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runnerpaul
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Create Morning/Afternoon columns based on DateTime column

Hi,

 

I have a table with a datetime column called CREATEDDATETIME. I want to use it to create a new column where depending on the time it gets populated with Morning or Afternoon. Anything before 13:00 would be morning and anything after would be Afternoon. Is this possible and if so how do I do it?

 

Cheers

Paul

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SamLester
Microsoft Employee
Microsoft Employee

Hi Paul, you can use the HOUR function in an IF statement to calculate this.

 

Example:

MorningAfternoon = if((HOUR(TimeTable[CREATEDDATETIME]) <= 12), "Morning", "Afternoon")

 

Thanks,
Sam Lester (MSFT)

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SamLester
Microsoft Employee
Microsoft Employee

Hi Paul, you can use the HOUR function in an IF statement to calculate this.

 

Example:

MorningAfternoon = if((HOUR(TimeTable[CREATEDDATETIME]) <= 12), "Morning", "Afternoon")

 

Thanks,
Sam Lester (MSFT)

Anonymous
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This worked, thank you.

Hi @SamLester ,

I just have another follow up question regarding shift system that I'm trying to create in power bi and hope you have some solution.

In my case I need to create based on the day, for example if it's monday or tuesday etc., so in Excel I used Switch function as follows. I could do this by "IF" but it's going to be a very long formula so I was wondering if there's any better way.

SWITCH([@Day];"mon";LOOKUP([@Hour];{0;6;15};{"N";"FM";"EM"});"tue";LOOKUP([@Hour];{0;6;15};{"N";"FM";"EM"});"wed";LOOKUP([@Hour];{0;6;15};{"N";"FM";"EM"});"thu";LOOKUP([@Hour];{0;6;15};{"N";"FM";"EM"});"fri";LOOKUP([@Hour];{0;6;15};{"N";"FM";"N14"});"Sat";LOOKUP([@Hour];{0;5;18};{"N14";"D13";"N14"});"sun";LOOKUP([@Hour];{0;8;18};{"N14";"D13";"N"});"") 

where N= night, FM= morning and EM= afternoon etc.  

 

Thank you in advance,

/Kranthi

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