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MisterT
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10 years ago

Change Value titles in a visualisation

So I'm new to this and I'm starting to get some sensible data being displayed in column charts.  However, while a data field name may make sense when it is used to display the actual field data, it often makes no sense at all when applying a calculation.  For example, I am displaying a graph showing the number of emails recevied from different email addresses as well as the number of attachments contained in those emails.  So my two value titles are:

 

Count of EmailfromAddress

Count of AttachmentName

 

Both of which are cryptic at best.  They should be titled:

 

# Emails Received

# Attachments Received

 

Surely you can re-name these?  There's no way I want to create additional fields with a different title for every possible visualisation I may want! 

Need Help

2 Replies

  • v-sihou-msft's avatar
    v-sihou-msft
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    10 years ago

    MisterT

     

    Unlike Reporting Services, Power BI Desktop only takes the dataset field name, it's not supported to edit the header column name within visuals. Currently, you can only modify the dataset field name or create "dummy" fields. However, it seems you have non-numeric fields in your scenario, so you still can't avoid diplaying "Count of XX" in visuals. Please vote this idea for same feature request.

     

    Regards,

     

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
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    10 years ago

    As far as I'm aware, the best way/only to do this is to rename the columns/measures in the data itself

     

    Bearing in mind that this also makes it easier for people who do not have a DB/reporting background to self service on the report if they know exactly which fields are where

     

    a nice blog post on aliasing here: https://blog.crossjoin.co.uk/2012/01/12/aliasing-columns-in-dax/

     

    :)