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Marcjc
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Text to Time - different text format

I know that there are a lot of text / time conversion discussions on the site, but none of them seem to fit my situation. I am hoping someone may be able to assist me with how I can convert the following examples from text to time. The ultamite goal I have is to be able to count rows based on a filter that have a 'time less than 4 hours', 'time less than 24 hours', and then 'time greater than 24 hours'. My first step was to be able to convert the column containing these values to Time, but when I try, Power Bi throws a message that it cannot convert the column. 

 

A few text field examples:

 

9 minutes

34 minutes

12 seconds

1 day 12 minutes

11 hours 3 minutes

 

Any assistance would be appreciated.

 

Thank you!

 

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@Marcjc,

Please check if the Power Query code in the following PBIX file returns your expected result.

https://1drv.ms/u/s!AhsotbnGu1Nok3aBo-5kuXIjmgz_

Regards,
Lydia

Community Support Team _ Lydia Zhang
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

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Anonymous
Not applicable

How do you want to display "9 mins" or " 1 hr 22 mins" ?

 

Thansk
Raj

Thank you for the quick reply... I am not really worried about how the time is displayed in the converted column in the table because the ultimate goal is to present a single number (count) of the rows that fit the filter criteria. 

Sample data for review. 

 

PowerBI-Sample-2.PNG

 

 

@Marcjc,

Please check if the Power Query code in the following PBIX file returns your expected result.

https://1drv.ms/u/s!AhsotbnGu1Nok3aBo-5kuXIjmgz_

Regards,
Lydia

Community Support Team _ Lydia Zhang
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

@v-yuezhe-msft,

 

Thank you. I was able to use this. I ended up adding the seconds conversion to my filter and then used advanced filtering for less than or greater than my requirements. Thank you for this! I have marked it as the solution. 

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