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Hello,
I am new to Power BI and DAX, and decided to work on creating a ServiceNow dashboard for my service desk in power bi.
I have issues with the below and will be grateful for any assistance.
I am importing my data from SQL into power bi, and I need to create several measures to help build the dashboard.
The first which I am having a challenge with is: "Average days to resolve". the issue I am experiencing is that my table is displaying blank values as 01 Jan 1900. I will like to write a formula that ignores this date and identifies the cell as blank, therefore not use this in the calculation.
Resolved date when blank displays = 01 Jan 1900
The resolved time when blank displays = 00:00:00
to solve this, I created the below metric to measure the elapsed time:
Elapsed time(opened- resolved) =
DATEDIFF(min(Incident[Opened Time]),min(Incident[Resolved Time]),Day)
i then add the elapsed time to the opened date to find the average.
Avg. Days to Resolve =
AVERAGEX (Incident ,
DATEADD( Incident[Opened Date], [Elapsed time(opened- resolved)], DAY )
)
I need help with excluding the blank cells (01 Jan 1900) from the DAX formula
| Number | Opened Date | Resolved Date | number of days in between |
| inc02 | 27 Jan 2021 | 28 Jan 2021 | 1 |
| inc03 | 28 Jan 2021 | 29 Jan 2021 | 1 |
| inc04 | 10 Feb 2021 | 01 Jan 1900 | -44235 |
| inc05 | 11 Feb 2021 | 01 Jan 1900 | -44226 |
Thank you for helping with this.
Solved! Go to Solution.
@amitchandak - sorry i sent a reply on Saturday but seems my browser timed out and I was unaware.
I was unable to get the filter to work but that is probably more me not know how to apply it.
i went about it this way
Avg Days to Resolve = AVERAGEX(FILTER(
'Incident',
DATEDIFF('Incident'[Opened Date],'Incident'[Resolved Date],Day)>0),
DATEDIFF(Incident[Opened Date],Incident[Resolved Date],DAY))
Thanks for your help
@amitchandak - sorry i sent a reply on Saturday but seems my browser timed out and I was unaware.
I was unable to get the filter to work but that is probably more me not know how to apply it.
i went about it this way
Avg Days to Resolve = AVERAGEX(FILTER(
'Incident',
DATEDIFF('Incident'[Opened Date],'Incident'[Resolved Date],Day)>0),
DATEDIFF(Incident[Opened Date],Incident[Resolved Date],DAY))
Thanks for your help
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