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rosemilo
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4 years ago
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Working Hours Formula Not Working

Hello Power BI Community,   I am trying to calculate the handling time/working hours of all of the employees using the formula below but it's not working for me. (I got it from https://community.po...
  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    4 years ago

    rosemilo , that is one hell of a complicated measure! I have taken the liberty of re-writing it in a way that I can understand. Here is my attempt which is hopefully easier to understand.

     

     

    Working Hours = 
        // Get the CreatedDate as just YYYYMMDD
        VAR vCreatedDate =
            DATE(
                YEAR('Table'[CreatedDate]),
                MONTH('Table'[CreatedDate]),
                DAY('Table'[CreatedDate])
            )
    
        // Get the ClosedDate as just YYYYMMDD
        VAR vClosedDate =
            DATE(
                YEAR('Table'[ClosedDate]),
                MONTH('Table'[ClosedDate]),
                DAY('Table'[ClosedDate])
            )
    
        RETURN
            IF(NOT ISBLANK('Table'[CreatedDate]) && NOT(ISBLANK('Table'[ClosedDate])),
                // Get all MNL Working Days between CreatedDate and ClosedDate
                SUMX(
                    FILTER(
                        'Date',
                        'Date'[Date] >= vCreatedDate
                        && 'Date'[Date] <= vClosedDate
                        && 'Date'[WorkDay MNL] = TRUE()
                    ),
    
                    // Get the working start time for this day and region
                    VAR vStartTimeWorkingHours = 
                        SWITCH('Table'[Region],
                            "AMERICAS", 'Date'[Date] + TIME(15, 0, 0),
                            "APAC", 'Date'[Date] + TIME(9, 0, 0)
                        )
    
                    // Get the working end  time for this day and region
                    VAR vEndTimeWorkingHours =
                        SWITCH('Table'[Region],
                            "AMERICAS", 'Date'[Date] + TIME(23, 59, 59),
                            "APAC", 'Date'[Date] + TIME(18, 0, 0)
                        )
    
                    // Work out the appropriate StartTime for this day
                    VAR vStartTimeToUse =
                        IF(
                            vStartTimeWorkingHours < 'Table'[CreatedDate],
                            'Table'[CreatedDate],
                            vStartTimeWorkingHours
                        )
    
                    // Work out the appropriate EndTime for this day
                    VAR vEndTimeToUse =
                        IF(
                            vEndTimeWorkingHours > 'Table'[ClosedDate],
                            'Table'[ClosedDate],
                            vEndTimeWorkingHours
                        )
                    
                    // Get the duration in minutes (only when EndTime > StartTime)
                    VAR vWorkingMinutesDuration = 
                        IF(
                            vEndTimeToUse > vStartTimeToUse,
                            DATEDIFF(vStartTimeToUse, vEndTimeToUse, MINUTE)
                        )
    
                    // Return the duration in hours
                    RETURN vWorkingMinutesDuration / 60.0 
                )
            )

     

     

     

    What it does is:

    - For each row in 'Table', loop through rows in 'Date' table that are between CreatedDate and ClosedDate, and that have [Workday MNL] = TRUE

    - For each day, work out the start and end working times, taking into account the region

    - Get the minutes between the start and end working times

    - Divide that by 60 to get working hours

    - SUMX the working hours

     

    It seems to give the correct results, but unfortunately is seems to be quite slow. With your sample PBIX file, it takes about 2 minutes to calculate the new column. I leave it as an excercise for others to improve the speed!

    And I'm not sure how the table 'Holidays and Weekends' fits into the calculation, as your measure does not seem to refer to that table at all.

  • tamerj1's avatar
    tamerj1
    4 years ago

    Anonymous 
    Looks better now