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Anonymous
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Set conditional formatting between fields

Hi,

I would like to change the color of a row if 2 field have the same name for example if I have the table (first name, last name, age) I would like to color of the same color row who has the same first name but the problem is that by using conditionnal formatting I can deal only with values so I have no idea on how to do it or if it is possible.

Could someone help me please.

Thank you.

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Hi @Anonymous ,

 

These are two separate measures.

The first one:

Measure = SELECTEDVALUE(Table1[FirstName])

The Index measure:

Index = 
RANKX(ALLSELECTED(Table1),[Measure],,ASC,Dense)

Best regards,

Yuliana Gu

Community Support Team _ Yuliana Gu
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

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v-yulgu-msft
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Hi @Anonymous ,

 

You can create below measures:

Measure = SELECTEDVALUE(Table1[FirstName])
Index = 
RANKX(ALLSELECTED(Table1),[Measure],,ASC,Dense)

Then, set conditional formatting as below:

6.PNG

Best regards,

Yuliana Gu

Community Support Team _ Yuliana Gu
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.
Anonymous
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Thank you for your answer I tried your measure but it seems like there is a syntax error around the "Index" 

Hi @Anonymous ,

 

What is the error?

 

Regards,

Yuliana Gu

Community Support Team _ Yuliana Gu
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.
Anonymous
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Hi @v-yulgu-msft ,

 

It say that this syntax is incorrectscreen2.PNGhere is my measure  as I follow yours screen1.PNG I tried to put ";" instead of "," inside the RANKX function but it's still not working

Hi @Anonymous ,

 

These are two separate measures.

The first one:

Measure = SELECTEDVALUE(Table1[FirstName])

The Index measure:

Index = 
RANKX(ALLSELECTED(Table1),[Measure],,ASC,Dense)

Best regards,

Yuliana Gu

Community Support Team _ Yuliana Gu
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.
Anonymous
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Hi @v-yulgu-msft ,

 

Thank you very much, you helped  me a lot solving my problem

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