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Conditional formatting colour for column chart

Is it possible to make a column chart with measure as the value to have conditional formatting? This is how it is now.image.png

 

Thanks.

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SteveCampbell
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If you have something in the legend field, you cannot use formatting.

However, I think from the picture, that you do not have anything in the axis field of your column chart.

 

Please put something in the axis, and check again. It can be a disassociated table with a single value if really needed. When applying custom formatting, make sure you hover your mouse over the ellipsis to make it show.

 

Otherwise, I suggest if you are only displaying one value, you could use a CARD visual, and format the background using the same conditional formatting found in background attributes.

If you want to show the target other options could be a KPI, GUAGE, or the custom visual CARD WITH STATES by sqlbi.

 

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SteveCampbell
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If you have something in the legend field, you cannot use formatting.

However, I think from the picture, that you do not have anything in the axis field of your column chart.

 

Please put something in the axis, and check again. It can be a disassociated table with a single value if really needed. When applying custom formatting, make sure you hover your mouse over the ellipsis to make it show.

 

Otherwise, I suggest if you are only displaying one value, you could use a CARD visual, and format the background using the same conditional formatting found in background attributes.

If you want to show the target other options could be a KPI, GUAGE, or the custom visual CARD WITH STATES by sqlbi.

 

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PattemManohar
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@Anonymous  Did you tried this way ? If not, please do and post any questions.

 

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Anonymous
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@PattemManohar 

Infortunately I am not getting a conditional formatting button. This is how it looks like for meimage.png

@Anonymous  There will be a small ellipse button on the right side as shown below (it looks like hidden, may be due to the light background as well)

 

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Anonymous
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@PattemManohar 

Unfortunately I do not have the button. I clicked near that area many times to see if there is one but there isn't. Is there another way?

 

  image.png

Anonymous
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What version of Power BI you're using? Please upgrade to the latest.
Cheers!

@Anonymous I guess his PBI version will be recent version, as we can see light background in the Screenshot of the Format pane (which was the update in recent releases)

Anyway, @Anonymous please confirm which version of PBI desktop you are using.




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@Anonymous  Here is another screenshot which might help you...

 

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Anonymous
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image.png @PattemManohar  I looked in data colours but there is no button. What would be another solution?


@PattemManohar wrote:

@Anonymous  Here is another screenshot which might help you...

 

 


 

@Anonymous If you can't see the conditional formatting (not sure why you are not able to see that option, hopefully you have the updated PBI Desktop version) then you can't have dynamic colouring for your column bars. But if you want to change to some other colour (which will be static) then you can easily do (but that is not a feasible solution). I strongly suggest you to find why you are not able to see that feature.... Also, enable all the preview features in the options and settings of PBI Desktop.... Try all the way !





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Hope you are checking that under “Data Colours” as per the screenshot in above post.




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