Calculate a difference in a pivot table

Hi, I'd like to create a simple pivot table that allows a user to choose two time periods, and then calculates a difference in the measures between them. I know I could do this with some tricks around having two time drop downs on a dashboard control, creating two columns in the analysis that use the "FILTER" operator to get the right value, and then actually calculating a third column as a diff between the other two - but this seems like a lot of work. Is there a simple way to do this in a pivot that doesn't require all the dashboard controls and custom built formulas?
Thanks!
Scott

Hi user10634835,
It's repeated one..close this SR and that method is best. it's already solved.
FYI..
Variation calculation without time series?
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