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ambillate
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Measure: change the category name in a bar chart

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:

ambillate_0-1616664193469.png

 

Thank You in advance.

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Markus_Re
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Resolver I

Hi @ambillate,

 

I assume your table structure looks something like this (a very simplified version) :

 

Markus_Re_0-1617014687112.png

 

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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Markus_Re
Resolver I
Resolver I

Hi @ambillate,

 

I assume your table structure looks something like this (a very simplified version) :

 

Markus_Re_0-1617014687112.png

 

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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uh, so it's not possible. Thank You @Markus_Re  and also to you @Jihwan_Kim.. 🙂

Jihwan_Kim
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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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