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Change column labels/names in the visual

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Mario Nelaj on 14 Feb 2017 04:45:43

It would be great if we could change columns labels/names in the standard visuals (Table & Matrixes mainly). In our company we have a data warehouse build to support the PowerBI tabular model with the data. The field names in the data model are not the most intuitive to our PowerBI End User. It could be great if we could change the way the field labels are shown in our tables to be more intuitive and meaningful without needing to change the field names in the data model.

Administrator on 06 Jul 2017 13:05:17

With today's release, you can now rename any field within a chart or table! Learn more in our blog post: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/blog/power-bi-desktop-july-feature-summary-2/#rename

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:53:04

RE: Change column labels/names in the visual

Perfect! Can you do it for any item on the field too? This is a good feature in pivot table (on Excel) and would be very usefull on PBI.

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:53:04

RE: Change column labels/names in the visual

Fantastic and perfect timing. thanks to all the team!

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Power BI User on 05 Jul 2020 22:53:04

RE: Change column labels/names in the visual

Other point, Can we re-order manually the itens for any field in Matrix visual? Sometimes the order from the itens should be done like a business view not by a simple alphanumeric rule.

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Igor Furnas on 05 Jul 2020 22:53:04

RE: Change column labels/names in the visual

Great work! Thanks for listening!

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Mimoune Djouallah on 05 Jul 2020 22:53:02

RE: Change column labels/names in the visual

it is working now in July update, excellent works Guys

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Filipa Ferreira on 05 Jul 2020 22:52:59

RE: Change column labels/names in the visual

Hi,

can you please check the topic below and provide some update on the topic ?

https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/17702458-export-to-powerpoint-with-filters-applied

Thanks,
Filipa

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Poul Jørgensen on 05 Jul 2020 22:52:59

RE: Change column labels/names in the visual

Alignment for headlines (left/right/centered) in Matrix/ table too would be so nice

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Jorge Abreu on 05 Jul 2020 22:52:51

RE: Change column labels/names in the visual

Please make available for direct query source. I don't know why but some time it feels direct query is left behind in some updates.

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Crispin Burdett on 05 Jul 2020 22:52:50

RE: Change column labels/names in the visual

I have just noticed that you can now do this within the Power BI service - right-click on a field in the field section of the visual designer and there is a rename option and you just overtype the text you want. Haven't seen this annouced anywhere.

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Frenk van Beekveld on 05 Jul 2020 22:52:50

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And it works for live SSAS connections as well :-)