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Ronnie7
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 values to 0,1,2.

I'm currently facing two issues:
1. In the table I have two text columns that contains these values like "Project Status", "Budget Status", one of them could be "Yellow" and the other one "Red".  Is there any convinient solution for this?

2. When converting to 0,1,2 I can't hide these values from the column (I wanted to only leave the cell color without any value).

 

We have the orignal reportSSRS , that one, however, contains Traffic light indicators instead on the ""Red"/"Green"/ "Yellow".

 

a Snapshot from PowerBI:

 

I feel like this is not a real solution.

 

Any help/idea for a solution would be greatly appreciated!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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8 Replies

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    Not applicable
    9 years ago

    Hi Ronnie7,

     

    Current power bi conditional formatting not support this feature, displayed cell color is based on cell value.
    Perhaps you can post your requirement to ideas.

     

    Regards,

    Xiaoxin Sheng

  • MalS's avatar
    MalS
    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's avatar
      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's avatar
        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