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richardmayo
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6 years ago

Rename Column or Table without breaking reports/dashboard

As time goes on and my users start to engage with Power BI, some of the column header names need to be changed to make more sense, i.e instead of "Sales" we want to change it to "Sales ex GST"   Pr...
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mwegener
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6 years ago

Hi richardmayo ,

 

try to rename the columns and tables in the report view.

 

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richardmayo
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6 years ago

Hi mwegener 

 

Yes that can be done, but then I would need to do that inside each report separately and then again for every new report I make...

 

If I change at the dataset level its fixed forever

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    mwegener
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    6 years ago

    Hi richardmayo ,

     

    if you fixed at the dataset (Power Query Dataload), the model and the report will not recognize it.