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7 years ago
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Add DateTime excluding weekends

Hi, I am trying to add a new column to create a Due Dates for the Ticket Created Date. But I have to exclude weekends. No idea on how to proceed.   Below is my requirement. Columns: Ticket ID, Pr...
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    PattemManohar
    7 years ago

    Anonymous  Please try this as a New Column. Let me know how it goes and if it fails for any of your scenario. It will be always helpful if you can post some sample test data along with the expected output.

     

    DueDate = 
VAR _P1 = Test274DateAddExcludeWeekends[CreatedDate] + TIME(2,0,0)
VAR _P2 = Test274DateAddExcludeWeekends[CreatedDate] + TIME(8,0,0)
VAR _P3 = Test274DateAddExcludeWeekends[CreatedDate] + 7
VAR _PreFinal1 = SWITCH(Test274DateAddExcludeWeekends[Priority],1,_P1,2,_P2)
VAR _PreFinal2 = SWITCH(WEEKDAY(_PreFinal1,2),6,_PreFinal1+2,7,_PreFinal1+1)
VAR _Final = IF(ISBLANK(_PreFinal2),_PreFinal1,_PreFinal2)
RETURN IF(Test274DateAddExcludeWeekends[Priority] IN {1,2},_Final,_P3)

     

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Anonymous
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7 years ago

Thank you so much for your reply. I will try and update you the results.

 

I am very new to PBI . I tried to undertand the below lines and I have not clue on why we are adding _PreFinal1+2. Please explain so that I could understand.  Also how the weekends are getting excluded for P3. I dont see any special line written for that.

 

VAR _PreFinal2 = SWITCH(WEEKDAY(_PreFinal1,2),6,_PreFinal1+2,7,_PreFinal1+1)
VAR _Final = IF(ISBLANK(_PreFinal2),_PreFinal1,_PreFinal2)

 

SWITCH(Test274DateAddExcludeWeekends[Priority],1,_P1,2,_P2)  -  Is it possible to add one more condition like "Ticket Type" is "Incident" and Priority is 1 then _P1 in Switch.

 

Kindly help...

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PattemManohar
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7 years ago

Anonymous Hope you have managed to test this ?

_Prefinal2  --> This is to skip the weekends, after adding the 2 hours or 8 hours based on the priority and the result date falls into weekend i.e saturday then +2 or sunday then +1

For P3, logically it is straight forward because for any weekday from Monday through Friday if you add 5 days then it will definitely fall into weekend. So it will be always +7 (5days + 2days for weekend)

Adding one more condition for ticket type then change the _PreFinal1 as below

VAR _PreFinal1 = IF([Priority] = 1&& [Type]="Incident",_P1,IF([Priority] = 2,_P2))

Note - It will be always helpful if you can post some sample test data and expected output.