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Adding time columns hh:mm:ss

Good Morning.

 

I am fairly new to PowerBI and seem to be doing something quite simple or i thinkit is as its simple in excel.

 

I have 3 columns AHT, Hold and Wrap - they are stored in Time format HH:MM:SS i want to add these 3 columns together everytime i do it i get a column full or ERROR.

00:12:2300:00:0000:01:00result - 00:13:23
01:23:4509:00:0200:21:00result -10:44:47
00:00:0000:23:0000:53:03result - 00:76:03 or 01:16:03
04:34:0100:12:2200:23:23result - 04:69:46 or 05:09:46
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ppm1
Solution Sage
Solution Sage

In the query editor, you can convert the 3 time columns to duration and then add a custom column that simply adds those columns together.

 

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Note that when you load the data, it will be converted to decimal (in days), but you can easily display your desired format (hh:mm:ss, etc.) with format strings or using the FORMAT function in DAX.

Calculate and Format Durations in DAX – Hoosier BI

 

Pat

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FreemanZ
Super User
Super User

try to post some sample data

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