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LewisH
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Calculating the Average Days Difference

I have a table called 'Put Away headers' and two fields Called 'Assignment Date' and 'Complete Date'. I would like to calculate an overall average of the days difference between these, excluding weekends. Please explain simply I'm new to this. 

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The easiest way to do this is to create a calculated column in combination with a date table. You will need a date table because you will need all dates in the specific period. You can either create a date table in your database, import it (and create it in Excel) or dynamically using DAX. For the last one, see for example: https://www.agilebi.com.au/blog/power-bi-date-dimension. 

 

You will need to create a column (For exampe 'Workingday' in this date table where you specify for each day if it's a weekday. The column should contain a 0 or a 1 (1 for weekdays and 0 for weekenddays). 

 

Then, your create a calculated column with the following formula: 

 

 Workingdays = calculate( sum(DimDate[Workingday]); DATESBETWEEN( DimDate[Date]; PutAwayHeaders[AssignmentDate];  PutAwayHeaders[CompleteDate])))

As you can see I named my date table DimDate. 

 

The last step is to create a measure with an average over this calculated column:

Average Workingdays = AVERAGE(Workingdays) 

 

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