Dynamic Time series question

Hi, I'm fairly new to essbase. I have a time dimension as below.Period1 -Day1 to Day35Period2 -Day36-Day63......Period12 - Day337-Day364.I'm trying to get a Period to date value, but Essbase always seems to give me 'To-Date' value by using DTS. What I need is to be able to select the Period as my latest time period. Any help will be appreciated.ThanksHarsha

Basically DTS is set on the outline. You specify which gneration. your PTD value is at (gen2 from what I can see from your posting).The latest time period is set by the user in their options (Display tab, at the bottom). Then when the user enters p-t-d in a time dimension area of the spreadsheet, the p-t-d is up to the period specified in the options. Or you can specify p-t-d(day14)Therefore, taking your structure p-t-d with day 13 specified would give you day1 to day 13, with day 45 specified would give you day 36 to day 45 abd so on ...Period1 -Day1 to Day35 Period2 -Day36-Day63...... Period12 - Day337-Day364. Hope this helps.

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