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Anonymous
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Conditional Format % using FORMAT() function

Hi All,

 

I have a dax measure using a SWITCH() statement. Sometimes the result will be a whole number and sometimes a percent. I am using the FORMAT() function when obtaining a %.

 

The only issue is when applying conditional formatting to the measure, it is not applied to any result diplaying x%. I am guessing becasue the format function is displaying text not a number?

 

Does anyone know a solution or work around for this?

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Anonymous
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Hi @Anonymous 

You can refer to the following example

Sample data 

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Measure 1

Measure 3 = IF(SELECTEDVALUE('Table'[Column2])>=0.5&&SELECTEDVALUE('Table'[Column2])<=2,SELECTEDVALUE('Table'[Column2])*100&"%",SUM('Table'[Column2]))

Then create a formatter measure

Measure 4 = var a=IF(CONTAINSSTRING([Measure 3],"%"),CONVERT(LEFT([Measure 3],SEARCH("%",[Measure 3],1,BLANK())-1),DOUBLE)/100,[Measure 3])
return IF(a>=10,"red",IF(a>0.5&&a<2,"blue","green"))

Then put the measure to the conditional formatting

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Best Regards!

Yolo Zhu

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