Conditional Formatting

Hi all
Does anyone know how I can have conditional formatting in my reports?
What I want to achieve is something like. If the field text = "Green" make
the background green, etc
Thanks alot in advance
Ruse the iif function for the font color. Reporting Services accepts
expressions for most of its properties.
=iif(boolean condition, "red", "black")
HTH
Charles Kangai, MCT, MCDBA
"Rudi Groenewald" wrote:
> Hi all
> Does anyone know how I can have conditional formatting in my reports?
> What I want to achieve is something like. If the field text = "Green" make
> the background green, etc
> Thanks alot in advance
> R
>
>|||Hi charles,
Thanks that worked great, just one problem,
There is 4 possibilities. it can either be red, green, yellow or blue..
I tried this:
=iif( Fields!Shift.Value = "Green", "LawnGreen", "transparent")
else
=iif( Fields!Shift.Value = "Red", "Red", "transparent")
else
=iif( Fields!Shift.Value = "Yellow", "Yellow", "transparent")
else
=iif( Fields!Shift.Value = "Blue", "Blue", "transparent")
endif
but that don't quite help it. Any ideas?
"Charles Kangai" <CharlesKangai@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:4C2D7CCD-E8CB-4A5C-A7D9-9E2530CABA44@.microsoft.com...
> use the iif function for the font color. Reporting Services accepts
> expressions for most of its properties.
> =iif(boolean condition, "red", "black")
> HTH
> Charles Kangai, MCT, MCDBA
> "Rudi Groenewald" wrote:
>> Hi all
>> Does anyone know how I can have conditional formatting in my reports?
>> What I want to achieve is something like. If the field text = "Green"
>> make
>> the background green, etc
>> Thanks alot in advance
>> R
>>|||IIF is a function, not a procedural statement. Therefore you cannot use the
syntax you are trying to use. Is your logic something like this: if the value
of the Shift textbox is "green", "blue", "red" or "yellow", make the color of
this the same, otherwise make it transparent? if so, you need
=iif(Fields!Shift.Value="green" or Fields!Shift.Value = "blue" or
Fields!Shift.Value = "red" or Fields!Shift.Value = "yellow",
Fields!Shift.Value, "transparent")
or are you trying to make a distinction between green and lawngreen, in
which case you could nest a second iif function like so:
=iif(Fields!Shift.Value = "blue" or Fields!Shift.Value = "red" or
Fields!Shift.Value = "yellow", Fields!Shift.Value, iif(Fields!Shift.Value ="green", "lawngreen", "transparent"))
both of the above should work.
HTH
Charles Kangai, MCT, MCDBA
"Rudi Groenewald" wrote:
> Hi charles,
> Thanks that worked great, just one problem,
> There is 4 possibilities. it can either be red, green, yellow or blue..
> I tried this:
> =iif( Fields!Shift.Value = "Green", "LawnGreen", "transparent")
> else
> =iif( Fields!Shift.Value = "Red", "Red", "transparent")
> else
> =iif( Fields!Shift.Value = "Yellow", "Yellow", "transparent")
> else
> =iif( Fields!Shift.Value = "Blue", "Blue", "transparent")
> endif
> but that don't quite help it. Any ideas?
> "Charles Kangai" <CharlesKangai@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:4C2D7CCD-E8CB-4A5C-A7D9-9E2530CABA44@.microsoft.com...
> > use the iif function for the font color. Reporting Services accepts
> > expressions for most of its properties.
> >
> > =iif(boolean condition, "red", "black")
> >
> > HTH
> >
> > Charles Kangai, MCT, MCDBA
> >
> > "Rudi Groenewald" wrote:
> >
> >> Hi all
> >>
> >> Does anyone know how I can have conditional formatting in my reports?
> >>
> >> What I want to achieve is something like. If the field text = "Green"
> >> make
> >> the background green, etc
> >>
> >> Thanks alot in advance
> >>
> >> R
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
>|||Hi Charles,
I figured it out, it was kind of simple really, just had to click. The
field "shift" only displays the words "red", "blue", "green" or "yellow".
So if that is the only words which are displayed, then obviously the
expression to be used as the background is =Fields!Shift.value
but your input made me click, thanks alot
Regards
R
"Charles Kangai" <CharlesKangai@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:CCA10812-58FB-43BD-B8FD-4C5B2BABC5AE@.microsoft.com...
> IIF is a function, not a procedural statement. Therefore you cannot use
> the
> syntax you are trying to use. Is your logic something like this: if the
> value
> of the Shift textbox is "green", "blue", "red" or "yellow", make the color
> of
> this the same, otherwise make it transparent? if so, you need
> =iif(Fields!Shift.Value="green" or Fields!Shift.Value = "blue" or
> Fields!Shift.Value = "red" or Fields!Shift.Value = "yellow",
> Fields!Shift.Value, "transparent")
> or are you trying to make a distinction between green and lawngreen, in
> which case you could nest a second iif function like so:
> =iif(Fields!Shift.Value = "blue" or Fields!Shift.Value = "red" or
> Fields!Shift.Value = "yellow", Fields!Shift.Value, iif(Fields!Shift.Value
> => "green", "lawngreen", "transparent"))
> both of the above should work.
> HTH
> Charles Kangai, MCT, MCDBA
> "Rudi Groenewald" wrote:
>> Hi charles,
>> Thanks that worked great, just one problem,
>> There is 4 possibilities. it can either be red, green, yellow or blue..
>> I tried this:
>> =iif( Fields!Shift.Value = "Green", "LawnGreen", "transparent")
>> else
>> =iif( Fields!Shift.Value = "Red", "Red", "transparent")
>> else
>> =iif( Fields!Shift.Value = "Yellow", "Yellow", "transparent")
>> else
>> =iif( Fields!Shift.Value = "Blue", "Blue", "transparent")
>> endif
>> but that don't quite help it. Any ideas?
>> "Charles Kangai" <CharlesKangai@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
>> message
>> news:4C2D7CCD-E8CB-4A5C-A7D9-9E2530CABA44@.microsoft.com...
>> > use the iif function for the font color. Reporting Services accepts
>> > expressions for most of its properties.
>> >
>> > =iif(boolean condition, "red", "black")
>> >
>> > HTH
>> >
>> > Charles Kangai, MCT, MCDBA
>> >
>> > "Rudi Groenewald" wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hi all
>> >>
>> >> Does anyone know how I can have conditional formatting in my reports?
>> >>
>> >> What I want to achieve is something like. If the field text = "Green"
>> >> make
>> >> the background green, etc
>> >>
>> >> Thanks alot in advance
>> >>
>> >> R
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>>