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richard-powerbi
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Spreading data over time

Let's say I have a table with 3 columns:

Hours, StartDate, EndDate

 

If I want to show a graph with on the X dates and on the Y hours, how can I spread hours over time?

 

For example:

400, 2019-01-01, 2019-01-29

Graph with X on weekly basis should look like:

100, 100, 100, 100

 

Are there visuals that can do this? Or do I have to create seperate rows for every date in the data model devided by the amount of days? It would add tons of rows for every existing row. I hope there is a better solution...

 

 

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Greg_Deckler
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I did something very similar to this once and put it in the Quick Measures gallery as Hours Breakdown.

 

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Quick-Measures-Gallery/Hour-Breakdown/m-p/625085#M306

 

You could potentially do it as a measure but might also have luck creating a DAX table, just depends. DAX and Power BI are really built and optimized to summarize raw data, not invent data from summarized data. You're kind of going about it backwards.



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Greg_Deckler
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I did something very similar to this once and put it in the Quick Measures gallery as Hours Breakdown.

 

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Quick-Measures-Gallery/Hour-Breakdown/m-p/625085#M306

 

You could potentially do it as a measure but might also have luck creating a DAX table, just depends. DAX and Power BI are really built and optimized to summarize raw data, not invent data from summarized data. You're kind of going about it backwards.



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