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Tevon713
Helper V
3 years ago
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Duration Conversion and Calculation

I have incident time stamp column, attempted to convert to duration. It giving the "Expression.Error: We couldn't parse the Duration literal."

 

Searched and found in the community, it now returning "null" for those not having days in custom column. How to correctly format and then take average of this column to display in d:h:m:s ?

 

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Convert-the-column-into-duration-Throwing-an-error/td-p/2318575

 

 

 

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    3 years ago

    Hi Tevon713 ,

    Here are the steps you can follow：

    1. Create calculated column.

    Convert Time to Second：

    seconds =
var _day=VALUE(left('Table'[Incident Duratio:create-resolve],2))
var _hour=VALUE(MID('Table'[Incident Duratio:create-resolve],4,2))
var _minute=VALUE(MID('Table'[Incident Duratio:create-resolve],7,2))
var _second=VALUE(RIGHT('Table'[Incident Duratio:create-resolve],2))
return
_day * 24 * 60* 60
+
_hour * 60 * 60
+
_minute * 60
+
_second

    average time：

    Duration Average =
RIGHT ( "0" & INT ( AVERAGEA ( 'Table'[seconds] ) / ( 24 * 60 * 60 ) ), 2 ) & ":"
    & RIGHT (
        "0"
            & INT (
                (
                    AVERAGEA ( 'Table'[seconds] )
                        - INT ( AVERAGEA ( 'Table'[seconds] ) / ( 24 * 60 * 60 ) ) * ( 24 * 60 * 60 )
                ) / 3600
            ),
        2
    ) & ":"
    & RIGHT (
        "0"
            & INT (
                (
                    AVERAGEA ( 'Table'[seconds] )
                        - INT ( AVERAGEA ( 'Table'[seconds] ) / 3600 ) * 3600
                ) / 60
            ),
        2
    ) & ":"
    & RIGHT (
        "0"
            & (
                AVERAGEA ( 'Table'[seconds] )
                    - INT ( AVERAGEA ( 'Table'[seconds] ) / 60 ) * 60
            ),
        2
    )

    2. Result:

     

    Best Regards,

    Liu Yang

    If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Not applicable
    3 years ago

    Hi Tevon713 ,

    Here are the steps you can follow：

    1. Create calculated column.

    Convert Time to Second：

    seconds =
var _day=VALUE(left('Table'[Incident Duratio:create-resolve],2))
var _hour=VALUE(MID('Table'[Incident Duratio:create-resolve],4,2))
var _minute=VALUE(MID('Table'[Incident Duratio:create-resolve],7,2))
var _second=VALUE(RIGHT('Table'[Incident Duratio:create-resolve],2))
return
_day * 24 * 60* 60
+
_hour * 60 * 60
+
_minute * 60
+
_second

    average time：

    Duration Average =
RIGHT ( "0" & INT ( AVERAGEA ( 'Table'[seconds] ) / ( 24 * 60 * 60 ) ), 2 ) & ":"
    & RIGHT (
        "0"
            & INT (
                (
                    AVERAGEA ( 'Table'[seconds] )
                        - INT ( AVERAGEA ( 'Table'[seconds] ) / ( 24 * 60 * 60 ) ) * ( 24 * 60 * 60 )
                ) / 3600
            ),
        2
    ) & ":"
    & RIGHT (
        "0"
            & INT (
                (
                    AVERAGEA ( 'Table'[seconds] )
                        - INT ( AVERAGEA ( 'Table'[seconds] ) / 3600 ) * 3600
                ) / 60
            ),
        2
    ) & ":"
    & RIGHT (
        "0"
            & (
                AVERAGEA ( 'Table'[seconds] )
                    - INT ( AVERAGEA ( 'Table'[seconds] ) / 60 ) * 60
            ),
        2
    )

    2. Result:

     

    Best Regards,

    Liu Yang

    If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly

    • Tevon713's avatar
      Tevon713
      Helper V
      3 years ago

      Thank you Anonymous.

       

      I'm getting this error, tried converting column various format. Attached link to pbix here.

       

      Another quick question: If I wanted to calculate the average of all numbers that belongs to a certain category. I'm thinking something along the line of the follow...


      Average Number of Category=
      Calculate('Table'[Duration Average],Filter(Table, 'Table'[ColumnName]="XYZ"))