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Conditional Formatting

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The DevExpress Dashboard allows you to format dashboard item elements whose values meet a specified condition. This feature highlights specific elements with a predefined set of rules. You can create a heat map with Gradient Ranges, highlight top or bottom values with Top-Bottom rules, display key performance indicators(KPIs) with Icon Ranges and much more.

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Conditional Formatting Overview

Comparison rules used in conditional formatting can be categorized as follows:

Format Condition

Description

Example

Condition class

Value

Compares static values (Greater Than, Less Than, Between, etc.).

GreaterThanCondition_Common

Desktop: FormatConditionValue

Web: FormatConditionValue

Top-Bottom

Highlights a specific number of top/bottom values (Top N, Bottom N).

TopNFormatCondition_Common

Desktop: FormatConditionTopBottom

Web: FormatConditionTopBottom

Average

Highlights values above or below the average value.

BelowAverageCondition_Common

Desktop: FormatConditionAverage

Web: FormatConditionAverage

A Date Occurring

Highlights date-time values that are within a specified interval.

DateOccurring_Common

Desktop: FormatConditionDateOccurring

Web: FormatConditionDateOccurring

Expression

Uses complex conditions to apply formatting. You can also pass dashboard parameters to expressions.

ExpressionCondition_Common

Desktop: FormatConditionExpression

Web: FormatConditionExpression

Icon Ranges

Display a specific icon based on a value range. You can select a predefined set of icons or apply a specific icon to each range.

IconRange_Common

Desktop: FormatConditionRangeSet

Web: FormatConditionRangeSet

Color Ranges

Apply specific colors to different value ranges. You can select a predefined set of colors or use custom appearance settings to highlight values within specified ranges.

ColorRange_Common

Desktop: FormatConditionRangeSet

Web: FormatConditionRangeSet

Gradient Ranges

Apply formatting using gradient color scales.

GradientRange_Common

Desktop: FormatConditionRangeGradient

Web: FormatConditionRangeGradient

Bar

Visualizes numeric values as bars. You can also color bars corresponding to positive and negative values using different colors.

BarCondition_Common

Desktop: FormatConditionBar

Web: FormatConditionBar

Bar Color Ranges

Visualize numeric values as bars. Values within a range display a specific color.

ColorRangeBar_Common

Desktop: FormatConditionColorRangeBar

Web: FormatConditionColorRangeBar

Bar Gradient Ranges

Visualize numeric values as bars. Values within a range display a specific bar gradient.

BarGradientRanges_Common

Desktop: FormatConditionGradientRangeBar

Web: FormatConditionGradientRangeBar

You can apply conditional formatting to measure or dimension values.

Format conditions that can be applied to different data item types are as follows:

Data Type

Supported Format Conditions

numeric

Value

Top-Bottom

Average

Expression

Icon Ranges

Color Ranges

Gradient Ranges

Bar

Bar Color Ranges

Bar Gradient Ranges

string

Value with the condition type set to Equal To, Not Equal To or Text that Contains

Expression

date-time

Value

A Date Occurring for dimensions with the continuous date-time group interval

Expression

Icon Ranges

Color Ranges

Gradient Ranges

Bar

Bar Color Ranges

Bar Gradient Ranges

How to Apply Conditional Formatting in UI

The topics below describe how to use conditional formatting in the WinForms Designer and on the web.

How to Apply Conditional Formatting in Code

Dashboard items that support conditional formatting expose the FormatRules property providing access to a collection of the DashboardItemFormatRule descendants.

To create a new rule, do the following.

Finally, add the created format rule to the FormatRules collection exposed by the dashboard item. To learn more, see the Conditional Formatting topic for the required dashboard item.