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5 years ago
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Aliasing Values

I'm new to PBI - I've been using it for a month now as the last 9 years I've used Tableau extensively.  Today I was painfully trying to figure out a way to alias values in a column.  It seemed everyt...
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    AllisonKennedy
    5 years ago

    Anonymous  In my experience you can always rename single values with Group By, the problem comes in when you need to use an 'other' group and rename the other group - it will always force some refernce at the end that it's other. 

     

    Otherwise you can use Power Query to do this ,either in existing column or first Duplicate the column. It requires lots of 'replace values' steps or this trick: https://youtu.be/cOXNbaa_02U?t=59 Or a new Conditional Column would do the trick too. I know not quite self service intuitive, but Power BI has come a long way quickly. 

     

    Definitely vote for your idea here so we can see the functionality in future releases: https://ideas.powerbi.com/