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boyerusmc
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6 years ago
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Stacked bar chart formatting

Hello! I've read a couple posts about conditional formatting for a stacked bar chart and the only one post was close. Unfortunately, it's a burden to have to conditionally format using measures, esp...
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  • dedelman_clng's avatar
    dedelman_clng
    6 years ago

    Hello @boyerusmc -

    I've done something similar in the past, and it involves making two measures for value that could be negative:

    Total Remaining Neg = var __tot = CALCULATE(SUM('Table'[Remaining]))
return IF (__tot < 0, __tot, 0)
    Total Remaining Pos = var __tot = CALCULATE(SUM('Table'[Remaining]))
return IF ( __tot >= 0, __tot, 0)

    Then rename them after you put them in as values, change the colors, and

    2020-08-06 10_00_54-Window.png

    I hope this helps,

    David

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boyerusmc
Frequent Visitor
6 years ago

Sorry - part two: snapshot below shows there's no option for advanced controls / conditional formatting for the data colors.

 

 

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dedelman_clng
Community Champion
6 years ago

Hello @boyerusmc -

I've done something similar in the past, and it involves making two measures for value that could be negative:

Total Remaining Neg = var __tot = CALCULATE(SUM('Table'[Remaining]))
return IF (__tot < 0, __tot, 0)
Total Remaining Pos = var __tot = CALCULATE(SUM('Table'[Remaining]))
return IF ( __tot >= 0, __tot, 0)

Then rename them after you put them in as values, change the colors, and

2020-08-06 10_00_54-Window.png

I hope this helps,

David

  • boyerusmc's avatar
    boyerusmc
    Frequent Visitor
    6 years ago

    Thanks David, this worked like a champ!