Hey there, I have a SUPER exciting announcement! April is about to get a whole lot sweeter with our Power BI Dashboard Contest! Your mission, should you choose to accept it: Craft the most EPIC dashboard for the Awesome Chocolates CEO with sales & financial insights! Winners stand a chance to score up to $500 in Amazon Gift Cards, plus some serious bragging rights!
Contest Rules and Information
- Participants must use Power BI (any recent version) to create the dashboard.
- The dashboard should be built with native visuals only. No add-ons or marketplace visuals or Python/R visuals.
- The dashboard should contain a readme / help tab to explain the features and methodology.
- Your dashboard should feature the Awesome Chocolates logo, contest title on it. These assets are included in the dataset file below.
- Limit your dashboard to one Power BI Page (readme / help goes on a separate page)
- You are free to combine the business data of Awesome Chocolates with any publicly available datasets. Credit any sources in the readme / help tab.
- The participant agrees to allow indefinite copyright and sharing of the workbooks (and any extra datasets) with chandoo.org for further publication, remixing, and usage.
- Your dashboard should be submitted by 30th of April 2024 using the upload instructions (to be added later).
- Participants agree to have their name and any social media handles listed on the contest website.
- Only one entry per participant. But your dashboard PBIX may contain more than one page with different versions of the dashboard.
How to participate:
I have set up an exclusive community on Microsoft Teams to run & manage this contest. To participate, please follow the below-instructions.
- You need a personal email address (such as @gmail.com or @hotmail.com) or your phone number.
- Go to my Dashboard Champions Circle on Microsoft Teams
- Use your personal email address or phone number to register. You will need to switch to “personal” mode of teams if prompted.
- Join the community and find the dataset & dashboard purpose information inside.
- Start building your dashboard.
- Submit your entry by 30th April using the instructions in the community.
Contest Dataset & Dashboard Purpose:
Please download the Awesome Chocolates Dataset using the link inside the teams community.
The purpose of the dashboard is to inform the CEO of Awesome Chocolates about the performance of our business in the last 13 months. The dataset contains daily shipment data from 2023 February to 2024 February. Here are a few things our CEO is interested in, but she likes surprises too. So get creative.
- How sales, units, shipments, profit, profit%, low-box shipments (shipments with box count under 50) trends are looking
- A detailed performance understanding at product or salesperson level
- Interesting patterns in product / geography data
- Ability to drill down to details if needed.
You are encouraged to use various powerful interactive features of Power BI like tooltips, bookmarks, DAX, conditional formatting, pictures and anything else you might fancy. Again, get creative and showcase what you can build, but stick to one standard sized Power BI page.
When is the deadline?
You should submit your Power BI dashboard by 30th of April, 2024 (end of day, pacific time).
Remember, only one dashboard per person.
How to submit my entry?
Please submit your dashboard using the instructions inside my exclusive teams community.
For more information and guidelines, visit the Awesome Dashboard community page.
About the prizes and winner selection:
The total prize money for this competition is $500.
- First prize: $250 Amazon Gift Card
- Second prize: $150 Amazon Gift Card
- Third prize: $100 Amazon Gift Card
- Don’t forget the bragging rights!
A panel of Power BI experts and dashboard pros will select the winners. I will share the details later on the teams community.
All the best 🙂
Note: This competition is powered by Microsoft Teams
23 Responses to “Shift Calendar Template – FREE Download”
Hi Chandoo,
your recent postings include only Excel 2007 templates. Unfortunately the company I work at still runs Excel 2003. Is it possible to get your awesome files in other excel version as well?
Thanks so much for your great excel stuff!
Is it possible to do this for shifts with hours instead of days? To organise a three shift day?
Thanks in advance,
Stelios
In my organization there are 45 employees i need split then into three shifts ex:A shift:14,B shift:14,C shift:14 and week off:3 kindly help me on this.
@Masthan
You need to understand what rules your company has for the various shifts / roster combinations
Chandoo, I once did a shift control spreadsheet for my team. I put one person in each line, the columns were the days. I put a shift code in each cell indicating in which shift that person should work, or if the person were out that day. I have two codes for being out. One is for vacations and one is to compensate days worked in weekends. This way I was able to count how many persons I have in each shift, how many were on vacations and how many were out compensating (that's the term we use here) weekend worked hours.
Later I included the possibility of a person be in two lines one for normal hours other for overtime. This is mainly used for planning purposes. If you would like I can send you an example. The only problem of this spreadsheet is that we don't have a person view, only this consolidated view.
Hi George, I would like to have a copy of your spreadsheet if you can share it.
Thanks in advance, Chuck
Hi Chandoo,
Where is the code located ? is it VBA ? If so , how do you hide it ? Or it is .NET ?
Thx
@Idan
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No VBA or code, it is all done with Mirrors.
Only Joking,
.
But there is no VBA or code,
It is all done with Named Formulas and Lookups.
Have alook at the cells in the calander area and Named Formulas in the Formulas, Name Manager Tab.
How can i calculate between two or more different workbooks? Please, reply me as early as possible.
@Anand
Open the workbooks you want to link to
Start a formula = and click and change between workbooks as required.
You can use the View, Switch window menu to change workbooks mid formula
The format for using workbooks is
=[Workbook.xlsm]Sheet1!$A$1
or
=SUM('[Book2.xls]Sheet1'!$A$1:$D$10)
etc
Hi Chandoo,
I am working with a call centre wherein i ned to update at the month end 20 to 30 employees login hours which are defict to track it at the month end is very difficult is there any template which can be made to track that why on a particular day a guy who needs to be on calls was why not on calls.
Thank you so much Chandoo. This is really helping me. As usual, you rock.
What's FortyTwoDays and Calendar in Name manager?
Both are unused and FortyTwoDays doesn't make any sense.
I have a SQL db that contains records of events scheduled/completed on a particular date. Can this method ous building a calendar be used to display those events on the respective day?
Positively awesome!
I'm attempting to help a friend create a schedule for adult classes - and of course its not"paid help". Here is the scenario:
20 classes, instructor, room#, student class size, start date, number of class days (need to subtract weekends)
class
instructor
room
students
start
#days
PATH
karen
201
21
01/01/13
11
BILLING
jane
401
15
01/12/13
13
MEDISOFT
mike
301
11
01/25/13
9
he'd like to see these classes show up in different colors within the same month's calendar chart. He can draw it, but I'd like to see it done automatically through data, and I just can't visualize it, but I KNOW this will work - can you help?
Jan 🙂
Dear chandoo,
Try many way to download still can't access. Any way we want to try out 3 shifts with 3 guys in a group .eg Group A Morn, Group B Night and Group C Rest. And every each group must work on sunday to take turns. In fact we are security teams so that's why sunday is required to work. Pls guide and show how to put in the working calendar. Thank you in advance.
I've been trying to copy and/or recreate this to use in a workbook I'm doing for the transportation department I'm working for. I need to have the calendar on the first sheet in my document (it has graph's from data on another sheet). I'm trying to use it to track (with the conditional formatting) accidents and injuries. I've redone the conditional formatting to do 4 different accident types (no injury, near miss, OSHA recordable injury and work loss injury), but when I enter the formula's you have in the calendar portion where it says "DateOfFirst-FirstWeekDay" I can't figure out how you did that. Are you able to help?
I would like to use Excel to solve the following problem for a community work. I want to create a Driver schedule for a given month from a pool of volunteers for a community service. Each of these volunteers can drive only on specific days in a week. I would like to populate the driving schedule for each weekday with primary, secondary and tertiary drivers in a random fashion so that I do not overburden one person. I would greatly any help you can provide.
Hi chandoo,
Thanks for your valuable effort for create this template and let me know how to add multiple employees in the the Roaster.
Hi Chandoo,
This article on shift roaster is very helpful. Could you please let me know how i can use the same for n number of resources who work 24/7, considering their leaves and holidays?
Thanks,
Savitha
Hi Chandoo,
This article on shift roaster is very helpful to all. Could you please let me know how i can use the same if I want to add for some more shifts, since the color is not getting change if I add more shifts like 4,5 etc.,
Thanks,
Murali
nice post
How can I change the date to 2017 under Shift Data worksheet.