The reporting window
Every headline figure in Reports covers one stated window. Anything else says so in its heading.
The reporting window is the stretch of time that Reports measures. Each workspace has one. Limn works it out once for each page you open, and every headline figure on that page uses it: the flow metrics, the two repository cards, the first option in Chronology, Stories and AI usage. Its name is printed beside each figure that uses it, so you never have to guess which dates a number covers.
#The three choices
| Comparison window | What it measures | Shown as |
|---|---|---|
| Rolling 14 days (default) | The last 14 days against the 14 before. Always a full window; no sprint needed. | Last 14 days |
| Rolling 7 days | The last 7 days against the 7 before. A quicker read of momentum. | Last 7 days |
| Sprint position (like-for-like) | This sprint so far against the same point in the previous sprint, for example day 3 against day 3. | This sprint so far (day 3 of 14) |
Sprint position (like-for-like) compares like with like. Day 3 of a sprint is never compared with a whole finished sprint, so the start of every sprint does not look like a slump.
#Set the window
Applies to this workspace only. Every other workspace sets its own.
- Open Settings and choose the Reports and sprint tab.
- Under Sprint cadence and comparison window, choose a Sprint length (1 to 4 weeks, or Custom…), or No sprint — this workspace doesn’t run one.
- Set the Start date to any day one of your sprints began. Limn counts forwards and backwards from it to find every sprint boundary, so it does not need to be the first sprint.
- Choose the Comparison window, then press Save.
Changing the sprint length moves the period boundaries. A line warns you before you save. Reports already made at the old length are kept, and stay readable under Earlier cadences at the bottom of the Reports page. Each workspace keeps its own setting; one workspace never inherits another’s.
#The labelled exceptions
A few figures are deliberately not tied to the window. Each one says so in its own heading:
- Right now: Open pull requests and Red checks now count what is open at this moment.
- Last 12 weeks: the weekly trend charts under the flow metrics, and the 12-week chart on AI usage.
- Period reports: completed sprints or months, plus the period in progress.
- Chronology’s 30 days, 60 days and 90 days options, and its Over time charts for the last 26 weeks.
Bots Monitoring has its own window picker (7d, 14d, 30d, Sprint), shared by its tabs. See ROI.
#Why it helps
When two figures on one screen cover different dates, readers join them up anyway and draw the wrong conclusion. One window per page, named beside every figure, stops that. Where a figure needs a different span to make sense, it says so in its heading. See Read the Overview for the figures themselves.