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field of "duration" type

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Daniel wu on 12 Jul 2015 01:13:50

is it possible to add support for "duration" data type in the report view as in Power Query?

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Mauro Giusti on 05 Jul 2020 22:35:49

RE: field of "duration" type

Same issue, see here - all you need to test this is a SQL query that returns a TIME type.
https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Can-t-use-SQL-TIME-as-Duration/m-p/97180

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Vino on 05 Jul 2020 22:34:55

RE: field of "duration" type

Need to make graph about duration time

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:33:57

RE: field of "duration" type

We need this to graphically represent times as well as having text durations.

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Lex on 05 Jul 2020 22:33:57

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Can't operate Power BI in a call centre environment without durations!

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Steven Wheeler on 05 Jul 2020 22:32:55

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Power Query has a Duration data type and dedicated functions to analyse durations, but in the Data View for Reports it gets converted to a decimal part of a day - e.g. 20 seconds shows as 0.00:00:20 in Power Query but as 0.000231481 in Reports. And to manipulate it needs convoluted DAX - e.g. http://community.powerbi.com/t5/Community-Blog/Aggregating-Duration-Time/ba-p/22486

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:19:44

RE: field of "duration" type


Conveter (HH:mm) to Duration querying
excel information.
please help me.

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Blair Scott on 05 Jul 2020 22:06:54

RE: field of "duration" type

The Google analytics pack has problems as well as average session duration is a data type of duration

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john.brennan on 05 Jul 2020 22:04:17

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For anywhere that operates a call center, being able to show duration is an absolute must!