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Apply conditional formatting just on a particular calculation item rather than all items from a calculation group

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Lorena Ramírez on 09 Sep 2020 08:46:45

One of the drawbacks of using calculation groups is that you may be unable to apply conditional formatting by measures. For example, you cannot apply conditional format to a YoY measure. To do so, it will be necessary to create independent measures outside the calculation group.

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Lan Dao on 19 Nov 2020 02:39:17

RE: Apply conditional formatting just on a particular calculation item rather than all items from a calculation group

Yes please! Thank you for creating this request.

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Elizabeth McDonald on 28 Oct 2020 15:14:14

RE: Apply conditional formatting just on a particular calculation item rather than all items from a calculation group

Agree that this is important functionality!

Along the same lines, calculation groups aren't amendable to being added to visuals as tooltips. For example, in a bar graph visual showing trailing 12-month sales by product, it can be handy to have quarter-over-quarter and month-over-month measures added as tooltips, so that if one goes to Show As Table mode and sort by quarter-over-quarter, you can quickly see the highest and lowest with the detailed numbers. One could argue this could be accomplished via a tooltip page, but showing QoQ and MoM via a tooltip page doesn't allow one to sort by those fields.

As Debbie Edward describes in her blog post here, calculation groups seem to be for only one visual: the matrix. https://debbiesmspowerbiazureblog.home.blog/2020/08/14/calculation-groups-with-tabular-editor-for-power-bi/

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Sawyer Nyquist on 29 Sep 2020 15:20:04

RE: Apply conditional formatting just on a particular calculation item rather than all items from a calculation group

This is a great request!