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Cfarinha
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Matrix with column "sections" where fields in Values are specific to a "section"

I have a specific way I want my matrix to look. I'd like the columns divided into 3 sections; Upcoming, Pending and Completed.

The Upcoming section needs to display the calculated fields: Activities_up, Estimate_up and Budget_up

The Pending section needs to display the calculated fields: Activities_pnd, Days_Pending, Estimate_pnd and Budget_pnd

The Completed section needs to display the calculated fields: Activities_com, Estimate_com and Budget_com

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I was able to achieve this through the use of SWITCH(). However, because of that I cannot apply conditional formatting to the columns independently of each other as the values output utilizes a single field.

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Does anyone have any advice? I feel like it shouldn't be this difficult to achieve a view where my metrics are grouped and displayed within in specific headers without losing the ability to conditionally format each individually.

 

I'd also rather not go the route of overlaying multiple matrix's on top of each other and fiddling with transparent backgrounds/manually sizing each column width, maintaining sort order, etc. In my experience this never renders properly, looks terrible and isn't functional as anything more than a static view that cannot be used by someone wanting to drill up/down, change the values on the rows, etc.

 

Thank you in advance for any advice.

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v-yulgu-msft
Microsoft Employee
Microsoft Employee

Hi @Cfarinha,

 

After testing, it sems that there is no way to achieve such a Matrix view. As you mentioned, it is not able to congifure the value returned by the same measure with different formats.

 

Regards,

Yuliana Gu

Community Support Team _ Yuliana Gu
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