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Count Timestamps in Multiple Date Columns and plot by month
Hello,
I have the following dataset which comprises timestamps for 3 key project milestones:
Dataset:
Project [Text] | Department [Text] | Start Timestamp [Date] | Review Timestamp [Date] | Complete Timestamp [Date] |
| Project 1 | Engineering | March 1, 2023 | March 15, 2023 | April 2, 2023 |
| Project 2 | Engineering | March 2, 2023 | April 2, 2023 | April 5, 2023 |
| Project 3 | Supply Chain | April 15, 2023 | April 20, 2023 | April 21, 2023 |
| Project 4 | Quality | May 16, 2023 |
I would like to manipulate this dataset in PowerBI in order to count the number of projects in each month that achieved a particular milestone. The following table is the desired output for the sample dataset above:
Desired Output to create clustered column graph:
| Month | Count Start | Count Review | Count Complete |
February Engineering Supply Chain Quality | 0 0 0 0 | 0 0 0 0 | 0 0 0 0 |
March Engineering Supply Chain Quality | 2 2 0 0 | 1 1 0 0 | 0 0 0 0 |
April Engineering Supply Chain Quality | 1 0 1 0 | 2 0 1 1 | 3 2 1 0 |
May Engineering Supply Chain Quality | 1 0 0 1 | 0 0 0 0 | 0 0 0 0 |
| ... |
In PowerBI I created a calendar table and set relationships to the Start (active), Review, and Complete timestamps. As I can only have 1 active relationship, I had to create measures for Review and Complete with USERELATIONSHIP( ).
Unfortunately this is not working for me and I am getting the following output:
| Month | Count Start | Count Review | Count Complete |
[Blank] Engineering Supply Chain Quality | 0 0 0 0 | 3 1 1 1 | 3 2 1 0 |
February Engineering Supply Chain Quality | 0 0 0 0 | 0 0 0 0 | 0 0 0 0 |
March Engineering Supply Chain Quality | 2 2 0 0 | 0 0 0 0 | 0 0 0 0 |
April Engineering Supply Chain Quality | 1 0 1 0 | 0 0 0 0 | 0 0 0 0 |
May Engineering Supply Chain Quality | 1 0 0 1 | 0 0 0 0 | 0 0 0 0 |
| ... |
As you can see, only the Start Timestamps are being properly displayed. Review and Complete are not - they are showing up under [blank] month.
I would appreciate any advice or guidance in how to approach this problem. Thank you!
2 Replies
- amitchandak
Super User
TimeStampz101 , Make sure none of the timestamps has time. If so Create truncated dates nad join those with date table
Review Date = Datevalue(Table[Review Timestamp])
Thank you for the reply AmitChandak! I have confirmed all of the columns are formated as Date and not Date/Time. I also reviewed all the data and there is no time in any cell.
Any other ideas?
