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Aakash15
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need help with resolving double '-' symbol from dymanic datalable using tabular editor

Hello
I am in need to present a bar chart with dynamic data lables (data lables drived by dax). to acheive that I have use external tool called tabular editor. with this i written format string expression.
The requirement is i need to concadiante '-' for negative values and '+' for positive values and also % for some attributes.

 

below i present the dax in tabular editor Ver.2
expression.jpg

 

Here i used format string expression to customise the data lable

format string expression.jpg

 

this is output. we can clearly see double '-' symbol at the first value but for others all is fine.

output.jpg

 

I need help regarding this

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timtack
Frequent Visitor

I found your topic @Aakash15 while searching for an answer for my dynamic format problem, because i got two -- for negative values. I found an answer for my dynamic formatting with some behaviour testing. 
E.g. i wanted following format, but for negative Values i got "-- XXX K":

"""" & FORMAT(SELECTEDMEASURE(), "#,0, K")

Then i tested where this second - came from. I recognized, that PowerBI adds an "-" infront of my Format(...). With following code, the result was "-  -XXX K"

"  " & FORMAT(SELECTEDMEASURE(), "#,0, K")

So i wanted to get rid of one minus. I achieved that with formatting negativ values like positive ones, because it adds an "-" before Format(). This works for me:

 """" & FORMAT(SELECTEDMEASURE(), "#,0, K;#,0, K")

 

Eventhough the answer is pretty late, i hope this helps you or someone else!

amitchandak
Super User
Super User

@Aakash15 , In the format function you have options for positive and negative values

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dax/format-function-dax#custom-numeric-formats

 

Just use \+ on positive value at start

 

example 

\+#,###.00

or try

+#,###.00

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Hello Amit,
Really thanks for Reply. but unfortunatly it doesn't solve the issue. i went with bit of hardcoaded way, right now its fine but with no surity, I ll be glad if you can help with any other solution to it.
Thankyou.

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