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Smart Query Dates #698

Open kogir opened 7 years ago

kogir commented 7 years ago

Maybe add a way to select a specific date or a range? Useful for some point in time queries.

Before x days ago and After y days ago is harder to calculate.

james-howard commented 7 years ago

Can you give an example of where this would be useful? I don't offer this because typically having absolute dates just means that the query becomes stale.

As a counter-example, Mixpanel's JQL boilerplate always starts with absolute dates and it bugs the hell out of me. I have a little JS function I wrote to make it query based on a time period since now that I end up adding to all of my Mixpanel queries.

kogir commented 7 years ago

I'm not totally sure. What if it's meant to be used once and tossed, like "how was our performance in July this year? What did Nick, Fred, and James do?"

I'm arguing to add it, not switch the behavior. Both are useful.

james-howard commented 7 years ago

Hmm, yeah, OK. I typically use just the chart view for this rather than looking at specific issues, but I could see how that could be useful.

james-howard commented 6 years ago

By request from galak