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I have a table of employee data for absence that looks like this:
EmpID Name AbsenceStartDate AbsenceEndDate Days Absent
a124234 D Smith 12/10/2022 14/10/22 3
I also have a separate Datetable and I have created inactive relationships between AbsenceStartDate, AbsenceEndDate and Datetable[Date].
I need to calculate the total days of absence for each employee in a given month so I can classify the absence as short-term or long-term (>=28 days is long term). What DAX code do I need?
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I solved this problem in the end by using this method to generate a list of dates between my startpoint and endpoint, and dividing the duration of sickness evenly between them. https://www.cloudfronts.com/blog/power-bi/how-to-list-all-dates-between-two-dates-in-powerbi-and-dis...
I solved this problem in the end by using this method to generate a list of dates between my startpoint and endpoint, and dividing the duration of sickness evenly between them. https://www.cloudfronts.com/blog/power-bi/how-to-list-all-dates-between-two-dates-in-powerbi-and-dis...
I have got a measure that sort of works - it calculates the total absence days up to the end of that month, but it's giving me a cumulative sum for the month instead of the absence days that fall *within* that month. Can anyone tell me how to tweak my code?
Currently using:
Hi @Anonymous ,
looks like an events in progress pattern, the base measure could look like below.
But you can find more twists here: Events in progress – DAX Patterns
VAR MinDate = MIN ( 'Date'[Date] )
VAR MaxDate = MAX ( 'Date'[Date] )
VAR Result =
CALCULATE (
COUNTROWS ( yourTable ),
yourTable[AbsenceStartDate] <= MaxDate,
yourTable[AbsenceEndDate] > MinDate,
REMOVEFILTERS ( 'Date' )
)
RETURN
Result
Imke Feldmann (The BIccountant)
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Hi Imke, I get an error with your suggested formula: "DAX comparison operations do not support comparing values of type TEXT with values of type Date". I also changed COUNTROWS to SUM as I need to sum the days absent figure for each individual not count the rows.
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