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wverheijen
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7 years ago
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Fetch value from column by category

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 hoursonthurs...
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    wverheijen
    7 years ago

    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!

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v-piga-msft
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7 years ago

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

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    wverheijen
    Frequent Visitor
    7 years ago

    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.

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      v-piga-msft
      Resident Rockstar
      7 years ago

      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's avatar
        wverheijen
        Frequent Visitor
        7 years ago

        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