Relative Change Alerts

Summary

  • Relative Change Alerts evaluate based on the nature of the data change in a Cell’s value
  • They can respond to any change, a relative change or an absolute change

Relative Change Alerts are similar to Data Change Alerts, but they evaluate on the relative nature of the change made to a given Cell's value.

There are 3 Relative Change Alerts types, each levaraging an associated Relative Change Expression:

FunctionWhen Alert is Triggered
ANY_CHANGEAny change at all to the Cell's value
PERCENT_CHANGEIf the value of Cell changes by a given percent amount
ABSOLUTE_CHANGEIf the value of Cell changes by a given absolute amount

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Any Change

Any Any Change Alert fires if there is any change at all to the Cell's value.

It leverages the ANY_CHANGE Expression Function.

Alerts: Relative Any Change
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  • This example displays an Info Alert which fires when there is any change to a Cell's value in any numeric column (using ANY_CHANGE expression)

Percent Change

A Percent Change Alert fires if the value of a Cell changes by a given percent amount.

It leverages the PERCENT_CHANGE Expression Function.

Hint

PERCENT_CHANGE can be given a "direction" to limit the evaluation to percent increases or decreases

Alerts: Relative Percent Change
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  • This example displays 2 Warning Alerts which check for relative percent changes (leveraging the PERCENT_CHANGE expression function)
    • on the Github Stars column if the cell's value changes by more than 50% (in any direction)
    • on the Github Watchers column if the cell's value increases by more than 50%

Absolute Change

An Absolute Change Alert fires if the value of a Cell changes by a given absolute amount.

It leverages the ABSOLUTE_CHANGE Expression Function.

Hint

ABSOLUTE_CHANGE can be given a "direction" to limit the evaluation to percent increases or decreases

Alerts: Relative Absolute Change
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  • This example displays 2 Success Alerts which check for relative absolute changes (leveraging the ABSOLUTE_CHANGE expression function)
    • on the Github Stars column if the cell's value changes by more than 100 (in any direction)
    • on the Github Watchers column if the cell's value decreases by exactly 20