You are creating a sales report in Power BI with a clustered column chart that displays monthly revenue. A stakeholder requires that any columns representing a month where revenue exceeds a target of $500,000 must be colored green to make them stand out. All other columns should remain the default color. How should you configure the visual to meet this dynamic requirement?
From the 'Analytics' pane, add a 'Constant line' with a value of 500,000 and set its color to green to highlight the target.
In the 'Format your visual' pane, expand the 'Columns' options. Click the conditional formatting (fx) button next to 'Color' and create a rule to set the color to green for values greater than 500,000.
In the report view, hold the Ctrl key while selecting each individual column that exceeds the target, then manually change its color from the formatting options.
Create a new DAX measure that returns the text "green" if revenue exceeds $500,000. Add this measure to the 'Legend' field well in the 'Build a visual' pane.
The correct method to dynamically change the color of columns based on their value is to use conditional formatting. This feature is located in the 'Format your visual' pane. By navigating to the 'Columns' section, you can access the conditional formatting (fx) dialog for the color property. Here, you can define one or more rules, such as setting the column color to green if its value is greater than 500,000. Adding a constant line from the 'Analytics' pane only adds a line to the chart; it does not change the column colors. Creating a DAX measure and adding it to the legend would alter the structure of the visual by creating new series rather than formatting the existing ones. Manually selecting columns to change their color is not a feature in Power BI for a single data series; formatting applies to the entire series or is controlled by rules.
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