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richardmayo
Helper II
Helper II

DATEDIFF excluding weekends

Ive had a look at existing threads but none seem to be as simple as my scenario.

 

This is my formula in a measure

Turnaround (Days) = DATEDIFF('Jobs'[date_entered],'Jobs'[exported_date],DAY)

 

I want to basically exclude Sat and Sun from the calculation.

 

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Anonymous
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Hi @richardmayo,

You can follow the below steps to get the number of days between date_entered and exported_date:

1. Create one calendar table with normal date if your data model still not have any date table    create calendar table.JPG

2. Add one calculated column on table Jobs with the below formula:        

Turnaround (Days) = CALCULATE(COUNTROWS('Calendar'),filter('Calendar',WEEKDAY('Calendar'[Date],2)<6),DATESBETWEEN('Calendar'[Date],'Jobs'[date_entered],'Jobs'[exported_date]))

datediff.JPG

Best Regards

Rena

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JuNu_MDJ
New Member

Please replace CMS_Detail[Reported_Date] and CMS_Detail[Completed_Date] as your start date and end date.

 

Dates_between =
VAR TEMP_CALENDAR =
    FILTER (
        ADDCOLUMNS (
            CALENDAR (
                CMS_Detail[Reported_Date],
                COALESCE ( CMS_Detail[Completed_Date], TODAY () )
            ),
            "DAY_NAME", WEEKDAY ( [Date], 1 )
        ),
        [DAY_NAME] < 6
    )
RETURN
    COUNTROWS ( TEMP_CALENDAR )

Ping me, in any case, Junaise PT 

 

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Anonymous
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Hi @richardmayo,

You can follow the below steps to get the number of days between date_entered and exported_date:

1. Create one calendar table with normal date if your data model still not have any date table    create calendar table.JPG

2. Add one calculated column on table Jobs with the below formula:        

Turnaround (Days) = CALCULATE(COUNTROWS('Calendar'),filter('Calendar',WEEKDAY('Calendar'[Date],2)<6),DATESBETWEEN('Calendar'[Date],'Jobs'[date_entered],'Jobs'[exported_date]))

datediff.JPG

Best Regards

Rena

Anonymous
Not applicable

Great, how can you take it forward to also exclude public holidays

Anonymous
Not applicable

Thank you! Perfect and simple solution!

 

 

Yes this is perfect (and does not require a new table as I already had a date table)

 

Also, I just added a -1 at the end of the formula so that it does not count the start date in the calculation of "turnaround".

amitchandak
Super User
Super User

refer this file(Page 2), I have created datediff, without weekend https://www.dropbox.com/s/y47ah38sr157l7t/Order_delivery_date_diff.pbix?dl=0

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danextian
Super User
Super User

Hi @richardmayo 

 

Create a separate and disconnected (no relationship) calendar table that has an indicator whether a date is a weekday or not. Example:

 

 

Dates =
ADDCOLUMNS (
    CALENDAR ( DATE ( 2019, 1, 1 ), DATE ( 2019, 12, 31 ) ),
    "Day Name", FORMAT ( [Date], "ddd" ),
    "Weekday", IF ( WEEKDAY ( [Date], 2 ) >= 6, 0, 1 )
)

 

 

Then create this column:

 

 

Datediff =
VAR __Datediff =
    CALCULATE (
        SUM ( 'Dates'[Weekday] ),
        DATESBETWEEN ( 'Dates'[Date], 'Jobs'[date_entered], 'Jobs'[exported_date] )
    ) - 1
RETURN
    IF ( __Datediff < 0, 0, __Datediff )

 

 

 





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this works great for me, but I doesn't show negative values. What can I add to the code to show negative values?

 

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