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Conditional Formatting for Total and Subtotals in Matrices

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on 12 Dec 2016 08:57:40

The recent addition of conditional formatting for values is wonderful. However, it would be great to have the ability format subtotals and totals, as the variation on those fields are often even more important to draw attention to.

Administrator on 23 May 2020 01:39:28

Thanks everyone for your votes on this feature! With the April 2020 release of Power BI Desktop this is now available! https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-desktop-april-2020-feature-summary/#_Conditional_formatting Please keep commenting on this feature with other feedback, we check the Completed items as well as ones that are still active.

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157da9ed 2ec4-44d7-ae1a-e07abd60d050 on 05 Jul 2020 23:20:31

RE: Conditional Formatting for Total and Subtotals in Matrices

Yes please! Bit of an oversight not to include originally... looking forward to seeing it soon - hopefully!

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0d6fd99e d5d5-4284-802d-6d2a962ddbe0 on 05 Jul 2020 23:20:04

RE: Conditional Formatting for Total and Subtotals in Matrices

I agree with Anonymous. I think it's even harder to program not to have conditional formatting on the totals...

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2f0bb2f3 d68a-442e-912c-2f2f67a98870 on 05 Jul 2020 23:19:56

RE: Conditional Formatting for Total and Subtotals in Matrices

It is inconsistent to have conditional formatting on the data rows but not on the totals rows and is likely to cause confusion.

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e9f00d07 9ae2-49a9-b707-3e87bb5eedd8 on 05 Jul 2020 23:19:48

RE: Conditional Formatting for Total and Subtotals in Matrices

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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a3309361 99be-ea11-a812-000d3a8ddfb2 on 05 Jul 2020 23:19:46

RE: Conditional Formatting for Total and Subtotals in Matrices

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

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02d912eb 01cd-49db-bbf5-7c8fd34a8fc2 on 05 Jul 2020 23:19:42

RE: Conditional Formatting for Total and Subtotals in Matrices

absurdity!

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02d912eb 01cd-49db-bbf5-7c8fd34a8fc2 on 05 Jul 2020 23:19:42

RE: Conditional Formatting for Total and Subtotals in Matrices

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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a3309361 99be-ea11-a812-000d3a8ddfb2 on 05 Jul 2020 23:19:21

RE: Conditional Formatting for Total and Subtotals in Matrices

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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e89f6676 fd57-402d-a038-9f2d90e41830 on 05 Jul 2020 23:19:14

RE: Conditional Formatting for Total and Subtotals in Matrices

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

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880cd8e8 93a6-48dd-a2ed-c884619febfe on 05 Jul 2020 23:19:04

RE: Conditional Formatting for Total and Subtotals in Matrices

We need this, quite useless without...