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Ed123456
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3 years ago

Resource Utilization by month for available days

I'm unable to calculate the possible billable days per month by employee, taking into consideration holidays and resource start & end dates.  I received this error message "USERELATIONSHIP function can only be used in the CALCULATE function".  I've used it as a filter.  This is the variable I've created for months during which an employee started after the first of the month

VAR StartDuringMonth =
CALCULATE(
    COUNTROWS(
        FILTER(
            Calendar_LookUp,
            Calendar_LookUp[Date] >= USERELATIONSHIP(Calendar_LookUp[Date], Resources[Resource Start Date]) &&
            Calendar_LookUp[Date] <= Calendar_LookUp[End of Month] &&
            Calendar_LookUp[Date] <> RELATED(Holidays[Holidays]) &&
            Calendar_LookUp[Date] <> "Saturday" || "Sunday"
        )
    )
)

 

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  • v-yueyunzh-msft's avatar
    v-yueyunzh-msft
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    3 years ago

    Hi , Ed123456 

    According to your dax code , i think the USERELATIONSHIP() used may be wrong .

    If you use this function alone, you will not return a default value, for your judgment condition, you need to compare, then you need to return a scalar value after your ">=".

    However, the USERELATIONSHIP() function  is generally used to temporarily change the calculation of the model relationship in the measure, and needs to be used with the CALCULATE() function.

     

    For more information, you can refer to :
    USERELATIONSHIP function (DAX) - DAX | Microsoft Learn

     

    Thank you for your time and sharing, and thank you for your support and understanding of PowerBI! 

     

    Best Regards,

    Aniya Zhang

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    • Ed123456's avatar
      Ed123456
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      3 years ago

      Can you suggest an alternative formula?

      • v-yueyunzh-msft's avatar
        v-yueyunzh-msft
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        3 years ago

        Hi,  Ed123456 

        I am not surely understand your logic in the dax code due to it may put in different content filter.
        But for this dax code,first you need to replace the USERELATIONSHIP(Calendar_LookUp[Date], Resources[Resource Start Date])
        to the value you need to put here,like this：
        CALCULATE(MAX(Resources[Resource Start Date]),USERELATIONSHIP(Calendar_LookUp[Date], Resources[Resource Start Date]))

        You can try to update this part of Dax code in your logic to judge.

         

        For more information, you can refer to :
        Using USERELATIONSHIP in DAX - SQLBI

         

        Thank you for your time and sharing, and thank you for your support and understanding of PowerBI! 

         

        Best Regards,

        Aniya Zhang

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  • Ed123456's avatar
    Ed123456
    Frequent Visitor
    3 years ago

    Thanks for your feedback however I'm unable to resolve this problem...  

    I need to filter the data table (USA_TimeListing) by two date ranges, one from each lookup table.

    The date on the calendar lookup table is to cover all calendar dates, which will show all dates when used as a matrix column header. 

    The resource start and end dates, from the resource lookup table, is to be used to filter the dates, at the resource level, on the data table. 

    My goal is to identify the number of billable days that the each resource could've worked, to be used as a denominator while calculating utilization. 

    I want the matrix to display the possible billable days for each resource during each month, taking into consideration partial months during which resources may have started or ended. (ex: resource starts halfway through month - only half of the month will be considered)

    • v-yueyunzh-msft's avatar
      v-yueyunzh-msft
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      3 years ago

      Hi , Ed123456 

      According to your description, your need is to calcualte the Resources' working days between its' Start Date and End Date.

      If this , here are the steps you can refer to :
      (1)This is my test data: 

      'Resources' and the 'Holidays' Table

      And i use the dax code to create a ‘Calendar LookUp’ Table:

      Calendar_LookUp = ADDCOLUMNS( CALENDAR( FIRSTDATE('Resources'[Resource Start Date]), LASTDATE('Resources'[Resource End Date])) ,"WeekDay", WEEKDAY([Date],2))

      I think you need to put the 'Resources'[Resource] field on the visual as a dimension so that i think we do not need to create a relationship between the ‘Calendar LookUp’ and 'Resources' Table.

       

      Then we can click "New Column" in 'Calendar LookUp' Table to create a working day flag column :

      Flag = IF( RELATED('Holidays'[Holidays]) || [WeekDay] in {6,7} , -1 ,1)

       

      Then we can create a measure like this:

      Measure = var _start_date = MAX('Resources'[Resource Start Date])
var _end_date = MAX('Resources'[Resource End Date])
var _days = CALCULATE( SUM('Calendar_LookUp'[Flag]) , 'Calendar_LookUp'[Date]>= _start_date , 'Calendar_LookUp'[Date] <= _end_date , 'Calendar_LookUp'[Flag] =1)
return _days

       

      Then we can put this measure on the visual and we can get each resources' woking days:

      Thank you for your time and sharing, and thank you for your support and understanding of PowerBI! 

       

      Best Regards,

      Aniya Zhang

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      • Ed123456's avatar
        Ed123456
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        3 years ago

        This doesn't work with the data table... the resources table is to be used as a lookup table for the fact table.