# Function "eq" is not working

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/function-eq-is-not-working/255466>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Tags:** canvas\
**Created:** [November 16, 2020, 4:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/function-eq-is-not-working/255466 "2020-11-16T04:32:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![tangkalo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@tangkalo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tangkalo)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2020, 4:32am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/function-eq-is-not-working/255466/1 "2020-11-16T04:32:00Z")

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Hi, all. I have been scratching my head as to how I can conditionally change color of the context for a markdown. For some reason, the equality function "eq" doesn't seem to compare correctly. Even though the markdown displays the column value correctly in the workpad e.g. "warn", but the switch case test lands on the default. Am I missing something? Thanks in advance.

`| markdown "{{rows.0.overallStatus}}"`  
` font={font size=48 family="'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"`  
` color={`  
` switch {case if={eq "warn"} then="orange"}`  
` {case if={eq "ok"} then="green"}`  
` default="purple"`  
` }`  
` }`

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**Author:** ![AClerk](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/aclerk/32/55297_2.png) [@AClerk](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/AClerk)\
**Post date:** [November 18, 2020, 4:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/function-eq-is-not-working/255466/2 "2020-11-18T04:07:54Z")

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According to [this](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/conditionals-in-canvas/168796/2)  
The syntax is

```auto
  fn=${getCell status | switch 
    {case if={compare eq to="up"} then=Healthy}
    {case if={compare eq to="down"} then=Unhealthy}
    default="Unknown"

```

Try changing your syntax accordingly.  
Thanks

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**Author:** ![tangkalo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@tangkalo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tangkalo)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2020, 10:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/function-eq-is-not-working/255466/3 "2020-12-01T22:46:28Z")

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Thanks. I was able to get it working with the following syntax: -

font={font color={if condition={getCell overallStatus | eq "error"} then="red"  
else if condition={getCell overallStatus | eq "warn"} then="orange"  
else="green"}}

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2020, 10:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/function-eq-is-not-working/255466/4 "2020-12-29T22:46:32Z")

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