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I made two measures to find the sales amount for this day and the previous day. Now, I want to make a comparison between the amounts. I want to use an up arrow icon and a down arrow icon to show me which value is higher than the other.
I mean like this
I tried to use conditional formatting, but it is difficult to add a measure for comparison."
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Hi @amal_01,
I'm not sure what your measures are called but hopefully the below generic example will help.
Conditional measure...
__SalesIcon =
SWITCH(
TRUE()
, [Sales] > [Sales SPLY], "TriangleHigh"
, "TriangleLow"
)
You can see the icon names in this article.
https://radacad.com/power-bi-icon-names-for-conditional-formatting-using-dax
Apply this to the cell elements...
Here the field settings are applied using the measure...
I hope this helps.
| Have I solved your problem? Please click Accept as Solution so I don't keep coming back to this post, oh yeah, others may find it useful also ;). |
Hi @amal_01,
I'm not sure what your measures are called but hopefully the below generic example will help.
Conditional measure...
__SalesIcon =
SWITCH(
TRUE()
, [Sales] > [Sales SPLY], "TriangleHigh"
, "TriangleLow"
)
You can see the icon names in this article.
https://radacad.com/power-bi-icon-names-for-conditional-formatting-using-dax
Apply this to the cell elements...
Here the field settings are applied using the measure...
I hope this helps.
| Have I solved your problem? Please click Accept as Solution so I don't keep coming back to this post, oh yeah, others may find it useful also ;). |
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