Data formatting with date

[Neiltc]

I am trying to create a graphic that shows data for projects where the projects and within time, almost due or overdue and then display this in a graph, pie chart etc but im struggling with the formatting. has anyoine else tried this?

[erik_tarnvik]

Can you provide some more specifics on your data tables and what you want the graph to look like?

[Neiltc]

Hi Erik,

I have an excel sheet with about 100 rows of current projects, each has a due date.  In excel i would use conditional formatting to show green if the projects were within delivery time, yellow if they were within 6 days of the due date and red if they were over the due date. I am looking for a way to graphically represent this, even a bar chart of the three categories but I am unsure of the query that is needed...

[erik_tarnvik · Accepted solution]

OK assuming you have a table Proj like this:

Project	Due	Actual
A	8/1/2017	7/30/2017
B	8/1/2017	8/10/2017
C	8/1/2017	8/5/2017
D	8/1/2017	8/10/2017

Add two calculated columns to Proj:

Diff = IF(Proj[Due] > Proj[Actual],
          -DATEDIFF(Proj[Actual], Proj[Due], DAY),
          DATEDIFF(Proj[Due], Proj[Actual], DAY))

Status = IF(Proj[Diff] > 6,
            "Overdue",
            IF(Proj[Diff] > 0,
               "Delayed",
               "On Time"))

You can now easily display a simple table visual:

by placing the columns of Proj like this and chnaging the data colors appropriately: