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speedyspeedstar
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Power BI Embedded DateTime Json filter translates to UTC+10

I have imported some date-times from SQL Server e.g.   2016-12-07 00:00:00.000 2016-06-08 00:00:00.000 2016-01-20 00:00:00.000   The import works fine and in Power BI Desktop/service I can see ...
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    Eric_Zhang
    8 years ago
    speedyspeedstar wrote:

    My data is imported from SQL with date/time data i.e.


    2016-12-07 00:00:00.000
    2016-06-08 00:00:00.000
    2016-01-20 00:00:00.000

     

    and Power BI Desktop and service interprets this correctly.

     

    I embed the report into an MVC application application and I construct this filter :

     

    [
{$schema:"http://powerbi.com/product/schema#advanced",
target {table:"ReportingClientActivityReport",column:"InvoiceDate"},
logicalOperator:"And",
conditions:
[{operator:"LessThanOrEqual",value:"2017-10-22 00:00:00Z"},
    {operator:"GreaterThanOrEqual",value:"2017-10-16 00:00:00Z"}]}
]

    I put this filter in the json object for the power BI embedded iframe but when my embedded report comes back it's filtered to UTC+10 (server is in Brisbane)

     

    How do I communicate in the filter that I want this particular DateTime without offset

    speedyspeedstar

    The datetime format trailed with "Z" indicates a UTC format, based on my test, to get the server local datetime, you just remove the trailing "Z".

    [
{$schema:"http://powerbi.com/product/schema#advanced",
target {table:"ReportingClientActivityReport",column:"InvoiceDate"},
logicalOperator:"And",
conditions:
[{operator:"LessThanOrEqual",value:"2017-10-22 00:00:00"},
{operator:"GreaterThanOrEqual",value:"2017-10-16 00:00:00"}]}
]

    See my test without VS with trailing "Z"

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Eric_Zhang
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8 years ago
speedyspeedstar wrote:

My data is imported from SQL with date/time data i.e.


2016-12-07 00:00:00.000
2016-06-08 00:00:00.000
2016-01-20 00:00:00.000

 

and Power BI Desktop and service interprets this correctly.

 

I embed the report into an MVC application application and I construct this filter :

 

[
{$schema:"http://powerbi.com/product/schema#advanced",
target {table:"ReportingClientActivityReport",column:"InvoiceDate"},
logicalOperator:"And",
conditions:
[{operator:"LessThanOrEqual",value:"2017-10-22 00:00:00Z"},
{operator:"GreaterThanOrEqual",value:"2017-10-16 00:00:00Z"}]}
]

I put this filter in the json object for the power BI embedded iframe but when my embedded report comes back it's filtered to UTC+10 (server is in Brisbane)

 

How do I communicate in the filter that I want this particular DateTime without offset

speedyspeedstar

The datetime format trailed with "Z" indicates a UTC format, based on my test, to get the server local datetime, you just remove the trailing "Z".

[
{$schema:"http://powerbi.com/product/schema#advanced",
target {table:"ReportingClientActivityReport",column:"InvoiceDate"},
logicalOperator:"And",
conditions:
[{operator:"LessThanOrEqual",value:"2017-10-22 00:00:00"},
{operator:"GreaterThanOrEqual",value:"2017-10-16 00:00:00"}]}
]

See my test without VS with trailing "Z"

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speedyspeedstar
Regular Visitor
8 years ago

Awesome I'll give it a go tomorrow and let you know how it goes :)

 

edit : Works great! For C# devs with the same problem, you can use

 

        public static string ToPowerBIDate(this DateTime src)
        {
            return src.ToString("s");
        }

as an extension method to get local time, if you want UTC then just transform src with ToUniversalTime() and then ToString("u")