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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's avatar
    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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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!

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v-juanli-msft
Community Support
6 years ago

Hi benjamincoady 

If you want the min value for each group to show red background, you could create measures and use the measure in the conditional formatting.

min = CALCULATE(MIN('Table'[production]),ALLEXCEPT('Table','Table'[name]))

flag = IF(MAX('Table'[production])=[min],1,0)
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Maggie
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  • benjamincoady's avatar
    benjamincoady
    Helper I
    6 years ago

    Hi both mwimberger v-juanli-msft , 

     

    I've just done another update and mine is still completely different from both of yours, I don't even have the number field that v-juanli-msft has. 

     

     

    Do you think it's worth doing a full uninstall and reinstall? Can't understand why it would be so different. 

     

    Thanks for your continued help! 

    • mwimberger's avatar
      mwimberger
      Resolver II
      6 years ago
      Hi

      So I doubt a reinstall will do anything. I would check the field you are trying to get the formatting for isn’t set to mixed text and numbers or maybe text . It may trip it up in this case.
      You can set this in the modelling tab or in the Power Query step.

      Cheers

      Manfred
      • benjamincoady's avatar
        benjamincoady
        Helper I
        6 years ago

        Hi mwimberger ,

         

        Just checked, the values are set to (Whole Number) and (Currency).

         

        I set up a new file and entered a quick test table. I then set the following rules, this should turn column 1 the correct colour but nothing happens.