# Option to show "Today" on graph chart in reports **URL:** \ **Category:** Ideas & Features\ **Created:** [October 8, 2025, 1:08pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/option-to-show-today-on-graph-chart-in-reports/9760 "2025-10-08T13:08:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RonMakesSystems](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/ronmakessystems/32/14122_2.png) [@RonMakesSystems](https://community.fibery.io/u/RonMakesSystems)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2025, 1:08pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/option-to-show-today-on-graph-chart-in-reports/9760/1 "2025-10-08T13:08:11Z")
Past data shows real done dates, future data shows estimated done dates. Having a clear line in between would help understand the graph better. Thanks! Edit: A better solution would be to allow “Today” in annotation editor. ---
**Author:** ![Sev](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90db22/32.png) [@Sev](https://community.fibery.io/u/Sev)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2025, 11:50am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/option-to-show-today-on-graph-chart-in-reports/9760/2 "2025-10-09T11:50:04Z")
This is definitely helpful (at least in my experience) in allowing the viewer/consumer of a report to **visually decide where to look in the shortest amount of time possible** , **reducing false readings/decisions** , and there **increasing adoption and consumption of reports** across an organisation to make decisions. ### Reference points/lines/bands I usually call them references (milestones), since they are basically **usually-constant-and-global reference points on the axis of a time or numerical series**. And depending on the reporting tool they can be represented as points on an axis, a line across it, or even a shaded (low opacity) band across the axis if the reference is a range. But for example [Google Analytics calls them annotations](https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/15884203), which are points along the axis. [Tableau calls them reference lines and bands](https://help.tableau.com/current/pro/desktop/en-us/reference_lines.htm), since annotations are something else in Tableau. ### Examples Here are some of my examples from past uses, all of which are meant as a visual aid to the person reading the reports. #### Time series - **Today** : separate past vs. forecast or planned data. - **Period Boundary** : start and/or end of quarter, fiscal year, or other periods. - **Important Events** : e.g. launch, incident, acquisition, management change, world events. #### Number/Currency/Percentage - **Critical Threshold** : buffer or non-zero cut-off between good/bad, pass/fail, e.g. a line at value 15 for “event start delay” to indicate that meetings that starts with more 15 minutes of delay are the problem, and not the rest. - **Upper/Lower Limit** : acceptable range boundaries e.g. target temperature range in manufacturing or variance limits in budgets. - **Target/Goal Value** : e.g. 20% profit margin. - **Compliance Limit** : benchmark, regulatory or contractual (e.g. SLA) thresholds. - **External Benchmark** : external comparative points shared across datasets, for example industry, market numbers. ---
**Author:** ![RonMakesSystems](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/ronmakessystems/32/14122_2.png) [@RonMakesSystems](https://community.fibery.io/u/RonMakesSystems)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2025, 12:13pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/option-to-show-today-on-graph-chart-in-reports/9760/3 "2025-10-09T12:13:35Z")
I think most of this is already possible! I’m honestly playing more and more with reports right now than I usually do, but check this out: > **[Reports](https://the.fibery.io/@public/User_Guide/Guide/Reports-346#User_Guide/Guide/Annotations-358)** Setting annotations on specific dates is possible (although not from a database, its hardcoded into the report) And annotations on the Y axis also seem to be possible, but I haven’t gotten to using them use them yet. But I think it’s in line with what you’re asking for! ---
**Author:** ![Sev](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90db22/32.png) [@Sev](https://community.fibery.io/u/Sev)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2025, 12:26pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/option-to-show-today-on-graph-chart-in-reports/9760/4 "2025-10-09T12:26:37Z")
Wow, thanks. I always search the docs; I must have completely forgotten to do so when I could not find the annotations in the reports. 🤦‍♂️ 😆 Now, I see. So, in effect, you would want a formula that returns now or today in the dialog box below, to make the time series annotations dynamic/formula-based? ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/fibery/original/2X/3/39a545a1a53afefe48c1a0647253108e8336b03c.png) ---
**Author:** ![RonMakesSystems](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/ronmakessystems/32/14122_2.png) [@RonMakesSystems](https://community.fibery.io/u/RonMakesSystems)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2025, 12:28pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/option-to-show-today-on-graph-chart-in-reports/9760/5 "2025-10-09T12:28:43Z")
> [@Sev](#): > > So, in effect, you would want a formula that returns now or today in the dialog box below, to make the time series annotations dynamic/formula-based? Exactly right!