When a metric is created, every threshold needs a default value. This is used later when the metric is updated with an actual value. The thresholds are stored along with the actual values so that the software can show what the goals were in the past.
One problem with remembering historical thresholds, however, is that if an administrator wants to retroactively change them, she would need to manually change the thresholds for every historical metric value.
Read MoreIn previous versions of the software, many calendar period ranges in the software were set via sliders. This worked well at first, but as the number of calendar periods grew, it became increasingly difficult to precisely choose ranges.
Read MoreIn the latest version of the software, there is now the ability to edit metrics that are copies of templates.
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