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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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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:11:44

RE: field of "duration" type

yes yes YES. Several local companies in the billons of dollars range would like to see KPI visuals that plot time quicker and easier. There is a tremendous of historical and trend tracking done by corporate America.

Microsoft please tag this one a must have at some point.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:11:43

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...quick add for others who see this thread. You can use the software to plot the same trends using a time to decimal conversion. Convert the time to Military format then divide it up by 60 depending on hours or minutes and you can do a halfway decent KPI plot on the Y axis using the time in decimal format. For example 8:45 PM would be 20:45 military time and 20.75 in decimal. .75= 3/4 hour if I have the right conversion formula based on posts out there

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Viktor on 05 Jul 2020 23:11:18

RE: field of "duration" type

Help us, Please!

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Rob Sims on 05 Jul 2020 23:09:52

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I'm producing production planning outputs, got to have a duration based Y axis, especially as there is an easy way to convert data to duration!!

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:09:11

RE: field of "duration" type

need visualization of sales as they relate to the duration of marketing campaign(s)

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Ramadhianto Agung Wibowo on 05 Jul 2020 23:08:43

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We are monitoring SLA performances on daily basis, so duration on Y axis is needed

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Muki on 05 Jul 2020 23:08:00

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what's the status here? is there a workaround for this pls? I have duration in d.hh:mm:ss in my query editor but can't use this data in my reports? have to make a sum of this data in my reports...

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Power BI Ideas Admin on 05 Jul 2020 23:06:33

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support for mm:ss on chart Y axis is a must! please!

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James on 05 Jul 2020 23:06:09

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This type of field is really necessary for cases such as Call Center and Help Desks and Service Desks to deal with duration of calls and attentions, many times it is necessary to work with average and more calculations, for which you have to extend fields and use a lot of extra for this.

And even if you set the field as duration in the Query Editor window, it is useless when you try to use it in the Reports Window

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:05:52

RE: field of "duration" type

Power Bi team, this kind of data type is a must have for telehealth call centres... my bosses would like to have an average of this in 00:00:00 format. And in addition to this, they would like to have conditional formatting as well to spot call handling time that is above the threshold. it would be really useful having this as a data type and can be conditonally formatted with colors.