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Grouping by consecutive dates into date ranges
This is my current data table structure:
Date Name
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01.03.2018 Mark
02.03.2018 Mark
03.03.2018 Mark
07.03.2018 John
08.03.2018 John
15.03.2018 Steve
What I would like to achieve is kind of grouping by consecutive dates, so that I have at the end something like this:
Date from Date Until Name
------------------------------------
01.03.2018 03.03.2018 Mark
07.03.2018 08.03.2018 John
15.03.2018 15.03.2018 Steve
Any tips? Thank you in advance!
Essentially I have added 3 calculated columns to identify the boundaries of consective dates which can then be used for Groupings
SeriesBoundaries = VAR PriorName = CALCULATE ( VALUES ( TableName[Name] ), FILTER ( ALLEXCEPT ( TableName, TableName[Name] ), TableName[SeriesStart] = EARLIER ( TableName[SeriesStart] ) - 1 ) ) VAR NextName = CALCULATE ( VALUES ( TableName[Name] ), FILTER ( ALLEXCEPT ( TableName, TableName[Name] ), TableName[SeriesStart] = EARLIER ( TableName[SeriesStart] ) + 1 ) ) RETURN IF ( PriorName <> TableName[Name], "Series Start", IF ( NextName <> TableName[Name], "Series End" ) )HI lkarolak
Please change the formua of Series Start as follows
SeriesStart = VAR PreviousDate = CALCULATE ( MAX ( TableName[Date ] ), FILTER ( TableName, TableName[Date ] < EARLIER ( TableName[Date ] ) ) ) VAR PreviousName = CALCULATE ( FIRSTNONBLANK ( TableName[Name], 1 ), FILTER ( TableName, TableName[Date ] = PreviousDate ) ) VAR myrank = RANKX ( TableName, TableName[Date ],, ASC, DENSE ) RETURN IF ( PreviousDate <> TableName[Date ] - 1 && TableName[Name] = PreviousName, myrank + 1, myrank )
15 Replies
- Zubair_MuhammadCommunity Champion
HI lkarolak
You can use a Table Visual..
Place the Name Field in values. Drag the Date Field in the Values Section twice and choose the earliest and latest aggreagtions
- Zubair_MuhammadCommunity Champion
Or you can create a calculated Table
from the Modelling Tab>>New Table
Table = SUMMARIZE ( TableName, TableName[Name], "Date From", MIN ( TableName[Date] ), "Date Until", MAX ( TableName[Date] ) )- lkarolakFrequent Visitor
Thank you Zubair_Muhammad
This approach with SUMMARIZE is fine, but when there are more than one ranges for a name, then it is not working correctly. I mean, if I have:
Date Name
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01.03.2018 Mark
02.03.2018 Mark
03.03.2018 Mark
07.03.2018 John
08.03.2018 John
15.03.2018 Steve
20.04.2018 Mark
21.04.2018 Mark
22.04.2018 Mark
Then the result for "Mark" would be :
Date from Date Until Name
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01.03.2018 22.04.2018 Mark
Which is wrong for my scenario.
I would need something like this:
Date from Date Until Name
------------------------------------
01.03.2018 03.03.2018 Mark
07.03.2018 08.03.2018 John
15.03.2018 15.03.2018 Steve
20.04.2018 22.04.2018 Mark
Thank you!
- RuneFrequent Visitor
Hi,
Would anyone be able to help me with an extension of this solution? I would like to group by consecutive date ranges as previous example but I would like the dates to be grouped even though there is a weekend/holiday within the date range.
So if the dates are:
Friday, 01 March 2018
Monday, 04 March 2018
Tuesday, 05 March 2018
They should still be grouped as consecutive.
Many thanks in advance