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highlight weekends in matrix

Hi Dear Community,  I have a Matrix like below, with Days as column and usernames as rows and count on the value.  Now, my end user asked me to highlight the weekends on this matrix. Because he nee...
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  • mahoneypat's avatar
    mahoneypat
    6 years ago

    Here is one way I found to work.

     

    On your Date table, add a column with this expression

     

    Day Color = IF(WEEKDAY('Date'[Date])=1, "Red")

     

    Then, concatenate the expression in your measure that goes in the values area with & " "

    Measure = SUM(Table[Column]) & " "

     

    Then add conditional format to that measure in the matrix, choose Field Value, and your Date[Day Color] field (it will default to First aggregation).

     

    Here is an example I what I saw when I did the above (note one value is blank but still show red).

     

     

    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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Anonymous
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6 years ago

AllisonKennedy , I have workDay as a calculated column in my table. I have no Datetable separately?

 

amitchandak How having a separate data table will help in this case?

  • AllisonKennedy's avatar
    AllisonKennedy
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    6 years ago
    You can use amitchandak 's measure on your existing table, but a separate Date table is highly recommended.

    You can also use your WorkDay column as is to do conditional formatting in the matrix, just depends what color you want it and if you also need it to work with the existing conditional formatting you may need to create a custom measure to incorporate both values, so let us know.
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    amitchandak
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    6 years ago

    Anonymous , If you are using that date in matrix the formula should work

     

    work day = if(WEEKDAY([Date],2)<6,1,0)

    • Anonymous's avatar
      Anonymous
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      6 years ago

      amitchandak , AllisonKennedy  thank you for your replies. but I still have the issue. So let me walk you through what I do: 
      I add the MonthDay as my column in the Matrix:

       

      Then, I add my measure, which is a simple count : (the measure is

      COUNT(ExecutionLogStorage[ReportAction])

      Then I created a color column in my Date table, saying if it is Sunday, then Red, otherwise, white. 

      Then I set the background color of my measure , with conditioanal formatting and field value of Color column: 

       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       

      the month is June, and it is working. 
      Now, when I add my Username to my rows, it goes like this :

      what I want is for the whole columns which represents Sundays, go red. Like 28 should be red totally. Not just where we have value. 

       

      So, I tried to add manually value to blank cells with the measure: 

      InteractionCount = if( ISBLANK(COUNT(ExecutionLogStorage[ReportAction]));-99;COUNT(ExecutionLogStorage[ReportAction]))
       
      But, no difference, still the same problem: 
       

       

       

      What am I doing wrong?

      • v-lionel-msft's avatar
        v-lionel-msft
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        6 years ago

        Hi Anonymous ,

         

        If you have a date column in your table, you can do like this(Please refer to my .pbix file.).

         

        If you don't have a date column in your table, please give me a sample data.

         

        Best regards,
        Lionel Chen

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