Fetch value from column by category

[wverheijen]

Hi! I have a worktime-table which specifies per employee how many hours they work on each day according to their countract:

employee	hoursonmonday	hoursontuesday	hoursonwednesday	hoursonthursday	hoursonfriday	hoursonsaturday	hoursonsunday
1	0	0	0	0	8	0	0
2	8	8	8	8	0	0	0
3	0	8	8	8	0	0	0
4	8	8	8	8	8	0	0

I want to compare this to the actual hours they register, to see which employees haven't  fully registered their contracted hours.

First, I created a date table and added a weekday function, so monday = 1 and sunday = 7. Second, I created a measure in an if-else statement:

Contracthours = 
IF([dayofweek] = 1; MAX(WORKTIME[HOURSONMONDAY]);
    IF([dayofweek] = 2; MAX(BS_WORKTIME[HOURSONTUESDAY]);
        IF([dayofweek] = 3; MAX(WORKTIME[HOURSONWEDNESDAY]);
            IF([dayofweek] = 4; MAX(WORKTIME[HOURSONTHURSDAY]);
                IF([dayofweek] = 5; MAX(WORKTIME[HOURSONFRIDAY]);
                    IF([dayofweek] = 6; MAX(WORKTIME[HOURSONSATURDAY]);
                        IF([dayofweek] = 7; MAX(WORKTIME[HOURSONSUNDAY]);0)
                      )
                  )
              )
          )
      )
  )   

Now, this results  beautifully in a date table which finds the day of the week and returns the maximum number of hours there is worked on a day. Now, when I add the employee names, no contract hours are shown:

date	dayofweek	employee	contracthours
1-10-2018	1	1	null	(should be 0)
1-10-2018	1	2	null	(should be 😎
1-10-2018	1	3	null	(should be 0)
1-10-2018	1	4	null	(should be 😎
2-10-2018	2	1	null	(should be 0)
2-10-2018	2	2	null	(should be 😎
2-10-2018	2	3	null	(should be 😎
2-10-2018	2	4	null	(should be 😎

If the contract hours would display here, i would be able to compare these to the registered numbers (or if there are none!) and my goal is reached.

Please help!

Regards, Wessel

[v-piga-msft]

Hi @wverheijen,

It seems that you create another table date table and the weekday function, but do you create the relationship with the worktime-table?

If not, please create the relationship between the tables with employee.

Then please modify your the formula like below.

Contracthours = 
IF([dayofweek] = 1; RELATED(WORKTIME[hoursonmonday]);
    IF([dayofweek] = 2; RELATED(WORKTIME[hoursontuesday]);
        IF([dayofweek] = 3; RELATED(WORKTIME[hoursonwednesday]);
            IF([dayofweek] = 4; RELATED(WORKTIME[hoursonthursday]);
                IF([dayofweek] = 5; RELATED(WORKTIME[hoursonfriday]);
                    IF([dayofweek] = 6; RELATED(WORKTIME[hoursonsaturday]);
                        IF([dayofweek] = 7; RELATED(WORKTIME[hoursonsunday]);0)
                      )
                  )
              )
          )
      )
  )   

Here is your desired output.

In addition, you could refer to my attachment.

Best  Regards,

Cherry

[wverheijen]

Thank you for your reply!

I get an error message that there's no correct context between [dayofweek] and my worktime table. The relation is as following:

DATES 1---* TIMESHEETENTRY *---1 EMPLOYEES 1---* WORKTIME

The timesheetentry table holds the hours that employees register per date. So it's structured as: employee/date/hours/hoursdescription.

right now my table returns only the employees that have values in the timesheetentry table on a specific date.

I think the contracthour function must calculate the hours dat employees are supposed to work on a specific date, even when they've not registered any hours.

In SQL I would resolve this by using a LEFT JOIN in the from clause between dates, timesheetentry and employees, to show all dates where employees are supposed to work the contracted hours from the worktime table.

[v-piga-msft]

Hi @wverheijen,

If it is convenient, could you share a dummy pbix file which can reproduce your scenario, so that we can help further investigate on it? You can upload it to OneDrive or Dropbox and post the link here. Do mask sensitive data before uploading.)

Best  Regards,

Cherry

[wverheijen]

Hi cherry,

I was working on duplicating a dummy report for you in the same structure as my original table. When replicating my table, i suddenly got the result I'm looking for.

So if I recreate my table to a dummy, it works nicely, but my original report in thes same structure doesn't. I've tracked a single user ID and it should appear exactly the same.

Any thoughts?

You can look into the report here: https://1drv.ms/u/s!Aq8v0AAEkXxvgapoGfLv0j6q61FncA

[wverheijen · Accepted solution]

Fixed it!

The problem was that the relationship between timesheetentry and employees in my original table was set to "double" while it's supposed to be "single". This was all.

@v-piga-msft big thanks for your help and effort!

[v-piga-msft]

Hi @wverheijen,

You're welcome! It's glad that you have solved your problem.

Best Regards,

Cherry