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// Originally from: https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Community-Blog/Aggregating-Duration-Time/ba-p/22486
Duration =
// Duration formatting
// * @konstatinos 1/25/2016
// * Given a number of seconds, returns a format of "hh:mm:ss"
//
// We start with a duration in number of seconds
VAR Duration = [Change this value to the name of your column that contains your seconds value]
// There are 3,600 seconds in an hour
VAR Hours =
INT ( Duration / 3600)
// There are 60 seconds in a minute
VAR Minutes =
INT ( MOD( Duration - ( Hours * 3600 ),3600 ) / 60)
// Remaining seconds are the remainder of the seconds divided by 60 after subtracting out the hours
VAR Seconds =
ROUNDUP(MOD ( MOD( Duration - ( Hours * 3600 ),3600 ), 60 ),0) // We round up here to get a whole number
// These intermediate variables ensure that we have leading zero's concatenated onto single digits
// Hours with leading zeros
VAR H =
IF ( LEN ( Hours ) = 1,
CONCATENATE ( "0", Hours ),
CONCATENATE ( "", Hours )
)
// Minutes with leading zeros
VAR M =
IF (
LEN ( Minutes ) = 1,
CONCATENATE ( "0", Minutes ),
CONCATENATE ( "", Minutes )
)
// Seconds with leading zeros
VAR S =
IF (
LEN ( Seconds ) = 1,
CONCATENATE ( "0", Seconds ),
CONCATENATE ( "", Seconds )
)
// Now return hours, minutes and seconds with leading zeros in the proper format "hh:mm:ss"
RETURN
CONCATENATE (
H,
CONCATENATE ( ":", CONCATENATE ( M, CONCATENATE ( ":", S ) ) )
)
@Vanduongls86
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Vanduongls86 commented Oct 17, 2021

@jongio Hi Sir, I follow the way you shared and I got excellent results, but it is still a text type, can we transform it to duration type which is used to calculate the duration in total?

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@zvyagsta
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@jongio Hi Sir, I follow the way you shared and I got excellent results, but it is still a text type, can we transform it to duration type which is used to calculate the duration in total?

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Hey! Have you solved this problem? I haven't succeeded yet :(

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kjohndavies commented Oct 22, 2021

I used the first code and am getting some funky results. The code is ignoring my slicers and providing :: for the full column except for the dates that the slicer selected. for example I select 7/3/2020 in my slicer Date handle time 7/4/2020 :: 7/3/2020 00:09:11 7/2/2020 :: Keeps going for all the dates in the table 2020-07-16_8-28-32 @jongio @nyincpc

In the RETURN section of the DAX I wrote this to ensure you don't end up with the colons ("::")

RETURN
IF(
CONCATENATE (
D,
CONCATENATE ( " ", CONCATENATE ( H, CONCATENATE( ":", CONCATENATE (M, CONCATENATE ( ":", S ) ) ) ))) = " ::",
BLANK(),
CONCATENATE (
D,
CONCATENATE ( " ", CONCATENATE ( H, CONCATENATE( ":", CONCATENATE (M, CONCATENATE ( ":", S ) ) ) )))
)

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kjohndavies commented Oct 22, 2021

@zvyagsta I think the issue might be you've created 'ACD Time' as a column instead of as a measure. When using it as a measure it still shows up as a Text format for me but it still calculates the column when used in a table:

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@zvyagsta I think the issue might be you've created 'ACD Time' as a column instead of as a measure. When using it as a measure it still shows up as a Text format for me but it still calculates the column when used in a table:

tickets

I tried to create a measure.

A single value for column 'Duration, sec' in table 'data' cannot be determined. This can happen when a measure formula refers to a column that contains many values without specifying an aggregation such as min, max, count, or sum to get a single result.

I tried to create conditions for aggregation SUM, SUMX. I have no result. I'm new at this. What am I doing wrong?
2021-10-28_13-33-38

@EnricaTunesi70
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how to sum the concatenated value

use calculate(average...) in a VAR and so on

Could you help me to implement this suggestion? I have a table with some activities and related durations in seconds. I need to calculate the avg of durations and display the value formatted hh_mm:ss in a card. If

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kjohndavies commented Oct 14, 2022

how to sum the concatenated value

use calculate(average...) in a VAR and so on

Could you help me to implement this suggestion? I have a table with some activities and related durations in seconds. I need to calculate the avg of durations and display the value formatted hh_mm:ss in a card. If

@EnricaTunesi70, You need to sum the values BEFORE you run it through this measure because the original formula is only used to display the final result as text for visual purposes, not to do calculations.

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TommieA commented Jan 2, 2023

I have a line chart where I'm trying to show the minutes:seconds in the Y-axis.
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When I apply the Duration fields that I created, it only allows me to have a count, which is always 1.

Any ideas?

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