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Peter_2020
Helper III
Helper III

Conditional formatting based on value in another column

Hi all, 

I would like to ask you for help with following issue:

 

I have the table with 3 columns:

CATEGORYTARGETPERFORMANCE
1110%109%
2115%110%
3130%140%

 

And I need to somehow define the rules for conditional formatting (or other formatting) that if the performance of category 1,2 or 3 is lower than target in the same line put the cells background to red and if the performance of category 1,2 or 3 is higher than target put it green. Expected result is shown here:

 

CATEGORYTARGETPERFORMANCE
1110%109% (red background)
2115%110% (red background)
3130%140% (green background)

 

Thanks in advance for your help!

P

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@Peter_2020 , Try like

 

if(max(table[PERFORMANCE]) <Max(Table[TARGET]) , "Red", "Green")

 

or

 

if(average(table[PERFORMANCE]) <average(Table[TARGET]) , "Red", "Green")

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amitchandak
Super User
Super User

@Peter_2020 , Assuming [PERFORMANCE] and [TARGET] are measures

 

then create a color measure and use that in conditional formatting with field value option

 

if([PERFORMANCE] <[TARGET] , "Red", "Green")

 

refer for step

https://radacad.com/dax-and-conditional-formatting-better-together-find-the-biggest-and-smallest-num...
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/desktop-conditional-table-formatting#color-by-color-values

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Performance and Target are columns from imported excel table...

@Peter_2020 , Try like

 

if(max(table[PERFORMANCE]) <Max(Table[TARGET]) , "Red", "Green")

 

or

 

if(average(table[PERFORMANCE]) <average(Table[TARGET]) , "Red", "Green")

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Microsoft Fabric Hindi End to End YouTube

Hi, 

I'm new to Power bi. 

Where are you inserting the "if" statement into?

Thanks.

 

It works!!! Thank you very much!

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