New conditional styling with v8.3 onwards

In this recipe, you will learn about the new conditional styles property introduced in Report Studio which, in my humble opinion, is the best feature added to make a report author's life less tedious.

Assume that the following report needs to be formatted such that quantities below 1.7M will be highlighted with red background and those above 2M should be green. Also, we need the negative values for Running Difference (month-on-month) to be shown in red and in a bracket.

New conditional styling with v8.3 onwards

As shown in previous recipe, this would have needed us to define two conditional variables. Then attach each to the corresponding column as ...

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