Formatting Bars in a Clustered Chart

[donovan_smith44]

Hi all,

I'm a total Power BI noob, so wanted to know if something was possible. I have this bar chart pictured:

The royal blue bars represented a target financial amount, light blue is actual financial amount. I wanted to add something that indicates the following:

Actual >= 95% of target, some green-colored visual indicator.

80%=<Actual<95% of target, yellow-colored visual indicator.

Actual < 80% of target, red-colored indicator.

Would anyone happen to know the best way to go about doing this? Any help is appreciated.

[v-lid-msft · Accepted solution]

Hi @donovan_smith44 ,

We can also archieve your requirement in a build in clustered bar chart with trick. Create two measures as actually or amount, adjust the formula based on your own data model.

Actually = CALCULATE(SUM('Table'[Value]),FILTER('Table',[Type]="2019"))

Target = CALCULATE(SUM('Table'[Value]),FILTER('Table',[Type]="Other"))

Then we create three more measures, put them and target into the value field of visual.

<80% = IF([Actually]<0.8*[Target],[Actually],BLANK())

80 - 95% = IF([Actually]<0.95*[Target] && [Actually]>=0.8*[Target] ,[Actually],BLANK())

>95% = IF([Actually]>=0.95*[Target],[Actually],BLANK())

You can also change the name of these measure.

Then we can change the color of data for each measure

We also provided a usage of bullet chart in the page 2 of sample pbix file.

BTW, pbix as attached.

Best regards,

Community Support Team _ Dong Li
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[bchager6]

@v-lid-msft  This is great. Do you know how to create a bullet chart with the green shading to the left, yellow in the middle, and red to the right? That would seem to make sense in some contexts where the more something is consumed, the more it moves in to the red area.

[v-lid-msft]

Hi @bchager6 ,

We can change the colors in the setting as following picuture.

BTW, pbix as attached.

Best regards,

Community Support Team _ Dong Li
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[donovan_smith44]

Thank you. This is great. Will try.

[bchager6]

I recommend researching the conditional formatting options available with tables, matrices and bullet charts. Especially bullet charts.

[donovan_smith44]

Thank you. Bullet charts are something I haven't tried.