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# Date filters

# Configure a Date filter in the inline editor {#ariaid-title1}

Release version: Brazil  
Updated September 10, 2026  
![](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/portal-asset/ico-clock) 2 minutes to read  
Let users select predefined periods or specify custom start and end dates for the
data on a dashboard tab.

## Before you begin

Important:  
This procedure assumes you've created a filter in the Filter designer or added a filter to your dashboard with the Date filter type. For instructions, see [Create or add a filter on an inline dashboard](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/KHmaarKHkKSH6JVfaJk3Lw "Create a filter or select one from the filter library. When creating a filter, name it, and choose whether to create a single select, multiple select, date, or true/false filter.") or [Create a filter in the Filter Designer](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/uw6nVWlubkVLkQZ4SMQ09A "Create a Platform Analytics filter in the Filter Designer and add it to the library for reuse.").

Role required: In the dashboard inline editor: dashboard_admin, or you must be the dashboard owner or have had editing rights shared with you.

In the Filter Designer (LibraryFiltersNew): analytics_filter_admin, admin

## About this task

Date filters apply to Score, Time series, Bar, and Pie/Donut visualizations. For indicator data, the Apply date range option must be turned on in the visualization's configuration panel (except for time
series, where it's implicitly always on). The filter applies to all such visualizations in the same dashboard or dashboard tab as the filter.

For time series data visualizations showing table or indicator data, the data aggregation on those visualizations adjusts automatically to follow
the date range selected in the filter.

## Procedure

1. Create a filter and select the Date filter type, as described in [Create or add a filter on an inline dashboard](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/KHmaarKHkKSH6JVfaJk3Lw "Create a filter or select one from the filter library. When creating a filter, name it, and choose whether to create a single select, multiple select, date, or true/false filter.") or [Create a filter in the Filter Designer](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/uw6nVWlubkVLkQZ4SMQ09A "Create a Platform Analytics filter in the Filter Designer and add it to the library for reuse.").
2. Specify the data to filter.  
   The filter is applied automatically to all Performance Analytics indicators and MetricBase KPIs on the tab or in the dashboard.  

   You can add any number of date fields on tables or Usage Insights date properties to apply the filter to. If you add a table field, you can also choose to apply the filter to the hierarchy of related tables: Parents, children, siblings, and any
   database views that contain the table.
3. In Date filter view, select the options that the runtime user has for choosing date ranges:
   * Choice of calendar dates or relative ranges, such as seven days or Year To Date (YTD)
   * Calendar only
   * Relative ranges only

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4. **Optional:** If you're letting the users select from relative ranges, you can select which relative ranges they can choose from in Select predefined ranges.  
   If you have Fiscal Calendars installed and configured, you can select from fiscal calendar ranges. For more information, see [Defining fiscal calendars](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/access?context=c_FiscalCalendar&version=brazil&pubname=brazil-platform-administration&ft:locale=en-US).  

5. To let users filter on the time in hours and minutes instead of only the date, enable Allow time selection.
6. **Optional:** In Default values, specify a relative range to filter on automatically when the dashboard is opened.
7. To let users clear the values they selected for the filter, enable Allow user to clear filter.
8. Specify a Filter Custom ID, a name for the filter that replaces its sys_id in URL filter parameters.  
   For more information, see [URL filter parameters for dashboard filters](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/x~_Xq2XGMdX6xmUvjWk8dA "URL filter parameters enable users to encode filter selections directly in dashboard URLs, allowing bookmarkable, shareable dashboard states with automatically apply filters. The URL parameter is called unifiedFiltersParam and is appended as a path segment after the dashboard sys_id.").
9. Select Save.

## Result

The filter is ready to use when you exit editing mode.

## What to do next

If you have the required roles, add the filter to the filter library. You can also reconfigure, delete, or duplicate the filter. For more information, see [Edit a Platform Analytics filter on a dashboard](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/4fOuCOgfvB69iRjBG3QUbw "When you highlight a filter on a dashboard that you have put into edit mode, you have several editing options. These options depend on whether the filter is local to the dashboard or saved in the library.").
**Related tasks**   

* [Edit a Platform Analytics filter on a dashboard](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/4fOuCOgfvB69iRjBG3QUbw "When you highlight a filter on a dashboard that you have put into edit mode, you have several editing options. These options depend on whether the filter is local to the dashboard or saved in the library.")
* [Configure a data visualization to follow filters or not](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/kNnEgoNBCfcLIt80CH7JtA "Data visualizations follow filters by default. A data visualization follows filters in the same dashboard tab as itself or above the tabs. Data visualizations either follow all such tabs that target their data sources, or none.")

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