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Color background color based on column partial sum

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:30:38 GMT

Using pivot tables, how do I do the following.

So, I want to color code the row depending on how it's % Sold is doing compared to the total average (partial sum)

So, for example, Cat Treat and Pig Leash have only sold 20% and 2% respectively while the overall average is 50% for all products, so it gets red.

So, I know I need something like this for my background colors........

if(total for column 3 >= column 3 for item, RED, BLUE)

Thank you so much.

Color background color based on column partial sum

swuehl — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:46:58 GMT

if % Sold is maybe calculated like

=sum(Sold) / sum(Available)

then your background color expression may look like

=if( sum(Sold) / sum(Available) >= sum(total Sold) / sum(total Available), red(), blue() )

Hope this helps,

Stefan

Color background color based on column partial sum

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:51:21 GMT

Kind of.

Here are the defs:

column(1) = Available = sum(available_count)

column(2) = Sold = sum(sold_count)

column(3) = % Sold = column(2) / column(1)

So, I went into the background color and put this in but it's not working as expected. It's all blue.

=if(column(2)/column(1) >= sum(total column(2)) / sum(total column(1)), red(), blue())

Color background color based on column partial sum

swuehl — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:04:53 GMT

I think something like sum(total column(2) ) will not work.

Try

=if( sum(sold_count) / sum(available_count) >= sum(total sold_count)/sum(total available_count), red(), blue())

Color background color based on column partial sum

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:22:51 GMT

Thank you. That works!

I can start another post but I just tried making the pivot table a little more multi-dimensional by adding Sale Year to it, so now it looks like this:

Using the formula above worked when it wasn't by year but now it appear the TOTAL portion of that expression totals all columns up? So, since the overall percentage is 53% (131+61/260+100), Dog collar in 2011 is showing up RED since it's below 53% but really it should be blue because it's above 50% for that specific year. Does that make sense?

Is there a way to get the partial sum for the column instead of the total sum for all the columns?

Color background color based on column partial sum

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:25:40 GMT

I think I figured it out. Need to add the column you want to group by after the total, so this:

=if( sum(sold_count) / sum(available_count) >= sum(total <TheYear> sold_count)/sum(total <TheYear> available_count), red(), blue())

Right?

Color background color based on column partial sum

swuehl — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:28:11 GMT

Yes, should be correct. You can list the fields to ignore in the total, so you can still group by, using the <> syntax.

Re: Color background color based on column partial sum

qlikviewforum — Thu, 18 Jul 2019 14:20:04 GMT

Please help me out here...

https://community.qlik.com/t5/New-to-QlikView/How-to-change-the-Background-color-of-Total-in-Pivot-table/m-p/1603729#M378137