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Hi,
I have a bar chart displaying dates and phone queues on the horizontal axis, and Average Waiting Time duration in seconds in the value field, which is this calculation :
Then I have another measure that displays the previous one, but as a string formatted like HH:MM:SS.
The problem is when I put this measure as a tooltips, I get the error "The result of a conversion or arithmetic is either too large or too small".
Do somone have any idea why I'm getting this error ?
Thank you very much !
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@Benoitcoutu are you changing the format of this measure Waiting Time Average Duration to hh:mm:ss
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Hi @parry2k,
No I did not change the format to hh:mm:ss of Waiting Time Average Duration. This measure gives me decimal numbers when I place it in a simple card.
To get the value in hh:mm:ss format, I created another measure using Waiting Time Average Duration, which is that one :
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