Not every question is about a total. You can also ask about a single record — one product, customer, supplier, account, warehouse or employee — by name or by code: "What is the Default UoM for Fish Meal?", "What currency is Acme Foods on?", "What is the normal balance of account 2000?", "What is Ada Lovelace's job title?". The analyst reads the answer from the same governed data behind the dashboards — never from the raw screens — and the Read as: line under the answer names the record and the field it read. Ask in the words the screens use: the field is called Default UoM on the product record, and that is the name the analyst knows it by.
If the name you give matches more than one record, the analyst lists the matches and asks you to say which one — it never guesses. If no record matches, it says so plainly ("I couldn't find a product matching…"), which is a different answer from "I couldn't plan that question": the first means the record isn't there, the second means the question needs a measure that isn't. And if the record is there but the field was never filled in, the answer says that too ("…has no Brand recorded") rather than inventing a value.
Prices are their own kind of question, because Blossom carries two prices for a product and they are never mixed up:
- The pricing-grid price — the price your pricing grid (§6.7, the Prices page) would put on a document. Ask "What is the price of Fish Meal?" and the answer reads the grid and says so, naming the row it came from ("from the Base price row"). Name a side — "What do we charge for Fish Meal?", "What is the purchase price for Fish Meal?" — and only that side is read; name a customer or supplier and the price is resolved for them, and the answer says that too.
- The last-in price — what you actually paid most recently. Ask "What was the last in price for Fish Meal?" and the answer comes from your posted purchase invoices: the price, the supplier, the date, and the invoice's own number. It is a fact about history, not a maintained price, and the answer labels it as one.
- The last-out price — what you actually charged most recently. Ask "What was the last-out price for Fish Meal?" and the answer comes from your posted sales invoices the same way: the price, the customer, the date, and the invoice's own number, labelled as history.
If the grid holds no price on the side you asked about, the answer says that first — and then adds the matching history underneath (the last-in price for a purchase question, the product record's base Sale Price and the last-out price for a selling question), clearly labelled as the different things they are. A price is never silently borrowed from another source.