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i820017
Resolver II
Resolver II

Time Duration Problem

I’m trying to replicate an Excel Report to a Power BI Report that is a time duration. Right now I am not getting the total time duration that I need.

 

Here are two columns from the Excel Report.

i820017_0-1617983826794.png

 

 

Here are two columns from the Power BI Report.

i820017_1-1617983826800.png

 

 

 

The left-hand column is correct because it is a new category that is only a day old. The right-hand column is incorrect because it is not showing the total duration. For example, the entry that says ’14:18:24’ should say ‘134:18:24’. I am using military-time with my calculations.

Does anyone know how I can get Total Time Duration on Power BI?

 

Thanks

Dan

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jdbuchanan71
Super User
Super User

@i820017 

It is leaving out the hours of the full days, the difference between 134:18:24 and 14:18:24 is 120:00:00 which is 5 days.
If you have the duration in seconds you can convert it to show the whole amount with a measure like this.

 

Full Duration =  
VAR _Seconds = [Duration Seconds]
VAR _Minutes = INT ( DIVIDE ( _Seconds, 60 ) )
VAR _RemainingSeconds = MOD ( _Seconds, 60 )
VAR _Hours = INT ( DIVIDE ( _Minutes, 60 ) )
VAR _RemainingMinutes = MOD ( _Minutes, 60 )

RETURN
    IF (
        NOT ISBLANK ( [Duration Seconds] ),
            FORMAT ( _Hours, "00" ) & ":" & 
            FORMAT ( _RemainingMinutes, "00" ) & ":" & 
            FORMAT ( _RemainingSeconds, "00" )
    )

 

That will return a duration that looks like this:

jdbuchanan71_0-1617985092460.png

 

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i820017
Resolver II
Resolver II

Your solution worked even though I needed to convert to seconds before I could use the measure that you showed me above...thanks!!!!

jdbuchanan71
Super User
Super User

@i820017 

It is leaving out the hours of the full days, the difference between 134:18:24 and 14:18:24 is 120:00:00 which is 5 days.
If you have the duration in seconds you can convert it to show the whole amount with a measure like this.

 

Full Duration =  
VAR _Seconds = [Duration Seconds]
VAR _Minutes = INT ( DIVIDE ( _Seconds, 60 ) )
VAR _RemainingSeconds = MOD ( _Seconds, 60 )
VAR _Hours = INT ( DIVIDE ( _Minutes, 60 ) )
VAR _RemainingMinutes = MOD ( _Minutes, 60 )

RETURN
    IF (
        NOT ISBLANK ( [Duration Seconds] ),
            FORMAT ( _Hours, "00" ) & ":" & 
            FORMAT ( _RemainingMinutes, "00" ) & ":" & 
            FORMAT ( _RemainingSeconds, "00" )
    )

 

That will return a duration that looks like this:

jdbuchanan71_0-1617985092460.png

 

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