Conditionally formatting colors of horizontal bar chart for over/under budget

davidwong · 2023-12-04T20:35:29+00:00

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I am trying to figure out how to conditionally format my "Actual" sales either green/red for over/under "Budget" by location. Is this possible? I know this may have to be done with a beast mode (unsuccessful so far) as it cannot be done in chart properties.

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MarkSnodgrass

You can use the Color Rules to do this. This is found in the chart properties. It would look something like this.

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MarkSnodgrass

You can use the Color Rules to do this. This is found in the chart properties. It would look something like this.

DashboardDude

Hi @davidwong ,

Just to clarify, you want the blue bars to change to red or green dependent on if an actual hits a target number right? However, is that target different per location or is the same across the board?

davidwong

John @DashboardDude, that is correct. So I would need a conditional format or beast mode of some sort. The color rules wouldn't work because they are stagnant number inputs I believe (like greater than #, or less than #). Any insights?

DashboardDude

Hmm yeah I don't think this chart is going to work for you because of the stagnant color. However if you use the bullet chart, you can set different goals per item. So that way you can see if something passes the goal or not.

It's an option: You can see horizontal bullet charts on this page I made

https://www.dashboarddudes.com/recipes

davidwong

Gotcha, I experimented with the bullet visualization at one point but there's too much variation in each of my locations' (y axis) target value (budget). I appreciate the response.

DashboardDude

@davidwong ,

Feel free to schedule 30 sometime with me and we can see if we can find a solution: https://www.dashboarddudes.com/domo-help