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Hi everyone,
I am attempting to create a custom made KPI card visual via Deneb (the PBI card visual simply do not give enough benchmark values to compare the main KPI, I find).
To do that, I would like to have the KPI displayed as concise as possible. Therefore, I would like to have the visual adapt the formatting of the KPI value to a k (for thousand) or m (for million) suffix i.e. €219,677 displayed as €219k and €1,488,010 as €1.5m.
However, I seem to have difficulties setting up my condition section accordingly. I am currently having the following Deneb code
{
"data": {"name": "dataset"},
"layer": [
{
"mark": {
"type": "text",
"fontSize": 25,
"fontWeight": 600,
"dx": 0,
"dy": -35,
"color": "#454545",
"align": "center"
},
"encoding": {
"text": {
"field": "Text YTD Sales"
}
}
},
{
"mark": {
"type": "text",
"fontWeight": 400,
"size": 30,
"color": "#454545",
"align": "center"
},
"encoding": {
"text": {
"field": "YTD of CY",
"aggregate": "sum",
"type": "quantitative",
"format": {
"condition": {
"test": "datum['YTD of CY'] < 100000",
"value": "#, €",
"test": "datum['YTD of CY'] >= 100000",
"value": "#,.k €"
},
"value": "#,,.0m €"
},
"formatType": "pbiFormat"
}
}
}
]
}
As you can see, I tried to copy how they did it in the documentation here https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/docs/condition.html#condition
(section "condition": {"test": "datum['num_cars'] < 40", "value": "black"} )
I also tried this alternative code based on the documentation here https://vega.github.io/vega-lite/docs/predicate.html
{
"data": {"name": "dataset"},
"layer": [
{
"mark": {
"type": "text",
"fontSize": 25,
"fontWeight": 600,
"dx": 0,
"dy": -35,
"color": "#454545",
"align": "center"
},
"encoding": {
"text": {
"field": "Text YTD Sales"
}
}
},
{
"mark": {
"type": "text",
"fontWeight": 400,
"size": 30,
"color": "#454545",
"align": "center"
},
"encoding": {
"text": {
"field": "YTD of CY",
"aggregate": "sum",
"type": "quantitative",
"format": {
"condition": {
"test": {
"field": "YTD of CY",
"lt": 100000
},
"value": "#, €",
"test": {
"field": "YTD of CY",
"gte": 100000
},
"value": "#,.k €"
},
"value": "#,,.0m €"
},
"formatType": "pbiFormat"
}
}
}
]
}
Unfortunately, this also did not yield any results:
I do get the correct figure displayed when I leave the conditional formatting away altogether but then I am trying for a Deneb visual as it would give me more freedom to design a KPI card visual on my personal requirements.
Can anyone please help enlighten me here? I really do not understand why neither of my attempts to build in conditional formatting actually works. Thanks!
Not sure if that helps in your scenario but Deneb also supports Power BI formatting
Exploring the Power of the pbiFormat() Function in Deneb | CSalcedoDataBI
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