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Feature Request: Table-only insights with time-based breakdowns

Open HaynesPostHog opened this issue 6 months ago • 2 comments

Feature request

Is your feature request related to a problem?

Currently, when converting trend insights to table format, the time breakdown is lost and only shows aggregated sums. For dashboards where we only need tabular data, there's no way to display time-series data in a table format without also showing the graph visualization.

Describe the solution you'd like

Add the ability to create table-only insights that maintain time-based breakdowns (daily, weekly, monthly, etc.) without requiring a graph component. This would allow users to:

  • Create pure table visualizations with time series data
  • Share cleaner dashboards focused on tabular data
  • Maintain the detailed time breakdown that's currently only available in graph format under detailed results

Describe alternatives you've considered

  • Using SQL insights for custom tables (but this requires more technical knowledge)
  • Hiding graph elements via CSS (not a sustainable solution)

Additional context

From: https://posthoghelp.zendesk.com/agent/tickets/31269

Debug info

Kind: bug

Target area: analytics

Report event: http://go/ticketByUUID/cc34299c-4d75-4c48-9e07-c57f2cb91e85

Session: https://us.posthog.com/project/sTMFPsFhdP1Ssg/replay/0196f860-9b0f-7a71-b797-fc903a5a9ece?t=256

Exceptions: https://us.posthog.com/project/2/error_tracking?filterGroup=%7B%22type%22%3A%22AND%22%2C%22values%22%3A%5B%7B%22type%22%3A%22AND%22%2C%22values%22%3A%5B%7B%22key%22%3A%22%24session_id%22%2C%22value%22%3A%5B%220196f860-9b0f-7a71-b797-fc903a5a9ece%22%5D%2C%22operator%22%3A%22exact%22%2C%22type%22%3A%22event%22%7D%5D%7D%5D%7D

Location: https://eu.posthog.com/project/7005/dashboard/73635

Persons-on-events mode for project: person_id_no_override_properties_on_events

HaynesPostHog avatar Jun 02 '25 21:06 HaynesPostHog

+1 https://posthog.com/questions/enable-detailed-table-below-the-chart

HaynesPostHog avatar Jun 03 '25 18:06 HaynesPostHog

@benHPostHog I would like to contribute to this issue.

P1YU5H-50N1 avatar Jun 14 '25 06:06 P1YU5H-50N1

Hey @benHPostHog, can you share some instructions on how can I reproduce this behaviour locally? I can see an insights page from the dummy data but where is the options to go "table only" view?

gaurava05 avatar Jul 24 '25 12:07 gaurava05