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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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f97bbbf9 34f3-45fa-adc0-d3ffc172d440 on 05 Jul 2020 22:37:40

RE: Change column labels/names in the visual

The option of rotating colum headers to vertical or an angle would be greatly appreciated

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2303d16b 95ac-4ff4-86d6-1b3b3384f2e1 on 05 Jul 2020 22:37:27

RE: Change column labels/names in the visual

The option to rotate column headers to be vertical would also be nice!

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54fce745 0d26-4c5c-864c-f6dc50e5f345 on 05 Jul 2020 22:37:02

RE: Change column labels/names in the visual

We need this feature! Please!

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93082e1f 1878-4d89-9aec-bfd8f529c447 on 05 Jul 2020 22:36:56

RE: Change column labels/names in the visual

Please make this happen as soon as you can. Allowing users to customize the legends by removing the operation performed in the data is very important, as the visualizations would look much cleaner.

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45cc539e 81b6-499f-9e61-d68d91efd031 on 05 Jul 2020 22:36:37

RE: Change column labels/names in the visual

Useful when connecting live to SSAS

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d2d5d191 3eb1-4f57-94d0-64d9a97ac510 on 05 Jul 2020 22:36:26

RE: Change column labels/names in the visual

This is an extremely important requirement. Much appreciate if you make it happen as soon as you can.

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e390c695 e6a7-4d30-b340-d422cef72e5b on 05 Jul 2020 22:36:05

RE: Change column labels/names in the visual

Great idea!

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802e2cc8 e9ad-425f-915f-4515bca7cc4e on 05 Jul 2020 22:35:57

RE: Change column labels/names in the visual

This should be a very basic function . Must have... please

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142e7e1b 0294-4468-bfde-2a91a86a3464 on 05 Jul 2020 22:34:55

RE: Change column labels/names in the visual

I would like to be able to rename the fields that I am adding to tables and matrix visuals as often the name of the column/measure would benefit from being shortened (but not appropriate to shorten on the physical table) and when applying an summarization which is not the default summarization for the column it will rename the column to "Count of Date" for a distinct count of dates for example.

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23f17957 55ae-4ccb-9c1c-ec5762b4e622 on 05 Jul 2020 22:34:51

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Agreed - should not have to mess with data and create measures to clean up data labels in visualizations!