Issue Using comparison feature (Previous Period / Date Comparison)

Hello Looker Studio Support Team,

I am currently facing an issue in Looker Studio when trying to use the comparison feature (Previous Period / Date Comparison) with a Excel Sheets data source.

The report and charts work normally without comparison enabled. However, once I activate the comparison option, the following error appears:

"This data source was improperly configured.

The query returned an error.

Encountered ’ “t0.field2_Transaction_Date”’ at line 0, column 0. Was expecting: ‘)’ …"

Error IDs received:

08c3bede

e5960752

525a625b

Details about the setup:

Data source: Google Sheets

Date field type: Properly configured as Date

Data range: from 2023-01-01 to 2024-01-01

I already tried:

Renaming the date field

Creating a new date column

Refreshing fields

Recreating the data source

Using PARSE_DATE / DATEVALUE

Creating new charts from scratch

The same approach used to work correctly before, and the issue only started recently. This makes me think there may be a regression or internal query/parser issue related to comparison calculations with Google Sheets connectors.

Could you please advise:

Whether this is a known issue

If there is any workaround or fix available

Whether recent Looker Studio updates may have affected comparison behavior

Thank you for your support.

Best regards, Mohamed Tawfik

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