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Is there a nice easy way to convert decimal hours into hours/minutes in Power BI? A function that essentially does this?
For example, turning 3.5 hours into 3 hours and 30 minutes?
I've found a calculation to perform this function in Excel, but it apparently doesn't work for any values over 24.
You might be able to use this DAX pattern, based on seconds rather than hours: https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Community-Blog/Aggregating-Duration-Time/ba-p/22486
In your scenario, you can take the integer part for Hours and use decimal part to calculate the Minutes. Populate both fields into TIME() function and format them into a time. Please refer to formula below:
Column = FORMAT(TIME(TRUNC(Table1[Column2],0),(Table1[Column2]-TRUNC(Table1[Column2],0))*60,0),"long time")
Regards,
Thank you for this, this worked really well.
Is there a way to stop it being a "text" format though as i would like to SUM the output of this.
You can also do this in the Query editor:
= Time.Hour([Time])+(Time.Minute([Time)/60)+(Time.Minute([Time])/3600)
No problems with text format.
Hi
I have this case but in reverse. I need to convert a Time value to a Decimal value. In Excel I did not have any problems doing it because I took the "Tiempo Transcurrido (Time Lapsed)" field and multiplied it by 24.
I tried some functions (Time, Value) but I can not find the result. I have tried how to extract each of these values and then convert them into a number but I can not find a function that does it.
If I try to convert that column to Time format, it gives me an error
For me this value of Hour in decimal is very important for the calculations that I need to do.
I would greatly appreciate your help
Thank you
@jbolivar wrote:Hi
I have this case but in reverse. I need to convert a Time value to a Decimal value. In Excel I did not have any problems doing it because I took the "Tiempo Transcurrido (Time Lapsed)" field and multiplied it by 24.
I tried some functions (Time, Value) but I can not find the result. I have tried how to extract each of these values and then convert them into a number but I can not find a function that does it.
If I try to convert that column to Time format, it gives me an error
For me this value of Hour in decimal is very important for the calculations that I need to do.
I would greatly appreciate your help
Thank you
Friends,
I have solved this case using Power Query M function
=Number.FromText(Text.BeforeDelimiter([Tiempo transcurrido],":",0)) + (Number.FromText(Text.BetweenDelimiters([Tiempo transcurrido],":",":")))/60 + (Number.FromText(Text.AfterDelimiter([Tiempo transcurrido],":",1)))/3600.
Thank you
An alternative would be:
= List.Sum( List.Transform( List.Zip({ Text.Split( [Tiempo transcurrido], ":"), {1,60,3600}}), each Number.From(_{0})/_{1}) )
@MarcelBeug wrote:An alternative would be:
= List.Sum( List.Transform( List.Zip({ Text.Split( [Tiempo transcurrido], ":"), {1,60,3600}}), each Number.From(_{0})/_{1}) )
Excellent..it worked too
Thank you
Hello @v-sihou-msft, thanks for your help. I'm completely new to this, so I could use a little more direction. Are you entering those functions using R Script?
Is there any way to achieve the same effect in the Query Editor? Creating a seperate column with the converted values?
If you want to exceed 24 hours, then you need Duration format, like:
Duration.From([DecimalTime]/24)
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