Add your own defined period

4:55 min

Learn how to create custom user-defined "month to date" or "calendar year to date" periods from scratch and save them as new defined periods. Since they’re your custom periods, you’ll have complete control to edit or delete them whenever necessary.

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Customize views

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Period Customize

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