Highlight Data in a Viz

Security: These domains in the System functional area:

Drive

Discovery Boards: Create

To emphasize specific aspects of the data in a table viz, you can apply:

Formatting to highlight all values in the table or in a column. Example: You set the font to bold type for all values in the first column of the table.

Conditional formatting to highlight values that meet set conditions. Example: You set the background color to light green for all table values greater than or equal to 500.

You can apply conditional formatting to fields of these types:

Boolean.

Date.

Number (including amounts).

Text.

Open a discovery board and click the

Formatting

panel.

Select the entire table or the column you want to highlight.

In the formatting panel, select either:

Value
to highlight the entire selection.

A filter operator to highlight values based on set conditions, when you select a column with a field type that supports conditional formatting. Example: Is greater than or equal to
.

A field type and a filter operator to highlight values based on set conditions, when you select the table. Example: Date
and Is between
.

Select formatting options to highlight the selection:

Bold

Italic

Underline

Text Color

Background Color

(Optional) From the related actions menu, add or remove conditional formatting or formatting conditions.

Workday applies the selected formatting to the table and highlights the relevant data. When you define multiple conditional formatting conditions for a selection, or a mix of formatting and conditional formatting, Workday evaluates each value in the selection and applies:

The conditional formatting from the first set condition that the value matches.

The formatting that you define for all values in the selection, when the value doesn’t match any set condition.

Steps: Modify Visualizations