Conditional formatting with PowerBI visuals

[YoungLearning]

Why is this so contradictory? Can someone clarify?

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/developer/visuals/conditional-format?tabs=getFormattingMo...

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/create-reports/desktop-conditional-table-formatting

[Anonymous]

Hi @YoungLearning 

The two documentations are not linked. The thing is that PowerBI offers a solution to customers to develop custom visuals and we have a documentation for that. Also, there is a documentation for PowerBI and how to use the visuals (those available in the Visualization pane). There are two different things.

The first documentation explains that, when developing a custom visual (with pbiviz library, typescript/javascript), you can't implement conditional formatting with table and matrix based visuals. Table and matrix based visuals are related to the data mapping used for the visual you are developing. 

When you develop a visual, it literaly means that you write the lines of code that describe how you're using the data coming from PowerBI and display the things you want. 

The second documentation explains that you can apply conditional formatting to table and matrix. It means that when using Table or Matrix visual, we can apply conditional formatting to the values we put in the fields

For table:

For matrix:

[YoungLearning]

I guess I can roughly visualise how to applying conditional formatting for table and matrix is like. Do you have some infographics though to compare the first and second documentation instance?

[Anonymous]

Hi, 

The first documentation is related to the use of conditional formatting within PowerBI Desktop and PowerBI Service for the native visuals (line chart, bar chart, pie chart etc.)

The second documentation is related to the use of conditional formatting when you develop from scratch a custom visual