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jorgeaguirre
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Showing only the last 3 hours.

I'm using: direct query

 

I need to make a filter that shows me in graph and a table the records of the last 3 hours with respect to the current time.


Is it possible to do this.?

 

¡¡¡¡¡¡¡HELP!!!!!!!!!

 

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v-jiascu-msft
Microsoft Employee
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Hi @jorgeaguirre,

 

There are a way and a workaround. Please try it out.

1. Use "Top N" in visual level filter if your data is always up to now.Showing only the last 3 hours.jpg

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2. Create a measure, then filter the targets. (Refresh is needed to get the latest time)

 

IfLast3 =
VAR HourDiff =
    HOUR ( NOW () ) - HOUR ( MIN ( 'Table37'[Time] ) )
RETURN
    IF ( HourDiff >= 0 && HourDiff <= 3, 1, 0 )

Showing only the last 3 hours2.jpg

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Best Regards!

Dale

Community Support Team _ Dale
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

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v-jiascu-msft
Microsoft Employee
Microsoft Employee

Hi @jorgeaguirre,

 

There are a way and a workaround. Please try it out.

1. Use "Top N" in visual level filter if your data is always up to now.Showing only the last 3 hours.jpg

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2. Create a measure, then filter the targets. (Refresh is needed to get the latest time)

 

IfLast3 =
VAR HourDiff =
    HOUR ( NOW () ) - HOUR ( MIN ( 'Table37'[Time] ) )
RETURN
    IF ( HourDiff >= 0 && HourDiff <= 3, 1, 0 )

Showing only the last 3 hours2.jpg

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Best Regards!

Dale

Community Support Team _ Dale
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

Dale!

 

Thank you! I work well locally, but when I publish it I get different values.

 

 

locallocal.png

 published

publicado.png

 

 

 

 

Hi @jorgeaguirre,

 

How about now? It seems the dates are different from the two pictures.

 

Best Regards!

Dale

Community Support Team _ Dale
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

Your Office tenant probably has its time zone set differently from wherever your data is being stored, so the apparent time difference is different from what you expect. You'll have to find out what that time difference is and correct for it in your filter calculation.





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If you can't get into your company's Office admin panel, the quickest way would be to write a measure to check it and publish that.

 

Time Now = NOW()

 

Put that on a card visual and publish the report, see what it says and compare it to the local time on your data source.





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True. The report is being used in a different region from which the data is stored in the service. The local time is 6 hours behind the server.

So you can still use the HourDiff suggestion from @v-jiascu-msft; you'll just have to subtract 6 hours from it.





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