Conditional Formatting Data Colors for Negative Numbers

[Dalla_Terra]

I am trying to configure my visualization online so that negative percentages are red and positive are green. I feel like I have the conditional formatting set right but the visual is wrong.

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

hi @Dalla_Terra - You can try the option to not set the values for the upper and lower limits highted in the below screenshot.

Just leave these values BLANK and Power BI will idenitify the limits based on the range of values available in your data. 

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[Dalla_Terra]

Thanks @Anonymous this worked beautifully and it was a very simple solve, much appreciated! 

[Anonymous]

@Dalla_Terra  - Happy to help! 🙂

[V-lianl-msft]

Hi @Dalla_Terra ,

Try to create a measure like this then apply it to conditional formatting:

IF([YTD VAR%]>0,"green","red")

Best Regards,
Liang
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[Dalla_Terra]

Thanks for the help. I like to creative approach but I didn't try it because I wanted to avoid creating another measure on top of the percent measure I was already using. 

[collinq]

HI @Dalla_Terra ,

I think that the issue may be in the formula, your conditional formatting is set to "number" and you data is set to "percent".  I think that you need to modify the color to be less than -9999 and less than 0.  And the other one be greater/equal to 0 and less than 99999.   OR, change those to percentages.  If you change to percentages, just make sure that your data really is a percentage.

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[Dalla_Terra]

Thanks for the reply. I tried your appraoch but it would not accept me changing the number to a percent with the inputs your recommended. I appreciate the help.