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leerjones85
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Help with Conditional Formatting

Afternoon all,

 

I am pretty new to Power BI and have come a bit stuck when trying to format the text colour on columns in my report table.

 

Base Table = FACT_METRICS

 

Target colour is based on the metric definition (can be different for different metrics)

 

METRICDATEACTUALTARGETTARGET_MET
METRIC 1 22/10/20241212Purple
METRIC 121/10/20248.212Green
METRIC 120/10/202412.512Red
METRIC 222/10/20246.86.5Green
METRIC 221/10/202466.5Red
METRIC 220/10/202476.5Green
METRIC 322/10/202464Red
METRIC 321/10/202434Green
METRIC 320/10/202444Green
etc...etc...etc...etc...etc...

 

Report Table looks like... (Yesterday = 22/10/2024)

 

METRICYESTERDAYDAY -2DAY -3
METRIC 1 128.212.5
METRIC 26.867
METRIC 3634
etc...etc...etc...etc...

 

I want to conditional format Yesterday, Day-2 and Day -3 font colour to equal the colour in the TARGET_MET column.

 

If I try to add condiitonal formatting to any of these columns based on rule TARGET_MET it looks for the First or Last so isnt returning the correct colour.

 

Any help is much appreciated!

 

Thank You.

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SamWiseOwl
Super User
Super User

Hi @leerjones85 

 

You could create a measure for each defining the colour to return.

The code will be similar to your yesterday or -3day code.

 

SamWiseOwl_0-1729672931712.png

Assign this as your Field value under the Background colour.

3day  Swap colour =
var day3 = CALCULATE(sum('Target Table'[ACTUAL]), 'Target Table'[DATE] = TODAY() -3)
RETURN
If(
   day3 >= CALCULATE(sum('Target Table'[TARGET]), 'Target Table'[DATE] = TODAY() -3)
    ,CALCULATE(SELECTEDVALUE('Target Table'[TARGET_MET]), 'Target Table'[DATE] = TODAY() -3)
)

If you are happy with this answer please mark as a solution for others to find !

Kudos are always appreciated! Check out our free Power BI video courses.

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SamWiseOwl
Super User
Super User

Hi @leerjones85 

 

You could create a measure for each defining the colour to return.

The code will be similar to your yesterday or -3day code.

 

SamWiseOwl_0-1729672931712.png

Assign this as your Field value under the Background colour.

3day  Swap colour =
var day3 = CALCULATE(sum('Target Table'[ACTUAL]), 'Target Table'[DATE] = TODAY() -3)
RETURN
If(
   day3 >= CALCULATE(sum('Target Table'[TARGET]), 'Target Table'[DATE] = TODAY() -3)
    ,CALCULATE(SELECTEDVALUE('Target Table'[TARGET_MET]), 'Target Table'[DATE] = TODAY() -3)
)

If you are happy with this answer please mark as a solution for others to find !

Kudos are always appreciated! Check out our free Power BI video courses.

Thank You! 🙂

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