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Hi all,
I'm trying to calculate the duration of an event, but expressed as its parts falling between specific time frames.
There are two tables, stops_table and hours_table:
stops_table shows the event start and end time,
Stop start | Stop end |
14:52 | 15:30 |
19:51 | 20:10 |
20:11 | 21:24 |
,while hours_table shows the time frames, expressed as hour start and hour end.
hour start | hour end |
14:30 | 15:00 |
15:00 | 16:00 |
16:00 | 17:00 |
17:00 | 18:00 |
18:00 | 19:00 |
19:00 | 20:00 |
20:00 | 21:00 |
21:00 | 22:00 |
I need to calculate the duration in minutes, applying pretty much the following logic:
if stop start > hour start and stop end < hour end, then duration = stop end - stop start
if stop start > hour start and stop end > hour end, then duration = hour end - stop start
if stop start < hour start and stop end < hour ned, then duration = stop end - hour start
I am able to get there using DAX and utilizing FIRSTNONBLANK and LASTNONBLANK functions then filtering using the if statements.
The result is table like this:
hour start | hour end | stop start | stop end | stop duration |
14:30 | 15:00 | 14:52 | 15:00 | 8 |
15:00 | 16:00 | 15:00 | 15:30 | 30 |
16:00 | 17:00 | |||
17:00 | 18:00 | |||
18:00 | 19:00 | |||
19:00 | 20:00 | 19:51 | 20:00 | 9 |
20:00 | 21:00 | 20:00 | 20:10 | 10 |
21:00 | 22:00 | 21:00 | 21:24 | 24 |
The problem is that, the above table is wrong, as there are cases where events with stop ends in a specific time frame and then another event starts in the same time frame, like this case:
In the time frame between 20:00 and 21:00, an event stopped at 20:10 (that started at 19:51), but another one started at 20:11 and lasted until 21:24. so the correct table visualization would be like this one:
hour start | hour end | stop i start | stop i end | stop n start | stop n end | stop duration |
14:30 | 15:00 | 14:52 | 15:00 | 8 | ||
15:00 | 16:00 | 15:00 | 15:30 | 30 | ||
16:00 | 17:00 | |||||
17:00 | 18:00 | |||||
18:00 | 19:00 | |||||
19:00 | 20:00 | 19:51 | 20:00 | 9 | ||
20:00 | 21:00 | 20:00 | 20:10 | 20:11 | 21:00 | 10+49=59 |
21:00 | 22:00 | 21:00 | 21:24 | 24 |
Any help appreciated
Solved! Go to Solution.
hi @sstefan9
You could try this way as below:
Step1:
Add two columns in the stops_table as below:
_maxhoursstart = CALCULATE(MAX(hours_table[hour start]),FILTER(hours_table,hours_table[hour start]<=stops_table[Stop start]))
_minhoursend = CALCULATE(MIN(hours_table[hour end]),FILTER(hours_table,hours_table[hour end]>=stops_table[Stop end]))
Step2:
Then use this formula to create a measure
Result =
VAR _table =
FILTER (
CROSSJOIN ( stops_table, hours_table ),
stops_table[_maxhoursstart] <= hours_table[hour start]
&& stops_table[_minhoursend] >= hours_table[hour end]
)
RETURN
SUMX (
_table,
IF (
[Stop start] >= [hour start]
&& [Stop end] <= [hour end],
DATEDIFF ( [Stop start], [Stop end], MINUTE ),
IF (
[Stop start] >= [hour start]
&& [Stop end] > [hour end],
DATEDIFF ( [Stop start], [hour end], MINUTE ),
IF (
[Stop start] < [hour start]
&& [Stop end] < [hour end],
DATEDIFF ( [hour start], [Stop end], MINUTE )
)
)
)
)
Result:
Regards,
Lin
hi @sstefan9
You could try this way as below:
Step1:
Add two columns in the stops_table as below:
_maxhoursstart = CALCULATE(MAX(hours_table[hour start]),FILTER(hours_table,hours_table[hour start]<=stops_table[Stop start]))
_minhoursend = CALCULATE(MIN(hours_table[hour end]),FILTER(hours_table,hours_table[hour end]>=stops_table[Stop end]))
Step2:
Then use this formula to create a measure
Result =
VAR _table =
FILTER (
CROSSJOIN ( stops_table, hours_table ),
stops_table[_maxhoursstart] <= hours_table[hour start]
&& stops_table[_minhoursend] >= hours_table[hour end]
)
RETURN
SUMX (
_table,
IF (
[Stop start] >= [hour start]
&& [Stop end] <= [hour end],
DATEDIFF ( [Stop start], [Stop end], MINUTE ),
IF (
[Stop start] >= [hour start]
&& [Stop end] > [hour end],
DATEDIFF ( [Stop start], [hour end], MINUTE ),
IF (
[Stop start] < [hour start]
&& [Stop end] < [hour end],
DATEDIFF ( [hour start], [Stop end], MINUTE )
)
)
)
)
Result:
Regards,
Lin
Sorry Lin but the solution is having problems. If an interruption started at 2:52 pm and ending at 5:30 pm, it should shows:
8 min in the 2:30 - 3:00
59 min in the 3:00 - 4:00
59 min in the 4:00 - 5:00
30 min in the 5:00 - 6:00
but it only shows:
8 min in the 2:30 - 3:00
30 min in the 5:00 - 6:00
please help
Hi @Anonymous ,
you need to add addional conditions to handle the cases where the full hour falls between the events.
Below you can find the logic I used to solve my problem.
if [Stop start]>=[hour start] and [Stop start]<[hour end] and [Stop end]<=[hour end] then [Stop end]-[Stop start]
else if [Stop start]>[hour start] and [Stop end]>[hour end] and [Stop start]<[hour end] then [hour end]-[Stop start]
else if [Stop start]<[hour start] and [Stop end]<[hour end] and [Stop end]>[hour start] then [Stop end]-[hour start]
else if [Stop start]<=[hour start] and [Stop start]<[hour end] and [Stop end]>[hour end] then [hour end]-[hour start]
else if [Stop start]>[hour start] and [Stop start]>[hour end] and [hour end]>[Stop end] and [Stop end]>[hour start] then [Stop end]-[hour start]
@v-lili6-msft ,
thank you very much, following your advice I was able to make it work.
If possible please share a sample pbix file after removing sensitive information.
Thanks
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