Adding Custom Formatting to Numeric Fields

Custom formatting gives you greater control over how numeric data appears in a result set. With custom formatting, you can apply Excel-style formatting options to numeric data shown in visualizations, or produced by custom fields or table calculations.

Using Custom Formatting in Visualizations

For visualizations with a Values tab in the gear menu:

For table visualizations:

A new blank field will appear once you select Custom. Enter the custom formatting string in the blank field.

Using Custom Formatting with Table Calculations and Custom Fields

When creating or editing a table calculation or custom field, select Custom in the formatting drop-down and enter the custom format in the field below:

Custom Formatting Examples

You can read Excel’s complete guide about how to specify these formats in their documentation. However, at this time date formatting, color formatting, and hexadecimal conversion are not supported.

Some of the most common formatting options are shown below. A format code using 0 requires that non-significant zeros be displayed if the number contains fewer digits than specified in the code. A format code using # only displays significant digits, even if there are fewer digits than specified in the code.

Some special characters, such as international currency symbols, must be treated as strings and enclosed in double quotes.