How to calculate the Overdue time difference

[Anonymous]

Hi everyone,

I have been trying to get a result of time difference and also to identify when it is overdue for a particular entry. Asset number will always be unique. Hope someone can assist me with this issue:

I have a few thousand rows of data which consist of the below data:

Asset Number	Asset_Estimated_Exit_DateTime	Asset_Exit_DateTime
211697	23/10/2017 06:00:15 PM	23/10/2017 11:00:50 AM
211674	20/10/2017 03:14:33 PM	20/10/2017 02:00:48 PM
211664	20/10/2017 01:00:52 PM	20/10/2017 01:00:16 PM
211662	20/10/2017 02:40:39 PM	20/10/2017 12:00:53 PM
211653	20/10/2017 12:02:51 PM	20/10/2017 12:00:11 PM
211649	20/10/2017 06:00:25 PM	20/10/2017 02:00:45 PM
211641	20/10/2017 12:00:46 PM	20/10/2017 12:00:17 PM
211640	20/10/2017 11:00:45 AM	20/10/2017 11:00:18 AM
211631	20/10/2017 04:00:10 PM	20/10/2017 04:00:32 PM
211630	20/10/2017 02:00:08 PM	20/10/2017 02:00:18 PM
211625	20/10/2017 04:00:51 PM	20/10/2017 02:00:34 PM

Is there anyway we could highlight something in dashboard like a "notification" for any overdue "asset entry"?

Hope someone can help with this.

Thanks,

Ron

[Anonymous]

tried this function,

DATEDIFF('Table[Asset_Estimated_Exit_DateTime],'Table[Asset_Exit_DateTime],MINUTE).  Its saying "Cannot convert value 'NULL' of type Text to type date'.

kindly assist..

thanks

[affan]

Hi @Anonymous,

As the code you have mentioned for the difference column, this seems to be working fine. You need to check if both your date columns are having correct data type. The second thing you need to consider is to remove any 'null' or blank values which may be causing error in the data model to convert the column to date time format.

If this helped you, please mark this post as an accepted solution and like to give KUDOS .

Regards,

Affan

[Anonymous]

thanks @affan.. got the desired result. now finding ways to represent the duration values in graphical chart or something.. any suggestions would be highly appreciated

thanks

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Based on the error message it would seem to me that you have stored this DateTime data inside Power BI using the datatype of "Text".

My recommendation would be to go into Edit Queries and change the data type of both columns to "DateTime".

For the "Overdue" portion, i'd simply create a new column (do this from inside Edit Queries) to flag if any row is overdue.  This could be done from the Add Column option and simply use

[Asset_Exit_DateTime] > [Asset_Estimated_Exit_DateTime]

Set this column to be of type "True/False"

[Anonymous]

Thanks @Anonymous. I am now getting the details without any error and also able to derive overdue(true/false). Now, finding hard to visualize the "Duration" field ie. time difference data. can you suggest the best way to represent the info?

appreciate your help and assisntance.

regards