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Conditional Formatting

Hi,

 

Been looking in to different methods to get colour in to a field or Icon etc.

 

I have the below data coming in from an external db.

 

NameTargetColour
Bob23/03/2018 00:00Green
Fred06/03/2018 00:00Red
Jeff03/03/2018 00:00Green
Emma22/03/2018 00:00Amber

 

What is the best approach for this?

  • Can i do formatting on the cell on the Target? to change it to Green/Red/Amber?
  • Or is it just best to do a switch on the colour field to an URL or is there a better method to do this that will not rely on external websites.

Any help will be great.

 

Thanks

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Greg_Deckler
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Conditional formatting only supports numeric columns so I would come up with a number for each of the colors and do rule-based conditional formatting.



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Greg_Deckler
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Conditional formatting only supports numeric columns so I would come up with a number for each of the colors and do rule-based conditional formatting.



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