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dealing with time and ranges in dax

cuseman03 — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 20:37:55 GMT

Hi...man I've wasted so many hours today trying to figure this out. I have two needs. first, I have a column that already calculates the duration between two times. The format of the results is 'hh:mm:ss'. I have values ranging from '00:00:02' to '30:38:02'. I want to plot these so first thing is how do i do a count where I can show total number for seconds, hours, and mins. Then, I want to get deeper and get a count for say a range from 5 mins to 45 mins. Or for 0-1 hours and then say >2 hours. I've tried the conversion daxconvertsecondstotime · GitHub to no avail. The good news is that I have start times and end times split into dates and times columns, so it's easy to get the duration. What I can't do is associate counts to custom time ranges I want to create.

Thanks.

Re: dealing with time and ranges in dax

lbendlin — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 21:15:48 GMT

The good news is that I have start times and end times split into dates and times columns

How is that good news? You need to add these columns back together for this to work.

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Re: dealing with time and ranges in dax

cuseman03 — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 23:53:42 GMT

I've uploaded a screen shot. So I have a list of ETLs. Each ETL has steps that run daily, sometimes more than one time daily. I have a full date/time start and end column. I also took the duration and converted it to seconds to get total seconds. First thing I want to do is create a group, say 9am-12pm and get a count of ETLs that start and end between these times. In PBI in the report view, my 'stepstart' and 'stepend'columns only show date, no time.

The next thing I want to do is standardize on duration. My logic is basically, 'IF 'total seconds' <=60, do nothing'. This obviously means it's 60 seconds or less. Then I want IF 'total seconds' >=3600 (we know we're dealing in hours since 3600 secs=1 hour) divide by 3600 to get hours. For mins, >60 and less than 3600. This way I could say X ETLs take X mins, Y secs, and Z hours.

How would I create a group that says something like 0-5 mins, or >10 mins?

Re: dealing with time and ranges in dax

lbendlin — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 23:56:34 GMT

Please provide sample data that covers your issue or question completely, in a usable format (not as a screenshot).

Re: dealing with time and ranges in dax

cuseman03 — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 00:01:48 GMT

not sure how i can do that since my pbix is linked to back end SQL Server and I can't share that

Re: dealing with time and ranges in dax

lbendlin — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 00:19:26 GMT

instead of posting a screenshot , post the data as a text table.

I asked CoPilot but it balked after a small portion. Anyway, here is one example of how you can visualize this

Total duration is SUMX(Table,[StepEnd]-[StepStart]) - that's all you need. You can use custom formatting if total duration exceeds 24 hrs.

Re: dealing with time and ranges in dax

v-pnaroju-msft — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 09:07:47 GMT

Thankyou, lbendlin ,for your response.

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Re: dealing with time and ranges in dax

cuseman03 — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 12:44:28 GMT

you are amazing. thank you! i'd love to actually learn how you did this.

Re: dealing with time and ranges in dax

cuseman03 — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 17:39:10 GMT

perhaps you can help with 2 additional matters. I created a series for all 24 hours, in one hour increments. I created an adjoining table to sort them earliest to latest and when I drop the sort filed in the tool tip it just doesn't work. I essentially want to be able to sort the X axis by a field in another table that does not show up in the chart

as you can see from my screen shots, I have a sort table, it's a one-many join, and I apply that sort in the line chart but it doesn't come out right

the last thing is how to handle this. If I have an ETL that starts at 9:10pm and ends at 12:10am, I need to have a count of 4, one for hour 9-10, one for hour 10-11, one for hour 11-12, and one for 12am-1am. How can i do this?