Reducing Characters in Time Duration

[Anonymous]

I created a time signature for how long it took our team to complete a segment within our process. But it has given me a ton of numbers at the end of the duration. This may be a rookie question but for the life of me, I cannot shorten this to be just a normal time signature.

[wdx223_Daniel]

you can use the function of Duration.TotalDays to transform the durations to days.

[v-jingzhang · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous 

First extract value before the second ".", then transform this column to Duration type again. 

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[Greg_Deckler]

@Anonymous Try below. Note, I used Colum from examples.

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WstQzMLUyNLAysdCzNDM1AAKlWJ1oJQs9I2MrY3MrI0s9QxMjJGEDAyugjImRnqWlMUQ4FgA=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Column1 = _t]),
    #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Column1", type duration}}),
    #"Inserted Text Before Delimiter" = Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type", "Text Before Delimiter", each Text.BeforeDelimiter(Text.From([Column1], "en-US"), ".", 1), type text),
    #"Changed Type1" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Inserted Text Before Delimiter",{{"Text Before Delimiter", type duration}})
in
    #"Changed Type1"