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MCornish
Responsive Resident
Responsive Resident

Multi Row Card Conditional Formatting

So odd scenario here.

 

I have a multi row card where I am conditionally formatting the bar colour. If every row has the same colour key then it works fine, as soon as one is different they all turn grey (not one of my options). 

 

See images

 

All green.PNGAll Grey.PNG

Rules.PNG

 

Is this an issue with the visualisation or am I being a tool?

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PhilipTreacy
Super User
Super User

Hi @MCornish 

 

Unfortunately that's the way conditional formatting works on Multi Row Card.  It's not really working as you'd expect, and as a result it's not very useful.

 

What's it's actually doing is looking at all the values in the Colour Key column.  If you set your CF Rules so that you want to apply different colours to different values (as you have) - PBI doesn't know what to do because some values in the Colour Key column are 0 and some are 1.  It can't apply 2 rules to all the card rows, so it makes them grey.

mrc1.png

 

If you only have 1 CF Rule, or you choose to format by an aggregation like Minimum, so you set it to colour the bars based on the Minimum of the Colour Key

mrc2.png

 

Then it makes all bars red because the min in the Colour Key column is 0, and there's a rule to match that value.

 

Likewise if you format for the max value to be 1 it can find 1 in the Colour Key column and find a matching rule, so all bars are green.

mrc3.png

 

It's not clear this is how it works and it's not very useful.

 

Regards

 

Phil



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kca2306
New Member

Any updates on this functionality.  This seems like a bug? ... shouldnt it be possible to implement conditional formating here?

IndecentDad
New Member

Made an account just to say this defeats the purpose of the multi-row card....

How did they create this but are unable to give cards unique formatting?

NourJ
Helper III
Helper III

Hi, Is there any solution for this?

PhilipTreacy
Super User
Super User

Hi @MCornish 

 

Unfortunately that's the way conditional formatting works on Multi Row Card.  It's not really working as you'd expect, and as a result it's not very useful.

 

What's it's actually doing is looking at all the values in the Colour Key column.  If you set your CF Rules so that you want to apply different colours to different values (as you have) - PBI doesn't know what to do because some values in the Colour Key column are 0 and some are 1.  It can't apply 2 rules to all the card rows, so it makes them grey.

mrc1.png

 

If you only have 1 CF Rule, or you choose to format by an aggregation like Minimum, so you set it to colour the bars based on the Minimum of the Colour Key

mrc2.png

 

Then it makes all bars red because the min in the Colour Key column is 0, and there's a rule to match that value.

 

Likewise if you format for the max value to be 1 it can find 1 in the Colour Key column and find a matching rule, so all bars are green.

mrc3.png

 

It's not clear this is how it works and it's not very useful.

 

Regards

 

Phil



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It is actually not a solution indeed, just the representation of reality of another poor PowerBi visual that is not working as everyworld is expecting

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