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
- Comments (149)
RE: Change column labels/names in the visual
Hi, any update on this ? It's under review since 005-03-2015...
RE: Change column labels/names in the visual
So can we assume this will support visuals built on any data source (such as SSAS Multidimensional)?
RE: Change column labels/names in the visual
This is a definite must have. We have SSAS Models with complex names do not make any sense to the end users of the reports/dashboards we build from those models. I might call a value "Sales" on a report, but of the thousands of measures and dimensions we have, that one might be called "sales_withA_lessB_avg". Having to create new measures simply because you want a report measure or dimension heading renamed is absolutely unacceptable.
RE: Change column labels/names in the visual
Is there any way to hide the column headers in matrix and table chart ? If I am making the color of header and background color same , it is not visible but when I am printing the report
those headers are visible in grey color. Can you please help on the same and also provide suggestions to handle this problem.
RE: Change column labels/names in the visual
Great News. Thank you for the update
RE: Change column labels/names in the visual
Great news! Will this include all visuals??
RE: Change column labels/names in the visual
Great! So I guess this will work immediately with direct query (ssas) as well? Because that solves partially the lack of translation support
RE: Change column labels/names in the visual
Great news!
Thank you!!
RE: Change column labels/names in the visual
I don't see any responses from the experts. Is it possible to rename a column header in a Matrix or Table without modifying the data tables?
RE: Change column labels/names in the visual
Great news that you have started working on it! Thanks Amanda & the team.
To also take into consideration: sometimes the Labels names are not very clear, specially using quick measures.
Example: % of CT of Count "label_name"
Not very user friendly =)
And it makes the column label too long, even if we can now wrap the labels, it would be great to have it shorter.. Thanks!