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Highlight selected bar in a column chart
Hi All,
I have got a column chart with 79 geographies and a slicer with the 79 geographies. The column chart is not dependent on the slicer however there are other visualisations in the page that are dependent on the slicer.
What I would to achieve is when I select a specific geography in the slicer the bar that corresponds to that selected geography should be highlighted (i.e. a different colour fill). Can someone please let me know if it is possible to achieve.
Please see below the screenshot and also link to the .pbix file for your reference.
https://1drv.ms/u/s!AubIV2PXG9p4gqhykbbmeMfFYlChCw?e=w6UABf
Thank you.
Anonymous , not sure what is wrong. I tried the same stuff on a new page it is working. Check page 2
8 Replies
- Greg_Deckler
Community Champion
Anonymous - Not if it is the same column in the slicer and the column chart. You would need a disconnected table for your slicer. The reason is that if you turned off interactions, the visual has lost all reference to what is selected in the slicer, you basically can't figure it out. With a separate table you can. Now, this would like mean vast changes for your other visuals obviously.
But, if you had this disconnected table, you could theoretically do it by using the default color "fx" to determine the color of the column by comparing if the column matched the slicer value.
- amitchandak
Super User
Anonymous , in case you are not using legend and only using one measure you will be able to see conditional formatting.
You have created an independent slicer. Not coming from the table or joined to the table
create a color meausre like given below and use that in conditional formatting with "Field value" option
if(FIRSTNONBLANK(Table[locality],"true")= selectedvalue(locality[locality],"green","blue")
https://radacad.com/dax-and-conditional-formatting-better-together-find-the-biggest-and-smallest-numbers-in-the-column
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/desktop-conditional-table-formatting#color-by-color-valuesHi amitchandak,
I have followed your instructions and created a new table with only the locality column. I have used this column for the slicer. However after I created a new measure using your formula it did not work. Can you please let me know what am I doing wrong? Thanks a ton for your assistance.
My formula -
Colour = IF(FIRSTNONBLANK(Sheet1[Locality],"true") = SELECTEDVALUE(Locality[Locality]),"green","blue")Here is the link for the updated .pbix file - https://1drv.ms/u/s!AubIV2PXG9p4gqhykbbmeMfFYlChCw?e=w6UABf
- amitchandak
Anonymous , not sure what is wrong. I tried the same stuff on a new page it is working. Check page 2
I have found this great solution posted on YouTube today (8 Oct 2020) by Patrick from "Guy in a Cube" channel that shows how to conditionally highlight a bar in a Power BI Report. Check it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2GnAfpsO2k
- Beinexpowerbi
Advocate I
hi Anonymous we have created a solution to this using dax .
Please check our latest blog on this :
https://www.beinex.com/blog/dynamic-highlight-bar-chart-with-slicer/
