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title: "Scale: Time Period and Aggregation."
canonical: "https://support.appfire.com/space/DLP/297504798/Scale%3A%20Time%20Period%20and%20Aggregation."
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## Time Period

Adjust the timeline to focus on the period you’re interested in.

Use the [arrows in the App's header](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DLP/pages/297668730) to move to the previous or next period. 

![image-20241216-073622.png](media://f8b64e3b-4efd-46ae-95b8-023a6efe777c)

Adjust how much is shown on the timeline:

- week
- month
- quarter
- half-year
- year

![image-20241215-232456.png](media://b4417df6-9260-4f89-a9c4-a8d726bd70b0)

## Aggregation

You can change the way data is aggregated:

- daily
- weekly
- monthly
- quarterly
- yearly
- by timeboxes

![image-20241215-232128.png](media://ae20ac61-f400-4058-afef-db3087fcf4cc)

**Turning on the ‘By timeboxes’ aggregation **

Click on a timebox (in the header row) to activate the aggregation.   
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**Conditions:**

Before you set aggregation by timeboxes, select the **Timeboxes** in the** **View menu.

![image](media://ed0619d5-783b-44ed-8515-f9d69d38c6db)

**Limitations**

If box periods overlap, aggregation by timeboxes **is NOT** available.

**Timeboxes don't exist in a given time period**

<span style="color: #172b4d">If there are no timeboxes for a given time period, the "No timeboxes in this period" message appears.</span>

![image](media://aba51786-baee-4996-8086-07bdc98adf71)

- For the time between defined timeboxes, data is aggregated based on the length of that period, e.g. if time slot between periods is nine days, data from nine days will be aggregated.
- Aggregation before and after defined time periods are based on the corner time periods, e.g. if in the project lasting two years there were two weeks sprints at the beginning of the project and 1 week sprint at the end of the project the aggregation will be visualized:
  - as 2 week periods before the project starts
  - as 1 week periods after the project ends

<span style="color: #172b4d">**Navigation options**</span>

| **Action** | **Result** |
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| <span style="color: #172b4d">Right-click</span> | <span style="color: #172b4d">**move to the closest timebox**</span><br>![image](media://9aa5a63b-5e4a-4887-8b75-c38e7b737307) |

## Yearly timeline aggregation limitations  

Not every aggregation can be selected for every time period. Unavailable options are grayed out.

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| **Time period** | **Time period aggregation** |
| Daily | Weekly | Monthly | Quarterly | Yearly | Timeboxes |
| Year | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Half year | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| Quarter | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| Month | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes |
| Week | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes |