Related Settings

The following setting interacts with this setting:

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