Format the Recommendation Dashboard

We will format the recommendation dashboard, this will improve its appearance, and also includes some business rules.

  1. Click on Themes, then click on Midnight: Images/quicksight_themes.png

  2. Select the Recommendations table, click the three dots, click Conditional formatting: Images/quicksight_conditional_formatting1.png

  3. Column: PayOffMonth, Add background color: Images/quicksight_conditional_formatting2.png

  4. Enter the formatting:

    • Condition: Greater than
    • Value: 9
    • Color: red
    • Click Apply, click Close: Images/quicksight_conditional_formatting3.png
  5. Using the same process, add formatting for the column discountrate:

    • Type: Background color
    • Condition: Less than
    • Value: 10 NOTE adjust this for your business rules, speak with your finance teams
    • Color: red
    • Click Apply, click Close
  6. Under the discountrate formatting, Click Add text color:

    • Condition: Greater than
    • Value: 20
    • Color: Green
    • Click Apply, click Close
  7. Using the same process, add formatting for the column HoursRun:

    • Type: Add text color
    • Condition: Less than
    • Value: 0.6
    • Color: Red
    • Click Add condition
    • Condition#2: Less than
    • Value: 0.85
    • Color: Orange
    • Click Apply, click Close
  8. Add formatting for the column SavingsPlanReco:

    • Type: Add background color
    • Format field based on: PayOffMonth
    • Condition: Greater than
    • Value: 9
    • Color: Red
    • Click Apply, click Close
    • Click Add text color
    • Format field based on: discountrate
    • Aggregation: Average
    • Condition: greater than
    • Value: 20
    • Color: Green
    • Click Apply, click Close
  9. Click SavingsPlanReco, Sort by Descending:
    Images/quicksight_conditional_formatting4.png

  10. Select the Trends table, select conditional formatting, Column instancecount:

    • Type: Add background color
    • Condition: Less than
    • Value: 5, speak with your team to set this at the appropriate level
    • Color: red
    • Click Add condition
    • Condition #2: Less than
    • Value: 10
    • Color: Orange
    • Click Apply, click Close
  11. Using the process above on the Trends table, Select the Trend column:

    • Type: Add background color
    • Condition: Less than
    • Value 0
    • Color: Red
    • Click Apply, click Close
    • Click Add text color
    • Condition: Greater than
    • Value: 0
    • Color: Green
    • Click Apply, Click Close
  12. Add the same formatting to the TrendAvg column as the Trend column.

Congratulations - you now have an analytics dashboard for Savings Plan recommendations!