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Jaqinthebox
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2 years ago
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Conditional formatting using a measure

Hi,

 

How can I have different colours for different years in a chart visual? I have tried a switch measure but when I go to the Conditional formatting option on the visual, the measure I just made does not load, I just get a "blank" red outlined box;

 

 

 

The calculation I used for the measure was;

Colour scheme = SWITCH(true(), max('Calendar'[Year])="2022","pink",

max('Calendar'[Year])="2023", "purple",

max('Calendar'[Year])="2024", "orange","silver")

 

Or am I going about this the wrong way?

 

Thank you in advance.

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  • Jihwan_Kim's avatar
    Jihwan_Kim
    2 years ago

    Hi,

    I am not sure how your semantic model looks like, but if the year column in the calendar table is not text format, please try something like below.

     

    Colour scheme =
SWITCH (
    TRUE (),
    MAX ( 'Calendar'[Year] ) = 2022, "pink",
    MAX ( 'Calendar'[Year] ) = 2023, "purple",
    MAX ( 'Calendar'[Year] ) = 2024, "orange",
    "silver"
)

4 Replies

  • Jihwan_Kim's avatar
    Jihwan_Kim
    Super User
    2 years ago

    Hi,

    I am not sure how your semantic model looks like, but if the year column in the calendar table is not text format, please try something like below.

     

    Colour scheme =
SWITCH (
    TRUE (),
    MAX ( 'Calendar'[Year] ) = 2022, "pink",
    MAX ( 'Calendar'[Year] ) = 2023, "purple",
    MAX ( 'Calendar'[Year] ) = 2024, "orange",
    "silver"
)
  • _AAndrade's avatar
    _AAndrade
    Resident Rockstar
    2 years ago

    Did you try to click on that box and search for your measure?

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Not applicable
    2 years ago

    Hi Jaqinthebox ,

    Thank you for Jihwan_Kim and _AAndrade answer , and I have other suggestions:
    Below is my table:

    The following DAX might work for you:

    Colour scheme = 
SWITCH(true(), 
MAX('Table'[Date]) = "1/1/2024","pink",

MAX('Table'[Date])="2/1/2024", "purple",

MAX('Table'[Date])="3/1/2024", "orange","silver")

    The final output is shown in the following figure:

     

    What we can see is that this metric is applied well in the table, indicating that there is no problem, on the bar chart the x-axis fails, which is an existing problem.

    There is currently no way to control the x-axis of the bars via measure.

    Best Regards,

    Xianda Tang

    If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

    • Jaqinthebox's avatar
      Jaqinthebox
      Regular Visitor
      2 years ago

      Thank you all for your replies Anonymous Jihwan_Kim _AAndrade 

       

      It was the reply from Jihwan_Kim which helped. I hadn't formatted the "Year" column in my calendar to Text. I had no idea that had to be done for conditional formatting measures to work (I'm relatively new to Power BI!)

       

      Result as below;

       

       

      Thanks again to everyone that replied.