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# Filters, periods and saved views

> Choose markets, segments, brands and periods with Who, What, When and Show, apply your changes, and save the filters you use often.

Last reviewed 9 November 2026

The filter bar above the widgets decides what every widget on the page shows. It has four parts and a button at the end.

| Part | What you choose |
| --- | --- |
| Who | The market, and segments that narrow the answers to a group, such as an age group, a gender or a region. |
| What | Your brand or product, and the competitors to compare it with. |
| When | The period, how it is smoothed, and what changes are compared with. |
| Show | How figures are shown, such as averages, change indicators, ranks, decimals and low-base warnings. It reads Standard, or Custom when you have changed something. |

## Change and apply

1. **Make your choices**

   Select Who, What, When or Show and choose what you want. You can change several parts before you apply.

2. **Apply**

   Select **Apply** (✓) at the end of the bar. The page does not change until you do.

![The filter bar with Who open and Female chosen under Gender, and the Apply button (✓) at the right end of the bar. The panel lists Gender, Age group, Segment, Housing and Grid area, with Clear filters at the bottom.](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/l0sriie4/production/b1432ddb2c97dd4b4bf5f0caecbbdd8423c62ad5-1888x952.png?w=1600&fit=max&auto=format)

Each part has a reset at the bottom: **Clear filters** in Who, **Reset selection** in What, **Reset period** in When and **Reset settings** in Show.

On a phone, the bar is one button. It opens **What you see**, with the same four parts, **Reset to defaults** and **Save these filters**.

## Periods

Under When you choose the period:

![The filter bar with When open: Time Period Last 3 months, Most recent period Oct 2026, Comparison Previous period, and Custom range, quarters & more.](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/l0sriie4/production/bf6f075647ec83ba995d858de659b99c1f559aff-1740x768.png?w=1600&fit=max&auto=format)

| Choice | What it does |
| --- | --- |
| Time Period | How much time each figure covers: one month, or the last 3, 6, 9 or 12 months, and the same for quarters, half-years and years. Several months together are averaged and marked Smoothed, which evens out short swings. |
| Most recent period | The latest period shown. Choose an earlier one to look back. |
| Comparison | What changes are measured against: no comparison, the previous period, the same period last year, or the average of the last 12 months. The options depend on the time unit. |
| Custom range, quarters & more | More settings: the display unit (month, quarter, half year, year or a custom range), from and to, smoothing and comparison, with a preview of what you will see. |

A period that is not complete yet is marked as partial. Its figures can still change.

## Filters follow you

The filters you apply stay with you as you move between the pages of a Signal in the same browser tab. To reset every filter and setting at once, choose **Clear Session Cache** in the profile menu.

Some widgets also have their own choices in their header. They apply to that widget only. See [Dashboards and widgets](https://docs.odysseysignal.com/portal/dashboards-and-widgets).

## Saved views

Save the filters you use often as a view, and switch back to them in one click.

1. **Set the filters**

   Choose and apply the filters you want to keep.

2. **Save them**

   Select **Save view** (the bookmark at the end of the bar), then **Save these filters**.

3. **Name the view**

   Give it a name, untick anything you do not want saved, and select **Save**.

![The Save these filters dialog: a name for the view (Name these filters), and under This will hold the markets, active brand, competitor selection and display settings, each with a tick box, then Cancel and Save.](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/l0sriie4/production/32266c5b60022fa091f0465aae26a9e4b922e984-792x1064.png?w=1600&fit=max&auto=format)

The period is not saved with a view: it stays as you have it. To switch view, select **Save view** and choose one from the list. **Default view** takes you back to the Signal's defaults.

When you change the filters of a saved view, you can update the view or save the changes as a new one. Use the pencil next to a view to rename or delete it.

Your saved views are yours, kept for each Signal, and listed on Home.