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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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k on 05 Jul 2020 23:46:32

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This is a must have!

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Mark on 05 Jul 2020 23:46:01

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Very needed as time duration's are essential in any planning type analysis.

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Guy on 05 Jul 2020 23:45:10

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Honestly, this is a much needed feature. I shouldn't have to mess around in excel with all it's extra steps to convert time (which is recorded as a decimal in my company) into a duration. As it stands .5 (which for us is a half hour, or 30 minutes) equates to a half day or 12:00:00 hours.

Please give us some options here.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:43:29

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I actually got Power BI in order to work on call lengths & waiting for call back times in a health setting. Can it be done please?

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:43:10

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How is this not being looked at? You cannot use Power BI for any call centre stats unless you convert it to text or use ridiculous decimal points.

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Ben Taylor on 05 Jul 2020 23:42:28

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I just started using Power BI to create a reporting dashboard for business operations data and like others here was shocked to find that there is no out of the box support for a duration data type. It seems obvious that this information would be a frequent requirement for the y-axis on a chart that refers to business intelligence data.

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Jesse Luoma on 05 Jul 2020 23:41:30

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When will HH:MM:SS be available?

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Rasmus Ludvigsen on 05 Jul 2020 23:41:07

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3,5 years and still nothing but cumbersome workaraounds?!

Callcenter Data Analysts everywhere! Unite and vote!!! :)

(And a big "thank you" to those, who have made workarounds.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:40:01

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We definitely need this feature added. Right now the only way we can convert number of minutes to a HH:MM:SS value casts to a TEXT datatype which then fails on a sort as it is not a true numerical value.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:39:55

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What is the point of having the duration type in power query when the data view doesn't support it!!!!!!

We need duration for our graphs, so please make it available