QGIS Attribute table Conditional formatting

Not in all instances that we want to run query to select items on attribute table. Sometimes we just want to highlight of format the attribute table so that certain item that met a specified characteristics are noticeable on the table.

For example, we may want to see rows that have duplicate records or rows whose name ends with a certain alphabet. Whatever the case maybe, QGIS has a handy tool called "Conditional formatting" that allow you format your attribute table as you wanted. Let see some few examples:-

Conditional formatting base on duplicate records

We can use the count() function which returns the count of matching features to check for duplicte records. To do this, we check if the count is greater than one, if so than the record appeared more than once and hence it is duplicated.

The expression is: count("Name" , "Name") > 1 where "Name" is the attribute field name. We can select the duplicated attributes as seen below. However, what we wanted here is to conditionally format the table base on duplicate records.

To achieve conditional formatting, click on the "conditional formatting" icon as seen below. Then add a new rule. Note, you can format just the field or the full row.

Add a name, enter the conditional expression (in this case it is: count("Name" , "Name") > 1). Then set the background and text colors. After which you will click on 'Done' button to apply the formatting.

Conditional formatting base on name ending with 'a'

Here we will use the regexp_match() function to find names that end with alphabet "a". The correct expression is: regexp_match("Name", 'a$'), this has to do with regular expressions.

We will add this formatting to the one above. So, we just need to add another "New Rule", to format items under 'Name' field/column that ends with 'a'.

We now have colors separating all the criteria we wanted in a nice color table.

That is it!