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winterbloom
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Conditional formatting stops when adding measure

Hi all,

 

I have a weird issue I hope you can help me with.

 

Background info: I am attempting to set up an Income Statement using this method: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4317R5BvsA

 

I have added my report structure via a connected Excel file. I want to add conditional formatting to highlight certain rows, if they are headings or subtotal. To do that, I have a column in excel "Highlight" that is 1 if it should be formatted or 0 if not.


I set up my conditional formatting like this:

winterbloom_0-1688690178163.png

The same rule for font colour. It works perfectly.

 

HOWEVER, when I go to add a measure to the table, the formatting disappears:

winterbloom_1-1688690264780.png

The measure is a SWITCH statement, if that has any relevance.

 

I can still see the conditional formatting rules, but they are obviously not applying.

 

Any assistance appreciated. Thank you. 

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winterbloom
Frequent Visitor

@amitchandak 

Actually, I got ahead of myself. I just applied conditional formatting to the Note column (background if text = Blue) and it works:

winterbloom_0-1688971465200.png

 

However, as soon as I remove the Colour measure from the visual, the formatting disappears.

 

winterbloom_1-1688971495576.png

Very frustrating. 

amitchandak
Super User
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@winterbloom , That is strange.

If the highlight is a column create a measure like the one below and use that in conditional formatting using the field value option

 

If(round(max(Table[highlight]),0) =1, "Blue", "white")

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@amitchandak 

Thank you! It worked, as a work around.

 

winterbloom_0-1688971101635.png

 

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