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blaferriere
7 years agoFrequent Visitor
Find beginning date/time and end date/time, calculate difference from another column
Hello, So I am not sure if the title worded it correctly but I have a dataset that takes snapshots of dates in time and also captures other metrics for fuel burn. The problem that I run into is t...
- 7 years ago
We need to make two changes.
1. The 'Module Time' column is currently text in your table. It needs to be of the type Date/Time. You can change the type in the query editor when importing the data (I see you're getting the data from an excel file)
2. This is the reviewed code for the column, where I've just added the ALL( ) in red:
FuelDifference = VAR _CurrentDateValues = CALCULATETABLE ( VALUES ( Table1[Module Time] ), FILTER ( ALL(Table1), Table1[Module Time].[Date] = EARLIER ( Table1[Module Time].[Date] ) ) ) VAR _EarliestDateTime = FIRSTNONBLANK ( _CurrentDateValues, 1 ) VAR _LatestDateTime = LASTNONBLANK ( _CurrentDateValues, 1 ) VAR _EarliestFuel = LOOKUPVALUE ( Table1[Idle fuel], Table1[Module Time], _EarliestDateTime ) VAR _LatestFuel = LOOKUPVALUE ( Table1[Idle fuel], Table1[Module Time], _LatestDateTime ) RETURN _LatestFuel - _EarliestFuel
AlB
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7 years agoblaferriere
7 years agoFrequent Visitor
- AlB7 years ago
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Cool. Perhaps some kudos would be appropriate then after so much back and forth? :smileyhappy: