hello all,
while trying to visualize certain report graphs, the Monthly grouping isn’t working as expected. URL: admin/reports/visits?chart_grouping=monthly&end_date=2020-11-24&start_date=2020-04-01
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The Monthly grouping feature on reports is not working as expected. giovanni reported an issue with the feature, sharing a URL and screenshot to illustrate the problem. simon confirmed the issue, noting that the time period for each data point in the chart depends on the selected start and end dates, rather than displaying monthly intervals. joffreyjaffeux explained that the monthly grouping was implemented in a simple way to fulfill a specific request, and acknowledged that it may not work in all cases.
When I access the same report on Meta, the time period for each data point that is displayed in the chart seems to depend on the time periods that I’ve selected for the report’s start and end dates. For example, if I select April 24th as the start date and November 24th as the end date, the data points are spread out at either 4 or 5 week intervals. If I use the start and end dates that you supplied, the data points are set at weekly intervals.
@j.jaffeux, is this something that needs to be looked at, or are these the expected results?
Yes monthly has been implemented very naively so far to fullfill a simple request we have had (and to avoid implementing it server side, which would be a LOT of work). We didn’t have much request ever since. I’m not against trying to improve it, but I’m not surprised it can fail in some cases.