Convert text value to time value I get error

[Anonymous]

Hello!

I got a calculated column in a sharepoint list that shows "hh:mm" and i've made is exceed 24 hours. But now I got this problem in power bi when i'm trying to convert the coumn to time or date i get error when the value exceeds 24 hours 😞

Anyone got any ideas?

Left is text                         Right is time

[jthomson]

In the context of time, 26 hours makes no sense as that's a day and two hours - you probably want to look at duration instead, or depending on what your end goal is on your report, convert it just into a count of minutes

[Anonymous]

I've tried duration too but it doesnt work. Can I somehow convert the "error" message that shows blank column in the reports to just say "23:59:59" or something instead?

[V-lianl-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous ,

Based on your description, you can try to get the values of hours and minutes and convert them to the "whole number" data type, and then use the "IF" function to get the results you want. You can refer to this below:

1. Get the values of hours and minutes

hour = LEFT('Table'[Column1],2)
minute = RIGHT('Table'[Column1],2)

2. Convert to the "whole number" data type

3. Use "IF" function

time = IF('Table'[hour]<24&&'Table'[minute]<60,CONCATENATE('Table'[hour]&":",'Table'[minute]),"23:59:59") 

Best Regards,

Liang

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[Anonymous]

Hello again! I got a second question now, i've made so I got seconds too now "hh:mm:ss". But I cant seem to extract it like in the solution above. I cant go above 2 steps in either right or left because it cant extract the ":" 😞 It says "Cannot convert value '01:01' of type Text to type Integer." Any idees?

Inställelstid=the text value I want to convert to time

Inställelsetiduträkning=the converted with RIGHT/LEFT columns. 

But as you see the converted column has the seconds in minutes and so on.

[Anonymous]

Thank you! That worked perfectly 🙂