Calculate time in current status

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How do I create a custom measure to show amount of time in CURRENT status? I know how to calculate time between two dates in the epic, but I want to calculate the elapsed time between [Measures].[Issue Project Status Updated Date] and today. I feel like there has to be an obvious way to do this that I am overlooking.

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Hello @hjd

Try this formula (measure name is “days in status”):

IIf(
IsEmpty([Measures].[Transition from status last date]),
  DateDiffWorkdays(
    [Measures].[Transition to status first date], 
   Now()
  )
, 
  DateDiffWorkdays(
    [Measures].[Transition to status first date], 
    [Measures].[Transition from status last date]
  )
)

It calculates the number of workdays an issue stay(-ed) in a status. The logical expression in my IIF statement (IsEmpty(..) ) refers to the current issue status (there is no “transition from” date yet!).

My chart looks like this (on “rows” there’s only “Issue” dimension):
image

Kind regards,
Vasile S.

3

Hi @hjd,
​
@VasileS already provided one of the options related to the issue status changes.

If you want to find the time from a specific timestamp property until now, you might use the DateDiffDays function with the particular property and “now” as relative time or Now() as the time function.
The expression might look as follows.​
​

DateDiffDays(
 [Measures].[Issue Project Status Updated Date],
 Now()
 )

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​Regards,
​Oskars / support@eazyBI.com