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ValeriaBreve
Post Partisan
Post Partisan

Add a today symbol on a chart

Hello,

I would like to add to one of my charts today's date, as a symbol, on top of the relative bar.

The chart is as per below - can be sliced by equipment line (so as you can see below, volumes can vary by much), and can be aggregated by week/month/year, in which case the symbol should still be visible in the same way on top of the relative bar - but again volumes will look very different.

Can you please help mw on how to set this up?

 

Thanks!

Kind regards

Valeria

 

 

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amitchandak
Super User
Super User

@ValeriaBreve , You can have a measure

 

calculate([Your measure], filter(Date, Date[Date] = today()) )

 

Create line clustered line visual and use a new measure on line and disable the secondary y-axis and enable the marker

 

 

Or create a color measure and use that in conditional formatting using field value option

 

if(Max(Date[Date] )= today(), "Red", "Blue") 

 

How to do conditional formatting by measure and apply it on pie?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqBb5eBf_I4&list=PLPaNVDMhUXGYo50Ajmr4SgSV9HIQLxc8L
https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Community-Blog/Power-BI-Conditional-formatting-the-Pie-Visual/ba-p/...
https://amitchandak.medium.com/power-bi-where-is-the-conditional-formatting-option-in-new-format-pan...

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amitchandak
Super User
Super User

@ValeriaBreve , You can have a measure

 

calculate([Your measure], filter(Date, Date[Date] = today()) )

 

Create line clustered line visual and use a new measure on line and disable the secondary y-axis and enable the marker

 

 

Or create a color measure and use that in conditional formatting using field value option

 

if(Max(Date[Date] )= today(), "Red", "Blue") 

 

How to do conditional formatting by measure and apply it on pie?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqBb5eBf_I4&list=PLPaNVDMhUXGYo50Ajmr4SgSV9HIQLxc8L
https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Community-Blog/Power-BI-Conditional-formatting-the-Pie-Visual/ba-p/...
https://amitchandak.medium.com/power-bi-where-is-the-conditional-formatting-option-in-new-format-pan...

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Microsoft Fabric Series 60+ Videos YouTube
Microsoft Fabric Hindi End to End YouTube

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