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Duration M Query and Data tab
Hi,
I am having an issue with duration. In M Query everything looks right and I have it set as duration 0.00:00:00, but once it comes into PBI I get nothing but Zeros. When I hit the drop down filter I will see long decimal number like 0.0118518518518519 etc.
I need to be able to find the average duration. This is for call logs. I can keep it as text in M Query and it will come accross in the duration format, buts a text and I cant calculate averages on a text field.
How do you process durations in PBI to calculate and measure average duration?
rjs2 Just to add to az38 , what I believe you are seeing is fractions of a day. So 2 hours for example is 1/24 * 2. Minutes are 1/24/60 and seconds are 1/24/60/60.
You may want to review this article as I am assuming that you will want to display them as distances at some point
https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Quick-Measures-Gallery/Chelsie-Eiden-s-Duration/m-p/793639#M389
And this one may be useful as well:
https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Quick-Measures-Gallery/Duration-to-Seconds-Converter/m-p/342279#M92
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Hi rjs2
I do not see a straight way to convert M-duration to DAX (maybe I'm missing smth)
As you did not provide more data model details - have a look at Greg_Deckler solution https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Community-Blog/Aggregating-Duration-Time/ba-p/22486
rjs2 Just to add to az38 , what I believe you are seeing is fractions of a day. So 2 hours for example is 1/24 * 2. Minutes are 1/24/60 and seconds are 1/24/60/60.
You may want to review this article as I am assuming that you will want to display them as distances at some point
https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Quick-Measures-Gallery/Chelsie-Eiden-s-Duration/m-p/793639#M389
And this one may be useful as well:
https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Quick-Measures-Gallery/Duration-to-Seconds-Converter/m-p/342279#M92
