I have a tablix table with hundreds of rows of data. I would like to have the background color to be yellow right after a particular condition. How can I do that?
Example - I want all the data to be yellow iif(Fields!pet.Value="cat"), so hamster and on...
You need to change the expression for the cell's BackgroundColor
and remember what it was. We'll need custom code for this. Go to the Report
menu, choose Report Properties...
and click on Code
and enter the following code:
Dim ThisPetColor As String
Function PetColor(PetType As String) As String
If ThisPetColor = "" Then
ThisPetColor = "White"
End If
If PetType = "cat" Then
ThisPetColor = "Yellow"
Else If PetType = "hamster" Then
ThisPetColor = "Green"
Else If PetType = "unicorn" Then
ThisPetColor = "Purple"
End If
Return ThisPetColor
End Function
Then in your cell make the BackgroundColor
expression be:
=Code.PetColor(Fields!pet.Value)
or for even more flexibility in copying the formula, use the built-in Me
reference for the textbox:
=Code.PetColor(Me.Value)
So what we are doing is creating a global variable for the pet color ThisPetColor
and initialising that to "White". When the type of pet changes, if it is one of the ones where we change color then we change the value of the global variable to be the new pet color and use that thereafter (until the next pet type).