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Epic idea: Conditioanl formatting parameters displayed in legends and tooltips

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Miguel Myers on 08 Oct 2024 05:00:00

Interpreting visuals without a clear legend to indicate logic behind specific styles can lead to confusion and decision-making errors. An idea to enhance clarity and transparency by ensuring legends and tooltips accurately display colors, patterns, and other visual components influenced by logics, would enable report consumers to easily understand the applied logic and make more effective decisions.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:53:21

RE: Epic idea: Conditioanl formatting parameters displayed in legends and tooltips

I hope I'm not duplicating other comments. It would be great to also add conditional formatting for bar chart's label and axis that allows set up based on a measured or calculated columns.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:52:12

RE: Epic idea: Conditioanl formatting parameters displayed in legends and tooltips

Please do this. I want the same color to represent the same unique items across multiple charts and it takes a long time to set up.

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Andrea P. on 05 Jul 2020 23:52:04

RE: Epic idea: Conditioanl formatting parameters displayed in legends and tooltips

It's late june 2019, I was going to ask this feature and I understood it was requested 3 years ago. Too bad it has been not implemented, I find absurd this gap in a professional system.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:50:44

RE: Epic idea: Conditioanl formatting parameters displayed in legends and tooltips

the original thread is here: https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/13757925-dynamically-specify-data-colour-using-column-e-g

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Damian Fears on 05 Jul 2020 23:50:25

RE: Epic idea: Conditioanl formatting parameters displayed in legends and tooltips

Conditional Formatting of field names would be awesome - then I could make my reports / charts really multi-lingual.

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Daniela on 05 Jul 2020 23:49:22

RE: Epic idea: Conditioanl formatting parameters displayed in legends and tooltips

I think we need the Conditional Format in all the visual objects, this would open the doors to many opportunities of personalization of our reports

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Chris Tourville on 05 Jul 2020 23:48:45

RE: Epic idea: Conditioanl formatting parameters displayed in legends and tooltips

Agreed - nothing more unprofessional than having two charts with completely different color schemes for the same field. AT LEAST make sure they are consistent, but beyond that let us pick our own as well.

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Craig on 05 Jul 2020 23:48:05

RE: Epic idea: Conditioanl formatting parameters displayed in legends and tooltips

Same here. My team are developing multiple reports using some common dimensions. Would like to be able to lock in the colour for each dimension value so that visuals maintain consistent styling across all the reports -- e.g. the pie slice for "apple" is always red, or the chart line for "Banana" is always yellow, etc. We were hoping the colours could be defined via our custom JSON theme or in the dimensional table somehow.

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Aaron Lynch on 05 Jul 2020 23:47:21

RE: Epic idea: Conditioanl formatting parameters displayed in legends and tooltips

Really need this for dates. Greater than or less than Today () specifically...

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:47:03

RE: Epic idea: Conditioanl formatting parameters displayed in legends and tooltips

This is a must for dates. Particularly relatively (i.e. within the last month)

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