Visualizing workshifts starting and ending on different day in day-hour table

[Kerma]

Hello!

I'm interested in showing in a table visualization the amount of workers working each hour of the day. I succesfully managed to map the shifts that happen within the same day with hours as rows and days as columns. I ran into into problems when trying to show shifts that spread over two or more days. 

The way I'm visualizing is as follows

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday
06-07		2
07-08	1	3	1
08-09	2
09-10	1	1

and the sample data whch I haven't managed to visualized could be as follows

Startdate	Starttime	Enddate	Endtime
3.7.2017	22:00	6.7.2017	6:00
30.6.2017	8:00	30.6.2017	14:00
30.6.2017	18:00	2.7.2017	2:00
29.6.2017	10:00	30.6.2017	12:00
29.6.2017	20:00	3.7.2017	15:00

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[KarineLago]

@Kermayou could merge the date and hour column to obtain one type of start date and end date. After that, you can use:

DATEDIFF(<start_date>, <end_date>, <interval>)

[Kerma]

I need to map the results in a day-hour visualization shown above. For example a shift from 3.7.2017 20:00 to 5.7.2017 08:00 would show 1 for each hour on 3.7.2017 after 20:00, 1 for each hour of 4.7.2017 and 1 for hours 00-08 on 5.7.2017.

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Hi @Kerma,

You can refer to below sample to get hour - weekday analysis visual:

Sample:

1. Add custom columns to convert columns to datetime.

2. Add custom column to get datetime records between 'start datetime' and 'end datetime'.

#"Added Custom1"= Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type1", "Datetime List", each List.DateTimes([Start Datetime],Duration.TotalHours(Duration.From([End Datetime]-[Start Datetime])), #duration(0, 1, 0, 0)))

3. Keep related columns and expand these records.

4. Save and return to report view.

5. Add calculated columns to show weekday and hour.

HOUR = HOUR([Datetime List])

WeekDay = FORMAT([Datetime List],"dddd") 

5. Create matrix visual with above calculate columns.

6. Add a table preview visual as the slicer.

After above steps, you can use table preview visual to choose the analysed records.

Notice: I also upload this sample file as the attachments.

Regards,

XXiaoxinSheng

[Kerma]

This looks very good, I will try this out! Thanks a lot 🙂