Matt Allington on 16 Jul 2016 04:20:35
A current limitation in Power BI SWITCH measures (and all Power Pivot actually) is that a SWITCH measure must have a single format. It is currently not possible to conditionally format the measure result based on any criteria - it is one single format only. There are valid use cases where you may want to change the format of the SWITCH measure depending on the result. Consider the following SWITCH statement
myMeasure = SUMX(MeasureTable,switch([selected measure],
1,[Total Sales],
2,[Total Cost],
3,[Total Margin],
4,[Chg Sales vs LY %]
))
The first 3 results are all currency format, but the last result is a percentage format. This currently can't be controlled. I would like to see an optional 3rd parameter in the SWITCH statement to set an alternate number format.
Administrator on 18 Mar 2022 20:00:41
Dynamic format strings are available in calculation groups and can be used to create a DAX expression to handle any format requirement for a pick a measure scenario such as this.
Documentation for dynamic format strings is available at https://docs.microsoft.com/analysis-services/tabular-models/calculation-groups?view=asallproducts-allversions#dynamic-format-strings-for-currency-conversion. And information on external tools to add calculation groups is available at https://aka.ms/externaltools.
There are multiple ways to utilize calculation groups and dynamic format strings and thank you to those who posted solutions in the chat.
- Comments (76)
RE: Conditional formatted measures using SWITCH
Here is a simple demo of the problem
http://exceleratorbi.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/switch-measure.gif
RE: Conditional formatted measures using SWITCH
This change would make things a lot simpler and the switch option way more powerful and useful
RE: Conditional formatted measures using SWITCH
Great idea - I use this feature a lot on a Power Pivot Disconnected Slicer and it would be great to be able to do the same with Power BI.
RE: Conditional formatted measures using SWITCH
100% agree
RE: Conditional formatted measures using SWITCH
An option to "inherit" the formatting of the source measure would be nice. But it would be even better if a more general solution was provided, similar to how SCOPE statements work in SSAS multidimensional.
RE: Conditional formatted measures using SWITCH
Must have
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