Learn how to Highlight metric performance by applying traffic colors to your visual.
Traffic lighting is a monitoring system that uses the colors red, amber, and green to indicate the performance of a metric against set targets. You set targets by applying simple conditional formatting rules to the chart so that the metric appears:
Add traffic lighting to your charts to show how your company is performing and immediately identify where you need to focus your review.
For example, the following illustration shows a Breakdown of Headcount grouped by Organization Hierarchy. To monitor the performance of the Headcount metric, the following traffic lighting rules were applied:
Traffic lighting rules can be set by comparing a metric to one of the following:
Note: The examples in the following table build off the previous example where traffic lighting is being applied to a Breakdown of Headcount by Organization Hierarchy. In this example, the visual items consist of the groupings: Operations, Sales, Finance, and more.
Example: Rule type - Description
Traffic lighting can be added to the following visual types:
To add traffic lighting to your visual, click the Traffic light button (!) on the Visual Actions menu.
How traffic lighting rules are evaluated
The traffic lighting rules are evaluated in the order they appear in the Info panel from top to bottom. Once a rule is met, the remaining rules are not evaluated.
For example, you applied the following traffic lighting rules to the Breakdown of Headcount grouped by Organization Hierarchy:
As shown in the following illustration, the headcount for Operations is 550 and its metric value is highlighted as concerning (amber) and not good (green).
In this case, the headcount for Operations meets the first condition, so the remaining rules are not evaluated.
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