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morther
Helper I
9 years ago
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Calculation function only returning minutes

I have created a New Column called Downtime.  It is supposed to take the total Downtime Minutes and break it into Days, Hours, and Minutes.  It is pulling the remainder minutes properly but is not ad...
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  • dkay84_PowerBI's avatar
    dkay84_PowerBI
    9 years ago

    Can you post some sample data of your downtime table?  The issue might be that you need to specify some type of aggregation for your downtime minutes column, rather than the raw column reference you are providing.  In my example, I just hard coded in the number 99, but if you have multiple values in your downtime minutes column, it wont work by just giving the column name.

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morther
Helper I
9 years ago

Thanks for the reply to my post.

 

Can you explain what you mean when you say "when put into a card"  Maybe I can try that to help me understand why this is not working.

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dkay84_PowerBI
Microsoft Employee
9 years ago

I am referring to the Card visual:

 

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    morther
    Helper I
    9 years ago

    so strange that this is not working for me.  Do you think it might have something to do with the datatype of the source?

    • dkay84_PowerBI's avatar
      dkay84_PowerBI
      Microsoft Employee
      9 years ago

      What is the source?  Are you using DirectQuery or Import?

      • morther's avatar
        morther
        Helper I
        9 years ago

        Datatype is Decimal Number and this is an import