philipmulcahy
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3 months ago This is the right place! I replied to your email just now, and then found this ticket. Here's an abbreviated version of my response:
I considered putting a date range in the UI when I first got the 1,2,3 months feature working, but it would make the control popup significantly more complicated for "vanilla" users without a reasonably hefty re-design, which there doesn't seem to be the appetite for at the moment.
The killer benefit of 1,2,3M is the avoidance of pulling a full year's worth of order detail, which for busy accounts can take significant time, and when commercial users are doing weekly/monthly reporting, the time savings can be significant - I suspect that they're often filtering the rows down once the table's displayed/downloaded.
I'm slightly confused by "really all I need is to..." because date range selection and sort order are not quite the same thing. Would you be willing to explain your use case in a bit more detail? It's possible the solution is already in your reach without any code changes.
After Ryan's explained his use-case (assuming I cannot suggest a nice work-around), then let's see if enough users are interested. If they are, I'll look at adding the capability to the UI and stick it into the commercial feature set.
Yours,
Philip
apologies if this is the wrong place, or if already added and I'm missing it. I'm not familiar with github yet, but I think I've read through everything relevant
I thought specific months were an option (as opposed to previous 30/60/90 days from the time of generating a report, similar to the yearly buttons)
though I see now I may be misinterpreting the description ("...scraping only the most recent 1, 2 or 3 months...") ("...UPDATE 2023-08-19 Commercial features batch 1 (ASIN, 1/2/3 months)...")
Huge thanks to Philip and anyone else who has worked on this product, very helpful (FWIW I am subscribed)