Adding conditional formatting
The business wants to see company sales figure by years and quarters. They want to highlight the entries where sales are below 5,000,000.
We will assume that database provides us the Quarter number and we need to convert that to words. We will use conditional formatting for that. Also, where sales is below 5 million, the cell will be shown in red using another conditional variable.
Getting ready
Create a simple list report with Year and Quarter (numeric) columns from the Sales / Time query subject.
Drag Quantity from Sales fact.
Group by Year and sort by Quarter.
How to do it...
Conditional formatting is used to enhance the report visualization. Here is how we can define conditional formatting in the created report:
Go to Condition Explorer and click on Variables as shown in the following screenshot:
Drag a new string variable from the Toolbox pane. Define the expression as
[Query1].[Quarter (numeric)].Change the name of the variable to
Convert_To_Wordsas shown in the...
