Using alternative measures with colour by expression

[Anonymous]

Hi there,

I was wondering, if it is possible to use alternative measures in a chart with colour by expression.

Let's say i have the following data set:

Name     Value1     Value2   

A             1              2

B             2              3

A             1              2

I create a bar chart with "Name" as dimension and a measure with sum(Value1). On top of that i declare sum(Value2) as alternative for my first measure.

Now i want to colour the bars depending on their value. I want every bar with a value higher than 2 to be coloured green and the rest red.

With only one measure it's kind of easy to use the following code: "if(sum(Value1) > 2, green(),red())", but is there a possibility to use a more generic code to make sure, this colour expression code is applicable to every measure I define?

Thanks in advance!

[jananireddy]

Hi,

Without using an alternative measure i have tried the coloring

dimension 1: name

dimension 2: ValueList('Value 1','Value 2')

measure:

if(ValueList('Value 1','Value 2') = 'Value 1',sum(Value1),

if(ValueList('Value 1','Value 2') = 'Value 2',sum(Value2)))

color by expression:

if(ValueList('Value 1','Value 2') = 'Value 1' AND sum(Value1)> 2, Green(),

if(ValueList('Value 1','Value 2') = 'Value 2' AND sum(Value2)> 2, Green(), RED()))

Will this help you?? You can explore the valuelist function too it will be helpful in such scenarios

[Anonymous]

Hi Janani,

unfortunately that's not exactly what I was looking for. I was aware of the valuelist function and how to use this to achieve what you mentioned.

I wanted to get a visualisation in which the user can chose which measure to see. In your case every measure would be shown at the same time.

I know a possible way would be to use variables, but i wondered, if it is also possible using alternative measures.

Greetings

[shraddha_g]

try,

if(column(1) > 2, green(),red())

This should work for Alternative Measures

[Anonymous]

Hey Shraddha,

didn't know about this function, seems very helpful thanks!

But this won't save my problem, because I want to colour the bars depending on what measure I chose.

If i write something like this:

if(column(1) > 100, green(),

if(column(2) > 3, green(),red()))

if i chose the second measure this measure will be painted green() if my first measure is higher than 100.

[shraddha_g · Accepted solution]

Do you have different conditions for different measures then it wont work

[Anonymous]

Yes, that was so requirement to have different conditions depending on which measure is "active". But thanks for the hint with the column()-function!