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deepvibha
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9 years ago
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Customized Legend Names - To override the default legend names

Hi,   I have created certain measures like mSumPhaco, mSumSICS and mSumFreeCataract and have plotted it on clustered column chart. Obviously, name of the measures are appearing as legends. I wish t...
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    v-yulgu-msft
    9 years ago

    Hi deepvibha,

     

    By default, the legend name is the measure name in a chart visual, and now you are want to rename the legend name but keep the measure name, right?

     

    Based on current features supported in PowerBI, I'm afraid it is not possible to achieve this requirement. We can only customize the position of legend, the color, font size and content of legend title.

     

    Someone has submitted this feature request, you can click here to vote it up.

     

    Thanks,
    Yuliana Gu

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Rage
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5 years ago

Select the graph/visualization --> Go to Visualizations tab --> Under "Values", right click the measures/table things you want to rename and choose "Rename for this visual".

Figured this out after many hours and googling it and seeing this page multiple times without finding an answer.    😫😫 Hoping this will save someone some time.

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v-melvinong
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4 years ago

Unfortunately the solution still doesn't exist. What you did was rename the measure, not the values within the measure itself, which is what OP was trying to acheive. 

 

I think the only way forward right now is to create a new measure with the renamed values and use that as the legend instead.