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I was looking to have this view available in "all items" view (Default style view) on a list called VIP Updates. I have a calculated column labeled Stoplight in which the color coded circles are supposed to appear. The data in which the Stoplight column derives its information from is labeled "Cases." The cases column has either a 1,2,3,4 or 5 in it. I was looking for it to come out like this:

1 - Green 2 - Red 3 - Yellow 4 - Orange 5 - Blue

An example of the stoplight:

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Current formula

="<DIV style='font-weight:bold; font-size:24px; color:"&CHOOSE(RIGHT(LEFT(CASES,2),1),"red","orange","green")&";'>•</DIV>"
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I found a couple of useful answers for KPIs:

Using calculated fields as KPI

Using Today and Me in Calculated Columns

Edits based on comments: Make sure you calculated column is formatted to return a number, as that's the trick for rendering HTML.

You can try making your calculated field just =(RIGHT(LEFT(CASES,2),1) and see what it returns. When you have this clause returning the numbers you expect, then you can add the rest of the html around it. That will help focus in on whether it's a problem with the Right/Left clause or the HTML.

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  • ="<DIV style='font-weight:bold; font-size:24px; color:"&CHOOSE(RIGHT(LEFT(CASES,2),1),"red","orange","green")&";'>•</DIV>"
    – vier111
    Jul 24, 2017 at 20:34
  • I have the calculated column formatted to return the value as a number.
    – vier111
    Jul 26, 2017 at 14:08
  • I don't have site collection administrator privileges.
    – vier111
    Jul 26, 2017 at 14:58
  • Are the values of your "Cases" field actually "1 - Green", "2 - Red", "3 - Yellow", "4 - Orange", and "5 - Blue", or are they something else? If they are actually this, your Left/Right clauses would return a space.
    – Kalea
    Jul 27, 2017 at 19:00
  • its Version 2013
    – vier111
    Jul 28, 2017 at 20:30
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Note: Please mention the version of SharePoint you are using, so that its easy to provide the suggestions/answers

Is this for SharePoint Online? If yes, HTML within a calculated field will not work anymore. Effective Jun 13 2017, this feature is disabled. Administrators can request an extension through September 10, 2017 at the latest.

For SharePoint 2013 & SharePoint 2016, this will be provided as a configurable option via the June 2017 and subsequent Public Updates.

Discussion on this topic can be found here - June 13th 2017 Microsoft blocked handling HTML markup in SharePoint calculated fields - how to get the same functionality back

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