New conditional styling with v8.3 onwards
In this recipe, you will learn about the new conditional styles property introduced in Report Studio which, in my humble opinion, is the best feature added to make a report author's life less tedious.
Assume that the following report needs to be formatted such that quantities below 1.7M will be highlighted with red background and those above 2M should be green. Also, we need the negative values for Running Difference (month-on-month) to be shown in red and in a bracket.
As shown in previous recipe, this would have needed us to define two conditional variables. Then attach each to the corresponding column as 'Style variable' to define the styles. With one more such numeric column, the author had to define one more variable and repeat the exercise. Let's see how the new conditional styling feature solves this problem.
Getting ready
Write a new report similar to the one shown in the previous screenshot. Use Report Studio version 8.3 or later.
