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Hi, Good Day.
Is it possible or is there a measure to change the names of the category in a bar chart?
without making a new column. (cause I don't have the access for editing the data source)
Like this example:
Thank You in advance.
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Hi @ambillate,
I assume your table structure looks something like this (a very simplified version) :
As you can´t use a measure to return a table of values (and therefore use it as X-Axis), unfortunately it´s currently not possible to shorten the category name in your case without editing the underlying data.
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Hi @ambillate,
I assume your table structure looks something like this (a very simplified version) :
As you can´t use a measure to return a table of values (and therefore use it as X-Axis), unfortunately it´s currently not possible to shorten the category name in your case without editing the underlying data.
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Hi, @ambillate
Please correct me if I wrongly understood your question.
Even you cannot access the original data source, I believe you can still change the columns' name in PBIX file.
Or, perhaps you can try to create a calculation-group and name each measure O, A, M, L. And then, you can pull the calculation-group to the X-Axis.
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