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Paginated Report Help - Background Conditional Formatting

I am trying to create a report, that per client requests, should have cell background colour formatting for when a value is above the threshold. I am struggling to find a way around this. The values are based on string type, which any value equal or under the threshold has a < in front of it (<900, <1800) so for this case I could just use that as the filter, any value that has "<" or is blank should have "White" background colour formatting, whereas any other value should be yellow.

I'm trying with the current formula:

 

=IIF(InStr(Fields!humm2.Value, "<") > 0 OR IsNothing(Fields!humm2.Value) OR Fields!humm2.Value = "", "White", "Yellow")

 

Yet I get this info:

The 'BackgroundColor' expression for the text box 'Textbox37' contains an error: [BC30451] 'CONTAINSSTRING' is not declared. It may be inaccessible due to its protection level.

The definition of the report '' is invalid.

An error occurred during local report processing.

How should I write the formula to get it to work? Cheers

From a PBI Desktop App report it should look like this:

 

AmazingRandom_2-1711416477716.png

 

 

 

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RossEdwards
Solution Specialist
Solution Specialist

What about:

IIF(Left(Fields!humm2.Value, 1) = "<") OR IsNothing(Fields!humm2.Value) OR Fields!humm2.Value = "", "White", "Yellow")

I have tweaked a little bit, I swapped the IIf into a SWITCH statement and it worked

It says this:

AmazingRandom_0-1711481425454.png

 

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