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Hello,
I have a table on my report and I'd like to apply some conditional formatting.
I have a series of rows for product, etc and columns for 'Month / Year'. The value is 'Sum of Sales'.
What I'd like to do is apply formatting on the value fields, where Month / Year is less than today's date, make the background colour yellow, otherwise, where it's today or greater, make green.
I can see there are rules that I can apply, but they seem to force expressions, where I just want a basic compare / if statement.
Can this be done? And if so, can you advise, please?
Many thanks,
Dayna
Solved! Go to Solution.
@Dayna , you can create a color measures and use that in conditional formatting using field value option
examples
Color Date = if(FIRSTNONBLANK('Date'[Date],TODAY()) <today(),"lightgreen","red")
Color Weekday = if(FIRSTNONBLANK('Date'[Weekday],blank()) in {"Sunday", "Saturday"},"lightgreen","red")
How to do conditional formatting by measure and apply it on pie?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqBb5eBf_I4&list=PLPaNVDMhUXGYo50Ajmr4SgSV9HIQLxc8L
https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Community-Blog/Power-BI-Conditional-formatting-the-Pie-Visual/ba-p/...
Color Weekday = if(weekday(max('Date'[Date]),2) >=6 ,"lightgreen","red")
Stunning solution, thank you!
@Dayna , you can create a color measures and use that in conditional formatting using field value option
examples
Color Date = if(FIRSTNONBLANK('Date'[Date],TODAY()) <today(),"lightgreen","red")
Color Weekday = if(FIRSTNONBLANK('Date'[Weekday],blank()) in {"Sunday", "Saturday"},"lightgreen","red")
How to do conditional formatting by measure and apply it on pie?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqBb5eBf_I4&list=PLPaNVDMhUXGYo50Ajmr4SgSV9HIQLxc8L
https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Community-Blog/Power-BI-Conditional-formatting-the-Pie-Visual/ba-p/...
Color Weekday = if(weekday(max('Date'[Date]),2) >=6 ,"lightgreen","red")
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