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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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Scott A on 05 Jul 2020 22:39:23

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

This is a BASIC feature that should have been implemented a long time ago.

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Andrew McDonald on 05 Jul 2020 22:38:42

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

Red, Yellow, Green formatting is key when it comes to dashboard development. All Managers want to have that visual key.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:37:05

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

Sounds a lot like this suggestion: https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/13757925-dynamically-specify-data-colour-using-column-e-g

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Marc on 05 Jul 2020 22:36:28

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

Must have feature, would make things a lot easier!

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Juerg H. on 05 Jul 2020 22:33:16

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

Like we can do with filters we should be able to define data colors not only on the level of a single visual but also on higher levels which are a reports page and even the entire report.

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plaidDK on 05 Jul 2020 22:32:36

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

We need this badly - An opportunity to conditional format nonmeasures /additives . There is no possibility to conditional format like if then else.

Hopefully you will pay attention to this!

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Mike on 05 Jul 2020 22:28:49

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

There are other registered ideas that are almost the same as this one. This uncontrolled idea submitting option is not efficient. I think this is a really important feature but because of the inefficient registration does not get the votes it deserves (now its fragmented).

Not my text but I agree fully:
I think that Microsoft must spend more time on these basic, fundamentals of reporting / dashboarding. I worry that too often they spend more time chasing cool, "glitzy" functionality, at the expense of the core functionality that other products have

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Scott Stamper on 05 Jul 2020 22:26:36

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

There are a variety of Text based and other conditional formatting upgrade requests. Any chance you can combine those into one? My primary focus is on conditional formatting for text. So if the field returns "Yes", color it green. Thanks, Scott

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Berkley on 05 Jul 2020 22:22:40

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

Please add true conditional formatting. A developer should be able to base the lower/upper bounds on either a field value or a dax statement. (Ex. if(x>=y,z,a)

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Joe Williams on 05 Jul 2020 22:13:58

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

The usage here is necessary. I often use the card in the upper right hand corner to show high level KPIs, which is usually a +/- variance. Green = good, red = bad.

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