Totally agree. This is very frustrating, especially when building
dashboards. In dashboards, it's usually essential to build in context,
yet this means that I am restricted to setting up a report only for
'current month' and hence have to create my dashboards only at month
ends! We need need need to be able to activate these date comparisons
manually and choose at least whether to include the standard '4 weeks
prior' or '52 weeks ago', or even better choose a custom comparison to
include, as in ...