Multiple Number Format in the Same Column

[ehartanto]

Hello, 

I am having difficulty having multiple number formats in the same column. I had it in the same column for drilling down and filtering purposes from different entities. For example, here is my data. I wanted occupancy rate, % margin to show in percentage whereas rental rate and margin to be in numerical form with one decimal place. Is there any way I could achieve this?

Metric                  Amount
Occupancy           0.8

Rental Rate          60.1

Margin                 20.6
% Margin             0.2

Thanks in advance!

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

@ehartanto 

You can create a measure with multiple format.

Measure = SWITCH(MAX('Table'[Metric]),
"Occupancy",FORMAT(SUM('Table'[Amount]),"Percent"),
"% Margin", FORMAT(SUM('Table'[Amount]),"Percent"),
SUM('Table'[Amount]))

Paul Zheng _ Community Support Team
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[noparking]

This is exactly what I needed and it's a simple solution. Thanks!!

[amitchandak]

@ehartanto , In that case, you have to return the number from a column in the given format. It might become a text column use format function.  refer various format here -https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/desktop-custom-format-strings

A few days back I have seen a video from Guyincube where they used external tools for formatting for measure slicer. Not sure that can work for you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlnx7QUVYME

[Greg_Deckler]

@ehartanto Tough one. If it is OK to convert to text, you can use FORMAT to achieve this.

[oremo]

apology if i hijacked this thread. I've managed to do this and happy to share my one. $,%, and many others. got one dynamic columns that dynamically took place for my more than 15 measures.

the one that i can't get around is the Style Icon. like for:

sales - use bar icons

percentage - use arrows growth icons.

and many more.. totally stucked with this :)... any tip? if i have to create my own external.. what research i need?