Tableau: Advanced Conditional Formatting

Here's a nice tip on using a simple calculation to extend your ability to format, say, text columns differently, something you can't do with Measure Names and Values.

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[jsnadrian]

Kind of unbelievable that something so simple requires such an elaborate workaround. Thanks for sharing!

[renan_andrade]

I'm producing dashboards for Finance and tables are quite important still for visualisation for this group of stakeholders so this video is really good! Thanks for putting this up since 2014 and I think it was done by Andy Kiebrel who is a Tableau legend.

[matthewm.]

It blows my mind that it takes this much hacking to get such a simple feature. At any rate, this tutorial is hugely beneficial. Thank you!

[OrenKaplan]

Thanks for taking the time to make this video and also linking to it in different places on the forums. I knew it was possible but totally forgot this approach. Even when I started working through the steps I really needed the hand holding even though some steps seem sort of obvious at this point. Thank you!

[trippinmysongs]

I have been looking for something like this for a while now and im glad i stumble over this vid, i wish i could give you a thousand likes, thankyou soo much :)

[mbuyimukendi]

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[ryanruthart]

Thanks for this video! New to Tableau and I thought it would be a little bit simpler to set up conditional formatting! Glad I have a way to accomplish my task now.

[ashleykasevich]

This is exactly what I was looking for to complete my dashboard. Thank you!

[jeffsun]

Great video is was very helpful. Is there anyway to right align the text within the dual axis? Usually financial numbers look better right aligned in a text table. Thanks!

[JoeG]

great tip, but major fail for tableau. after 10 releases, still dont have this basic excel feature

[rounakkar]

There is a problem with the heat map. Shipping Cost 41364 shows in red instead of green. When you Select Square and increase the size, the size increases with all dimensions, not only the length.

[eugenecarroll]

Not exactly what I was trying to do, but still very handy! Thanks. (I was trying to set everything over 45 days to red and everything from 30-45 days to yellow, while still showing the number of days)

[majdat]

Thanks a lot! I was trying to figure this since a while! Very easy but smart trick :)

[rocketingmoose]

Thanks for the upload - this is a very helpful work-around. I'm curious to know though if there's a way you could go about doing this while retaining the ability to sort by one of those columns?

[gsjohnso]

Yo, THANK you. So glad I watched this. Great stuff here.

[TheMilner]

This video was extremely helpful! Thank you!

[Summosso]

Great video. It helped me finalize a viz they way I wanted. Thanks again!

[wilan]

Thank you very much. Thanks to this, I achieved something that others said was impossible :) There is only one thing: is it possible to give separate colors to the headers of these columns in a similar way?

[padmarath]

Can you please let me know how to get the alignment as right for the measure values in above kind of dual cross tab report? I went to format option for each measure and clicked right alignment, but it did not work.

[ottootto]

THank you so much. Really helps a lot!!!