RE : How to average value with group by and summarized

[yash_atluri]

Hi all ,

i am trying to write a dax function to calculate  the total time recorded by the worker , by grouping the jira id and name . here is the dataset . The column total has the time recorded by the worker . can anyone please help out with this ? Thanks in advance.

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

@yash_atluri 

Or a simple average measure should work. The table visual will automatically group by the included columns like Name and Jira, although they are the same in this sample.

Measure = AVERAGE([total])

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[HotChilli]

I didn't use any DAX. Just added the fields to a table visual and changed the aggregation on Total to be average

[HotChilli]

I'm confused.  I put the 2 fields in a table, selected average for the Total field and it gets the required result.

What am I missing?

(also why is the Total field a rowcount - so that makes it different from the original posted picture where it's all 1 and it's not total time either - which is 10 minutes on each row)?

[yash_atluri]

can you send me the dax you used ? i just want to try on original data ?

[HotChilli]

Yes, I saw the column but it was 1 all the way.  It didn't look right.

If you repost the data (not a picture) and show me what the desired output is, I'll have a go

[yash_atluri]

https://mega.nz/file/yVoFRATQ#v5gyEoPYpxJGnDhbePONL19R8iWOxjbc1VCdLYJgoyw

hi here is the xlsx file which has the data and the pivot table has desired values i need , i hope it helps ?

[HotChilli]

The first thing to do is to get the time worked in each row (a time_worked column).  I would probably do this in Power Query but you can use DATEDIFF (and from , to have to be datetime type) if you want to do it in DAX.

You should be able to create a visual with id and name, and sum the new Time_worked column.

If you want a separate calculated table, you can use SUMMARIZECOLUMNS

[yash_atluri]

The total is the column where it has time worked in the each row , when i am creating a visual , the total time worked by worker is showing correctly , but when i am selecting average instead of sum , it averages the total based on time entry , but here  total time entries needs to by grouped by jira and average of that  is needed