Conditional formatting multiple columns by text value

[Anonymous]

Objective: Change background color using a HEX color code based on cell value for columns PBar_01 to PBar_14.

My current solution involves creating 14 measures for each column then use conditional formatting which seems quite cumbersome.  Is there a better approach maybe using a function?

1.  Create a new measure for PB01 column

PB01_BColour =

VAR PBAR01 = SELECTEDVALUE(Latest_Print_Bar_Config[PB01])

RETURN

SWITCH(TRUE(),

PBAR01 = "C", "#00FFFF",

PBAR01 = "M", "#FF00FF",

PBAR01 = "Y", "#FFFF00",

PBAR01 = "K", "#000000",

PBAR01 = "LC", "#E0FFFF",

PBAR01 = "LM", "#FF80FF",

PBAR01 = "O", "#FFA500",

PBAR01 = "V", "#8A2BE2",

PBAR01 = "G", "#008000",

PBAR01 = "W", "#FFFFFF",

PBAR01 = "-", "#D3D3D3")

2.  Set conditional formatting for background colour for PB01:

 

3. Repeat steps 1 to 2 thirteen times for PB02>PB14

I have also used conditional formatting for the Font colour so that means an additional 14 measures.  Surely there must be a way of creating a function whereby you feed in the Text value and it returns a colour without having to define the Column?

[V-lianl-msft]

Hi @Anonymous ,

There is no good solution right now, you need to create so many measures manually.

Best Regards,
Liang
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[amitchandak]

@Anonymous , You can create a color measure than return color based on condition and use that with "Field" option in conditional formatting

color =
switch ( true(),
FIRSTNONBLANK(Table[commodity],"NA") ="commodity1" && sum(Table[Value]) >500,"lightgreen",
FIRSTNONBLANK(Table[commodity],"NA") ="commodity2" && sum(Table[Value]) >1000,"lightgreen",
/// Add more conditions
"red"
)

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

[alexjoukova]

But how can this measure be applied to each column? What is Table[Commodity] and Table[Value]? I need to appy conditional formatting based on the value in the specific cell, for each column.