Time/Duration Value Display

[Anonymous]

I am looking for a way to display total duration that is over 24 hours. 

Currently if the sum of two durations is 34:22 hours it will display as: 

10:22 

This must be because the Power BI value is based on a 24 hour clock. Therefore it is going to 24:00 then rolling back around to the 10:22 value. 

In excel you can fix this by using a custom time field as [hh]:MM. I dont see that option in Power BI anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this? 

[Stachu · Accepted solution]

I would try this, the format is text

Measure = 
VAR Hours = INT([Total Duration]*24)
VAR Minutes = RIGHT(FORMAT([Total Duration],"hh:mm"),2)
RETURN
Hours & ":" & Minutes 

[v-yulgu-msft]

Hi @Anonymous,

IF you want the result to be formatted as "HH:MM", its data type will be forced to text rather than date or numeric. Suppose you have generated a measure to get the total duration, to display total duration based on a 24 hour clock, please try this measure:

Measure =
IF (
    VALUE ( LEFT ( [Total duration], 2 ) ) < 24,
    [Total duration],
    VALUE ( LEFT ( [Total duration], 2 ) )
        - INT ( VALUE ( LEFT ( [Total duration], 2 ) ) / 24 )
            * 24
        & ":"
        & RIGHT ( [Total duration], 2 )
)

Regards,

Yuliana Gu

[Anonymous]

Thank you so much for the guide. When I applied this measure it displayed "12/31/1899" for all of my measures. I tried changing the data type to time, text, general, whole number and none of them seemed to solve the issue. Any ideas? 

[Stachu · Accepted solution]

I would try this, the format is text

Measure = 
VAR Hours = INT([Total Duration]*24)
VAR Minutes = RIGHT(FORMAT([Total Duration],"hh:mm"),2)
RETURN
Hours & ":" & Minutes 

[Anonymous]

@Stachu The issue I have now is that I get a ":" for values that should be blank. I tried an if statment but cant get it to work properly. any suggestions? 

[Stachu · Accepted solution]

try this

Measure = 
VAR Hours = INT([Total Duration]*24)
VAR Minutes = RIGHT(FORMAT([Total Duration],"hh:mm"),2)
VAR Separator = IF([Total Duration]=BLANK(),BLANK(),":")
RETURN
Hours & Separator & Minutes 

[Anonymous]

**bleep**, Your good! Thank you so much. I have been trying to figure this out for a month! WOrked like a charm! 

[Anonymous]

Worked like a charm! Thanks so much! 

[Anonymous]

Currently my formula is... Worked = SUMX(SUMMARIZE(VALUES(ReportA_PQ[Date]),[Date],"ABCD",[Logout]-[Login]-[Lunch]),[ABCD])

anyone have any ideas?