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need help with resolving double '-' symbol from dymanic datalable using tabular editor
Hello
I am in need to present a bar chart with dynamic data lables (data lables drived by dax). to acheive that I have use external tool called tabular editor. with this i written format string expression.
The requirement is i need to concadiante '-' for negative values and '+' for positive values and also % for some attributes.
below i present the dax in tabular editor Ver.2
Here i used format string expression to customise the data lable
this is output. we can clearly see double '-' symbol at the first value but for others all is fine.
I need help regarding this
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I found your topic Aakash15 while searching for an answer for my dynamic format problem, because i got two -- for negative values. I found an answer for my dynamic formatting with some behaviour testing.
E.g. i wanted following format, but for negative Values i got "-- XXX K":"""" & FORMAT(SELECTEDMEASURE(), "#,0, K")Then i tested where this second - came from. I recognized, that PowerBI adds an "-" infront of my Format(...). With following code, the result was "- -XXX K"
" " & FORMAT(SELECTEDMEASURE(), "#,0, K")So i wanted to get rid of one minus. I achieved that with formatting negativ values like positive ones, because it adds an "-" before Format(). This works for me:
"""" & FORMAT(SELECTEDMEASURE(), "#,0, K;#,0, K")Eventhough the answer is pretty late, i hope this helps you or someone else!
- amitchandak
Super User
Aakash15 , In the format function you have options for positive and negative values
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dax/format-function-dax#custom-numeric-formats
Just use \+ on positive value at start
example
\+#,###.00
or try
+#,###.00
Hello Amit,
Really thanks for Reply. but unfortunatly it doesn't solve the issue. i went with bit of hardcoaded way, right now its fine but with no surity, I ll be glad if you can help with any other solution to it.
Thankyou.
