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Hello,
I'm trying to set up some conditional formatting for my measure. I'm not having luck with the normal rules option for formatting, so I'm wondering if there is a work around.
My situation is that I have %'s that range from -900% to 900%. I want to color anything that is -20% or below red and anything that is 20% or higher red.
Any help on this would be great!
@Anonymous ,
Please follow the below screen shots:
@Anonymous ,
Follow my above post and also for rest of the values other than -200% please follow the below screen shot:
@Anonymous , you can create a color measure . Use that in conditional formatting after selecting "field"
example
Color sales = if(AVERAGE(Sales[Sales Amount])<170,"green","red")
Color Year = if(FIRSTNONBLANK(Table[Year],2014) <=2016,"lightgreen",if(FIRSTNONBLANK(Table[Year],2014)>2018,"red","yellow"))
Refer for steps
https://radacad.com/dax-and-conditional-formatting-better-together-find-the-biggest-and-smallest-numbers-in-the-column
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/desktop-conditional-table-formatting#color-by-color-values
https://exceleratorbi.com.au/conditional-formatting-using-icons-in-power-bi/
https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/FORMAT-icon-set-for-use-in-a-data-card/td-p/811692
Hey @amitchandak
I was able to put together this formula and it's working for anything that's a positive number, is there a way I can get it to read for negatives too? I tried to make it read as an absolute value, but that didn't help.
@Anonymous , it should be like this
IF(ABS([Actual Quantites vs Prior Year %])>.20,"Red","Green")
But might advice would be to create a separate condition for +ive and -ive number
like
switch(true(),
[Actual Quantites vs Prior Year %])>.20 ,"Red",
[Actual Quantites vs Prior Year %])<-.20 ,"Red",
"Green")
Correct logic as per need
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