Distribution of hours worked by employees en DAX

Hello, I need help to be able to classify the hours worked by the employees of a company into a time range (from 0 to 6, from 6 to 12, from 12 to 18 and from 18 to 24) ( You have an employee table with the hours worked by date). I developed the example in excel, but I need to do the same in dax, powe pivot or power bi.
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For example, if an employee worked :

attached the file in excel
hours worked.xlsb (11.5 KB)

This can be accomplished through DAX or M, I chose to go with M and add the hours worked in the transform steps.

let
Source =
#“Changed Type” = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{“Emp ID”, Int64.Type}, {“Date”, type date}, {“From”, type time}, {“To”, type time}}),
#“Added Custom” = Table.AddColumn(#“Changed Type”, “To Date”, each if [To] < [From] then Date.AddDays( [Date], 1 ) else [Date]),
#“Changed Type1” = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#“Added Custom”,{{“To Date”, type date}}),
#“Inserted Merged Date and Time” = Table.AddColumn(#“Changed Type1”, “From DateTime”, each [Date] & [From], type datetime),
#“Inserted Merged Date and Time1” = Table.AddColumn(#“Inserted Merged Date and Time”, “To DateTime”, each [To] & [To Date], type datetime),
#“Inserted Time Subtraction” = Table.AddColumn(#“Inserted Merged Date and Time1”, “Duration”, each [To DateTime] - [From DateTime], type duration),
#“Removed Columns” = Table.RemoveColumns(#“Inserted Time Subtraction”,{“To Date”, “From DateTime”, “To DateTime”}),
#“Inserted Hours” = Table.AddColumn(#“Removed Columns”, “Hours Worked”, each Duration.Hours([Duration]) + (Duration.Minutes([Duration])/60)),
#“Changed Type2” = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#“Inserted Hours”,{{“Hours Worked”, type number}})
in
#“Changed Type2”

NOTE: I removed the source step in the quote above, because that was me typing in the source table into PowerBi, no need to see that here :slight_smile:

From there, the DAX is simple, add up the hours worked.

Total Hours Worked = SUM( Schedule[Hours Worked] )

Full Solution is attached. I did add an additional employee (Jane) to demonstrate how this solution can include partial hours.


Hours Worked - Power Query solution.pbix (188.5 KB)

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Thank you very much Heather! but I think there’s one more step to go; I would like to know, how the hours have been distributed in the indicated ranges:

For example, 5 hours have been worked here, but 1 has been worked in the range of 0:00 am to 6:00 am and 2 have been worked in the range of 6:00 am to 12:00

the final idea is to be able to display a time distribution chart in different time ranges:
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I appreciate the effort you’ve made to help me.

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Is this what you are expecting


Distribution of hours.pbix (30.9 KB)

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So sorry to be late getting back to you - we had a rather major blowup at work and I just haven’t had much extra time lately. And many thanks to @Rajesh for the DAX solution which is probably more efficient.

Before coming back to the forum this morning, I did finish the solution I had started for you, so to not waste that effort (and demonstrate that there is an M solution for this as well), here is my solution.

Hours Worked - Power Query solution 2.pbix (81.2 KB)

  • I created four Parameters, labeled “R1” to “R4”, with the start time for each of your periods.

  • This will allow you to control the time ranges from one location, and it will adjust the entire report based on your changes. (NOTE, if you decide to ADD a range, a change will need to be made in two additional locations)

  • Next, I added an index to what I am now calling the “Schedule Master”, and I added a date for the end period (To Date).

  • That table was referenced for a new table “Schedule Periods”

  • In the new “Schedule Periods” table, I created a list of of the time range (in quarter hours), and assigned the time Ranges based on a simple nested IF statement (this is one of the spots you will need to add logic if you add additional ranges)

  • Next, I created a “Time Periods” table from the parameters created in the first step (this is another spot you will need to make a small change to if you add additional ranges)

  • Finally, I loaded this to the report, hid several columns, and added a simple measure to count the rows of the Schedule Periods.

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Excellent Heather! This is definitely what I expected, thank you for your time and delivery. Thanks a lot!

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Thank you very much Rajesh! , you’ve given me a great vision to solve this!

happy to help :slight_smile: