topic Re: Conditional Formatting in DAX Commands and Tips

Conditional Formatting

Anonymous — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 04:43:06 GMT

Hi all,

I want to ask why my conditional formatting is not working. This is my matrix and the conditional formatting. The orange arrow should be in green as it exceeds 15%. Thank you so much.

Re: Conditional Formatting

az38 — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 07:04:43 GMT

Hi Anonymous

there are much more in Conditional Formatting dialog box, please show.

Bytheway, I see your last row has Number as Unit, not percent. Im not sure it will work correct

Re: Conditional Formatting

Anonymous — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 07:11:05 GMT

Hi az38, here is the full conditional formatting dialog box. The number at the end of the condition does not affect the icon/colors even if I remove it. I've tried it before w/o the last condition and it still doesn't work. The only problem is the numbers greater than 15 are marked as orange icon while it should be green icon.

Re: Conditional Formatting

az38 — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 07:13:47 GMT

Anonymous

what is [GP Growth %] field? is it a measure? do you use CALCULATE()?

and do you like green arrows in values like 900%? your rule should cut it off

Re: Conditional Formatting

Anonymous — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 07:18:12 GMT

az38

Yes it is a measure field. Here is the formula and yes I do use the CALCULATE() function. GP YTD and GP LY also are measure field.
Green arrow stopped at 100% btw.

GP Growth % = if(and([GP YTD] =0,[GP LY]=0),0,if(and([GP YTD] >=1,[GP LY]=0),1 ,if(and([GP YTD] =0,[GP LY]<=0),1,if(and([GP YTD] <=-1,[GP LY]>=0),-1,if(and([GP YTD] >=1,[GP LY]<=0),CALCULATE(([GP YTD]-[GP LY])/-([GP LY])),CALCULATE(([GP YTD]-[GP LY])/[GP LY]))))))

Re: Conditional Formatting

az38 — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 07:25:15 GMT

Anonymous

I see values 154% and green arrow. I dont see any rules which describes >100% case.

So, I sure the problem is in measure interpretation.

Show data example, GP YTD and GP LY statements

are you sure you dont use any additional aggregations?

Re: Conditional Formatting

Anonymous — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 07:39:27 GMT

az38there is no way we can put >100% condition as Power BI doesn't allow that. The logic allowed is between 0 to 100%. That's why I put the number in the condition to make negative percentage becomes red arrow. Here is some of the data sample for GP YTD and GP LY.

Re: Conditional Formatting

az38 — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 08:05:12 GMT

Anonymous

could you remove sensitive data and share your pbix-file to cloud-service in order to help you?

Re: Conditional Formatting

az38 — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 08:54:04 GMT

Anonymous

try to compare with Number, not Percent