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Epic idea: Custom totals for tabular visuals

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Miguel Myers on 08 Oct 2024 05:00:00

Enabling customized calculations at the query level for subtotals and grand totals would offer greater flexibility in reporting and preserve performance. Efficient organization of control settings to modify the style of these totals separately will empower report creators to achieve their desired appearance, while addressing their need for more control and customization in reporting.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:19:48

RE: Epic idea: Custom totals for tabular visuals

I don't understand why this is a difficult feature to add. You already have an option to apply formatting to labels on subtotals. Why not just add an option to apply conditional formatting to subtotals too? Right now i'm showing negative numbers in red but the subtotals that are also negative are showing in black. Totally misleading and takes away from the visual purpose of the report.

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Power BI Ideas Admin on 05 Jul 2020 23:19:46

RE: Epic idea: Custom totals for tabular visuals

This is the most critical feature we need in Power BI. This is available in all the reporting tools.

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Wade McGriff on 05 Jul 2020 23:19:42

RE: Epic idea: Custom totals for tabular visuals

absurdity!

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Wade McGriff on 05 Jul 2020 23:19:42

RE: Epic idea: Custom totals for tabular visuals

Workaround:

DimTableWithAll = UNION(ADDCOLUMNS(DimTable,"New",DimTable[Original]),ADDCOLUMNS(DimLocations,"New","Total"))

Join to DimTable via PK/SK and turn on Bidirectional Crossfiltering bingo! You just can't bold your total row unfortunately. Conditional formatting has a way to go on Power BI. Also can we please rotate the column headers!

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Power BI Ideas Admin on 05 Jul 2020 23:19:21

RE: Epic idea: Custom totals for tabular visuals

It is inconsistent to have conditional formatting on the data rows but not on the totals rows and is likely to cause confusion. I would like to highlight negative values including in the overall total row.

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Peter Holliday on 05 Jul 2020 23:19:14

RE: Epic idea: Custom totals for tabular visuals

Why doesn't the subtotal just inherit the formatting from the values? Seems to be the simplest solution

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:19:04

RE: Epic idea: Custom totals for tabular visuals

We need this, quite useless without...

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:18:51

RE: Epic idea: Custom totals for tabular visuals

Hi All i have done with some tricks to apply conditional formatting to total values.
http://sahayasathish.blogspot.sg/2018/05/poer-bi-conditional-formatting-on.html

let me know if its usefull

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Brandon Forbes on 05 Jul 2020 23:18:45

RE: Epic idea: Custom totals for tabular visuals

Agree with everyone, we can't have conditional formatting that doesn't apply to subtotals, it destroys the drill down capability of the matrix. Shouldn't really have to vote on this

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 23:18:36

RE: Epic idea: Custom totals for tabular visuals

Any update on getting conditional formatting for table and matrix total rows?

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