I’m trying to calculate step time from start to finish. I’ve created a calculated field to create a date/time stamp in YYYY/MM/DD HH:mm:ss format. The single string has the date/time for creation as well as last update time stamp for each individual step.
Is there a way to separate the two dates? I want to find total time from first time stamp to the second time stamp.
Hi @Jon_D,
you should be able to do it by using the function dateDiff and pass the granularity at seconds level to get the difference between the 2 dates in seconds. Here is the link for more information: dateDiff - Amazon QuickSight
Hi @Srikanth_Baheti - To use date diff the date fields should be in the separated columns. Here both the date fields are in the same columns. I believe date diff will not work here, we have to use LAC approach here.
Hi @Biswajit_1993 - I know we have similar approach in one of the use case, can you please advise.
Regards - Sanjeeb
Hi Jon_D, if you have one string with both dates, can you do a LEFT function to get the first date and RIGHT for the second? or use SPLIT if there is a separator between the 2.
The results will still be strings, but then you can do a parseDate on them to get the date value
parseDate(dateString, ‘yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss’)
Once you have them as dates, you can apply the dateDiff function that Srikanth mentioned above.
Hi Asem thanks for your support, this doesn’t seem to work. Looking at the Database the its a single date per line. When I map it against the task it’s populating two (I assume there are two separate strings for each “Task” and it’s pulling both when added to pivot table).
I do have a “closedtime” string. When trying to edit it to a date the database it gives me an error. I’m assuming because there are NULL or empty lines in the Database for this string. Is there a workaround for this? If I can change that string to a date then I can do a date diff between the create time stamp and the closed string.
