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Matic20
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Date and Time Difference

Hello  team 

I have there Columns, Status ( this includes things like pause, resume, close, create, postreply), TicketID(primary key ) and Log Status Creation( time for every status). I need to calculate forexample the Date $ time difference btn postreply and closeticket.

Please Advice 

Ticket IDLOG CREATION DATESTAFFEVENT NAME
165887/25/2019 19:22Emily  Spotpostinternalnote
165887/25/2019 19:22Emily  Spotcloseticket
165887/25/2019 19:22Emily  Spotpostinternalnote
165887/25/2019 19:22Emily  Spotpostreply
165887/25/2019 19:22Emily  Spotpostinternalnote
165887/25/2019 19:21Emily  Spotpostinternalnote
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Hi @Matic20 ,

For your requirement, you could create the measure below.

difference =
VAR pauseticket =
    CALCULATE (
        MAX ( 'Table'[LOG CREATION DATE] ),
        FILTER ( 'Table', 'Table'[EVENT NAME] = "pauseticket" )
    )
VAR resumeticket =
    CALCULATE (
        MAX ( 'Table'[LOG CREATION DATE] ),
        FILTER ( 'Table', 'Table'[EVENT NAME] = "resumeticket" )
    )
VAR diff =
    DATEDIFF ( pauseticket, resumeticket, SECOND )
VAR hours =
    INT ( diff / 3600 )
VAR minutes =
    INT ( MOD ( diff - ( hours * 3600 ), 3600 ) / 60 )
RETURN
    hours & "hr" & minutes & "mints"

Here is the output.

Capture.PNG

Hope this can help you.

Best  Regards,

Cherry

 

Community Support Team _ Cherry Gao
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

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v-piga-msft
Resident Rockstar
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Hi @Matic20 ,

Normally, we could use DATEIFF function to calculate the datetime difference.

I still have a little confused about your scenario.

If it is convenient, could you share your desired output so that we could help further on it.

Best  Regards,

Cherry

 

Community Support Team _ Cherry Gao
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.


@v-piga-msft wrote:

Hi @Matic20 ,

Normally, we could use DATEIFF function to calculate the datetime difference.

I still have a little confused about your scenario.

If it is convenient, could you share your desired output so that we could help further on it.

Best  Regards,

Cherry

 

Difference btn the eventname pauseticket and resumeticket (7/26/2019 18:49) and (7/26/2019 14:44) 

Result = 4hr and 5 mints

LOG CREATION DATEEVENT NAMETICKET ID
7/26/2019 19:10postinternalnote16639
7/26/2019 19:10closeticket16639
7/26/2019 19:10postreply16639
7/26/2019 18:49resumeticket16639
7/26/2019 18:26postreply16639
7/26/2019 14:44pauseticket16639
7/26/2019 14:44postreply16639
7/26/2019 14:44claimticket16639
7/26/2019 14:34postinternalnote16639
7/26/2019 14:34overdueticket16639
7/26/2019 14:34postinternalnote16639
7/26/2019 14:34postinternalnote16639
7/26/2019 14:33postreply16639
7/26/2019 14:33createticket16639

 


 

Hi @Matic20 ,

For your requirement, you could create the measure below.

difference =
VAR pauseticket =
    CALCULATE (
        MAX ( 'Table'[LOG CREATION DATE] ),
        FILTER ( 'Table', 'Table'[EVENT NAME] = "pauseticket" )
    )
VAR resumeticket =
    CALCULATE (
        MAX ( 'Table'[LOG CREATION DATE] ),
        FILTER ( 'Table', 'Table'[EVENT NAME] = "resumeticket" )
    )
VAR diff =
    DATEDIFF ( pauseticket, resumeticket, SECOND )
VAR hours =
    INT ( diff / 3600 )
VAR minutes =
    INT ( MOD ( diff - ( hours * 3600 ), 3600 ) / 60 )
RETURN
    hours & "hr" & minutes & "mints"

Here is the output.

Capture.PNG

Hope this can help you.

Best  Regards,

Cherry

 

Community Support Team _ Cherry Gao
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.


@v-piga-msft wrote:

Hi @Matic20 ,

For your requirement, you could create the measure below.

difference =
VAR pauseticket =
    CALCULATE (
        MAX ( 'Table'[LOG CREATION DATE] ),
        FILTER ( 'Table', 'Table'[EVENT NAME] = "pauseticket" )
    )
VAR resumeticket =
    CALCULATE (
        MAX ( 'Table'[LOG CREATION DATE] ),
        FILTER ( 'Table', 'Table'[EVENT NAME] = "resumeticket" )
    )
VAR diff =
    DATEDIFF ( pauseticket, resumeticket, SECOND )
VAR hours =
    INT ( diff / 3600 )
VAR minutes =
    INT ( MOD ( diff - ( hours * 3600 ), 3600 ) / 60 )
RETURN
    hours & "hr" & minutes & "mints"

Here is the output.

Capture.PNG

Hope this can help you.

Best  Regards,

Cherry

 


Thank you so much, this really did help  

RobbeVL
Impactful Individual
Impactful Individual

Hi,

 

As @v-piga-msft mentioned, you can use DateDIFF in DAx (Not in Powerquery).
Or in PowerQuery you can simply create a custom column with :

[resumeticket] - [pauseticket]

If you want this in a different format, have a look here:
https://docs.microsoft.com/nl-nl/powerquery-m/duration-functions 

If you want more help, please let me know what exact datatype you want to have and in what format.

Robbe

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