Single Value: Trellis View - color change based on string values

Hello Ninjas - I am not sure if I am having a brain fart or if I am just not grasping this. Seeking some help, please. I have searched for a good few hours now and have read several of the docs. I have a simple index populated with REST API calls that return a single word. "alive" or "dead" as the field "state" Splunk ver 7.0.3 I am trying to build a dashboard panel that will sit on a KPI dashboard. We have a rather vanilla system so no apps that would probably do this for me. The result I want for each host is a single value. The trellis view is appealing because I wouldn't have to go through using a base search (but maybe i have to) and then create multiple single values. So a Single Value; value displayed is the "state" and the color should be representative of the state, but I see the ranges must be numerical so I eval'd a numerical value field based on the state value called "state_sev". The code snippet below returns the "state" but does not change colors. If I change the `` to be "state_sev" It will display the numerical value and the correct color. So I am not understanding what I am missing to make this change color while displaying the text state. The color ranges are set in the GUI. I tried using the `rangemap` function and I couldn't get it to do much different. I am fearful this might be due to trellis view. Not sure. I probably don't need all those options. Any help would be appreciated! Thank you. index=pdf_http host=r* |eval state=_raw |eval state_sev=case(state="alive", 1, state="dead", 5) |stats last(state_sev) as state_sev last(state) as state by host-24h@hnow1valueblocknonestate0["0x65a637","0xd93f3c"][5]1011smallhoststandardabsoluteafter11 ![alt text][1] ![alt text][2] [1]: /storage/temp/255872-pdf1.png [2]: /storage/temp/255873-pdf2.png