Fabric Power BI Matrix report

[joef]

I have a time reporting PBI matrix that I created in fabric.  Data is downloaded into fabric from the source daily at 5AM.

The report displays all hours entered for Support tickets for the cuurent week, our week starts on Saturday and ends on Friday.

The report is dynamically built by the data, example on Monday you will see you hours entered for saturday and  Sunday only.

the Matrix only shows days with hours so the table created only has those 2 days..

My question is:

Is there a way to have a table created at runtime to hold all 7 days, so every day the report will show as below?

Agent	Saturday 2/15/25	Sunday 2/16/25	Monday 2/17/25	Tuesday 2/18/25	Wednesday 2/19/25	Thursday 2/20/25	Friday 2/21/25
tech 1	8	5	0	0	0	0	0
tech 2	5	1	0	0	0	0	0

TIA,

Joe

[lbendlin]

what is your expected outcome?

[joef]

I am expecting a table as in my question. 

agents down the rows

day/date acrosss the columns

when there are hours for a day to show up in the value(grid) else 0

Thx

[lbendlin]

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[joef]

Here is data from the view that drives the model for this week. 

TotalTimeSpent is converted TotalTime from varchar to time so I can have a total for the each tech

WorkdayDate is only date of DayOfWeek (not sure why column isn't big enough to display)

Since today is Tuesday, I would expect the report to have as in my original question,  having the time showing correctly for Sat, Sun, Mon, and 0 populated in Tue, Wed, Thur,Fri

Thank you for your help!!!!

REPORT OUTPUT

Agent	Saturday 2/15/25	Sunday 2/16/25	Monday 2/17/25	Tuesday 2/18/25	Wednesday 2/19/25	Thursday 2/20/25	Friday 2/21/25
tech 1	0	0	7:30	0	0	0	0
tech 2	0	3:00	7:00	0	0	0	0
Tech 3	3:55	0	8:00	0	0	0	0
Tech 4	0	0	12:00	0	0	0	0

Data from Model

Dept	Agent	WordayDate	TotalTime	TotalTimeSpent	DayOfWeek
Dept1	Tech1	########	7:30	7:30	02/17/2025 Monday
Dept1	Tech2	########	3:00	3:00	02/16/2025 Sunday
Dept2	tech3	########	3:55	3:55	02/15/2025 Saturday
Dept1	tech2	########	7:00	7:00	02/17/2025 Monday
Dept2	Tech3	########	8:00	8:00	02/17/2025 Monday
Dept1	tech4	########	12:00	12:00	02/17/2025 Monday

[lbendlin · Accepted solution]

Not sure why you would want to do that as it goes against a whole list of design guidelines.  But here you are:

[joef]

Hi,

Thank you for the help I will check out your solution.

I am brand new to Fabric and PBI.  I am a SQL DBA and only used SSRS for the past 30 years, so I am not aware of design guidlines of PBI. 

I am loking for trainng, but most of what I am finding is very old and seems stale, I am sure PBI has changed a lot in the past 2-3 years. 

The reason for this design is, if there are no hours for a day,  that day will not show on the report which can cause confusion. As you can see below, IT is missing Sunday, and Eng is missing Saturday.  At a quick glance it looks good, but if an IT tech forgot to add Sunday, they may not notice, but they would notice a 0 or a blank for the day.

[lbendlin]

To report on things that are not there you need to use disconnected tables and/or crossjoins - like what I did in my example.