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benjamincoady
Helper I
6 years ago
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Conditional Formatting on Tables

Hi,    I'm not sure if a recent update has changed this but it's become more difficult to create conditional formatting on tables based on a minus value.    I'm trying to make the background of t...
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    benjamincoady
    6 years ago

    Hey mwimberger , 

     

    I think I solved it, basically it need a text field to reference against. It was weird but once I dropped in the Project field (Text) into the table, all of the conditional formatting came to life. Strange and never experienced it before! 

     

    Thanks for your input though, really appreciate it. 

     

    Ben

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mwimberger
Resolver II
6 years ago

Hi benjamincoady 

 

It sometimes takes a bit of playing with the settings to get it right, and by deleting the zero in the first box of the custom formatting box ( and bringing Minimum or Maximum into view can help with the understanding of the logic.

 

Here is an example with some steps to help you with both fonts and backgrounds:

 

 

 

Hope this helps,

 

Manfred

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benjamincoady
Helper I
6 years ago

Hi mwimberger, 

 

Thanks for taking the time to produce that detailed answer, it's much appreciated. So, I had no problem when the rule sets were set up like yours. I completed an update a few weeks ago and mine now look like this:

 

 

My rule fields look very different to yours! Any idea?

 

Cheers!