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Bug: Rolling window doesn't work with time shift #9896

@ZmeiGorynych

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@ZmeiGorynych

Describe the bug
When trying to time shift a measure with a rolling window, the rolling window disappears on the time shifted measure.

To Reproduce
My original objective is to have a metric showing Quarter on Quarter change number, regardless of the granularity of the query. So I defined as a first step a measure with a rolling window of 3 months, that worked great; then I wanted to time-shift it by 3 months, so I could then calculate the ratio.

However, when querying the above metrics at monthly granularity, the count_rolling_3M_3M_ago values were those of count 3 months earlier, not those of count_rolling_3M

Expected behavior
I expect the values of count_rolling_3M_3M_ago in the above cube, when queried with monthly granularity, to equal to the values of count_rolling_3M 3 months earlier.

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Minimally reproducible Cube Schema
In case your bug report is data modelling related please put your minimally reproducible Cube Schema here.
You can use selects without tables in order to achieve that as follows.

-   name: my_cube
    dimensions:
    -   name: id
        type: number
        sql: id
        primary_key: true
    -   name: date_at
        type: time
        sql: date_at
    measures:
    -   name: count
        type: count
    -   name: count_rolling_3M
        rolling_window:
            offset: end
            trailing: 3 months
        type: count
    -   name: count_rolling_3M_3M_ago
        time_shift:
        -   time_dimension: date_at
            interval: 3 months
            type: prior
        multi_stage: true
        type: number
        sql: '{count_rolling_3M}'

Version:
cubejs/cube:latest as of August 18, 2025

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