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Luis24
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Conditional Formatting based on another row value

 

Hello. I want to visualize the indicators of a set of companies over time, but color the information of these indicators (numbers and texts) according to an internally defined category (HIGH, MEDIUM or LOW).


I have structured a dataset that contains the name of the company, the name of the indicator and the type of information that the periods contain ("VALUE" or "CATEGORY"):

 

Dataset:

img 1.png

 

And, I would like to set up a visualization that displays the "value" of these indicators over time, but that their color depends on their "category":

 

Visualization:

img 2.png

 

Although in Excel this would be easy using conditional formatting: relating each cell of the "indicator's value" with its corresponding "indicator's category" in a hidden table, in Power BI I have not found a way to do it. I really appreciate if you can suggest me ideas on how to do it.

 

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amitchandak
Super User
Super User

@Luis24 , You can consider the color measure and use that in conditional formatting using the field value option

 

Color = Switch( True() ,
Max(Table[Status]) < 200 ,
Switch(true(),
[ERB] = .25 , "Orange" ,
"Red "
) ,
Max(Table[Status]) < 500 ,
Switch(true(),
[ERB] = .25 , "Orange" ,
"Red "
) ,
Switch(true(),
[ERB] = .25 , "Orange" ,
"Red "
)
)

 

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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