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Neha_Shukla
Helper I
Helper I

SORTING AS PER SPECIFIC COLUMN

 

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v-jinweili-msft
Microsoft Employee
Microsoft Employee

Hi @Neha_Shukla ,

 

I added a few rows of date and Emp columns to your original table.

1.Merge Complete Date and ActivityTime columns, Modify the date type to Datetime. Then sort directly.

DateTime =
CONVERT ( 'Table'[Complete Date] & " " & 'Table'[ActivityTime], DATETIME )

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2.Create a measure and group by max and min. Change the format.

Total working hours =
VAR _min =
    CALCULATE (
        MIN ( 'Table'[DateTime] ),
        FILTER ( ALL ( 'Table' ), 'Table'[Emp] = MAX ( 'Table'[Emp] ) )
    )
VAR _max =
    CALCULATE (
        MAX ( 'Table'[DateTime] ),
        FILTER ( ALL ( 'Table' ), 'Table'[Emp] = MAX ( 'Table'[Emp] ) )
    )
RETURN
    _max - _min

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Best Regards,
Jinwei Li
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amitchandak
Super User
Super User

@Neha_Shukla , You have two value which is getting the same sort of order that is not allowed

 

Something like this

Column Sort
A 1
B 1
C 2

 

That is not allowed

 

How to Create Sort Column and Solve Related Errors:
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1. I want to sort out activity time column as per latest time entry.

On activity type column there are values containing ( check - in , lunch - time, lunch- over, break- time, end- break , check-out)

2. AS per this activity which are done by employee I want to find out total working hours.

how to solve this.please help me out in this.

thanks in advance.

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