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Hi all,
How can I highlight the first instance 'Candidate Ref' appears?
A new column denoting the earliest date Candidate Ref appears.
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Hi, @HenryJS
According to your description, I can roughly understand your requirement, do you mean that you want to create a new column to get the first date that the Candidate Ref appears for each Candidate Ref, you can try this calculated column:
First date =
CALCULATE(MIN('Table'[Application Date]),FILTER(ALL('Table'),[Candidate Ref]=EARLIER('Table'[Candidate Ref])))
And you can get what you want, like this:
You can download my test pbix file below
If this result is not what you want, you can post some sample data(without sensitive data) and your expected result.
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Thank you very much!
Best Regards,
Community Support Team _Robert Qin
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Hi, @HenryJS
According to your description, I can roughly understand your requirement, do you mean that you want to create a new column to get the first date that the Candidate Ref appears for each Candidate Ref, you can try this calculated column:
First date =
CALCULATE(MIN('Table'[Application Date]),FILTER(ALL('Table'),[Candidate Ref]=EARLIER('Table'[Candidate Ref])))
And you can get what you want, like this:
You can download my test pbix file below
If this result is not what you want, you can post some sample data(without sensitive data) and your expected result.
How to Get Your Question Answered Quickly
Thank you very much!
Best Regards,
Community Support Team _Robert Qin
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.
@HenryJS , Create a color measure like this and use that in conditional formatting using field value option
measure =
var _min = calculate(min(Table[application Date]), filter(allselected(Table), table[candidate_ID] = max(table[candidate_ID])))
return
if(max(table[candidate_ID]) =_min, "red", "white")
@amitchandak sorry I meant a new column which denotes the first instance, so a 1 if it is the first instance
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