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Set Colors and Conditional Formatting in visuals

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Amanda Rivera on 04 Oct 2014 01:20:39

Power BI's visualizations have colors assigned automatically. It should be possible to set a color when a value is reached (e.g. always show negative bars in red) or for a particular color in a legend (e.g. always show Microsoft datapoints as blue)

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Pedro Innecco on 05 Jul 2020 22:18:20

RE: Set Colors and Conditional Formatting in visuals

Conditional formatting is missing. Idea was implemented half-way ;)

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Terry on 05 Jul 2020 22:18:17

RE: Set Colors and Conditional Formatting in visuals

Dynamic Conditional Formatting is really important to our business users. Please add this function to Power BI.

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Garry on 05 Jul 2020 22:17:31

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I cant see this in the desktop app?

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Alvaro Pasquez on 05 Jul 2020 22:17:23

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Gauge please!

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Bas on 05 Jul 2020 22:16:46

RE: Set Colors and Conditional Formatting in visuals

I've created a new idea (here: https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/12432660-dynamic-conditional-formatting-in-visuals-based-on) containing dynamic conditional formatting based on data (and not hard coded manual input). So people who agree that the above solution is not complete please help by voting!

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Samy Ishak on 05 Jul 2020 22:14:14

RE: Set Colors and Conditional Formatting in visuals

Hi there,

I don't think the OP's idea has actually been implemented. The OP suggests "set a color when a value is reached," which implies being able to map the results of aggregated measures to different colors. In the link provided (https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-service-tips-and-tricks-for-color-formatting/#customize-the-colors-used-in-the-color-scale), there is a work around using the minimum and maximum values, but this only facilitates two colors - what I interpret the OP's concept of 'Condition Formatting' is that several different colors based on several thresholds.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:13:17

RE: Set Colors and Conditional Formatting in visuals

Need to be able to set the Colour Themes as with any other Office app

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:13:12

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There is no option to change the color in a Gauge visual based on the value of your measure

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:13:11

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I'm not seeing where to set the THeme colors (in order to set it to our company standards).. Also it doesn't seem that I can set individual colours manually via RBG values... need to know the hex code too :(

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Tamir on 05 Jul 2020 22:10:52

RE: Set Colors and Conditional Formatting in visuals

Hi.
I can't seem to have diverging colors in my bar chart.
When i press the color data i can only assign colors to specific bars.
Is there a reason?
What can i do?