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Helper II

9 years ago

Need help with conditional formatting in a table

Hey All, I have an assignment that requires a conditional formatting in table for a txt field. The possible Values are "Red"/"Green"/ "Yellow". I have created another column and converted these ...

Resolver III

9 years ago

This might not be very convenient for you, but you can import a KPI from an Excel Power Pivot, and when you show that in a PowerBI table it will use the KPI symbol.

For example, if you download the Retail Analysis Sample.xlsx from here and import into Power BI, you should see a 'This Year Sales' KPI.

Add the Status field to a table and it will show the KPI symbols that were set up in Excel:

radhikabedi
Frequent Visitor
9 years ago
I was trying your solution, but Power BI won't let me "get data" from that file. It shows up as a folder with no tables. I am trying to import as an Excel type.

Let me know if I should be doing something differently.
- MalS
  Resolver III
  9 years ago
  Yes - "get data" doesn't work on this file because the data is stored in a 'Data Model' in Excel (not in regular Excel sheets).
  
  You need to go to File > Import > Excel Workbook Contents
  - Sean
    Community Champion
    9 years ago
    If anyone likes the KPIs and would like to be able to create them inside PBI (without having to Import from Power Pivot)
    Please Vote for either one of these Ideas
    Idea 1
    https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/6556753-ability-to-set-goals-and-thresholds-for-kpis
    Idea 2
    https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/16939561-kpi-icon-sets-for-use-in-table-and-matrix-visualiz
    I have linked these 2 Ideas in the hope that the moderators will consolidate them into 1.
    I hope they combine the overall Vote totals for both and hope they do so into the 2nd one even though it has less votes
    because it is better articulated!
    
    Thanks! :smileyhappy: Please Vote!