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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 | 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)
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) 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 8) |
| 1-10-2018 | 1 | 3 | null | (should be 0) |
| 1-10-2018 | 1 | 4 | null | (should be 8) |
| 2-10-2018 | 2 | 1 | null | (should be 0) |
| 2-10-2018 | 2 | 2 | null | (should be 8) |
| 2-10-2018 | 2 | 3 | null | (should be 8) |
| 2-10-2018 | 2 | 4 | null | (should be 8) |
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
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!
6 Replies
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
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.
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