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Mithun Balamurugan Prabakaran on 14 Mar 2016 20:32:43

I was just wondering whether it would be possible to set the value to the name of a measure/column dynamically. Or atleast provide an option to choose the field name displayed in the chart based on other fields, so that is would be dynamic.

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Juan Avila Muñoz on 20 Jun 2023 09:15:16

RE: Dynamic measure name

Qlik Sense has it. I don't understand why PowerBI doesn't. It's critical in order to make understandable the name of the measure and give the PowerBI app a better look&feel. Come on, you've already late!

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Juan Avila Muñoz on 20 Jun 2023 09:13:25

RE: Dynamic measure name

Qlik Sense has it. I don't understand why PowerBI doesn't. It's critical in order to make understandable the name of the measure and give the PowerBI app a better look&feel. Come on, you've already late!

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Evandro Rodrigues on 03 Jan 2023 16:28:54

RE: Dynamic measure name

Dynamic measure nameTo declare the name of a measure in power bi, the user must assign a string as follows: Crimes 2022 = countrows(table_crimes).however, in power bi you could have the option of assigning the name of the measure associated with a variable, example: Crimes & [year_current] so the name would be automatically assigned Crimes 2023, and whenever the year changed the name of the measure would be changed.Currently the power bi has this shortcomingThank you very much!evandro

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Philipp Hess on 10 Jan 2022 09:30:57

RE: Dynamic measure name

To me this seems to be a very obvious feature, very strange that this is not possible in PowerBI. This is a quite severe limitation compared to other reporting environments.

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Peter Ivers on 06 Apr 2021 13:55:51

RE: Dynamic measure name

This would be very useful. We have reporting that calculates a measure for 40 different programs, and as a result has a generic name "Count of Members". We have a visual that shows that measure, but complaints that the measure name is too generic for executives to understand. We would like to set the measure name dynamically from a list of programs so that it shows "Count signed up for program A", "Count invited to program B", etc., to make this meaningful.

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Dinu Noroc on 06 Jul 2020 00:02:59

RE: Dynamic measure name

Another Use case is When using a Switch function to display different measures based on slicer selection

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Ranit on 05 Jul 2020 23:28:13

RE: Dynamic measure name

Necessary for multi languages

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Jason E on 05 Jul 2020 22:45:36

RE: Dynamic measure name

Also need this. I have measures for Fiscal Year totals named after the FY. They always sum the latest FY and need to be named according to whatever FY it currently is.

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Power BI Ideas Admin on 05 Jul 2020 22:45:35

RE: Dynamic measure name

This would be awesome, I really need to be able to change the name base on month data is coming from