# Metric cards do not propagate conditional formatting from ontology **URL:** \ **Category:** Product Feedback\ **Tags:** workshop\ **Created:** [October 9, 2024, 11:40am UTC](https://community.palantir.com/t/metric-cards-do-not-propagate-conditional-formatting-from-ontology/1498 "2024-10-09T11:40:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jstewartNS](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/palantir/user_avatar/community.palantir.com/jstewartns/32/1468_2.png) [@jstewartNS](https://community.palantir.com/u/jstewartNS)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2024, 11:40am UTC](https://community.palantir.com/t/metric-cards-do-not-propagate-conditional-formatting-from-ontology/1498/1 "2024-10-09T11:40:57Z")
It would be great if metric cards allowed you to choose a property to display as the primary, and then simply fed the ontology’s formatting (both numeric and conditional) through to the metric card, as OMA suggests is possible in the conditional formatting preview: ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/palantir/original/2X/2/2672467ed44d1ff25004ea0ad6d449bb1ce7d79f.png) Unfortunately this doesn’t work out to be the case, so configuring object views in Workshop using metric cards now requires twice the amount of configuration for conditional formatting. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/palantir/user_avatar/community.palantir.com/system/32/3_2.png) [@system](https://community.palantir.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2025, 6:55pm UTC](https://community.palantir.com/t/metric-cards-do-not-propagate-conditional-formatting-from-ontology/1498/2 "2025-01-21T18:55:27Z")
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**Author:** ![system](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/palantir/user_avatar/community.palantir.com/system/32/3_2.png) [@system](https://community.palantir.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2025, 8:01am UTC](https://community.palantir.com/t/metric-cards-do-not-propagate-conditional-formatting-from-ontology/1498/3 "2025-05-13T08:01:25Z")
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**Author:** ![evanj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/65b543/32.png) [@evanj](https://community.palantir.com/u/evanj)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2025, 8:14pm UTC](https://community.palantir.com/t/metric-cards-do-not-propagate-conditional-formatting-from-ontology/1498/4 "2025-05-13T20:14:05Z")
We’re tracking a feature request internally to support this. Currently this does not work because conditional formatting rules are dropped at the variable level - there’s currently no way for a variable to associate conditional formatting rules from the object type it came from. Compared to an object table where properties are defined for a widget directly against an object set variable. ---
**Author:** ![jstewartNS](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/palantir/user_avatar/community.palantir.com/jstewartns/32/1468_2.png) [@jstewartNS](https://community.palantir.com/u/jstewartNS)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2025, 9:52am UTC](https://community.palantir.com/t/metric-cards-do-not-propagate-conditional-formatting-from-ontology/1498/5 "2025-05-14T09:52:58Z")
Thanks @evanj ! Makes sense as to why it currently doesn’t flow through. It would be cool if an object-property-backed variable had it enabled, though: ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/palantir/original/2X/5/56d1270c15af44834249a4dced992f11d1270d70.png) I’ve got the feeling that would be the only supportable case, to be honest. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/palantir/user_avatar/community.palantir.com/system/32/3_2.png) [@system](https://community.palantir.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2025, 10:53pm UTC](https://community.palantir.com/t/metric-cards-do-not-propagate-conditional-formatting-from-ontology/1498/6 "2025-09-04T22:53:31Z")
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**Author:** ![evanj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/65b543/32.png) [@evanj](https://community.palantir.com/u/evanj)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2025, 7:51am UTC](https://community.palantir.com/t/metric-cards-do-not-propagate-conditional-formatting-from-ontology/1498/7 "2025-09-05T07:51:27Z")
![Screenshot 2025-09-05 at 3.50.33 AM](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/palantir/original/2X/6/6a02a04b6d71c9a843ef472b60da71fdc362b8bc.png) The metric card widget now supports an “Object property” option which will pick up Ontology conditional formatting. We will look to get this added to the docs soon. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/palantir/user_avatar/community.palantir.com/system/32/3_2.png) [@system](https://community.palantir.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2026, 9:50pm UTC](https://community.palantir.com/t/metric-cards-do-not-propagate-conditional-formatting-from-ontology/1498/8 "2026-03-04T21:50:22Z")
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**Author:** ![system](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/palantir/user_avatar/community.palantir.com/system/32/3_2.png) [@system](https://community.palantir.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2026, 3:43am UTC](https://community.palantir.com/t/metric-cards-do-not-propagate-conditional-formatting-from-ontology/1498/9 "2026-10-30T03:43:01Z")
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