Conditional Formatting Workaround in Pivot Table

user32470

Hello,

Context:

In my organization, my role is cardbuilder. I have built a pivot table and ran into some issues with conditional formatting.

 

In my table, I have Daily Budget and Net Cost as two columns broken out by day. Ideally, I wanted the Net Cost column to turn RED (could be font or background - just something to flag it) if Net Cost > Daily Budget for that day. Given my data set has many different "advertising campaigns" that have different daily budgets, I cannot assign a specific dollar amount in the color rules. In an ideal world, I wish I could just tell it to turn red if Net Cost >  Daily Budget column in the setup. From what I read, this is just a current "limitation" on how conditional formatting works at the moment. 

 

As a "workaround", I created a new column called Overage. It basically shows the value if net cost exceeds daily budget for that day. (see screenshot). I did research and used a beast mode someone posted here that utilizes HTML as a workaround to spit out values in designated colors in my Overage Beast mode. This is the beast mode I used:

 

CASE WHEN (sum(`Net Cost`) - sum(`Daily Budget`)) > 0

THEN

CONCAT('<div style="background-color:#FF0000; width: 100%; height:100%; margin:-20px; padding:20px"><a href="#FF0000">', sum(`Net Cost`)
-
sum(`Daily Budget`) , '</a></div>')

 

END

 

for some reason I keep encountering these issues:

 

• No matter what color code I use in the beast mode, the result always ends up the color in my screenshot (bluish)
  • I tried adding in some <font> html codes, but no go
• I set the data format for the beast mode as currency ($) with 2 decimals but it doesn't follow this.
  • is this because the beast mode shows up as "text string" vs "numeric"? How would I change that?

 

Any guidance would be helpful and appreciated!

 

user32470

ohh, I just found a workaround for this. Given the limitation on html markup for the pivot table, I modified my beast mode and then enabled "show negative numbers red" in the chart settings.

 

I'm sure there are many ways to write this beast mode, but the change I made is in the second statement. Now, if there is an overage it will spit out a negative number and the "show negative numbers red" setting will flag it red. 

 

CASE WHEN (sum(`Net Cost`) - (SUM(DISTINCT `Daily Budget`))) > 0

THEN (sum(distinct `Daily Budget`)) - sum(`Net Cost`)

 

END

 

screenshot attached. thanks for helping everyone. i feel mildly successful for a Friday ?

GrantSmith

Hi @user32470 

 

You're getting bluish text because you have a hyperlink tag (<a href...) surrounding your text causing it to default to blue. Try taking out the <a> tags.

 

Are you wanting the background to be red or the text to be red?

 

Typically I've done the following to make the text red:

CONCAT('<div><span style="color: red">', `field`, '</span></div>')

 

jaeW_at_Onyx

Unless they made changes AFAIK pivot tables don't have support for HTML formatting.  But let me know!

user32470

I tried that but what happens is it returns all the code starting with <DIV> in the pivot table. Per the other poster here it might just be a limitation on the pivot table. I'll try it on another type of table for my own learning but ultimately need the pivot table. I'll submit it as a product suggestion to domo. thanks all!

user32470

ohh, I just found a workaround for this. Given the limitation on html markup for the pivot table, I modified my beast mode and then enabled "show negative numbers red" in the chart settings.

 

I'm sure there are many ways to write this beast mode, but the change I made is in the second statement. Now, if there is an overage it will spit out a negative number and the "show negative numbers red" setting will flag it red. 

 

CASE WHEN (sum(`Net Cost`) - (SUM(DISTINCT `Daily Budget`))) > 0

THEN (sum(distinct `Daily Budget`)) - sum(`Net Cost`)

 

END

 

screenshot attached. thanks for helping everyone. i feel mildly successful for a Friday ?