Okay, i figured out how to get the numbers to show correctly in this instance, but I do not know how to fix things to make them best practice. for some reason it was wanting how many months to go back instead of the year, so i put in 12 (without specifying the actual level either (have column in analysis)) and now it is showing the prior 12 months.

thanks for all of your answers and for helping me work thru this. much appreciated!!! @Christian Berg@Joel Acha