# Understanding “Audience Restraints”

When using Audience Reporting when you [create an audience](https://docs.adlibertas.com/the-platform/user-level-audience-reporting/creating-a-new-user-report), you’re defining a data-set of users through conditions (actions, behaviors, or user properties.) **Audience Restraints give you the ability to restrain these defining conditions to only apply to certain timeframes as referenced against user’s install/re-install event.**

### **Condition Restraint**

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![Then you can choose a timeframe or session metric](https://336314087-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2FaO8orL32xNzJW4MhnNef%2Fuploads%2FlptmtCapDmX832MRwyq9%2FScreen%20Shot%202022-12-28%20at%201.11.07%20PM.png?alt=media\&token=23f4f7aa-3b1a-47da-8def-d8f9707051be)

![As well as an operator. Above you’re limiting the condition to happen less than or equal to 45 min from a user’s install/re-install event.](https://336314087-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2FaO8orL32xNzJW4MhnNef%2Fuploads%2Fg3F0peevk5n4ziSvpQYi%2FScreen%20Shot%202022-12-28%20at%201.10.25%20PM.png?alt=media\&token=38107e5d-0839-4f95-830f-8d00f79282a2)

#### **Some notes:**

* A user’s install event is defined as day 0
* While the event defining the condition needs to be within the defined audience timeframe, the user’s install date does not.
* The user’s install (by default) is the first\_open\_timestamp

### **Audience Restraint**:

The Audience Restraint applies the same defined restraint to all conditions in the defined audience.

![All conditions added to the audience will need to happen on the user’s day of install/re-install.](https://336314087-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2FaO8orL32xNzJW4MhnNef%2Fuploads%2F6ySVxzEf9FRjbuO7XigT%2FScreen%20Shot%202022-12-28%20at%201.05.36%20PM.png?alt=media\&token=442a4963-add6-4089-9f60-63c148ba578b)

More reading:

[Audience Reporting Walkthroughs](https://docs.adlibertas.com/the-platform/user-level-audience-reporting)