Selection Pane - Rename Items (How To?)

[Sean]

Folks I was just looking at the reprot built by @WillT and described in this blog post here from March 19, 2018

https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/building-our-report-on-the-opioid-crisis-for-the-gartner-ba...

Under the Navigation Bookmarks section there's a picture showing the Selection pane (you can also download the pbix file)

It seems Items have indeed been Renamed in the Selection Pane - does anyone know how this was done?

There's an Idea about this already

https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/31792027-ability-to-rename-items-...

Is this an upcoming feature not yet generally available?

Thanks!

Clearly this would make organizing / managing all Items on a Page much easier!

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Hi @Sean,

In fact, selection panel display visual titles, so you can simply rename items in selection panel by setting custom visual titles.

Regards,

Xiaoxin Sheng

[Sean]

@Anonymous

Thanks! That works!

I was trying to rename in the Selection Pane by right-clicking the names generated by PBI.

I hope in the future they allow us to do this.

Similar to how we can rename a Measure only for a specific visual without actually affecting the real name of the Measure.

Like described here... but for the Visual names in the Selection Pane

https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/power-bi-desktop-july-feature-summary-2/#rename

Thanks!

Until then we can use the Visual's Title