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How to apply conditional formatting while exporting the data into an excel file using query.
- 3 years ago
No, as I said, the queries generated have no formatting at all, just data. Then the visual author translates that data into the conditional formatting you see. You'd have to apply that same logic on the raw data you extracted.
Power BI queries are just data. 100% of any formatting is done exclusively by the visual, whether it is you changing colors in a bar chart, the background color, or conditional formatting. The Vertipaq engine you query - in the viz, or via Power Automate - has no clue about formatting.
You can get the conditional formatting values. You can see how Power BI does this by creating a conditional format, then using Performance Analyzer to look at the query generated for the visual.
But it is 100% data. No formats at all. The visual instead knows to interpret the column for formatting. Then the report layer translates those numbers into the colors you chose.
So no, the query itself is pure data, even in Power BI. You'd need to format in Excel.
- CherryKom3 years agoFrequent Visitor
Thankyou edhans for the response.
Do we have any other way to apply conditional formatting before we export the data?
- edhans3 years agoCommunity Champion
No, as I said, the queries generated have no formatting at all, just data. Then the visual author translates that data into the conditional formatting you see. You'd have to apply that same logic on the raw data you extracted.
Power BI queries are just data. 100% of any formatting is done exclusively by the visual, whether it is you changing colors in a bar chart, the background color, or conditional formatting. The Vertipaq engine you query - in the viz, or via Power Automate - has no clue about formatting.