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Conditional colour format on data card
Hi there
I have two data cards - one with an average pass ratio, and the other with the pass ratio which changes when you select different slicers. So you can compare the pass ratio alongside the average, to see if you've done better or worse. Lovely.
I want the colour of the pass ratio to be green if it's higher than the average, and red if it's lower.
I'm not sure how to do this. Help!
Hi Anonymous, this is a multistep process.
- Compute a measure that returns your color selections. I used this:
Vs Average = VAR varCurrentValue = SELECTEDVALUE('Table'[Value],0) VAR varAverage = [Average Value] RETURN SWITCH( TRUE(), varCurrentValue > varAverage, "Green", varCurrentValue = varAverage, "Black", varCurrentValue < varAverage, "Red" )-
- So if the current selected value (I used a slicer to select a value) is greater than the Average Value measure, return Green, if equal, black, if below, red. The average value measure is:
Average Value = CALCULATE( AVERAGE('Table'[Value]), REMOVEFILTERS('Table'[Category]) )- Then on the original card, select the label property and change the color from what is probably black to use the fx button conditional format:
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- Then select the Field Value setting, and select the measure you used - Vs Average in my case.
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You can see my PBIX here if you want to play with it a bit. You can get rid of my green/red/black text and use hex codes as long as they are in the format "#000000" with the # sign to tweak those colors.
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- edhansCommunity Champion
Hi Anonymous, this is a multistep process.
- Compute a measure that returns your color selections. I used this:
Vs Average = VAR varCurrentValue = SELECTEDVALUE('Table'[Value],0) VAR varAverage = [Average Value] RETURN SWITCH( TRUE(), varCurrentValue > varAverage, "Green", varCurrentValue = varAverage, "Black", varCurrentValue < varAverage, "Red" )-
- So if the current selected value (I used a slicer to select a value) is greater than the Average Value measure, return Green, if equal, black, if below, red. The average value measure is:
Average Value = CALCULATE( AVERAGE('Table'[Value]), REMOVEFILTERS('Table'[Category]) )- Then on the original card, select the label property and change the color from what is probably black to use the fx button conditional format:
-
- Then select the Field Value setting, and select the measure you used - Vs Average in my case.
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-
You can see my PBIX here if you want to play with it a bit. You can get rid of my green/red/black text and use hex codes as long as they are in the format "#000000" with the # sign to tweak those colors.
- AnonymousNot applicable
HI Anonymous
You can conditionaly format the background of the card.
and the data label of the card.
- AnonymousNot applicable
Yes Anonymous I know you can conditionally format the card, my question is, what measure do I use to say if [current value] is greater than [average value] then 'green' else if [current value] is less than [average value] then 'red' else 'black'
- AnonymousNot applicable
hi Anonymous
I would create a measure which return 1 or 0 and -1 for us, and use it to conditionally format.
- v-xuding-msftCommunity Support
Hi Anonymous ,
You also could reference this thread that I answered to have a try.
https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Formatting-Arrow-in-Card/td-p/931483
Please reference the document to learn more about conditional formatting.
- amitchandakSuper User
Anonymous , You can create a color measure and use that under conditional formatting with field option.
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"))Color Field - Color Measure - Conditional formatting
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-valuesicon based
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