Categories
Data Software

Conditional formatting based on values from another query

We an issue we were able to cunningly solve in the query editor; we wanted to show in our report which values in one query had a match in the other.

One query was a list of features on a site, the other was a list of core features. We wanted the site features to be conditionally formatted depending on whether there was a match in the core features or not.

Attached image - No description set

To achieve this, in the site features query, we:

  1. Merged all the site features with matching from the core features
  2. Expanded the ‘feature’ column from the core query
  3. Replaced null values with 0
  4. Formatted the column as a number
  5. Replaced all errors with 1

Then, in the report table visualisation we were able to apply conditional formatting to highlight core features the site was using…

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *