Conditional formatting for number format of measure

[738o51]

Hi everyone,

I am working on a report to show census and occupancy of our hospital where census is the count of patients, and occupancy is census/hospital beds. Therefore, census should be formatted as a number (with no decimal places) and occupancy should be a percentage.

There are several visuals where I want to switch between these metrics. For example, to show trends in census and occupancy over the past year, I built a line graph that allows me to switch the value of the graph by clicking a button. I used these instructions: https://powerbi.tips/2019/08/dynamic-visuals-using-buttons/

and the meausre is: 

Metric =
SWITCH(
SELECTEDVALUE(Metric[Metric Number]),
1,[Occupancy],
2,[Census],
[Occupancy]
)

My problem is now that as I switch between occupancy and census, I cannot get the number formatting of that measure to change as well. Is there a way for me to format my metric to show % when I click the "Occupancy" button and a number when I click the "Census" button?

Any help would be appreciated! I cannot attach a real pbix file because of confidential patient information, unfortunately.

[rajulshah · Accepted solution]

Hello @738o51,

Please try the following DAX:

Metric =
SWITCH(
SELECTEDVALUE(Metric[Metric Number]),
1,FORMAT([Occupancy],"Percent"),
2,[Census],
FORMAT([Occupancy],"Percent")
)

Let me know if this doesn't help.

[738o51]

Thanks! 

I used your Dax but made used "#%" rather than "Percent" to get rid of the decimal places.

I appreciate your help!