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Rebender
Frequent Visitor
7 years ago
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How to sort a Time Duration

I have created a calculated column that gives me a Time Duration in Days, Hours, Minutes, Seconds.  What I would like to do now is be able to sort the column in my table visual, but it is not putting...
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  • Rebender's avatar
    Rebender
    7 years ago

    I solved my problem by fixing the formatting of the Value.  I added a second "0" to the day portion of the following code and it worked.

    FORMAT(dayNo,"#00")&" day "&FORMAT(hourNo,"#00")&":"&FORMAT(minuteNO,"#00")&":"&FORMAT(secondNo,"#00")

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v-yulgu-msft
Microsoft Employee
7 years ago

Hi Rebender,

 

Please create calculated columns.

Final rank =
RANKX (
    Dataset2,
    (
        RANKX ( Dataset2, LEFT ( Dataset2[Duration], 2 ),, ASC )
            + DIVIDE (
                RANKX ( Dataset2, RIGHT ( Dataset2[Duration], 8 ),, ASC ),
                COUNTROWS ( Dataset2 ) + 1
            )
    ),
    ,
    ASC,
    DENSE
)

 

Best regards,

Yuliana Gu

  • Rebender's avatar
    Rebender
    Frequent Visitor
    7 years ago

    Thank you for your quick response, but that did not work.  It still sorted it in the same order.  If you notice in the picture, it is going from 1 day, 11 day, 12, 2 day.  I need it to go 1 day, 2 day, 11 day, 12 day.  Would it be better if I used the mintes column that I used to format my duration in the Final Rank column instead???

    • Rebender's avatar
      Rebender
      Frequent Visitor
      7 years ago

      I solved my problem by fixing the formatting of the Value.  I added a second "0" to the day portion of the following code and it worked.

      FORMAT(dayNo,"#00")&" day "&FORMAT(hourNo,"#00")&":"&FORMAT(minuteNO,"#00")&":"&FORMAT(secondNo,"#00")