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Benjamin_500
Advocate I
9 years ago
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DATEDIFF Working Days

Hey all,   I am struggling on how to approach a problem,   I want to count the days between 2 dates, but only count working days.   My current formula is: DATEDIFF('Report'[DeliveryDate],NOW(),...
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  • v-huizhn-msft's avatar
    v-huizhn-msft
    9 years ago

    Hi Benjamin_500,

    First you should create a holiday table including all holiday form Delivery start date to Today. Then create relationship between holiday table and your 'Repot' table. 

    I try to reproduce your scenario using date from 2017/1/1 to 2017/3/31.

    Search the holiday days for 2017, I use "List of federal Public Holidays of USA in 2017", and type it in Power BI table as followings.



    Create relationship between Holiday table and Date Table.



    Use WEEKDAY function to get weekdays, use RELATED function to get holidays. Use if function to decide if the day is work day.

     

    WeekDay = WEEKDAY(DateTable[Date])

Holiday = RELATED(Holiday[Holiday])

    If work day = IF(OR(DateTable[WeekDay]=1,DateTable[WeekDay]=7),0,IF(ISBLANK(DateTable[Holiday]),1,0))

     



    The 1 stands for the day is work day.

    Finally, create a measure to calculate the number od holidays. And create a card visual to display the result.

    Total work days = CALCULATE(COUNT(DateTable[Date]),FILTER(DateTable,DateTable[If work day]=1))



    If you have other issues, please let me know.

    Best Regards,
    Angelia

bengisby's avatar
bengisby
Helper I
8 years ago

Hello v-huizhn-msft, this is a great solution and I"m close to solving my problem, but how can I insert the measure result as a value in the new column? I need the business days value for EACH ROW of data, not as a single summarized measure. Any ideas? 

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clubspec
Helper III
8 years ago

Hi,

 

I stuck at this step too.  How do I use this measure result in calculating the column?

 

Thank you your help in advance.