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Data formatting with date
I am trying to create a graphic that shows data for projects where the projects and within time, almost due or overdue and then display this in a graph, pie chart etc but im struggling with the formatting. has anyoine else tried this?
OK assuming you have a table Proj like this:
Project Due Actual A 8/1/2017 7/30/2017 B 8/1/2017 8/10/2017 C 8/1/2017 8/5/2017 D 8/1/2017 8/10/2017 Add two calculated columns to Proj:
Diff = IF(Proj[Due] > Proj[Actual], -DATEDIFF(Proj[Actual], Proj[Due], DAY), DATEDIFF(Proj[Due], Proj[Actual], DAY)) Status = IF(Proj[Diff] > 6, "Overdue", IF(Proj[Diff] > 0, "Delayed", "On Time"))You can now easily display a simple table visual:
by placing the columns of Proj like this and chnaging the data colors appropriately:
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- Can you provide some more specifics on your data tables and what you want the graph to look like?
Hi Erik,
I have an excel sheet with about 100 rows of current projects, each has a due date. In excel i would use conditional formatting to show green if the projects were within delivery time, yellow if they were within 6 days of the due date and red if they were over the due date. I am looking for a way to graphically represent this, even a bar chart of the three categories but I am unsure of the query that is needed...
OK assuming you have a table Proj like this:
Project Due Actual A 8/1/2017 7/30/2017 B 8/1/2017 8/10/2017 C 8/1/2017 8/5/2017 D 8/1/2017 8/10/2017 Add two calculated columns to Proj:
Diff = IF(Proj[Due] > Proj[Actual], -DATEDIFF(Proj[Actual], Proj[Due], DAY), DATEDIFF(Proj[Due], Proj[Actual], DAY)) Status = IF(Proj[Diff] > 6, "Overdue", IF(Proj[Diff] > 0, "Delayed", "On Time"))You can now easily display a simple table visual:
by placing the columns of Proj like this and chnaging the data colors appropriately:
