Calculation in a Conditional Formatting

Do you know if it is possible to create a conditional format based on the result of a calculation?
I would like to use a calculation in the field "Value". The instructions to fill this field say: "Type a numeric value or select a value from the drop-down list". But my drop-down list is empty. Any idea?
Thanks

It is not possible. The value cannot be based off of another field. The only workaround that I can come up with would be to display the calculation in an adjacent column to the one you want to format, and set the format such that the background and foreground are the same color.
A few months ago, I thought this would be an easy way to highlight and entire row, but ran into this "problem".

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Conditional Formating in New Calculated Item??

Hi there,
In pivot table I've created a new calculated item in column that is % calculation of measure value A and B.
I need to apply conditional formatting on new calculated value only. I also want to add % sign on the calculated value.
Previously I modified the data format of measure values to percentage and manage to bring % sign in calculated item. Now I need to show both measure and calculated item in report with measure without % sign and calculated item with % sign
Thanks

No, I don’t think you can do that in New Calculated Item in Pivot Table.
What you can try is pulling another column in your report and try using this formula (case when stmt) in column fx and insert it in pivot table.

Conditional formatting via calculation

I have at the end of a row a checkbox.
If the checkbox is checked I would like it to highlight the row.
My thinking was along these lines:
IF (CHECKBOX = "CHECKED", BGCOLOR = "BLUE", 0)
(I know that this isn't correct Pages syntax, but I believe it explains what I would like it to do)
Is this possible in Pages?
Thanks for any input.

I repeat, searching for conditional formatting gives the response to those who read carefully.
+Use the Cells Inspector to format cell values. For example, you can display a currency symbol in cells containing monetary values.+
+You can also set up conditional formatting. For example, you can make _a cell_ red when _its value_ exceeds a particular number.+
If the feature was able to apply to a row it would state: _you can make a row_
It's why the "Conditional" item is in Inspector > Cells, not in Inspector > Table
I never saw a program stating "I apologize, I'm unable to do this or that".
For those knowing the way to read Help or user manual, the basis is that when a feature is not described, we may guess that it is unavailable.
and nowhere does it say that you can use a CHECKBOX as condition!
A rule doesn't check the kind of object used in a cell, it checks the stored value. When we use a checkbox, the stored value is TRUE or FALSE exactly as if we typed TRUE or FALSE as a text entry.
Same thing with popup menu (the value may be a string or a number)
and steppers or sliders (the value is a number).
(And YES, I did select the ENTIRE row when I created the rule)
One more time, a rule checks the contents of _a single cell_ ! This means that if a cell match the rule it apply the format to _this cell_ , if it doesn't match the rule, it doesn't apply the format to _this cell_ . It's exactly what is written.
I would like the ENTIRE ROW to fill with that color.
I'm not sure that it is a sufficient reason to have it behaving this way
_You may go to "Provide Numbers Feedback" in the "Numbers" menu_, describe what you wish.
Then, cross your fingers, and wait _at least_ for iWork'09
I assumes that you will not get satisfaction.
When we select a range of cells with several columns, this means apply the rule to every cell one by one, not apply to the entire row the format if a given cell of this row matches the rule.
How may it guess which cell of the row is the one to test ?
The only solution would be to select cells in one column and have a box in the pane allowing use to choose:
_apply the format to the cell_
or
_apply the format to the row_ .
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE jeudi 25 septembre 2008 15:00:07)

In need of assistance using checkbox and conditional formats

Hello,
I'm trying to set up a command to meet the following:
When I opt to use a checkbox format in say cell "G2" - I would like to setup a conditional format along the lines of...
=IF G2 is TRUE (i.e. checked), then change the color of cell "A2" to some color.
Can anyone help me with the line command for this?

L.
Seems like it should be easy, doesn't it? There are options to doing this, but none are exactly obvious. The problem for you is that conditional formatting is based on the content of the cell being formatted, not some other cell. A typical use is to, say, bold content over a certain limit, or make the display of a zero value invisible.
In Numbers08, you have only a couple of options:
Use an IF-test to alter your content, or use an overlay table or tables. The solution you pick will depend on whether the content was calculated or input directly. If the content was input from the keyboard, that's the most difficult situation since there is no equation to modify.
So, do you want to change the color of the Text, or the Fill, of cell A2? And, how important is this formatting to you? If it involves extra columns or tables and a lot of fussing around, do you still think you need it?
Jerry

Error while processing conditional formatting formula in crosstab

This conditional formatting formula must return one of the following Color Constants: ' A number, currency amount, boolean, date, time, date-time, or string is expected here. Details: errorKind
The above error is displayed on the the Business Objects Report Server when running my report.
The XI server version information is as follows:
BusinessObjects Enterprise XI Release 2
Business Objects
11.5.0.3135
20060628
Crystal Reports XI Release 2
Business Objects
11.5.0.31327
20060628
My IDE is Crystal Reports 2008.
The error is being generated for the following conditional formatting formula which is in my crosstab:
evaluateafter ({@concatAppTypeAppMethod});
if CurrentRowIndex = 1 then
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else if CurrentRowIndex = 2 then
    color(168,146,101)
else if CurrentRowIndex = 3 then
    color(0,51,153)
else if CurrentRowIndex = 4 then
    color(204,51,51)
else
    color(153,153,153)
This formula is applied via the Crosstab "Format Field>Font" tab. In the report developer (Crystal 2008) the report runs without error. When deployed to the server it fails with the above error.
Heres the details of {@concatAppTypeAppMethod}:
whileprintingrecords;
"Designs filed " + {Command.APPLICATION_METHOD}
The crosstab is structured as:
Row = {@concatAppTypeAppMethod}
Column = {@getMonth}
Summary = Count of {@concatAppTypeAppMethod}
Details for {@getMonth}:
right(totext(year({Command.ACN_COMPLETED_DATE}),"#"),2) + totext(month({Command.ACN_COMPLETED_DATE}),"0#")
The above functions Row i.e. {@concatAppTypeAppMethod} and {@getMonth} use fields from the SQL command.
{@getMonth} parses the ACN_COMPLETED_DATE field, obtains the record month and year and concatenates these as a string which can be displayed as follows in the crosstab:
May-08, Jun-08 etc.
{@concatAppTypeAppMethod} parses the APPLICATION_METHOD field and obtains the application filing method i.e. Online or Internally and concatenates the pretext "Designs filed " to the filing method (also a string).
I have tried various combinations of whilereadingrecords, whileprintingrecords and evaluateafter() with no success. The problem occurs because the conditional formatting formula is being executed before the records being formatted are ready.
I believe this is a problem with the crystal reports software and/or XI server.
Please prove me wrong.

Hi Raghavendra,
Thanks for your prompt answer! Can you confirm? Is it because I'm using calculated members in the report and these are not support by the XI server specified in my error report above?
If so, do you have any suggestions with regard to how I might be able to create a graph with the following attributes:
Show summary (count) of records per month per application method (i.e. online or internal. this is a database field retruned by the SQL command). In addition I need to add a series to the graph that shows the totals number of records per month irrespective of the relative application method (i.e. sum of online and internal) and finally I need to show the total number of online applications (i.e. application method = online) as a percentage of the total number of applications for the month.

Conditional formatting with another column in pivot table

Hi everbody please help me!
My question is simple.
On my example I have
--------------------year1------year2----dif(my calculated item)
measure1-------100-------50---------50
measure2-------75-------100---------(-25)
For measure1;
I want to make "dif" green if year1 is < 100 and want to make "dif" red if year2 = 100 and etc...
Is it possible, I tried but could not achive conditional formatting when I use different column then dif...
Thank you for your help
Regards,
Can
Edited by: canmurt on Dec 27, 2009 9:44 AM

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Thank you for your quick reply.
I have added couple of screenshot to flickr to clarify my problem: http://www.flickr.com/photos/93812026@N07/
Picture 1:
Yes, your assumption is correct. We are using gen x level members in report, but these members are shared members or Dynamic calculations i.e. we have created custom account hierarchy for them.
Picture 2:
Basic situation, when I query that hierarchy. I.e. it returns account names for both members in the hierarchy. Furthermore, so far I have used only one pair of account, i.e. WOC
Picture 3:
I'm able to "merge" these two account members simply by adding "case when" statement to account dimension object. It shows values correctly in a table (picture 4)
Picture 5:
BUT, when adding other accounts to query filter, the returned values are no longer correct, but some sort of multiplication.
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Copying formatting from conditional formatting without the rules

I tend to use a lot of conditional formatting in my spreadsheets. Unfortunately, this leads to two problems:
1) I need more rules than are allowed (this seems to be related to the height of my screen... probably because the dialog box doesn't have a scrollbar)
2) This really, really slows things down, especially when combined with cell references, and particularly when I'm trying to rearrange cells (as far as I can see Numbers has a tendency to freeze and/or blank out the table I'm working on)
The easiest way I can see out of my predicament would be to somehow remove the conditional formatting rules while keeping the actual formatting... like copy-and-pasting values instead of the actual cells (with intact formulae). Is this possible? And if possible, how would I go about doing it?
Thanks in advance!

Up to 15 rules can be set for conditional formating of a cell.
1)
Considering that the usual purpose of conditional formatting is to flag 'unusual' values, and to make the 'condition' instantly visible and recognizable, that seems an over generous number. If a cell or group of cells on your table 'needs' more than 15 possible formats (the base format and 15 others based on rules), perhaps what's needed is a re-thinking of why that many are needed, and whether having that many formats adequately answers that 'why'.
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2)
Not surprising. Numbers recalculates the entire table each time a value in the table is changed. That calculation includes through each list of conditional formatting rules until a match is found (or the end of the list is reached), and includes setting the new format for each affected cell.
3)
Not that I'm aware of. The base format of the cell may be copied (option-command-C) and pasted elsewhere (option-command-V), and that pair of operations will include any conditional format rules that had been set for the original cell.
But conditional formatting is just that—a set of rules that applies a set of attributes to a cell when a specific condition is met. The applied format exists only when the condition is met, and can't be copied except by copying the rule—actually the whole set of rules for that cell—which puts you no further ahead.
3a) You could, of course, change the base format of the cell to match the colour and style applied by the conditional rule, then clear the conditional format rules for that cell or set of cells. That would 'remove the rules while keeping the (applied) formatting', and would leave the formulas intact. seems to me a game not worth the candle, though.
Regards,
Barry

Conditional formating in a pivot table field based on another field

Hello All,
I have a pivot table with fields like Division, Day, Current DayTotal, Previous DayTotal. I have to set the background color of CurrentDayTotal field based on PreviousDayTotal. I searched all the blogs and they say Crossconditional Formatting is not possible in 10.1.3.4 pivot table.
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Error details
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The percentages are in red if less then 0.
I have 1 row and 1 column of total values, but this cell aren't red if percentage is less then 0.
Does anybody know a solution for my problem?
Thanks

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- Value B (DIM B)
- Actual
- LY
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<saw:report xmlns:saw="com.siebel.analytics.web/report/v1" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlVersion="200705140" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:sawx="com.siebel.analytics.web/expression/v1">
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<saw:column formula=""DIM A"."TOTAL A"" columnID="c0"/>
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<saw:column formula=""DIM B"."TOTAL B"" columnID="c2"/>
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<saw:displayFormat interaction="default"/></saw:columnHeading></saw:column>
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<saw:displayFormat suppress="default" interaction="default">
<saw:dataFormat xsi:type="saw:number" commas="true" negativeType="minus" minDigits="2" maxDigits="2"/></saw:displayFormat>
<saw:columnHeading>
<saw:displayFormat interaction="default"/></saw:columnHeading></saw:column>
<saw:column formula="FACT."Delta %"" columnID="c4">
<saw:displayFormat suppress="default" interaction="default">
<saw:dataFormat xsi:type="saw:percent" commas="false" negativeType="minus" minDigits="2" maxDigits="2"/>
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<sawx:expr xsi:type="sawx:comparison" op="less">
<saw:columnRef columnID="c4"/>
<sawx:expr xsi:type="xsd:decimal">0</sawx:expr></sawx:expr>
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<saw:columnHeading>
<saw:displayFormat interaction="default"/></saw:columnHeading></saw:column></saw:columns></saw:criteria>
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<saw:view xsi:type="saw:compoundView" name="compoundView!1" rptViewVers="200510010">
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<saw:cvCell viewName="pivotTableView!1"/></saw:cvRow></saw:cvTable></saw:view>
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<saw:view xsi:type="saw:tableView" name="tableView!1" rptViewVers="200510010" showHeading="false">
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Conditional format based on date

Hi,
I want to keep track of reports that my students need to turn in. The due date is set, but should turn red 10 days before the actual due date, so I can double check with the student if he started work on his report. Once the report was turned in, the due date should become grey or black. Here's an example:
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Due date
Finished
A
XX
Jan 26, 2012
Jan 25, 2012
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YY
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C
ZZ
Mrz 11, 2012
C3 is read, because its due date is less than 10 days away. C2 is black, because it has been finished on time. C4 is black, because its due date is more than 10 days away (from the perspective of today, Jan. 27th)
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Maybe this sample may fit your needs :
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Is there any way, using conditional formatting or otherwise, I can automate this so that when I type in a real value it can detect it's not a formula and reformat the cell?
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No.
Conditional format rules depend on comparing the value contained in the cell, and pay no attention to how that value got there.
That said, it might be possible to examine the value and determine whether it was entered directly or formula generated. If the value in the cell is NOT equal to the value in the cell rounded to two decimal places, then chances are the value was generated by a formula. Not perfect, as it will not detect generated values that are exact to zero, one or two decimal places (eg. 12.00000, 12.10000, 12,12000, etc), and won't find any values where the formula itself actually rounds (as opposed to 'displays') its result to two (or fewer) decimal places.
Here's an example:
As indicated in column A. the values in B2 and B3 are entered numbers, those in B4 and B5 are calculated. Column B is formatted to DISPLAY these numbers as Currency, with the usual two decimal places.
Column C uses the formula =B to transfer the actual values in column B. Formatting is set to automatic.
Column D uses the formula =ROUND(B,2) which rounds the values in column B to two decimal places. Formatting is set to automatic, so what is shown is the actual value.
The conditional formatting rule, shown for cell B5, compares the actual value in column B with its rounded counterpart in column D. If they are the same, the assumption (wrong, in this case) is that the value was entered, and the rule applies bold style to the text and a light grey fill to the cell. If they are different, no change is made.
Note that there's some tedium involved in setting this up, as the rule for each cell uses a different comparison cell, and these must be set (or reset) individually.
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We open a web analysis report in Analyze View.
The scenarios are in the columns and we are trying to apply conditional formatting on negative values.
We right click the scenario in the columns and click Formatting...
We then tick the Conditional Formatting check box and we want to add a condition on negative numbers.
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Does anyone know how this can be done? Am I missing the obvious?
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Help Regarding Conditional Formatting

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Brief background about the report, we have all the items in the inventory segregated into 3 classes "High", "Medium" and "Low" and also there is Calculated Measure called "Percent Accurate". Now we want to use Conditional Formating on the particular Item either RED or GREEN and following are the conditions to define the colour
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Hi Create a new Percent column in repository so the answers coding will be simplified.
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when table.class = 'Medium' then
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when table.class = 'Low' then
Case when table.percent >= 97 then 'Green' else 'Red' end
end
* If you do not have access to repository, replace table.percent in above formula with the percentage formula that you have.
Then your conditional formatting will be simplified as you will need to refer to only the above column.

Discoverer conditional formating

Hello,
I am trying to establish if I can campare 2 values at runtime and alter the background colour based on the result i.e. IF A < B THEN bg_color = 'RED'. Do I need to do this through a PL/SQL function as standard conditional formatting seems quite limited.
Thanks for any help.
R David

Hi,
No, you can only add conditional formatting based on the value in the cell. So for example, you can create a calculation CASE WHEN A>B THEN 1 ELSE 0 END. The create conditional formatting setting the text and background to red if the calculated cell is 1. Then you will have a highlighted cell on the row where A>B but the rest of the row will not be highlighted.
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