Up/Down Arrow Colours

Del Horne

Hi,

I wondered if there was a way to swap the up and down arrow colours?

e.g. I’m applying the arrows to a spend profile and green should represent a down trend.

Thanks,

Del

M Underbrink

@Del Horne - not possible at the moment. A couple workaround suggestions,

• Use the gray arrows and conditional formatting to turn the cell Green/Red based on Down/Up respectively
• Use the Gray arrows in conjunction with the harvey balls. Use formulas to make the ball auto associate to the arrow. =IF([ArrowColumn]="down", "Green", IF([ArrowColumn]="up", "Red"))

Andrée Starå

Hi @Del Horne

To add to M Underbrink's excellent advice/answer,

You can also use symbols by using UNICHAR, CHAR or Emojis.

More info:

https://help.smartsheet.com/function/unichar

https://help.smartsheet.com/function/char

https://getemoji.com/

Great resource that Paul Newcome put together

https://app.smartsheet.com/b/publish?EQBCT=82f8fe0936a54758a3afa4b584acde07

Would that work/help?

I hope that helps!

Be safe and have a fantastic week!

Best,

Andrée Starå | Workflow Consultant / CEO @ WORK BOLD

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M Underbrink

@Del Horne - not possible at the moment. A couple workaround suggestions,

• Use the gray arrows and conditional formatting to turn the cell Green/Red based on Down/Up respectively
• Use the Gray arrows in conjunction with the harvey balls. Use formulas to make the ball auto associate to the arrow. =IF([ArrowColumn]="down", "Green", IF([ArrowColumn]="up", "Red"))

Del Horne

Thanks @M Underbrink – would the conditional formatting pull through as data in a dashboard?

Andrée Starå

Hi @Del Horne

To add to M Underbrink's excellent advice/answer,

You can also use symbols by using UNICHAR, CHAR or Emojis.

More info:

https://help.smartsheet.com/function/unichar

https://help.smartsheet.com/function/char

https://getemoji.com/

Great resource that Paul Newcome put together

https://app.smartsheet.com/b/publish?EQBCT=82f8fe0936a54758a3afa4b584acde07

Would that work/help?

I hope that helps!

Be safe and have a fantastic week!

Best,

Andrée Starå | Workflow Consultant / CEO @ WORK BOLD

✅Did my post(s) help or answer your question or solve your problem? Please help the Community by marking it as the accepted answer/helpful. It will make it easier for others to find a solution or help to answer!

M Underbrink

@Del Horne - the conditional formatting would show on reports on Dashboards (it's an option when formatting the report widget to preserve cell formatting).