I have a table which is pulled from our ticketing system and my goal is to create a couple metrics for reporting. In order to create one of my metrics, I need to generate a measure that I will call Days to Resolve (i.e. Resolved date - Created Date, the number will be an integer that will calculate how many days it took to resolve a ticket.
These four columns I am working with.
| RITM # | Request # | Created Date | Resolved Date |
| RITM0123456 | REQ044444 | 2021-01-04 | 2021-01-04 |
| RITM0123987 | REQ044444 | 2021-01-04 | 2021-01-04 |
| RITM0234567 | REQ044444 | 2021-01-04 | 2021-01-07 |
I want to be able to remove duplicate Request # so this column has only unique values. At the same time, the record should have the earliest Created Date and the Latest Resolved Date. So my table would look like this:
| REQ044444 | 2021-01-04 | 2021-01-07 |
It's simple to do conceptually and just by looking but I'm not sure how to perform this in Power BI.
I tried remove duplicates in the second column but Power Bi doesn't know I want 2021-01-07. I looked all over power query but couldn't find anything that can help me. I'm still a novice with DAX. Is there a feature in power query that can help me or is DAX the only way? Can someone please help me?
@Anonymous following image gives what I mean, I'm using column name from my table, in your case, it will be different column based on your table:
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@Anonymous following image gives what I mean, I'm using column name from my table, in your case, it will be different column based on your table:
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@Anonymous in PQ, use group by, get min of created date and max of resolved date and group it by request # and that will do it.
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