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PBIMike
Helper III
Helper III

Simple KPI

Hello,

 

Everything I can see about KPI's seems to assess trend over time. I just want a simple +/- based on 2 figures:

 

eg.

2019 Sales = £1,000

2020 Sales = £1,100

Indicator = Green upwards arrow, ideally showing +£100 and/or +10%

 

Does this exist?

 

Many tahnks,

Mike

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amitchandak
Super User
Super User

@PBIMike , refer if these can help

https://exceleratorbi.com.au/conditional-formatting-using-icons-in-power-bi/
https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/FORMAT-icon-set-for-use-in-a-data-card/td-p/811692

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Thanks all, but the conditional formatting fucntion only works when comparing data within a column.

 

I am looking to produce a row such as the example below:

                       2020                  2019                                  KPI/variance analysis

Sales              £1,100     /        £1,000          /       +£100/+10% green arrow indicator

Hi @PBIMike ,

 

What is your original data table? Please give a sample data.

 

Best regards,
Lionel Chen

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vanessafvg
Community Champion
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have you looked in the custom visualisations?  there are quite a few there 

 

otherwise you can try this

 

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Community-Blog/Power-BI-Desktop-DAX-Using-Unicode-Arrows-as-Measure...





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mahoneypat
Microsoft Employee
Microsoft Employee

Yes.  You can use conditional formatting and/or icon sets.  Please see this post - https://powerbi.tips/2019/07/icons-upon-icons/

 

Also, you can also add icons as text in your measure outputs by holding the Windows key and "." (or ";") and concatenating it with your result.  In your case you can use an IF() to have two outcomes each with a different icon.

 

If this works for you, please mark it as the solution.  Kudos are appreciated too.  Please let me know if not.

Regards,

Pat





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