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slipinski
Path Finder

Hi all,

During evaluating round I got the error:
| stats avg(duration) AS "booking average time" by hours
| eval "booking average time"=round("booking average time",2)

Error in 'eval' command: The arguments to the 'round' function are invalid.

Any ideas? Using inline search gives me the same result.

thanks
Szymon

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to4kawa
Ultra Champion

use ' not "
If you want aggregate the fields, do not use the fieldname with spaces.

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to4kawa
Ultra Champion

use ' not "
If you want aggregate the fields, do not use the fieldname with spaces.

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slipinski
Path Finder

Thanks a lot!

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shivanshu1593
Builder

Agreed. It's a nightmare to do the aggregation of the fields with spaces in it.

Thank you,
Shiv
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shivanshu1593
Builder

May be this might help:

| stats avg(duration) AS "booking average time" by hours
| eval "booking average time"=round(("booking average time"),2)
Thank you,
Shiv
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slipinski
Path Finder

The same result

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shivanshu1593
Builder

Oh my bad. Please try this:

| stats avg(eval(round(duration,2))) AS "booking average time" by hours
Thank you,
Shiv
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