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When will the KPI Red/Yellow/Green Indicators be available on PowerBI Desktop?

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Power BI User on 18 Aug 2015 20:04:15

KPI Red/Yellow/Green Indicators were available in Power Pivot. With the new Power BI Desktop this feature is not available anymore. If you import from PP to the Desktop it converts the RYG Indicator Dots to a number. Will the Red/Yellow/Green Indicators be added back to PowerBI Desktop? If so When?

Administrator on 19 Jul 2019 09:53:15

It's very exciting to be able to close this idea! With the July 2019 release of Power BI Desktop you can now create icon sets that show status indicators, in fact a whole range of icons, in your table and matrix visuals. You can read more in Amanda's blog post here: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-desktop-july-2019-feature-summary/#iconSets For those of you who want to have the KPI definition stored in the model itself, please vote on this idea for us to track interest there: https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200/suggestions/38181139 Thanks for engaging with the ideas forum and helping us build the product you need!

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71668092 98b8-42a6-b51f-d0d87c81b2ff on 05 Jul 2020 23:16:42

RE: When will the KPI Red/Yellow/Green Indicators be available on PowerBI Desktop?

This would be a great feature that thousand of people and organization could make use of.

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dd1750f0 99af-490f-87dc-0e057830b8ea on 05 Jul 2020 23:15:59

RE: When will the KPI Red/Yellow/Green Indicators be available on PowerBI Desktop?

Request the Power BI Team to add this soon. Thank you.

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77c70791 f799-4e27-8aa4-7f91af735747 on 05 Jul 2020 23:15:24

RE: When will the KPI Red/Yellow/Green Indicators be available on PowerBI Desktop?

any idea when it's gonna be added?

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a3309361 99be-ea11-a812-000d3a8ddfb2 on 05 Jul 2020 23:14:46

RE: When will the KPI Red/Yellow/Green Indicators be available on PowerBI Desktop?

Please add conditional formatting for TEXT!

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937025e3 c8c8-475a-ab6e-9777a8d43e3e on 05 Jul 2020 23:14:41

RE: When will the KPI Red/Yellow/Green Indicators be available on PowerBI Desktop?

Please add ASAP

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eb265e6c d11d-42ae-a5bb-7c7c1763489a on 05 Jul 2020 23:12:47

RE: When will the KPI Red/Yellow/Green Indicators be available on PowerBI Desktop?

Yes, please add this. It would be great if we could choose the shape of the indicator too (arrow, triangle, traffic light with arrow inside).

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84f4952f 6dea-4580-8dad-f257d4bba595 on 05 Jul 2020 23:12:06

RE: When will the KPI Red/Yellow/Green Indicators be available on PowerBI Desktop?

This feature is key added value mainly into tables. Please add it soon

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63936ce6 b131-40a5-b246-66fb8101d6db on 05 Jul 2020 23:11:55

RE: When will the KPI Red/Yellow/Green Indicators be available on PowerBI Desktop?

It is already possible to do this in both Desktop and cloud version of Power BI. As a matter of facts I created dashboards including this feature since last December. The approach is to create a calculated column as follows:

CheckList_Status =
CONCATENATE("https://.../sites/projects/",
if('QS for PBI'[Check List] = "3 - Green", "_layouts/images/kpipeppers-0.gif",
if('QS for PBI'[Check List]= "2 - Yellow", "_layouts/images/kpipeppers-1.gif",
if('QS for PBI'[Check List] = "1 - Red", "_layouts/images/kpipeppers-2.gif", "_layouts/images/milestone.gif"
))))

The above code assumes that the traffic light pictures are stored on a sharpoint site whose root domain is "...". These are standard Icons present in that collection.

Then the new column within power BI need to be mapped to Modeling/data category "Image URL"

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cbb218a8 aab0-4253-ac57-46084a48c411 on 05 Jul 2020 23:11:55

RE: When will the KPI Red/Yellow/Green Indicators be available on PowerBI Desktop?

Please add this feature

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dc10f467 dbbc-423e-85dc-61232167aefa on 05 Jul 2020 23:10:35

RE: When will the KPI Red/Yellow/Green Indicators be available on PowerBI Desktop?

I have a Column with Text Fields "G" = Green , "R" = Red & "A" = Amber. I want to color either the fonts or entire Cell with respective Color to ensure that the status is clearly visible. This is presently not possible, as conditional formatting only works for cells or Columns with values & not for text. Please amend this & make conditional formatting work for Text fields as well.