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Anonymous
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Datediff is not calculating as expected

Hi,

 

Datediff is not calculating correctly, I want to calculate the difference in days between the max date and mindate of a particular date column (Production Date Time).

 

Date diff = DATEDIFF(max('Fact'[Production Date-Time]),min('Fact'[Production Date-Time]),DAY)

 

Can you please let me know what am i doing wrong here?

 

datediff1.PNGdatediff2.PNG

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v-alq-msft
Community Support
Community Support

Hi, @Anonymous 

 

Based on your description, I created data to reproduce your scenario.

Fact:

a1.png

 

You may create a measure like follows.

 

Date Diff = 
DATEDIFF(
    CALCULATE(MAX('Fact'[Production Date-Time]),ALLSELECTED('Fact')),
    CALCULATE(MIN('Fact'[Production Date-Time]),ALLSELECTED('Fact')),
    DAY
)

 

 

Result:

a2.png

 

Best Regards

Allan

 

If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

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v-alq-msft
Community Support
Community Support

Hi, @Anonymous 

 

Based on your description, I created data to reproduce your scenario.

Fact:

a1.png

 

You may create a measure like follows.

 

Date Diff = 
DATEDIFF(
    CALCULATE(MAX('Fact'[Production Date-Time]),ALLSELECTED('Fact')),
    CALCULATE(MIN('Fact'[Production Date-Time]),ALLSELECTED('Fact')),
    DAY
)

 

 

Result:

a2.png

 

Best Regards

Allan

 

If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

Anonymous
Not applicable

Thanks , this works. I was actually making those date diff calculations in calculated column, when i used measures its working.

I also tried 

test date diff = 1.*([Minimum Prod date] - [max prod date]) in measure, this also works 🙂
 
 
amitchandak
Super User
Super User

Date diff measure requires context.  Refer :https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Community-Blog/Decoding-Direct-Query-in-Power-BI-Part-2-Date-Differ...

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