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Anonymous
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7 years ago
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Conditional Formatting & Group By

Hey All, Any idea if that is possible OOTB?  Or any way to achieve that? I have a table with IDs that appear a few times. I wold like to paint the row(s) in a table visualisation for each group of...
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  • jdbuchanan71's avatar
    jdbuchanan71
    7 years ago

    Anonymous Man, this one does not want to give in!  :smileyhappy:
    I am guessing you have filters from other tables flowing into your visual which I think is causing the problem.  I have updated the measure and as far as I can tell it is working with all scenarios.

    Fomatting Measure = 
VAR CurrentID = SELECTEDVALUE(Table1[ID])
VAR FilteredCount = 
    CALCULATE(
        COUNTROWS ( 
            FILTER ( 
                VALUES(Table1[ID]), 
                Table1[ID] > CurrentID
            )
        ),ALLSELECTED()
    ) + 1
VAR FilterTrap = COUNTROWS(VALUES(Table1[ID]))
RETURN IF ( NOT ISBLANK( FilterTrap ), IF ( ISINSCOPE(Table1[ID]), IF ( ISODD ( FilteredCount ), "#7195BE", "#68CCE4" ) ) )

    Sample file here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/y230n9u0wo08wjp/IDFormatting.pbix?dl=0
    Here is a view with filters applied from both the table itself and from a related date table and it still works.

    A calculated column is not an option because the calc is static and if you filtered out an even row but left the two odd rows on either side the calculated column would not update to change the coloring.  Our measure will since it is a count based on the visable IDs.

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MFelix
Super User
7 years ago

Hi Anonymous ,

 

Being a table visual and assuming that you have the ID column as you present it on the image do the following:

 

  • Create the following measure:
ID CHECK = IF( ISEVEN(SELECTEDVALUE(Table1[ID])) = TRUE();1;0)

Now do the condittional formatting on your columns based on this measure:

 

 

Regards,

MFelix

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Anonymous
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7 years ago

Hey MFelix jdbuchanan71 

Thanks for the replies.

The ID was just to illustrate the data.

The IDs, real look like random strings. For example:

5f239534-5011-6j6b-e9bb-5b2686c1fa61
ea470a28-a413-d5j0-a6f4-5b26e67789ab

etc.

 

Thanks
A

  • jdbuchanan71's avatar
    jdbuchanan71
    Super User
    7 years ago

    Hello Anonymous 

    You could add a column to your table that has the ID which would count the number of ID's that are > the current ID then use that count as an odd / even switch to base the formatting on.

    FormattingColumn = 
VAR CurrentID = Table1[ID]
VAR IDCount = 
COUNTROWS(
    FILTER (
        ALL ( Table1[ID] ), Table1[ID] > CurrentID) ) + 1
Return IF( ISODD ( IDCount ) , 1, 2 )

     

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
      Not applicable
      7 years ago

      jdbuchanan71 
      EDIT:
      Sorry, not working well as I thought.

      Maybe I am missing something?

      For example (Table sorted by ID)

       

       

       

      Spoiler

      jdbuchanan71 

      Amazing!
      Can you please explain the logic behind the DAX?

      Reading it again and again for the last 10 minutes, and not sure I understand it completely.

      Understood the basic logic of counting the rows until current row, but want a more technical explanation, if possible.
      Thanks a lot,
      A

       

      • jdbuchanan71's avatar
        jdbuchanan71
        Super User
        7 years ago

        COUNTROWS works over a table.

        FILTER returns a table
        Our filter returns a table of ALL ID's that are > the current ID, then we count that.  We add 1 because if we don't, on the highest ID it returns a blank.

        We then turn the count into a 1 / 2 based on even or odd.

        If you want to see the steps working you can change the Return statement in the formula.

        FormattingColumn = 
VAR CurrentID = Table1[ID]
VAR IDCount = 
COUNTROWS(
    FILTER (
        ALL ( Table1[ID] ), Table1[ID] > CurrentID) ) + 1
--Return IF( ISODD ( IDCount ) , 1, 2 )
Return IDCount

        In the code above I commented out the switch and returned the IDCount variable instead.